All people must be free.  Sooner or later an oppressor somewhere will leave them no other option but to fight. It would almost be tragically romantic if the battle was only against the tyrant, but it’s not so simple as that. The fight is made even more painful because not everyone is ready for a revolution. The last generation of Iranians had one of their own and some will disavow their loved ones who refuse to suffer the Theocratic consequences in fearful silence with them.  We are witness to yet another instance of what the human spirit will endure in attempting to be self-directed.  This break from Theocratic suffocation is not just for Muslims and Christians it’s just what people do. Hopefully they will know when it’s time to stop fighting and begin the healing.

The situation

“The Government won’t let us say what we want”

Neda (Graphic video: This is your warning)

Tim probably doesn’t think so, and his mom probably doesn’t either. But contrary to what some of my friends on the left have been telling you, the controversial Super Bowl ad that CBS is allowing Focus on the Family to run is a pro-choice ad.

Pam Tebow chose not to have an abortion.

This piece is so dead on about the truth of race in this country I felt it was imperative to share it with AWOP Readers. Please take the time to click through to OEN and read the entire article. It will make your understanding of this issue greater.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a nationally acclaimed author and political analyst and this is exactly the kind of analysis we need now.

Reid Spoke the Awful Truth about Obama’s Racial Exceptionalism

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama’s light skin and non-Negro dialect stood him well with him and by implication other whites. President Obama graciously accepted his apology and applauded him as a supporter and friend. But the embattled leader spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass. The pass did not win the White House for him; money, timing, a skillful campaign, and most importantly Bush blunders and GOP disgrace ultimately tipped the White House his way. But Obama’s racial pass made a difference, maybe a crucial difference.

Greetings y’all,

Since it is the gift giving season for lot’s of folks I wanted to share some information with you on a company, founded by a woman ahead of her time, that started the “Fair Trade” movement.  Ten Thousand Villages has been helping artisans in countries all over the world find markets and receive a fair price for their work since 1946.

Greetings y’all,

Since it is the gift giving season for lot’s of folks I wanted to share some information with you on a company, founded by a woman ahead of her time, that started the “Fair Trade” movement.  Ten Thousand Villages has been helping artisans in countries all over the world find markets and receive a fair price for their work since 1946.

Click “continue reading” to see the video of her in action!

TAKE ACTION: Call on the Obama Administration to support Congress in ending mountaintop removal

We’ve been asking the question for a while.  How would my gay marriage hurt you, the straight married person?  Now, we’re not alone in asking the same thing.

“The unusual exchange between U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker and Charles Cooper, a lawyer for the group that sponsored Proposition 8, came during a hearing on a lawsuit challenging the measure as discriminatory under the U.S. Constitution.

Cooper had asked Walker to throw out the suit or make it more difficult for those civil rights claims to prevail.”

Please take a moment to help us seize this momentum and end the incredible, un-doable threat these 79 mountain top removal coal extraction permits represent to your some of your country’s most beautiful landscape, The Appalachian Mountains. I love Mountains is at ground zero of the destruction and on the leading edge of the fight to stop coal companies from literally leveling these 79 mountains forever. Forever. Gone. Coal companies have the nerve to show us “clean coal” commercials on television but what they describe as clean coal technology leaves in it’s wake is an ugly, un-usable, dead scar upon the earth?  Please click through the jump and sign the petition and educate yourself about what “clean coal” technology really means at I Love Mountains today, before it’s too late.

Greetings Y’all,

Today we something really different and it’s as wild and outrageous as the 60’s themselves. Well, it is the 60’s in a first hand account of the singular music event of the decade…some might say of all time…Woodstock.