tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305831722024-02-19T16:37:31.826+00:00Margie's SpaceThoughts gathered over a lifetime about the past, present and future.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-44986202206440666362017-06-25T10:37:00.000+01:002017-06-25T10:37:08.974+01:00My goodness, I've realized I've not blogged in over two-years so will have to rectify this. Failure to do so has largely been due to the fact I've spent the past several years researching family history. This has resulted in my eldest son, Don, and I working on a family history website: Bernard-Tollas Family History
Fascinating and delightful time-consuming effort!
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-28717167408681708122015-06-18T13:43:00.001+01:002015-06-18T13:43:25.901+01:00King John Might Envy President Obama : Information Clearing House - ICHKing John Might Envy President Obama : Information Clearing House - ICH
From the Article:
By Sheldon Richman
June 17, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" -
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week was forced at Runnymede to affix his Great Seal to
Magna Carta — which at least in theory subordinated his power to
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-90332939418008428762013-10-18T11:45:00.001+01:002013-10-18T11:45:16.460+01:00Can You Lead Me Beyond the Nightmare to the Shores of Clarity and Shoals of Reassurance?Daphne Muse echos my feelings in this short essay: Can You Lead Me Beyond the Nightmare to the Shores of Clarity and Shoals of Reassurance?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-64345301280803453332013-09-02T12:19:00.000+01:002013-09-02T12:19:30.108+01:00Women and Islam - Struggle for Democracy and Against Fundamentalism by Meredith Tax
Portside [1] Date: February 6, 2013
by Meredith Tax
I have spent the last twenty years working on issues of women and religious censorship. As a feminist activist in International PEN and then in Women's WORLD, I couldn't help noticing that increasing numbers of women Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-11745572818932340582013-09-02T12:11:00.001+01:002013-09-02T12:13:59.749+01:00A Blog of One's Own: Seamus Heaney: Our Beloved FileI want to share this tribute to Seamus from one of Derry Playhouse Writers' poets. I had the great privilege in 1981 of spending a with him when I and another person acted as his transport when he came to deliver a talk at the University of Maryland and then on to an after-party that really went on to the wee hours of the morning. He was such a delight to spend time with and was as down-to-earth Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-1328829902950589262013-02-03T16:38:00.001+00:002013-02-03T16:45:03.235+00:00Eleanor: The Radical Roosevelt by Peter Dreier — YES! MagazineEleanor: The Radical Roosevelt by Peter Dreier — YES! Magazine
Although this was an informative article about Eleanor Roosevelt, it neglected to note that she, along with Walter Reuther, was a co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action which is still active today supporting issues she championed. In the 1990's, I was pleased to serve two terms as ADA's national board secretary. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-72715753243272779992013-01-21T14:52:00.000+00:002013-01-21T15:54:59.183+00:00Aaron Swartz Presente
Save the Internet
Margie Bernard
The
Internet is an electronic tool enabling instantaneous communication with others
around our globe. Thus, for instance, the Zapistitis in Mexico were able to put
their case before the world in their own words. With laptop computers provided
them by supporters in Los Angeles, they were able to send frequent messages of
the repressive tactics of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-80324409421271540342012-11-13T17:55:00.001+00:002012-11-13T17:55:52.871+00:00BBC News - Life as a protesting republican prisoner in MaghaberryThis is a BBC report and interview with a recently released republican prisoner who talks about the use of frequent degrading strip-searches to humiliate and dehumanize prisoners at Maghaberry Prison in N. Ireland.
BBC News - Life as a protesting republican prisoner in MaghaberryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-52986071073357415852012-11-13T17:01:00.001+00:002012-11-13T17:01:43.060+00:00The Arrest of former Provo commander Padraig Wilson: Some Thoughts, Some Questions. | ORGANIZED RAGELate last year, at an International Community Artists Network conference held in Belfast, Ed Moloney told of the attempt by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to obtain access to sequestered tapes he and Anthony McIntyre had garnered during an oral history project at Boston University. Now, this PSNI request will be decided in a case that is headed to the US Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-76355413795481070272012-11-13T16:28:00.001+00:002012-11-13T16:43:47.589+00:00Irish Republican prisoners protesting in Maghaberry Prison: Have the British government not learned a thing from the bloody past. | ORGANIZED RAGEI must admit I have lost sight of what has been happening to Irish republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison (with the exception of Marion Price and her deteriorating health). Now, with the killing of a guard at this prison, I have gone on the internet to become informed. This is one of several articles I've located to which, as I find them, I will add more.
Irish Republican prisoners protestingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-8427044454626942012012-11-03T23:18:00.001+00:002012-11-03T23:18:54.677+00:00Wireless NetworkAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-48924129737422003972012-07-14T11:48:00.001+01:002012-07-14T11:48:17.051+01:00Five Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games” by Jeremy Adam Smith — YES! MagazineFive Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games” by Jeremy Adam Smith — YES! MagazineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-86069275275506526852012-07-14T11:41:00.001+01:002012-07-14T11:41:48.715+01:002012: The Year of the Cooperative by Jessica Reeder — YES! Magazine2012: The Year of the Cooperative by Jessica Reeder — YES! Magazine
This year has been declared as 'The Year of the Cooperative'. So find and share your local Co-Op.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-71131246029169341632012-05-13T18:22:00.001+01:002012-05-13T18:22:54.190+01:00Tomgram: Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline | TomDispatchTomgram: Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline | TomDispatch
As I move toward my 80th year, I find the words of Ernest Callenbach in the above article as wisdom gems that need to be shared. And I like the idea of a West Coast Country consisting of CA, OR and WA to have great merit. Especially, as I now contemplate moving back to the CA Bay Area from the emerald jewel of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-49446624931746163902012-04-10T11:34:00.001+01:002012-04-10T11:34:09.484+01:00Web of Debt - Chapter 1Web of Debt - Chapter 1 by Elaine Brown
Regarding The Wizard of Oz as a populist metaphor.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-31500090665695795412011-11-28T15:15:00.000+00:002011-11-28T15:15:15.716+00:00IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH 'CRIMINAL LIABILITY' EVALUATIONSI am honored to have been one of the editors of The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras by Scott Armstrong, Malcolm Byrne, Tom Blanton, and the National Security Archive (New York: Warner Books, 1989, 678 pp.)
The following is a link to the Archive's latest FOIA responses in this matter which continues to unfold. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-58181294975987915972011-10-03T11:16:00.002+01:002011-10-03T11:26:25.185+01:00Losing Our Civic Religion: A Conversation With David Shipler | TruthoutThis is for those of us who remember the days of COINTELPRO:
"The privacy laws that were enacted after COINTELPRO have been shot full through of holes by the 1994 antiterrorism law, the Patriot Act and the 2008 FISA Amendments. We've gone in the opposite direction than where we need to be going given the expansion of technology. I think that the law has to create a boundary."Losing Our Civic Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-33425613006762660392011-09-02T10:58:00.000+01:002011-09-02T10:58:38.714+01:00http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/thelma-louise-the-last-great-film-about-women/244336/Once again real women's lives, loves and passions are discounted and/or ignored.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/thelma-louise-the-last-great-film-about-women/244336/
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-246739562773780042011-05-03T11:17:00.002+01:002011-05-03T11:23:34.857+01:00Simon Blackburn Reviews Stanley Fish's "How To Write A Sentence" | The New RepublicThis is for those of us who write and love words which Fish states 'have no meaning unless they are in a sentence'. Simon Blackburn Reviews Stanley Fish's "How To Write A Sentence" The New RepublicAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-58945371966455166212011-04-15T14:43:00.004+01:002011-04-15T15:03:23.425+01:00Barry Bonds & Baseball as a Social MetaphorThis is my son Don's response to reading a column I sent him by Dave Zirin in The Nation regarding the trial of Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. Zirin's article is below Don's comments.************************************************************ [The trial] will never take away the thrill of hearing the distinctive crack of the bat when Barry would hit the sweet spot. You Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-55177276197158460472011-02-15T11:16:00.001+00:002011-02-15T11:20:34.899+00:00Bill Moyers: "Facts Still Matter ..."For those who may underestimate the value of PBS & NPR this address by Bill Moyers is essential reading.Bill Moyers: "Facts Still Matter ..."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30583172.post-4819857540706785172011-01-11T22:18:00.003+00:002011-01-11T22:36:34.892+00:00Shootings in ArizonaI was invited by BBC Radio Foyle (Derry, N. Ireland) to comment on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). I stated that in my opinion the shooting of Giffords and killing of six people was the work of a disturbed individual who wanted his fifteen minutes of fame and his actions were exacerbated by the increasingly violent right-wing rhetoric from on high that gave his irrational Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390964463812465081noreply@blogger.com0