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Blog Entries by Rev. Chuck Freeman from 08/2010

Citizens, Resist the Squeeze Play on Your Minds

| Posted 08.03.2010 | Religion
Read More: Consumer, St. Paul, Bolivia, Water Rights, Buddha, Maude Barlow, United Nations, Citizen, Religion News

Sharpen your eyes and ears to the noun the corporate media uses to reference you. Every time you are referred to as a consumer (which is virtually every time), say resolutely to yourself, "Citizen."

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A Consumer Is a Subject, A Citizen Is a Verb

| Posted 08.18.2010 | Politics
Read More: Citizenship, Consumerism, Corporate Media, William Ellery Channing, Thomas Merton, Freedom, Thomas Jefferson, Politics News

The American corporate media culture challenges our freedom in a sophisticated and seductive fashion. We are saturated with images and rhetoric by which we willingly morph our identity.

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The Spirit Speaks to a Texas Minister About Building Mosques in America

| Posted 08.27.2010 | Religion
Read More: Islam, Mosques, Religious Freedom, New York Islamic Center, 1st Amendment, Ground Zero Mosque, Mosque Controversy, Nyc Mosque, Free Exercise of Religion, First Amendment, Mosque, Religion News

My friend Islam invited me, a rabbi, and a comparative religion professor to his Muslim community center for a strategy session around the national mosque controversies.

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