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Passing on Our Values: The Legacy of Freedom

Rachael Freed | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice-Paul, Legacy, Independence Day, Legacy-Writing, Voting Rights, Communication, Freedom, Living News
Rachael Freed

Our daughters and granddaughters, texting and twittering, can't imagine a world before computers, or television, a world when American women didn't have the freedom to vote.

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How Service In Prison Brings Forgiveness And Healing

Anne Naylor | Posted 07.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Victor Frankl, President Obama, Attitude, Freedom to Choose, United We Serve, Service, Freedom, Valley State Prison for Women, Healing, Correctional System, University of Santa Monica, Rehabilitation, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Living News
Anne Naylor

"Prison isn't a place... It's a state of mind." Freedom To Choose is a 22 minute documentary based on the 7th workshop conducted at Valley State Prison for Women at Cowchilla California in 2007. This film won the award in the Documentary category, Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the American Pavilion at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Will Young People Unite to Save the World?

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Millennial Generation, Freedom, Democracy, Iran, Youth, World News
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

21st century technologies will be used to advance the cause of freedom in Iran. But simply tweeting those words won't make it happen. Believing in them will.

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Neda, a Shahida (Martyr) for Freedom

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Martyrdom, Politics, Iran Elections, Shahida Martyrdom, Iranian Oppression, World, Power, Woman, Iran, Freedom, Cnn, Islamic Republic of Iran, Liberty, Mullahs, Iran's Election Results, Shahida for Freedom, Neda, Iran Protests, Iran's Election, Iranians, Umuma, Ummah, Shahida, Martyr, Persians, Madar, World News
Yvonne R. Davis

Neda, I met you on video like the millions of people around the world this past weekend. In your silence, you have spoken to me louder than any voice ever has screaming for liberty and justice.

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How Happy Is... 5 Fears Of Getting Pregnant, Dispelled

Sophie Keller | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Career, Relationships, Money, Work, Pregnant, Exercise, Weight Gain, Freedom, Jobs, Pregnancy, Identity, Diet, Babies, Recession, Happiness, Family, Living News
Sophie Keller

Making the decision to have a baby is not an easy one and one that is not to be taken lightly. Caring for a new soul takes a lot of delicate handling...

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Iran's Fine Green Line Between a People's Right to Protest and Violence

Patt Cottingham | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Human Rights, Youth, Death, Green, Women's Rights, Freedom, Barack Hussein Obama, Citizen Reporters, Martin Luther King, Internet, Mir Hussein Moussavi, Tehran, Change, Father, Neda Agha Soltan, Sacrafice, Living News
Patt Cottingham

Although the US is a nation of immigrants that came here to escape repressive regimes or governments, as a society, we have largely forgotten what it is like to put our lives on the line to call forth change.

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An Iranian Parent: "I Realized I Do Not Fear Death. I Fear My Daughter Will Not Be Free When I Die."

Heather Robinson | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Iranian Protestors, President Obama, Human Rights, Natan Sharanksy, Dissidents, Freedom, World News
Heather Robinson

Yesterday evening Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, shared some fascinating comments about the bravery of Iranians...

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Father, I Forgive You

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Children, Freedom, u.s. Census Bureau, Forgiveness, Groucho Marx, Father's Day, America, Living News
Pedro C. Moreno

What is it with Father's Day? And, what is the blessing and curse of being a father?

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Iran's Revolution Will Be Twittered (and Blogged and YouTubed and...)

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Freedom of the Press, Twitter, Cyberattacks, Freedom, Democracy, Iran, Iranian Elections, Facebook, Iranian Election, Cyberwar, Media News
Leah Anthony Libresco

Social media hasn't only given Iranians a way to evade censorship and speak out; it has given them a way to mobilize attacks on Ahmadinejad's coalition, attacks that go beyond rallies.

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What Is In Your Name?

Gangaji | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Oneness, Spirituality, Freedom, Naming, Happiness, Living News
Gangaji

Even if we rebel against them, our names can seem like a kind of map of our persona, a map that defines how we are separate from others.

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Post-Election Iran: What America Must Do Now

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.15.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of the Press, Dialogue, Palestine, Women's Rights, Hostages, Martyrdom, President Obama, Reformist, Obama, Iran, Iran-Contra, Revolution, Freedom, Israel, Khomeini, Ayatollah, Islamist, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian, Afghanistan, Cultural Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Khatami, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Superpower, Iranian-Presidential-Election, Iraq, Muslim, Non-Muslim, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran News, Iran Election, Iran Elections, Iran Election News, Election Iran, Shirin Sadeghi Post-Election Iran, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The Iranian Republic requires American antagonism to uphold its regional influence and its stranglehold on the Iranian people - the United States should deprive it of this gift.

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Can't Get Arrested

Michael Archer | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Exile, Tianamen Massacre, wuer_kaixi, Wuer Kaixi, China, Freedom, Republic of China, Taipei-Republic of China, Taiwan, Macau, World News
Michael Archer

I asked Wuer Kaixi, one of the most prominent student leaders of the uprising, where he planned to be on anniversary of the Tianamen massacre. The second most wanted man in China hesitated.

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Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall; D-Day to Cairo University - the Universal Struggle for Human Rights

Rick Allen | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Rfk, Cairo, Barack Obama, Tiananmen Square, Freedom, Robert Kennedy, World News
Rick Allen

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and the crushing of the public manifestations of the pro-democracy movement.

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Sexual Orientation and the Pursuit of Happiness

Marianne Williamson | Posted 06.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Freedom, Gay, Lesbian, Liberty, Home News
Marianne Williamson

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.... These values are enshrined in our Declaration of Independence as inalienable rights of every American....

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate Us for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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The Eroticization of Equality and Social Justice

Hillary Rettig | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Rettig, George Lakoff, The Lifelong Activist, Romance, Love, Fiction, Freedom, Politics News
Hillary Rettig

What do conservatives -- and repressive regimes and ideologies the world over -- have against romance, love and sex? Why do they need to control them so much?

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Vote for Permaculture for REAL Freedom

Anthony Anderson | Posted 06.04.2009 | Style

Read More: Organic, Food Forests, Freedom, Green, Permaculture, Slavery, Style News
Anthony Anderson

And who wants to say no to highly-mineralized, organic, local produce? At basically no cost after time? Permaculture is a HUGE part of the answer.

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Torture is Treason

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Terrorism, Freedom, 9/11, Treason, World Trade Center, United States, Society, Torture, World News
Lara M. Gardner

Whether the tortured committed the crime or not becomes secondary to the sympathy felt for the torture victim.

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Messy Blond Dreadlocks of Grace

Wendy Block | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Easter, Save the World, Homelessness, Blessings, Freedom, Rush Hour, Hollywood, Passover, Spiritual Practice, Poverty, Religion, Living News
Wendy Block

I agonized for days and resolved that from then on, whenever someone asked I would give, even if just a dollar.

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Lincoln's Other Legacy

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Birthday, Honest Abe, Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Lincoln Bicentennial, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Racism, Chicago News
Hermene Hartman

Lincoln signed The Emancipation Proclamation and in so doing he saved the nation. But he also gave us the rationale for American racism.

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YSL's Spring Shoe Collection: I Know Why The Caged Foot Sings

Beth Lapides | Posted 05.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Transparency, Semiotic Analysis of Fashion, YSL Cage Shoe, Shoes, Women and Body Image, Freedom, Style News
Beth Lapides

I'm wildly open to extreme fashion, in fact I long to live in a khaki free, T-shirtless, eccentrically dressed world, but this shoe set off all kinds of alarms for me.

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The Great Escape!

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Instincts, Emotions, Marriage, Relationships, Job, Fear, Learning to Leave, Employment, Leaving, Happiness, Self-Help, Unemployment, Freedom, Self Help, Careers, Personal Anxiety, Anxiety, Living News
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger

Being hardwired to stay is what makes it difficult to leave.

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3 Keys To Higher Love And Restoring Happiness

Anne Naylor | Posted 04.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Freedom, Shame, Joy, Forgiving, Personal Value, Higher Love, Clearing Out Deadwood, Comfort Zone, Self-Image, Possible Dream, Personal Values, The Inner Life, Living News
Anne Naylor

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a w...

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Living in Plato's Cave

Tom Morris | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Aristotle, Freedom, Plato, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Confidence, New York Stock Exchange, Recession, Plato's Cave, Business News
Tom Morris

It's time to move out of Plato's Cave and completely board it up. This is one piece of property that should be put into foreclosure, forever.

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Teacher Accountability and Autonomy

Robert Rose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Responsibility, Autonomy, Freedom, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Quality, Education, Teachers, Teaching, Politics News
Robert Rose

Accountability is only fair and possible when teachers have the freedom, the autonomy, to use all the tools at their disposal in the manner the best serves them and their students

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