The American Gulag: Using Poverty to Oppress People.
The government entangles poor people in the American Gulag -- crib to grave incarceration, probation, parole, endless rehab programs and homeless shelters.
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James Abro
Life Intervenes When Your Brain Fears Everything.
Don't get so overwhelmed by the enormity of your situation that you fail to pay attention to the small ways that Life or God is trying to help you out.
From Hobos to Homeys: My Homeless Experience.
It seemed... to me that being homeless was now a part of the American experience. The question to myself was: do I fear this, or learn how to deal with it?
A Story About Top-Down Forays into Campaigns for Social and Economic Justice.
The Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice selected me to represent my state at the launch of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign
On Personal Power and Bravery: Why I Am Running for State Senator.
We had a male reality TV personality running against arguably the most qualified candidate ever to be nominated for president in U.S. history, who happened to be a woman.
A Birthing Day Reminiscence.
It was only a few days later that I would see my mother for the last time, gasping for breath, hooked up to machines. My sister was there. And she had a friend with her, a co-worker who neither I nor my mother had ever met. As I sat bedside with my mother, holding her hand, this stranger tells ...
Christ, Christmas & Christ Consciousness.
What would make me think America was truly exceptional? If one of its vainglorious political, civic or religious leaders would have stood up and said, “In light of the fact that so many of our fellow citizens are living in poverty this season, I propose that instead of giving one another lavish ...
Race, American Style.
Toni Morrison... describes... a brutal, sadistic and systematic dehumanizing of a part of the American population, simply because they were Black.
Writing For My Life.
I did not... feel like my own self again until I started writing about it at the end of three months of intensive therapy.