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October 2, 2008 | 3:49 PM Comments  0 comments

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ARE PEOPLE DIFFICULT? OR JUST DIFFERENT?
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Getting Cooperation and agreement from all types of people can be challenging. Yet, it can be as simply as changing the way you phrase a question. So, Are people difficult? Or just different?

October 2, 2008 | 3:20 PM Comments  1 comments

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“the eternal friend of youth”, Pope John Paul II.

As a member of the World Youth Alliance this message belongs to every citizens of the world.

Dear Friends,

At the end of this month we pause in tribute to a great leader and “the eternal friend of youth”, Pope John Paul II.

John Paul II’s constant message to the world was “Do not be afraid.” In his own life he experienced the struggle and sorrow of the Nazi occupation of his homeland, Poland, followed by the oppression of the communist regime. He also experienced the triumph of the human spirit in the resistance movements during World War II and the Solidarity movement in Poland. As Pope, he was instrumental in the fall of communism.

John Paul II was unflinching in the face of the despair of the modern world and he never ceased urging the young, especially, to “build a culture of life” and “a world marked by greater solidarity and justice.”

Though we mourn his passing, his teaching and exhortation to young people still animates our hearts and we respond with all of the enthusiasm and creativity of our youth. It is our joy to honor and remember one who has taught the world so much about the dignity of each person both by word and example.

We look forward with great excitement to the leadership of his successor, Benedict XVI and extend our warmest welcome to him. We know that like John Paul II, he will be a defender and champion of the dignity of the person. The young people of the world embrace him with affection and confidence.

For a culture of life,

The World Youth Alliance

“I feel an obligation to reaffirm vigorously that the intrinsic value and the personal dignity of every human being does not change no matter what the concrete situations of his life.”

~Pope John Paul II

May 16, 2005 | 9:40 AM Comments  0 comments

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HOW IMPORTANT IS INFORMATON TO YOU?

Nothing empowers a man like information

There is no substitute for information in your quest for change not even intercession

You can be the same five years from now except for two things 1- the books you read ( A great reader is a great Leader)2- the people you interact with ( A man is judge by the companion he keeps)

Watch out for next update on the topic HOW IMPORTANT IS INFORMATON TO YOU?


November 10, 2004 | 2:34 PM Comments  0 comments

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How Women Got To Vote

How Women Got To Vote

A short history lesson on the privilege of voting...

The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33
women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."

They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards
grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Everyone should watch HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that we could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have our say. I think some of us I needed the reminder.


"What would those women think of the way we use--or don't use--our right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn." The right to vote, should become valuable to us "all over again."

HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. We are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and maybe a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men:

"Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."

Please pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women.

September 21, 2004 | 11:08 AM Comments  0 comments

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