The appointments of Judge Sotomayor and Regina Benjamin are exciting for several reasons:
1. Their appointments show that Obama is bringing senior people of colour in underneath him, rather than becoming our token ‘President of Colour’. This means that real, pervasive, systemic change has a greater chance of happening. Who among us isn’t excited by that? [...]
A friend of mine just returned from El Salvador, where she was acting as an international observer during the elections held last week. This is the first peacetime election El Salvador has seen since it’s Independence as a country in the 1920’s, and the first democratically elected leadership they’ve had in two decades. A recurring [...]
So the United States finally has a decent president. There is the potential for radical changes to take place. What is crucial for us to understand is that this recent shift in power does not mean it’s time to put up our feet and wait for the revolution to be guided from on high. The [...]
What? The White House turning over the use of it’s lawn to growing fruits and vegetables? And all Organic? That’s the vision of Proffessor Michael Pollan and the Brockmans family, and voting is now open to send the top three candidates on to the President for review of the plan.
The White House Farmer Blog was [...]
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