Help Teach Someone to Read or get their GED

Might you be interested in helping someone learn how to read? If so please contact Yashna Padamsee at the Durham Literacy Center ASAP. yashna (at) durhamliteracy (dot) org More info bellow.
I worked in AmeriCorp for one year at the Durham Literacy Center. Its a serious organization that’s been working very hard teaching people for [...]

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I love you Ruby!

The title says it all…
What kind of geek would i be if I didn’t tell her I loved her on my blog?

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The General Assembly belongs to the people, not the powerful

HKonJ: Big March in Raleigh Tomorrow
Historic Thousands on Jones Street, aka HKonJ, is tomorrow. Check out this video of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President of the North Carolina State NAACP.

From the HKonJ website:
HKonJ: The People’s General Assembly
In order to make substantial and progressive change in North Carolina public policy, we need a movement [...]

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Change.org

A new social networking site for non-profits and causes called Change.org has launched. It uses Web 2.0 stuff (tag clouds, groups, blogs, etc.) to help people organize around issues and create… Change. (I hope)
Its a beautiful idea that lots of smart people have been thinking about and working on. Nice to see something like [...]

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A cool list of links about JRE

JRE links for today
That first link contains a ton of info. Bora has complied a great list of links to blogger coverage about John Edwards announcement he’s running for President.
Last night a few people complained about how difficult it was to find all the Internet coverage on John Edwards. Well here’s a lot [...]

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Fight the Power of Blue Elvis

A few mornings ago when I was pre-coffee the first song I heard was Elvis’s Blue Christmas. It was the studio version with the psychedelic background vocals. They sounded like fairies that enjoyed just a bit too much of their own dust. I liked the melody so much I immediately started writing this blog post [...]

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Learn about others traditions

Chuck from Minnesota Stories has a wonderful video and blog post up called What Muslim Prayer Looks Like. Please go over to his site and watch it. Its a simple introduction to the religious culture of Muslims. We must learn about each other in this world if we expect peace to exist.
In light of the [...]

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War is Over! If you Want it!


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The Fifth of November

Remember remember the 5th of November,
The Gunpowder, Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
November 5 is Guy Fawkes night.
Side note: The comic book V for Vendetta by Alan Moore is amazing. The movie adaptation wasn’t bad.
Forgiveness is a wonderful quality…

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654,965 Iraqi Civilians killed since US invasion of Iraq began

via Bloomberg

About 600,000 people have died violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in March 2003, researchers found in a new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
Gunshots were the most common cause of death, with males ages 15 to [...]

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