Showing posts with label SOCIAL INJUSTICE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOCIAL INJUSTICE. Show all posts
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Saturday, October 13, 2012
GUNS AND PRISONS STEALING AMERICA'S FUTURE
The prison and gun industries have raked in billions of dollars this year -- all while our communities continue to be destroyed by their disastrous effects. Young men and women in and out of the prison system without a chance to succeed.
But these two issues continue to be ignored by the two people with the biggest platform to talk about and FIX them -- President Obama and Governor Romney.
The number of prisoners in America has quadrupled since 1980. And we spend six times more on prisons than on higher education! Is that the kind of message we want to send to our children? That prisons, not children, are worth the investment? That just doesn't make sense!
We must tell America's next president to do something about guns and our mass incarcerations. Steel -- whether in the form of a gun or prison bars -- will never solve our problems. We need to face our problems and find common sense solutions now.
Next week, we'll deliver this petition to the two candidates before the debate in New York. We need your name so they know that Americans care about these issues that affect so many of our families.
If you or someone you know has been affected by gun violence or our mass incarceration system, sign this petition TODAY>
Let's give our children and families a better future, free from crime and free from profit-motivated imprisonment.
But these two issues continue to be ignored by the two people with the biggest platform to talk about and FIX them -- President Obama and Governor Romney.
The number of prisoners in America has quadrupled since 1980. And we spend six times more on prisons than on higher education! Is that the kind of message we want to send to our children? That prisons, not children, are worth the investment? That just doesn't make sense!
We must tell America's next president to do something about guns and our mass incarcerations. Steel -- whether in the form of a gun or prison bars -- will never solve our problems. We need to face our problems and find common sense solutions now.
Next week, we'll deliver this petition to the two candidates before the debate in New York. We need your name so they know that Americans care about these issues that affect so many of our families.
If you or someone you know has been affected by gun violence or our mass incarceration system, sign this petition TODAY>
Let's give our children and families a better future, free from crime and free from profit-motivated imprisonment.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Billy Graham on Social Injustice
"As long as there is one man who should be free, as long as slums and ghettos exist, as long as any person goes to bed hungry at night, as long as the color of a man's skin is his prison, there must be a divine discontent. We Christians have no right to be content until the principles of Christ are applied to all men." - Billy Graham
Friday, December 16, 2011
Desmond Tutu on Injustice
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
- Desmond Tutu
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