Tax Madness
This is a guest column from Lynn Fitz-Hugh. While you pay taxes today, Bank of America, G.E. and other major corporations dodge. Bank of America, the 9th largest corporation in America, last year paid no taxes while receiving $1 billion in US taxpayer...
Poseidon & 100 Demi-Gods Swim
Would anyone dare swim in the Charles River, the open gutter of Boston? Isn't the water polluted, cold, and filled with blue green algae? Talley ho. In the 1850s Boston alderman called the marshes around the Muddy River a cesspool. Yes siree. Swimming in Cambridge was...
Bolivian Quakers-Escuela Emmanuel de los Amig@s
El Alto is perched 1,000 feet above La Paz, the capital or Bolivia. When the sun glitters you stare down into a cascading spiral of lego-like houses. Once your lungs have adjusted to less oxygen, El Alto seems like Kansas City. Except everyone speaks Aymara or...
Bridging the Charles River
So, admit it. The Charles River is a gem. I have been living in Cambridge for 25 years and the river is an effervescent, sentinel part of our life. We have River festivals and wildlife; cruisers and duck boats. The river is an artery cutting through Cambridge much...
Living with Anger, Never out of Anger
I am angry every day. Angerr. G r owl ing. I am. Grr ow ing. Anger.  An' grrrrr. I am not angry all day, but every- EVEry, e-very-day. This is not a rant, so hear me out. Anger is a spiritual teacher but can be poisonous.  I can't live out of anger, and I can't...
Horses on Wings in Libya 2011BC-2011AD
This March, the US and Europe entered into the Libyan civil war. Western civilization has a long history with Libya and only a pittance is studied in classrooms today.Libya plays a stellar role in ancient mythology. Does Libya play the dark cousin to Greek and Roman...
Weeping After bin Laden’s Death
As a Quaker I vehemently disagree with Obama's killing of bin Laden. It is immoral and believe it or not, illogical. Barack Obama said on May 2, "The world is safer; it is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden. ...Today, we remember the sense of unity...
Quaker Activism in Bolivia
The Keys to the City
I was walking with Juan down into the valley of La Paz. Not really walking, my feet sideways picked nimbly between stones and holes. It was a valley, with the descent so steep in this city 10,000 feet above the sea that I was breathless. Nevertheless I was happy to...
Does Isaiah’s prophecy include Paying for War?
Over 7,000 people camped at the SOA watch at Ft Benning in November. 7,000 people trying to create a new social agenda. 7,000 people who are responsible patriots wanting to do their part. 7,000 people of all ages and backgrounds, Colombian mothers; drop-out artists;...