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On July 18, 2020 we lost two valiant men—Rev. C.T. Vivian and representative John Lewis--icons of the civil rights movement, but so much mor
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Sheila D. Collins
- May 7, 2020
- 3 min
Inspiration for Dark Times
When I contemplate the failure of our Republican leaders and at least 40 percent of our population to take the imminent threat of climate...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 30, 2020
- 3 min
Covid-19: Crisis or Opportunity?
Exposing as it has the deep faults in the way we conduct our lives, the corona virus crisis should be a wakeup call: a wakeup to the need...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
When Government was the Solution
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my husband and I visited our daughter, who teaches at a branch of the University of Wisconsin in Stevens...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
War and Climate Change: Time to Connect the Dots
There was something surreal about the president announcing that he had just launched a heavy airstrike against militants in Syria – in...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Obama's Lost Opportunity, and Ours
President Obama’s decision to use his executive authority to cut carbon emissions from coal-fired plants is welcome, if long overdue....
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Portrait of the Artist as My Mother: A Mother's Day Reflection
Freda was never “mother” or “mom.” She refused the appellation, didn’t believe in families, rebelled against the role and would always...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
What if Climate Change Were a Foreign Enemy?
What if climate change were a foreign enemy that had declared it would destroy civilization as we know it and we had only five to...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
What It Will Take to Tackle the Crisis?
The latest report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms what is manifest to all but those...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Milquetost Liberal Religion Won't Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson
Congress’s year-end slashing of food stamps and refusal to extend unemployment benefits for the 1.3 million people whose benefits were ...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
The West's Coming Tragedy of the Commons
The severe droughts now affecting California and the Colorado River basin suggest that we may be at a tipping point in our ability to ...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
When Art Coaxed the Soul of America Back to Life
Writing in the New York Times recently, art critic Holland Cotter lamented the fact that the current billionaire-dominated market system,...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
What Kerry and Obama Could Learn from FDR on the Environment
Recent reports that Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing to create an agency-wide focus on global warming with the goal of leading...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Public Education and the Arts: Lessons from the New Deal
On December 9, 2013, at more than 100 sites across the country, teachers, parents, students and labor and community allies rallied in a...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Sharing the Torch: Youth of the 60s Meet with Youth of the OWS
The evolving Occupy Wall Street movement continues to confound and surprise even its ardent supporters. Two days after Mayor Bloomberg’s...
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
The Camel and the Needle's Eye
A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? . . . Jesus said to him, You know the commandments . ....
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Sheila D. Collins
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Occupy Wall Street: The Making of a New World
To the superficial eye Liberty Park (Zucotti Park) in lower Manhattan is a circus—a mass of people all packed together in one rather...
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