Let Us Now Praise Famous Souls
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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