"The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my loyalty is to that higher moral code."
Tim DeChristopher, July 26, 2011
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A poll conducted by Elon University during the last week of February, 2013, found that up to 76% of North Carolinians support reforming our state cannabis laws.
It is my opinion that cannabis legalization may be the single most important issue facing our state and our nation today. No other issue addresses health, jobs, climate change, and human rights issues (to name but a few) as does the legalization of cannabis.
Why?
“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the oil?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the iron ore?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?’ These are questions that must be asked.”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Indigenous American Education for the Non-Indigenous
I found this piece a few days ago and found it compelling in it’s passion and honesty. As an American of European descent I have often felt embarrassment and regret over the actions and attitudes of my peers and my ancestors, both direct and indirect. Call it guilt by association or whatever you like, the truth is that we of European extraction are the beneficiaries of an ugly, genocidal past, divorced from reality by a culture created by the victors – … Continue reading
Your Parents Would Be So Proud!
The Great Forgetting – Prehistory Is History We Choose To Ignore
“The cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass onto our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that occurred in our culture worldwide during the formative millennia of our civilization. The Neolithic farming communes turned into villages, villages turned into towns, and towns into kingdoms. Concomitant with these events were the development of division of labor along craft lines, the establishment of commerce as a separate profession. What was being forgotten while all this was … Continue reading
