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REMEMBER WHEN THE IRISH WERE BLACK? (New Old News Feed March 15th, 2010)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Happy St. Patrick’s Day this week! Remember when (about 150 years ago) the Irish were blamed for stealing “our” jobs? “They alienated themselves from Americans, sometimes forming gangs. They crowded into tiny houses or apartments, suppressing housing prices where they lived.” Now we just call them Mexicans… Oh but this is different they all rush [...]

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QUR’AN 32:22—A meditation on the signs of God, by Baraka B

Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged , , on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A short piece by friend of Revelers, Baraka B, on the signs of God in the Qur’an. Who is more wrong than s/he who is reminded of the signs of God but then turns away from them? We will take vengeance on the sinners. —Qur’an 32:22 Firstly, what (according to the Qur’an) are the “signs [...]

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ABORIGINES LOVE ICE SKATING: New Old News Feed (January 25, 2010)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Russian dance “tribute” to Aborigines offensive to Aborigines (shocker!) “They have got the whole thing wrong,” said Stephen Page, artistic director of the respected indigenous group, the Bangarra Dance Company. Page said there were no traditional movements in the routine, the music sounded more like it came from India or Africa than Aboriginal Australia and [...]

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FYAH BUN FYAH BUN: Seeing pain as an insight into our selves, by Baraka B

Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged , , , , on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday’s piece on menstruation by Abby Roan challenged the pharmaceutical practice of numbing (read: sweeping under the rug) the uncomfortable bits of a woman’s moon cycle. Today we bring you a piece by semio-mystic explorer, Baraka B, who looks at pain as an opportunity to expose the blind spots of the self. —We Revelers If [...]

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10 THINGS TO LEAVE BEHIND IN THE LAST DECADE

Posted in Features, tagged , , , , , on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The first decade of the 2000s was a riot of a time. Suicide bombers, micro-lending, atheists being mentioned in an inaugural speech by the first African-American man to be sworn into office, who’s hung out with Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground, and whose last name is one letter off of that of the most [...]

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ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY, AND JUDAISM AT THE END OF THE DECADE

Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This past decade in the U.S. the Big Three players in religion took a right beating both from within and from without. These mega-institutions (either in numbers or cultural-political weight) couldn’t even agree on what pencils to bring to their secret meetings, and yet each one had their hands in enough havoc to upend the [...]

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