Archive for April, 2007
As the World Turns
Hear me, four quarters of the world – a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. Black ELk […]
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Tom’s Good Day
Tom 4 Prez is excited becuase today is the 1st official campaign volunteer meeting! Trickydame & ms.america have met many amazing activists, artists and citizens from all walks of life in the past month and know Magic Passion Love (mpl) is happening everyday! So, tonight we celebrate what Tom 4 Prez is all about; getting […]
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Know Your Rights
“If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.” Thomas Jefferson The growing divide in society is underscored by the courts backing of evictions of the many for a few on the Lower East Side. This is completely backwards to the democratic ideals the USA is meant to represent.Every ounce of […]
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Saturday, April 14, Tom, Trickydame (along with their friend Colleen) gathered with about 150+ other long time East Village residents to support the residents of 47 E 3rd St who are fighting a mass eviction by their landlords, the Ekonomakis family, who claim they want the entire 15 unit building for their personal use. They […]
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How far we’ve come, or not
• The gulf between white and African-American incomes has hardly narrowed at all. In 1968 – the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination — blacks earned, on average, 55¢ for every $1 of white income. By 2001, they were getting 57¢—a gain of 2¢. At that, parity could be achieved in another 581 years. • […]
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As tax day comes wouldn’t it be nice to know where exactly the money collected goes? Tom listens to many patriots talk about what’s wrong with the USA and after much thought on the subject has met a few people and organizations that are working hard to educate all of us about the trade-offs and […]
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Use Wind Energy …
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All of the Democratic presidential candidates made Tom 4 Prez proud last weekend (3/24-25/07). They all pledged universal health care for every US citizen if elected at the SEIU Conference, a labor union representing 1.3 million service workers. Quoting all the awful facts about the money and resources we already have that are wasted instead […]
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