The first elected openly gay mayor of a U.S. city with over a million residents Annise Danette Parker (born May 17, 1956) is an American politician and the mayor of Houston since January 2, 2010. She served as an at-large member of the Houston City Council from 1998 to 2003 and city controller from 2004 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Gender Liberation Is Steadily Increasing
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged equality, politics on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What’s More Taboo Than Optimism?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism, politics on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things are better than they seem. Honest. The idea that America’s best days are behind it is no longer just a rhetorical device: It’s conventional wisdom…But is it true? America is characterologically, almost definitionally, optimistic. The country, after all, was founded on the idea that anyone could come here and make a better life for [...]
The Elation of Change
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged election, politics, spirituality on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Election Hangover: 3 Things To Do the Morning After”
Chaos = Opportunity, Part Two
Posted in Books, tagged america, marianne williamson, politics, spirituality on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens by Marianne Williamson Synergizing the spiritual and the political
Spiritual Revolution, Please!
Posted in Music, tagged mc yogi, obama, politics on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vote for Hope: Free download of an artful Obama anthem by MC Yogi You can listen to a snippet of the song here:
The Stealth Revolution
Posted in Books, tagged david sirota, grassroots, politics on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington by David Sirota “This book engages in the nearly lost art of reporting to tell us what’s going on in the many places that the elite media can’t be bothered to look.” — Bill McKibben “David Sirota is a clear-headed and principled hell-raiser for economic [...]
Vote For Freedom?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged open source, politcal party, politics on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The “Open-Source Political Party” Proposal
