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RESPONDING TO INJUSTICE
featuring Prosecutor
Stuart Dunnings
Sunday, September 28, 2008 (1-3pm)
Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing, 855 Grove St. East Lansing, MI 48823
In May 2008, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing and Edgewood United Church of Christ hosted an event to welcome Claude McCollum back to our community. Thank you for showing your support and sharing in the vision that our community will not tolerate injustice.
LANSING, MI — At the end of September one lucky family will be surprised when ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” crew knocks on their door. One of five families that live close to or in Lansing were nominated for the TV show. This will be the third home built in the state.
Since the advent of the Reagan years, fiscal conservatives have constantly railed against any government assistance whatsoever for the middle-class, labeling the practice “wealth redistribution.” But the national financial crises over the past three decades, including the current proposal by the U.S. government to bail out high-level Wall Street conglomerates, reveal the hypocrisy of their argument. Conservatives are only against wealth redistribution when the funds are directed from them to the middle-class and poor. But they wholeheartedly support wealth that is transferred from the poor and middle-class to their coffers.
Off to school again for the 1st and 2nd grade children in the Risper household. I think that summer dragged on this year and I was starting to feel it in my bones. Labor Day marks less labor for me. It seems like I work harder in the summer. I think that children get lazy and restless. They stay up late and if you have the leisure, you don’t have to worry about them getting up to do anything. Early morning cartoons and late night features become a major part of their lives and then Labor Day hits.
I love my life. God has blessed me. One of the greatest gifts that I have is the ability to be positive most of the time; however, this isn’t one of those times. The reason why is, I’m sick and tired of people who could care less about the feelings of others around them. I believe that when given the opportunity to be a positive and motivating force in the life of someone who trusts and looks to you that you should as much as you can be responsible.
Studio: Overture Films
Plot: A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer.
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg
Rating: R
Bottom Line: **
Some young men and women currently going as soldiers into the Bush Iraqi war were born during the first Iraqi war and now old enough to vote. Iraq had marched its army into Kuwait stealing a huge oil field. George Bush, Sr., an experienced diplomat, rallied support though the United Nations for a swift and decisive counter-attack driving the Iraqi army back into Iraq.
LANSING, MI — With a lot of pressing issues facing us in today’s world, health has always been at the top of the list, especially for African Americans and low-income people.
Left :Christine Johnson, speaker; Rina Risper, coordinator of the SOOH event; Monica Jahner from the NorthWest Initiative’s ARRO program and Jolinda Wade, speaker.
Photo by Michael Jennings
Left: Jerry Cullen, owner of Salem Medical provided foot exams for attendees. Dr. Peter B. Wollschlaeger and Dr. Maher Al-Sheikh discuss their talking points for the diabetes panel. Photo by Michael Jennings
Will Smith has his sights set on the lead role in "The Last Pharoah," a Columbia drama to be penned by "Braveheart" writer Randall Wallace and produced by Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment.
Census release shows more are without health insurance
Michigan’s families continued to struggle with falling wages and rising poverty in 2007 as income fell sharply below the national median income and the poverty rate jumped, according to Census Bureau data released today.