Alcoholism: My Daddy, My Daddy
My Daddy, My Daddy
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It is my daddy’s birthday tomorrow. Tomorrow my daddy would have turned 80. I never called him daddy. Calling him daddy makes me feel little. Little as in small. Little as in tiny. Little as in young. Like a little child. I have no memories of my daddy from when I was little. He wasn’t there. He lef …
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Indigenous Vow: We’ll Be ‘Dead Or In Prison Before We Allow’ Keystone Pipeline
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by Camila Ibanez / Waging Nonviolence On February 27, Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists joined in a four-directions walk to commemorate Liberation Day, an event to mark the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. As they do each year, four groups gather to the north, south, east and west a …
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Emile Zola – ‘L’Assommoir’
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…and here we are at book number thirteen in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart Cycle: L’Assommoir, the novel that ‘broke’ Zola to the reading public of his own time. It’s not hard to see why. The harrowing power of this novel was a key reason I chose to read the entire Cycle. When serialized back in the day, …
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5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty
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See on Scoop.it – Alert As long as tribes are denied the right to control their own resources, they will remain locked in poverty and dependence. Duane Phinney‘s insight: That’s just 5 reasons about land use. Also consider all the give-aways to tribal members– so much that it discourages work, achie …
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