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Jody Walker
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I am a retired elementary school teacher and live with my husband in western maryland. I love our country and value the Declaration of independence and the constitution. We have made progress in many areas since our country's birth but nothing in the way of human rights has ever been achieved without active citizen participation. We have also slaughtered many innocent people in our colonial conquests which are ongoing and are very rarely discussed. We need to decide whether we wish to be a republic or global, hegemonic conquerors. We can't be both. I've read Thoreau and Emerson and wish to revive this active citizenship. Civil disobedience is needed in order for any democracy to function. If we can't speak out and discuss all sides of issues in a civilized way, our democracy is already dead. I write children's stories with this intent in mind.

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(7 comments) Sunday, June 19, 2011
What is your opinion regarding the value of life? SHARE

I believe progressives are very much "Pro Life" The phrase "pro life" has been skillfully crafted by the far right as a wedge issue. It's time to take it from their exclusive domain and return it to the democratic debate as our number one human rights and justice slogan. People on the Freedom Flotilla are there because they support life. People who protest against GMO's, nuclear power, wars of aggression, torture, mountaintop