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The military -- always a Southerndominated institution -- sucks down 60% of our federal discretionary spending, and is undergoing a rapid evangelical takeover as well. Our police are being given paramilitary training and powers that are completely out of line with their duty to serve and protect, but much more in keeping with a mission to subdue and suppress. Even liberal cities like Seattle are now home to the kind of local justice that used to be the hallmark of small-town Alabama sheriffs. Segregation is increasing everywhere. The rights of women and people of color are under assault. Violence against leaders who agitate for progressive change is up. Racist organizations are undergoing a renaissance nationwide. We are withdrawing government investments in public education, libraries, infrastructure, health care, and technological innovation -- in many areas, to the point where we are falling behind the standards that prevail in every other developed country. Elites who dare to argue for increased investment in the common good, and believe that we should lay the groundwork for a better future, are regarded as not just silly and soft-headed, but also inviting underclass revolt. The Yankees thought that government's job was to better the lot of the lower classes. The Southern aristocrats believe that its real purpose is to deprive the lower classes of all possible means of rising up against their betters. The rich are different now because the elites who spent four centuries Vision and Action sucking the South dry and turning it for Ending War into an economic and political backwater have now vanquished the more Education/Outreach on forward-thinking, democratic NorthConscience and Military ern elites. Their attitudes towards Legal Services for freedom, authority, community, govConscientious Objectors ernment, and the social contract Counter recruitment/peace aren't just confined to the country education tools clubs of the Gulf Coast; they can now War Resisters League be found on the ground from Hollyaffiliate wood and Silicon Valley to Wall Street. And because of that quiet 504 NE 15th St., OKC 73104 coup, the entire US is now turning Phone 405.598.7362 into the global equivalent of a Deep centerforconscience.org South state. As long as America runs according to
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You are invited to a farewell dinner celebration for the Benedictine Sisters of Red Plains Monastery, Piedmont The Sisters of Benedict of Red Plains Monastery are moving to Atchison, Kansas On July 29, 2012 at Epiphany Catholic Church Hall 7336 W Britton Road, OKC
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