Category: Around the Web

• Searching for Freedom in a “Free” Country

  Welcome Back to Alert, Aware, Mindful! This week’s episode focuses on Kalief Browder and prison culture. Topics include: Effects of prison culture on society upon release and why activism is so important to social change. We end with peace and love from one of the greats. He was all about the love. Thanks for listening! Elle…

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  June 8, 2015

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• HEART-Breaking News

  Kalief Browder, Jailed For Years At Rikers Island Without Trial, Commits Suicide : The Two-Way : NPR.

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  June 8, 2015

  Around the Web

• Alert! I love this quote. She hits the nail on head of the way I feel.- A Beautiful Synchronicity

  There is something in me that feels that it must work to change things about myself and about the world, even as there is something more profound that knows that nothing needs me to change anything at all — rather, there are simply changes taking place, changes that are changing me, changes that must take…

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  May 25, 2015

  Around the Web, Inspiration, Stress Less, Women Being Awesome

• Adam Gottlieb, Poet Breathe Now – YouTube

  Adam Gottlieb, Poet Breathe Now – YouTube.   This week’s Called to Action Spotlight is on Louder than a Bomb a Youth Poetry Slam. Listen and be impressed. He is only 17 when he wrote and performed this. *This* is what our young people are capable of.

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  April 27, 2015

  Around the Web, Hope and Cope, Inspiration, Podcast

  activism, CelebrateYourDifference, personal_accounts, Videos

• Calls For Police Accountability In Death Of Naked Man Anthony Hill

  Hill’s death at the hands of a police officer is especially tragic, Anderson said, because he had great respect for law enforcement. When no indictment was issued for police officers in the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black Staten Island man who got into a videotaped confrontation with white police officers, Anderson…

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  March 16, 2015

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• American Denial | The Roots of Racism | Independent Lens | PBS

  In this week’s episode of Alert. Aware. Mindful. (AAM) I will be discussing themes in American Denial | The Roots of Racism | Independent Lens | PBS.  I highly recommend it. It’s interesting and has answers that some of you are looking for in regards to racism in America.

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  March 16, 2015

  Around the Web, Podcast, Social Justice Activism, to protect and serve

• A sudden flash of insight: To Be Blind to Color

  “To be blind to color, as Julian Bond has noted, is to be blind to the consequences of color, “and especially the consequences of being the wrong color in America.” via A sudden flash of insight: To Be Blind to Color.

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  March 16, 2015

  Around the Web, Inspiration, Social Justice Activism

  racism_exists, social_justice

• Republicans Admit: That Iran Letter Was a Dumb Idea – The Daily Beast

  Hmm…sounds treason-y.   Republicans Admit: That Iran Letter Was a Dumb Idea – The Daily Beast.

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  March 14, 2015

  Around the Web, yourtax$@work

• Elle Cast 5: Special Guest Phillip Montgomery- Part II

  There were some technical issues with last week’s podcast, but they have been sorted. Check it out. Stream or download

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  March 2, 2015

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• City of Cleveland responds to Tamir Rice lawsuit by saying boy’s death was caused because of his own actions | cleveland.com#incart_most-read_metro_article#incart_most-read_metro_article

  I can’t EVEN with the City of Cleveland. It’s the 12 year old boy’s fault? ” Officers responded to a report of a man with a gun. The boy was shot less than two seconds after the officers pulled up to the gazebo outside the recreation center. The boy was holding a pellet gun. It goes…

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  March 2, 2015

  Around the Web, Social Justice Activism, to protect and serve