http://momentscount.com The Moments Count Journal is a weekly Internet magazine bringing worldwide change through collaboration. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Moments Count is committed to the concept that every person has a purpose and a power to change the world. We work to create worldwide conversation. This diverse engagement energizes ideas and facilitates opportunities to take action to improve the world we all share. Visit us at http://MomentsCount.com/and tell us how you or someone you know is changing the world. The Moments Count Journal no The Moments Count Journal contactmc@momentscount.com contactmc@momentscount.com (The Moments Count Journal) Moments Count You Have Power and Purpose In Your World. moments count, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, positive change, create change, inspire http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/MCLogo_Tag2.jpg http://momentscount.com/topics/human-rights/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9745/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9745/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:00:34 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=9745 http://momentscount.com/archives/9745/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/9738/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9738/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:00:07 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=9738 http://momentscount.com/archives/9738/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9589/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9589/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:00:58 +0000 Shoot 4 Change http://momentscount.com/?p=9589
(Text and Photos by: Isaak J. Liptzin ) I arrived in Jaipur intending to stay only for a few days, but I ended up meeting a group of people who lived in the Kathputli colony. (click to see the photogallery) I visited their home, and spoke to them about the school they were trying to [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9589/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9508/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9508/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:00:25 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=9508
Sharon and I both love cemeteries. One important aspect of the work we’ve committed ourselves to along our healing journey involves burial grounds. We both turn our heads to check them out when we pass them in our cars. We’ll walk through them and read headstones whether we have relatives buried there or not. Over [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9508/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9441/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9441/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:00:51 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=9441
Video and article from NPR The U.N. estimates that the world's population passed the 7 billion mark on Monday, 10/31/2011. Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China. Those two countries have been among the world's most populous for centuries. But a demographic shift is taking place as the countries [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9441/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9322/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9322/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:00:47 +0000 Kevin Robison http://momentscount.com/?p=9322
It's been one of those summers. You think things are going one way, then suddenly life throws a curve, and then a curve back, and all of the sudden you feel like you are on an endless slalom. The ride can be fun, but when you find yourself passing very big trees at a very [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9322/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/9089/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9089/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:00:11 +0000 Adam J Pearson http://momentscount.com/?p=9089 http://momentscount.com/archives/9089/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/9052/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9052/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:32:07 +0000 Shoot 4 Change http://momentscount.com/?p=9052
A hydroelectric dam threatens ancient tradition of the Himba in Namibia. Click to see the entire photo gallery The history of the Himba, a nomadic ethnic group located in northern Namibia, known for the distinctive red ocher of their body, is a story of human tragedy.  Periods of severe drought took turns with armed attack [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9052/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8948/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8948/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:00:14 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=8948 http://momentscount.com/archives/8948/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8880/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8880/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:00:15 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=8880 http://momentscount.com/archives/8880/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8791/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8791/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:00:51 +0000 Shoot 4 Change http://momentscount.com/?p=8791
- A story told by Yelena Posniak/S4C New York City – I recently had the honor to interview Supei Liu and Diana Mao, the co-founding members of the Nomi Network based in New York City. By utilizing their knowledge of fashion design, marketing, business and with great creativity, Nomi Network is making a tremendous difference [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8791/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8730/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8730/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:00:49 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=8730 http://momentscount.com/archives/8730/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/8353/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8353/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:50:22 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=8353
A woman arrived at the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a few years ago weighing just under 62 pounds. Armed militants had murdered three of her eight children and her husband. The gunmen had repeatedly raped the woman, who as a result had become incontinent and infected with HIV. For Denis [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8353/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8105/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8105/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:06:36 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=8105
In 2008 Zainab Beckett saw a special report on CNN. A small boy begged for his life before a group of soldiers. When the child turned, they shot him. They killed him. Zainab knew this boy’s death was her call to action. ZCD Foundation is the profound purpose grown out of this shattering pain. In [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8105/feed/ 0 educational development,social entrepreneurship,taking action,water scarcity,zcd update In 2008 Zainab Beckett saw a special report on CNN. A small boy begged for his life before a group of soldiers. When the child turned, they shot him. They killed him. - Zainab knew this boy’s death was her call to action. In 2008 Zainab Beckett saw a special report on CNN. A small boy begged for his life before a group of soldiers. When the child turned, they shot him. They killed him. (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Zee_and_kids1.jpg)Zainab knew this boy’s death was her call to action. ZCD Foundation (http://www.zcdfoundation.org/) is the profound purpose grown out of this shattering pain. In less than two years, “Zee” Beckett, her friend Dallas Sisolack, and their ZCD Foundation’s commitment to the motto “Water is Life” has saved the lives of 14,000 people. Her farming, education and construction programs are empowering women and children and giving young people the safety and education they need to improve the future of Sierra Leone. (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/zcd.jpg)From a humble beginning - one well - ZCD Foundation is now providing education and management for: * Agricultural production, processing and marketing (http://www.zcdfoundation.org/agriculturalprojects.html) * Educational development at the primary through the tertiary levels (http://www.zcdfoundation.org/educationprojects.html) to foster entrepreneurial skills among youths who might otherwise leave school early * Shelter construction and infrastructure development (http://www.zcdfoundation.org/shelterprojects.html) to foster entrepreneurial and trade skills * And of course, community water, sanitation, hygiene and health promotion (http://www.zcdfoundation.org/waterprojects.html). Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 18:40 http://momentscount.com/archives/7897/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7897/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:02:00 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=7897
By Cynthia Gorney for National Geographic Page 1 :: Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7897/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/7893/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7893/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:01:00 +0000 Adam J Pearson http://momentscount.com/?p=7893
Today, I had a wonderful talk with an old homeless man. At the end of it, he looked at me almost with tears in his eyes and he said “You know what, I love you, man. Everyone either ignores me or yells at me. You took the time to actually listen to me and that [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7893/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/7326/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7326/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 05:03:41 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=7326
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from John Blake's 2004 book "Children of the Movement." The PBS documentary "Freedom Riders" features James Zwerg, now 71. Blake interviewed him in 2003. This report contains objectionable language. (From CNN) -- The mob was already waiting for James Zwerg by the time the Greyhound bus eased into the [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7326/feed/ 13 http://momentscount.com/archives/7210/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7210/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 05:02:05 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=7210
Which countries produce the most slaves and where are these slaves employed? And which international borders fail the test when it comes to human trafficking? CNN mapped it all out – and illustrates the extremes. As the video below shows, the developing world does not have a monopoly on this degrading trade. Please share this [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7210/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/7174/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7174/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:05:14 +0000 Sunitha Krishnan http://momentscount.com/?p=7174
I am a blessed person as I have the honor of meeting the worst to the best men in my personal and professional life. Rescuing thousands of women and children from sexual slavery, I have heard millions of stories of brutality of men. Buying sex from a anonymous person gives so much of freedom and [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7174/feed/ 5 http://momentscount.com/archives/7031/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7031/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:04:37 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=7031
"There're between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today," Ashton Kutcher tells CNN's Piers Morgan. "If you don't do something to stop that - that's when there's something wrong with you." In their first-ever joint prime time interview, actress Demi Moore and actor Ashton Kutcher joined Thursday's "Piers Morgan Tonight." The [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7031/feed/ 15 http://momentscount.com/archives/6900/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6900/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:05:27 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=6900
April 4, 2011, was the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years ago I attended the White Privilege Conference in Memphis. My conference roommate Michael and I, along with two students at the college where he works, drove downtown to the Lorraine Motel, now home to [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6900/feed/ 10 http://momentscount.com/archives/6909/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6909/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:04:59 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=6909
Oscar-winning actress and UN ambassador, Mira Sorvino is on a personal mission to end human trafficking. Please share this story!]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6909/feed/ 3 http://momentscount.com/archives/6797/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6797/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:06:18 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=6797
For photographer Kay Chernush, a passion for shedding light on human trafficking began with a plane ride across the Atlantic Ocean. "I was going overseas, and sat next to somebody who, it turned out, worked at the TIP (Trafficking in Persons) office at the State Department. We talked all the way across the Atlantic, and [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6797/feed/ 18 http://momentscount.com/archives/6587/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6587/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:05:29 +0000 Shoot 4 Change http://momentscount.com/?p=6587
We are particularly glad, today, to present you Last Stand on the Island, a project by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez. Evan and Carmen have traveled the world covering stories about hunger, aids, humanity and environment issues. Their work is compelling, inspiring and brings attention to issues that we would never have known existed. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6587/feed/ 5 http://momentscount.com/archives/6611/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6611/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:04:08 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=6611
From Southern Poverty Law Center It came to be known as “kids for cash.” That was the name given to the alleged $2.8 million bribery scheme in which a former Pennsylvania judge was accused of sentencing children to for-profit detention centers for kickbacks. This month, the judge went on trial in that case and, days [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6611/feed/ 18 http://momentscount.com/archives/6472/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6472/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:03:32 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=6472
From CNN's Freedom Project: This is part of CNN's year-long effort to shed a light on, and perhaps help stop, human trafficking. In the video below, 2007 CNN Hero, Tina Frundt works to save victims of child sex trafficking. She herself was a victim at the age of 14. Tina Frundt, 2010 Fredrick Douglass Award [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6472/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/6398/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6398/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:02:27 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=6398
From The CNN Freedom Project:  Many Forms of Slavery Exist: Slavery still exists. Of that there isn’t much dispute, if any. But how widespread is what many experts call modern-day slavery? Estimates range from about 10 million to 30 million, according to policymakers, activists, journalists and scholars. This year CNN will join the fight to [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6398/feed/ 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/5987/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5987/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:01:43 +0000 Shoot 4 Change http://momentscount.com/?p=5987
                    It’s a great pleasure to introduce Manuel Meszarovits a french professional photographer with a strong focus on social issues (together with and professional wedding photography and portraits activity). He highlights his social and humanitarian reports by accompanying the work of associations throughout the world and [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5987/feed/ 6 http://momentscount.com/archives/5812/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5812/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:05:06 +0000 Shoot 4 Change http://momentscount.com/?p=5812
Nicola Sacco met with the photographer Fabio De Benedettis on the occasion of his joining Shoot4Change (S4C) (and we are all happy and honored!) and exchanged with him a few thoughts on photography and social commitment. Fabio reminisced, "When I was 11 I received my first camera with which I loved portraying people's faces, their [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5812/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/5752/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5752/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:01:17 +0000 John W Strobel III http://momentscount.com/?p=5752
The picker shouted out to his companion… “Hey Chico, vigilascia fuero para los espinas en estos de la arboles de limon. Hombre, podra paralizar de le vida si no ves. Damn, son realemente greusas en mi arbole. Como es tuyo?” Loosely translated he yelled, “Hey Chico, Watch out for the thorns in these lemon trees. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5752/feed/ 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/5481/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5481/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:03:08 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5481
Fifty years ago, on January 20, 1961, the torch was passed to a new generation when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States. The address he gave is one of the most inspiring and important speeches of 20th century. The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has produced [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5481/feed/ 9 http://momentscount.com/archives/5509/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5509/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:00:20 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=5509
We live in a world where people tend to quickly define the behavior of others. They often swiftly label the behavior of those who think, act or participate in the world differently from them as wrong, aberrant or inappropriate. Of still more concern to me, is when my field, psychology, is misused for this purpose. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5509/feed/ 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/5419/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5419/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:00:22 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=5419
From Free The Slaves You have questions? Here are the answers: It takes a movement to free a slave, and you can help to build the movement right now with one simple step. Share this link for our animated video “Top Ten Facts about the ‘S’ Word” (shown below) with your friends, family, coworkers or [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5419/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/5380/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5380/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:46:38 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5380
UPDATE (Jan 1): Gladys Scott calls NY Times columnist Bob Herbert. Read his column about their New Year’s Eve conversation here. “I was happy for the Scott sisters and deeply moved as Gladys spoke of how desperately she wanted to “just hold” her two children and her mother, who live in Florida. But I couldn’t [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5380/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/5358/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5358/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:17:33 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5358
              Two years ago a powerful book was published about modern-day slavery: A Crime So Monstrous. It’s a harrowing, eye-opening book. A couple of related stories caught my attention recently. One is about a black family in Mississippi that was enslaved until the 1960′s. That is not a typo; [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5358/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/5340/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5340/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:54:58 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=5340
In my new young adult novel Jumpstart the World, Frank, my transgender character, tells Elle,"The world doesn't always play by its own rules." He says we all agree that there should be equality for everyone. But of course there isn't. And we just let it slide. He says, "That's why there's such a thing as [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5340/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/5303/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5303/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:41:23 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=5303
"Given the possibility of living up to the dream in me, you know that I'll be reaching for higher ground." John Denver (Higher Ground) Throughout my life and my career I have recognized when the conversations within me asked me, moved me, pushed me to take paths of new, powerful and unique challenge. Such was [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5303/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/5284/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5284/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:40:51 +0000 Sunitha Krishnan http://momentscount.com/?p=5284
Today my doctor told me I need to have a surgery on my ear. As I sit back and mull about this...I realize this is one of the many irreversible prices I have to pay for being a activist fighting sex trafficking. Years back goons beat me up damaging an ear...many years later I continue [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5284/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/5297/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5297/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:39:54 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5297
John Parker. Margaret Garner. Robert Smalls. John Rankin. They are not among the most well-known of historic figures yet their impact was profound for those whose lives they touched. I spoke recently at The College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. Larisa Wright leads the Office of Multicultural Affairs there, which, like similar offices [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5297/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/4663/ http://momentscount.com/archives/4663/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:50:00 +0000 Sunitha Krishnan http://momentscount.com/?p=4663
There was a time in my life when I used to think if I meet God on the road, I may just kill him/her with my bare hands. Witnessing the lives of hundreds of children who for no fault of theirs die untimely deaths or struggle to fight a valiant battle against both internal and [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4663/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/582/ http://momentscount.com/archives/582/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:00:20 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=582
About a decade ago my mother and stepfather, because of a series of unfortunate investments and dismal financial missteps, found themselves living in their motor home in a shopping mall parking lot. Different people approach the world and its circumstances in different ways. For my stepfather, well, it was a grand adventure. My parents were [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/582/feed/ 14 http://momentscount.com/archives/4411/ http://momentscount.com/archives/4411/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:29:29 +0000 Adimu Madyun http://momentscount.com/?p=4411
Editorial Note: This video trailer for the film Operation Small Axe is a follow-up to the article last week from Adimu Madyun. Adimu has followed events in Oakland for years and has created this documentary film to bring a picture of apparently ingrained police racism and rising community resistance to the idea of continuing victimhood. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4411/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/4211/ http://momentscount.com/archives/4211/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:14:54 +0000 Adimu Madyun http://momentscount.com/?p=4211
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA -- On Dec. 31, 2008, Jack Bryson warned his two sons and their friends not to spend New Year's Eve in San Francisco. "I was worried about the police," Bryson said. "Call it a father's intuition." When calls to his sons went unanswered in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2009, Bryson knew [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4211/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/3968/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3968/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:56:24 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=3968 http://momentscount.com/archives/3968/feed/ 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/4045/ http://momentscount.com/archives/4045/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:38:32 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=4045
                        Update 2011 ~ For the fifth year in a row, thousands of children in Canada and the US will be surprising adults on Halloween this year. Instead of Trick-or-Treating in the usual way, these children will be handing out Fair Trade chocolate to [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4045/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3778/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3778/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:06:10 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=3778
Radiohead, one of the world's top bands, participates in MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) campaign, a partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and MTV to raise awareness about human trafficking. The collaboration takes the MTV EXIT campaign to a global audience, reaching as many as 560 million households worldwide. As part [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3778/feed/ 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/3635/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3635/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:09:36 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=3635
The aspect of Restorative Justice that most people find most challenging is in dealing with offenders. When someone causes harm to another what do they need in order to be restored? Once again I'm indebted to Howard Zehr (read Howard's blog here) for what follows. Retired Minnesota Judge Dennis Challeen has a lot to say [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3635/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/3510/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3510/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:04:38 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=3510
If one set out to design a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law. -Judith Lewis Herman One of the failures of the criminal justice system in the United States is that the needs of victims have been traditionally ignored. When someone is charged with committing [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3510/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3427/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3427/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:32:42 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=3427
Earlier this year I wrote about an American tragedy; a travesty of so-called justice involving two black women: sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott. For those who didn't see it, in 1993 these two women left a mini-mart near their home in Mississippi. When their car broke down, they hitched a ride from two young men. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3427/feed/ 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/3320/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3320/#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:32:55 +0000 Anthony P Johnson http://momentscount.com/?p=3320
I guess for some Americans, hungry and poverty stricken families are to blame for their predicament because they are just plain lazy. Well, according to the Bread for the World Institute, more that 3.5% of U.S. households experience hunger every day. In fact, many individuals in those households frequently have to skip meals or sometimes [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3320/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/3183/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3183/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:33:31 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=3183
Book Review: Are We Born Racist?: New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology By Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Much of the research I've done (and classes I've taken through the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University over the past few years) to help me understand the history, legacy, and [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3183/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2668/ http://momentscount.com/archives/2668/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:59:47 +0000 T. Parker Vollmer http://momentscount.com/?p=2668
Dear Mr. Very Tall Homeless Man, You should know I'm pretty burned with you right now. Hurt, even. You know that I know of your existence on my construction project, after hours. I haven't minded. You've been respectful. And I have only had to move your things into an unfinished closet a couple of times. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2668/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/2266/ http://momentscount.com/archives/2266/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:01:23 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=2266 http://momentscount.com/archives/2266/feed/ 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/2064/ http://momentscount.com/archives/2064/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:23:37 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=2064
iPhones use the Download link to listen How do we define who we are? How will we define what we are to become? How can we define what we will create? Now, where do we begin? Please share this story!]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2064/feed/ 6 moments count, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, hate, war, peace,our legacy, teach tolerance, teach peace iPhones use the Download link to listen How do we define who we are? How will we define what we are to become? How can we define what we will create? Now, where do we begin? iPhones use the Download link to listen How do we define who we are? How will we define what we are to become? How can we define what we will create? Now, where do we begin? Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 3:51 http://momentscount.com/archives/1385/ http://momentscount.com/archives/1385/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:48:47 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=1385
Today, I happened to glance over at four women sitting at a table on the patio of a sidewalk cafe. They appeared to know each other well. They spoke casually as they began perusing their menus. Jauntily approaching their table was the waitress, stepping out of the cafe. She asked if they'd like something to [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1385/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/1135/ http://momentscount.com/archives/1135/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:31:19 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=1135
A child is born a soft, beautiful innocent. Leaving forever their sleep of silence in the sensuous rhythms of the Sea of Nine, they will propel themselves ever forward. They look to us for safety. A child is born a moving, energetic force. Touching the air for the first time, their tender bodies shudder with [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1135/feed/ 2