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Jul.28.2011
An Easy Way to Help the Planet
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Five Reasons to Make Facebook Time for the Rainforest Action Network By Hank Edson I find Facebook fun and informative – a great way to stay connected to my friends and to be enriched by the things they share.  There may be negatives to the evolving social network culture, but I prefer to...
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Jun.12.2011
FIGURINES
Here I am again,            how strange to awakenFor the first time            to the beautiful faceAnd to feel my limbs            enlocked by this woman,Our arms like handles            on a china vase,Which we form and fire            within our embrace,Two separate beings            fusing...
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Oct.08.2010
Hysterical
                Elaine looked directly at her mother, about to speak.  Too late, out of nowhere, a siren pierced the car’s cabin interior, shaking the women like two bananas in a blender.  Some kind of hybrid hiccup-sob-shriek leapt from her mother’s convulsing chest.  For a moment Elaine was sure...
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Jul.09.2009
The Birthday Gift America Cannot Do Without
Finally, the logical basis of human equality made clear!
Published on Friday, July 3, 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle and on Saturday, July 4, 2009 by CommonDreams.org. This Fourth of July, let's give America the birthday present she cannot do without. Let's give the people back their Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence sets...
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Jan.19.2009
Obama’s Call for a ‘New Declaration of Independence’ is Answered
Obama's call for a new declaration of independence has been answered.
Why we need to think carefully about what in fact we are declaring independence from. By Hank Edson 1.  A New Declaration is Born:  If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you know that on election night, November 4, 2008, I published my first book, The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview, a...
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Nov.04.2008
Excerpt from The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview
Available at democracypress.net
Preface to The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview By John Hank Edson Dedicated To Barack Obama: History will honor the architects who advance the quality of humanity by improving the structures of democracy. This Election Day, November 4, 2008, we find ourselves in the midst of an...
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Mar.05.2008
A New Rule and A New Generation
Americans want change. A spirit of optimism is awakening in the new generation. A new rule of equality and justice for all waits to be born in the politics of our nation. A secret is being whispered from ear to ear by the young and the visionary. The secret is our non-negotiable unity as human...
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Feb.20.2008
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED For Teachers
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Reviewed by Hank Edson    The Road Less Traveled offers great understanding of the world and great clarity of purpose to the reader.  While many books possessed of great understanding reveal the intricate and complex, The Road Less Traveled reveals something very elementary: love.  M. Scott Peck’s...
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Feb.16.2008
On Alan Paton's CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY
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Reviewed by Hank Edson      I am thrilled to be traveling to South Africa this summer for many reasons. But one of the great benefits of this trip I have already received, not by physical journey, but by a literary one. Namely, I decided to read Alan Paton's classic work, Cry, the Beloved Country...
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The answer does not lie in the rejection of the machine, but rather in the humanization of man.”
—Paulo Freire

About Hank

I am an activist, author and attorney based in San Francisco with several years experience as a public school teacher.  You may purchase my books, The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview, A Brave New Worldview, Radical Equality, and The Deer at http://...
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