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SEPTEMBER 2025 MAGAZINE

PR for People Team
September 11, 2025

Get out there and stick up for yourself and the people in your community! Our feature this month is a quick primer in Civil Resistance.  Barbara Lloyd McMichael describes what happened this summer when she participated in her library’s annual reading program Book Bingo. Manny Frishberg writes about the Ngombor Community Development Alliance, a new organization with roots in the West Nile region of Uganda, that is helping to educate smallholder farmers and traders. While we’re on the topic of education, please see my book review on Brian Dillon’s Essayism On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction. He is a writer’s writer who is a cut above all the rest of us. Even if you are not a writer, there is no harm in taking a glimpse at truly good writing. –Patricia Vaccarino

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Educate Yourself: The American Resistance

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Patricia Vaccarino
September 07, 2025

Eons ago in my last year of college, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice was the text book for my political science class. The class was assigned to write about the factors that led to Nazi Germany’s murderous rampage. What characteristics did the fascists (and their supporters) have in common? I decided to write about Nazi Germany from a different angle. I wrote about the people who had resisted the fascists. They shared characteristics in common. Those who had resisted fascism had integrity, compassion, and a conscience.

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Rev. Martin Luther King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence

PR for People Team
September 02, 2025

In the coming months, there will be a marked increase of “Civil Resistance.” Long coined as Civil Disobedience, nonviolent protest is one way people of conscience can stand strong and united during a time of heinous injustice. In our September news digest, we will feature an article about the many ways people of conscience can demonstrate civil resistance. Please scroll below to read Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Six Principles of Nonviolence.   

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Letter from Birmingham Jail Excerpts

PR for People Team
September 02, 2025

During these times of unconscionable tyranny in America, we can look to our past to find solace among the words Dr. Martin Luther King. He  wrote the excerpts below while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama. His only crime had been "parading without a permit" after leading a nonviolent demonstration against segregation. Allow his words to inspire and ignite you to resist injustice and stand tall for what is right. This is the gospel truth, so help us God.

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