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Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry [PS4] #005 – Befreiung der Sklaven [HD] | Let’s Play AC 4 DLC [Deutsch] – Video

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Let #39;s Play : Assassin #39;s Creed Freedom Cry USK : 16 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey Leute und Willkommen zurck zu Assassin #39;s...

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Freedom From Religion Says City Emails Prove Wrongdoing

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When Green Bay's mayor wrote a letter to Pope Francis inviting him to make a pilgrimage to the "Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help"during his2015 trip to the U.S., the Freedom From Religion Foundation says he violated separation of Church and State.

Now the group says it's obtained documents that prove Mayor Jim Schmitt is using city staff and resources to promote a religious agenda.

To the Catholic Church, Pope Francis is a religious leader.

To Forbes magazine he's the 4th most powerful man in the world.

Which title motivated Mayor Jim Schmitt to write a letter inviting the Pontiff to Green Bay?

Freedom From Religion Foundation's Annie Laurie Gaylor says words like "pilgrimage" and signing the letter "your servant in Christ" make Schmitt'sintentions clear.

"He invited the Pope to come not as a dignitary, but as a religious figure," says Gaylor.

Which she says isagainst the law.

"Our concern is that he did this not as an individual Catholic but as Mayor of Green Bay using city letterhead and then our open records request has revealed on city time and also employing staff to further promote his personal religious mission. So his Chief of Staff and City Secretary were also using city time. For example to help set up meetings and create meeting agendas, so its just not appropriate,"says Gaylor. (You can read emails she obtained from the city below.)

Mayor Schmitt says he's done nothing wrong.

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Freedom From Religion Says City Emails Prove Wrongdoing

Narendra Modi Touched Feet of 114years old freedom fighter Colonel Nizamuddin in Subash Bose Army – Video

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Narendra Modi Touched Feet of 114years old freedom fighter Colonel Nizamuddin in Subash Bose Army
Narendra Modi seeked blessing from 114years old freedom fighter Colonel Nizamuddin from Subash Chandra Bose Army by touching his feet in 2014 Varanasi Rohaniya Rally.

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Abebe Gellaw interrupted Obama and Obama agrees with Ethiopia’s call for freedom – Video

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Abebe Gellaw interrupted Obama and Obama agrees with Ethiopia #39;s call for freedom
Breaking News: Abebe Gellaw interrupted Obama and Obama agrees with Ethiopia #39;s call for freedom...San Jose, California--U.S. President Barack Obama has agreed with journalist Abebe Gellaw #39;s...

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Freedom of voice

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The Cushion in the Road ALICE WALKER, THE NEW PRESS, $22.99 | The World Will Follow Joy, ALICE WALKER, THE NEW PRESS, $18.99

Powerful polemicist: Alice Walker challenges readers to end literary segregation. Photo: Jade Wittmann

The one thing I hope to avoid when writing about Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and her two new books is categorising her as a ''black writer'' or even as a ''black feminist writer''. Being black, and a radicalised and radicalising peace-making woman, is central to Walker's consciousness and subject matter. She has for more than 40 years articulated through her fiction, poetry and essays the many experiences she understands from that illuminating perspective. But in a culture as lazily stereotyping as our own, especially when it comes to race, it would be a grave disservice to put Walker on a specialist shelf as though being a ''black writer'' was in some essential way different from being a ''white writer''.

In an essay written in 2010 and reprinted in her new collection, The Cushion in the Road, Walker reports that while searching for audiobooks she discovered, that on Kindle and Amazon websites, ''books by black authors [but not by authors from Iran, Japan, Ireland, England, India, China, Israel, Korea, Tibet, etc] are segregated by race''. She continues: ''Recalling the child I was, who was not allowed into the public library of Eatonton, Georgia, I think of children, especially, who will receive a subliminal message that somehow literature by African Americans isn't really Literature. That it is a separate and smaller, i.e. lesser, creation.''

In the same essay, Loving Audiobooks But Not Segregation, just one of many soul-stirrers in this richly provocative book, Walker challenges us: ''The responsibility for changing literary segregation rests with readers. Would you drink from a segregated water source? Eat in a segregated restaurant? Buy a dress where I could not try one on? Buy a book where black writers are discriminated against?''

The Cushion in the Road, by Alice Walker.

Race, she repeatedly shows, trumps gender as an issue in politics, also. ''It's hard,'' Walker writes in the earliest of her essays on the complex ''making'' of President Obama, ''to relate what it feels like to see Mrs Clinton (I wish she felt self-assured enough to use her own name) referred to as a woman while Barack Obama [then a candidate and Clinton's rival] is always referred to as a black man.''

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Walker is a powerful polemicist. This is not least because she uses here, as elsewhere, a poet's privileges of insight and originality. In Coming to See You Since I Was Five Years Old, first given as what must have been a sensational Steve Biko Memorial Lecture in Cape Town in 2010, she tells us, ''I am re-embracing poetry as a priority Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. And it is the raising of consciousness that is the most effective way to ensure lasting change Once our consciousness changes, so does our existence.''

Walker's fame, though, and her immense freedom of voice, come from her fiction, especially from her 1982 mega-selling novel, The Color Purple, later made into a film by Steven Spielberg. At the time Walker wrote the book, the literary segregation of which she writes was thriving. Taken as self-evident, it was almost impossible to challenge.

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