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Headlines from the Spring 2008 Positive News - US Edition
The Longest Walk
Walk participants. (c) Bitsassy 1961
by Nick Boyar
SAN FRANCISCO, CA On February 11 more than two hundred participants began the Longest Walk 2, a five month cross-country journey on foot to spread their message that all life is sacred. The walkers have come together from many Native American nations and other communities in order to raise awareness about the environment, to visit and promote the protection of sacred Native sites, and to help clean up our Mother Earth.
People have come from as far away as England, Poland, and Australia to participate and support this historic spiritual walk. A group of Japanese Buddhist monks have joined the walk for its entire journey. The walkers are currently traveling along two separate routes on their way to Washington, DC, which they plan to reach in July.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA On February 11 more than two hundred participants began the Longest Walk 2, a five month cross-country journey on foot to spread their message that all life is sacred. The walkers have come together from many Native American nations and other communities in order to raise awareness about the environment, to visit and promote the protection of sacred Native sites, and to help clean up our Mother Earth.
People have come from as far away as England, Poland, and Australia to participate and support this historic spiritual walk. A group of Japanese Buddhist monks have joined the walk for its entire journey. The walkers are currently traveling along two separate routes on their way to Washington, DC, which they plan to reach in July.
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Positively Transformative Prison Program
A theater improvisation class at San Quentin State Prison.
(c) Heather Rowley
by Ruth Robertson (c)
San Quentin is not a typical state prison. It is one of only a handful of prisons in the US that offer higher education courses in a classroom setting. In this correctional facility just north of San Francisco, students take courses in philosophy, sociology government and geology, just to name a few. A big goal of the Prison University Program (PUP) is also to challenge popular myths and stereotypes about people in prison.
PUP brings together volunteer teachers and inmates who qualify for prison university by demonstrating they are eager to learn. The program is a model for how inmate education can help those on the inside of prison walls learn about those on the outside... and vice versa!
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