Advocate

• Capital Punishment: Those who advocate it search for a "humane" way to kill courtesy of the BBC.

  2008-01-17 13:14:00

  By chance I watched a TV program the other night which cut me cold as I found it not only distasteful, admittedly not unusual these days, but it was also a warning from the past that we ignore at our peril, although I am sure it was not intended to be so. The former right-wing Tory politician and now Media luvvie Michael Portillo, fronted a program in the Horizon series entitled How To kill a Human Being. * However this was not to be any human being, but those unfortunate souls who make up the populations of the Death Rows that shamefully exist in those countries that still carry out capital punishment.Mr Portillo supports capital punishment, so it was hardly surprising that the film totally ignored the morality of the State taking the lives of its citizens when it is pretty obvious to most thinking beings that the criminal justice system, by its very nature is far from infallible, thus if capital punishment exists, amongst the guilty innocent people will also be executed. Although Por
• Obituary: Peggie Preston: An advocate of peace, aid and development

  2008-01-08 12:07:00

  When I came across this obituary of Peggie Preston, what struck was she had lived the type of life which should have ensured her a prominent obituary in the national press, instead of her becoming an after thought in the Guardians 'Other Lives' section. The one place were class prejudice still rules supreme in all its arrogance is on the Obituary Pages of the British Press. Few working class people appear on these pages whether it be in the Times, Guardian, Independent or Telegraph, although to be fair the latter is more liberal than most as they always have space for the odd non commissioned officer who committed heroic deeds when serving in the military and rightly so. However in the main the obituary pages are overwhelmingly made up of the so called great and good, people who come from the 'right type of background' with a sprinkling of authors and artists etc who had made their peace with the British establishment. Of course there are exceptions but they are few and far between. I
• Devil’s Advocate in typography

  2007-12-25 16:32:21

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  2007-11-28 22:02:40

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• R.I.P. Julie Martin, Family Advocate

  2007-09-27 17:17:00

  Photo courtesy of here. Guest article by Georgine Getty. On September 14, 2007, Cincinnati lost a great friend to the homeless community. Julie Martin, Case Management Coordinator at the YWCA Battered Women Shelter was tragically killed in a car accident outside of Indianapolis. She was only 37 years old. Those of us lucky enough to know Julie knew that she was a fierce advocate for the families that she served and was intolerant of any system that attempted to revictimize them. Julie was the kind of case manager who wouldn’t take no for an answer if it came to one of her clients. 
• China: Advocate the truth of persecution

  2007-09-27 10:07:25

  :: Kommentarer görs med fördel också på svenska :: IS THERE ANY PERSECUTION in China? CCP and its officials answer: No, not at all. The Church is free. The Christians worship their God all over the country, they say. And the Chinese state church (TSPM) confirms that Chinese freedom of religion. WHAT IS THE TRUTH? This is the answer recently given by a Christian in China:  WE WANT THE WORLD to know what is happening in China. This is the worse I have seen. For the first time, they are not targeting mostly leaders, foreigners and Bible schools. They are targeting local churches, threatening to put common Christians in prison if they do not stop having house church meetings, says the source from China. Please read the full report: "Is there persecution in China?" Photo: Chinese Bible reading REFLECTION Supporting those who are persecuted is vitally important for the church in China. We must all take the opportunity to pray, to give, to encourage and to battle for the
• Google as Healthcare Advocate?

  2007-06-21 03:07:46

  Roni Zeiger, M.D., Product Manager, Google asks "Is There A Doctor in the Family?" 'When I help my loved ones navigate an illness or get up to date with screening tests, I wonder how those who don't have a doctor in the family manage their health." With great difficulty I imagine. A few years ago I was diagnosed with a potentially serious illness which required surgery.  I was confident that I'd be able to navigate the healthcare system without too many problems since I'd worked as a part of it for years. Well, let me tell you, this little grasshopper had much to learn. 1.  If you ever hope to see the doctor, be nice to the front-desk schedulers and billers.  This is, of course, easy if they treat you with kindness and professionalism. Along my journey I met a few of these folks who were positively wonderful. Unfortunately I also encountered a few who were bitter, miserable, and out to make as many converts to the dark side as possible.  H