vigil

The circumstances of the shooting death of the gentleman in Inglewood by local police continues to unfold....

I got here to hospice in Cincinnati on Tuesday. When I came, my dad was not entirely incoherent. We had a 20 second conversation.



--I'm here dad, I've come back to see you.

--I'm glad you came back, thomas.

--I'm glad to be here.

--Thank you for coming.

--I want you to know I love you, Daddy.

--I love you too Thomas.

The Tennessean reported here that among the approximately fifty people at last week's vigil were people identifying them as "'student,' 'musician,' 'woman,' 'Christian,' and 'advocate.'" Also in attendance were representatives from the AFL-CIO and the NAACP, according to the article.

"Right-wing terrorist group" members destroyed mosque by fireEarned promotion for attack"We run the world," "White Power," swastikasVigil response stresses welcome to allDonations solicited for rebuilding fundNewsChannel 5.com reports here that more than 100 people gathered in a vigil Saturday in support of the recently firebombed Islamic Center of Columbia. WKRN reports here that graffiti from

Aunt B. encourages you to attend a vigil in support of the Islamic Center of Columbia which has been in the news recently.

I just got an email from the folks at TIRCC about a vigil in support of the Islamic Center of Columbia, which, as you may know, was desecrated with racist graffiti and then burnt to the ground.  It’s hard to know what to say in the face of that kind of nonsense, but you show up and you face it down.  That’s about all you can do, sometimes.

Here’s the email I received:

Seems Ben Fordney (a board member for an anti-gun group though neither he nor the paper he wrote mentioned that) is peddling some half-truths about how pro-gun folks disrupted some sort of hippie, tree-hugging anti-gun protest. He’s leads one to believe that armed men were having their way with these peace full hippies who were just trying to lie down and sing.

We recently finished our Fall 2007 Newsletter and put it online: CLICK HERE

We hope you enjoy it! Also, we had to shorten my personal reflection on the Daryl Holton execution. Being the literary giant I am (kidding of course), I thought it would be nice to post the non-truncated version on the blog.