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Archive | October, 2009

Lines of Accountability

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 21. Oct, 2009 in breaking news, civil rights movement, mississippi, neshoba murders, race and racism

One of the themes of this blog is the pressing need to look not only at who pulled the trigger in decades old Civil Rights Era murders but also to look more broadly at how institutions, people in positions of power and others in the broader society enabled or encouraged the countless crimes against African [...]

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Let These Voices Be Heard (The Speech)

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 20. Oct, 2009 in class and poverty, economic policy, friends, health, human rights, politics, video

The Speech from Document Films on Vimeo. On the night of Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress – a rarity for any sitting president – we dragged an old tv into the waiting room to show the assembled patients and staff Obama’s speech and get their reactions. Here Robert Taylor and Sheon Slaughter, [...]

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I Live in MA, but Rep. Alan Grayson Speaks for Me

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 08. Oct, 2009 in economic policy, health, politics

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A Century of Living

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 08. Oct, 2009 in education, family, jewish, photo, podcast, women and feminism

Last winter I drove to Providence, RI full of trepidation and sadness. My incredible Aunt Esther, my maternal grandfather’s sister, had pneumonia. I was going to see her to make sure I had the chance to say goodbye. To everyone’s, including her own, surprise, she pulled through. “I saw the pearly gates—and they shut!” she [...]