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...With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, we're no longer huddled masses yearning to breathe free; we're huddled masses yearning to free up space on a countertop. Which is why people are so intrigued by the 100 Thing Challenge, a grass-roots movement in which otherwise seemingly normal folks are pledging to whittle down their possessions to a mere 100 items...
...television set before them documented their recent arrest. Fellow inmates asked for their signatures, Ross said in a telephone interview. “Even some of the police officers who were going through our finger prints and mugshots said they support our cause and encouraged us to continue our movement,” Ross said. During the conversation between the protesters and the military officials at the station, some officials showed sympathy for the cause, according to Ross. Ross said they suggested the group lobby lawmakers, not the officials carrying out the law. But the rising Winthrop House senior said...
...some specific heroes at that time. People like Geoffrey Canada who is the head of the Harlem Children’s Zone—somebody who I really revered. He was able to create a great comprehensive community initiative. And people like Marian Wright Edelman were creating an entire movement around children. So I didn’t necessarily think that the best way to make change was through politics until I got on the ground in Newark...
...There is a lot of hard work ahead, but the movement he has inspired is transforming American politics. Hang onto your hats: more is to come...
...several points in recent years, Wright has openly contemplated his retirement. But the rift between Wright and Moss was unexpected. In early 2006, Wright announced that Moss would be his successor. It was an interesting choice, considering Moss's pedigree: His parents were civil rights movement activists married by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his father is a prominent Cleveland minister. Educated at Morehouse and Yale, Moss had since 1997 led an Augusta, Ga., congregation, boosting its membership from 125 to some 2,100. In a January 2007 interview with Trumpet, a Trinity-affiliated magazine, Wright recalled introducing Moss...