sister earth
Posted on July 9, 2008 | Filed Under the natural world

The earth is not our mother. The earth is our sister, both it and we born from the same “womb,” both it and we sustained moment by moment through the vigilant care of our loving Father, both it and we living toward the day when all things will be made new.
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at our worst … and best
Posted on July 2, 2008 | Filed Under justice, torture
Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
The lawsuits allege that those arrested and taken to the prison were subjected to forced nudity, electrical shocks, mock executions and other inhumane treatment. They seek unspecified payments high enough to compensate the detainees for their injuries, and to deter contractors from such conduct in the future.
“These innocent men were senselessly tortured by U.S. companies that profited from their misery,” said lead attorney Susan L. Burke, of the Philadelphia law firm …
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