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11/01/2020

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09/30/2020

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The Thomas Merton Center Board of Directors has voted to temporarily suspend publication of The NewPeople newspaper, as of September 21, 2020.

Given current work developing a strategic plan that will guide future implementation of the Center’s mission, and how the pandemic has severely limited distribution of the paper beyond our membership, the Board decided the moment was right for rethinking The NewPeople’s overall purpose, forms of publication and distribution, nature of content, and organization of the labor needed to produce a quality publication.

In coming months staff, board members, and volunteers will address a number of challenges faced by The NewPeople, including the need to grow our audience, increase unique, impactful content, integrate the newspaper with the Center’s other activities, and recruit and retain a diverse group of volunteers capable of maintaining production and distribution.

The NewPeople has a long and often illustrious history of informing and energizing Pittsburgh’s activist communities. During that history the publication has mutated in ways that have reflected the Thomas Merton Center’s evolving mission, concerns, and resources.

The Center’s Board regards the current pause in publication as one step among many intended to ensure our organization’s future effectiveness as a relevant voice for peace, equity, and social justice in western Pennsylvania.

09/30/2020

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09/23/2020

"Now imagine that the police didn’t make you return the TV to the original owner. You just had to face the fact that your TV was a good deal because it was stolen. That’s white privilege. No one’s asking you to return the TV. They’re just asking you to not ignore the fact that your good deal came at a cost to someone else."

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By James Abercrombie NOTE FROM EDITOR: LOUIE GIGLIO, LEADER OF A CONSERVATIVE ATLANTA MEGACHURCH, SPARKED OUTRAGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHEN HE RECENTLY SAID, “WE UNDERSTAND THE CURSE THAT WAS SLAVERY…

09/21/2020

"My argument is not against parenting, but for a world in which people of child-rearing age can make conscientious choices knowing there are more alternatives than the social norms presented to us."

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By Symone Saul EDITOR’S NOTE: THROUGH PERSONAL ACCOUNTS INTENDED TO GIVE VOICE- NOT MEASURE OUR STRUGGLES OR PREACH RIGHT OR WRONG- WE ENCOURAGE ALL TO SUBMIT STORIES ABOUT CHOICES OR LACK OF CHOIC…

09/18/2020

"Our courts have unlawfully and inhumanely turned life with parole sentences into life without parole sentences by ruling life imprisonment is a minimum sentence. Based on this barefaced lie, thousands of people who accidentally, unintentionally, or otherwise inadvertently caused the death of a fellow human being, men and women who didn’t actually kill anyone, truly remorseful and rehabilitated lifers who aged out of crime decades ago, and wrongfully convicted innocent individuals have all been denied liberty and justice over the past half-century by being stripped of their basic “right” to periodic parole reviews."

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EDITOR’S NOTE: ON JULY 8, SIX PEOPLE NOW SERVING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER FILED A SUIT IN COMMONWEALTH COURT AGAINST THE STATE BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE, SEE…

09/16/2020

"As usual, the Association of Pittsburgh Priests has a great line up for its speakers’ series this fall. Check them out. All events will be held on Zoom, making it easier than ever to participate!"

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By Joyce Rothermel As usual, the Association of Pittsburgh Priests has a great line up for its speakers’ series this fall. Check them out. All events will be held on Zoom, making it easier than eve…

09/14/2020

"The book covers the entire history of the nuclear age from the 1940s to the present “fire and fury like the world has never seen” nuclear threats of Donald Trump. The amount of detail on generals, presidents and other high army and government figures that the book covers is staggering and challenging to the reader."

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By Michael Drohan The unassuming title of The Bomb does not do justice to the enormous amount of knowledge, research and detail that Kaplan brings to the subject of the history of the development a…