December 25
Christmas
1875
Birth of Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League.
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I’m flying out of town today, headed to Maryland to be with my family for the holidays. I’ll be back Friday.
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December 24
1865
Months after the fall of the Confederacy and the end of slavery, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee called the Ku Klux Klan.
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I enjoyed being the host of Carnival of the Green this week (see below). Please remember the next Carnival will be on January 2nd, after the holi-daze.
Please offer feedback on how I did by commenting on my Carnival post below. It would be helpful to know what changes I would need to make (if any) for the next time I host – which will be June 5!
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Tagged blogging, carnival of the green, environment, fair trade, green blogs
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Jennifer Napier-Pearce, awarding winning journalist, has on her podcast this week her “picks of the year”. Among those are local Green Party of Utah member and peace activist, Tom King. He’s in some rather esteemed company, too. Others in the podcast picks of the year include Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, activist attorney Ron Yengich (who defended Tom when he was arrested with others in Congressman Jim Matheson’s office just before the 2003 Iraq Invasion during a sit-in to protest Matheson’s support of the War Powers Act), and advocate Claire Geddes.
Listen to the podcast at: Inside Utah
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This week’s Salt Lake City Weekly has an article about the 22 Democrats in Congress who voted to give Wal-Mart advance notice of inspections by the Department of Labor.
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To “reduce” means to cut back or diminish.
So when I heard through the grapevine yesterday that it had been reported that Bush ok’d the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq, I immediately thought that meant that soldiers would be coming home.
Well, sort of….not.
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December 23
1944
General Dwight Eisenhower endorsed the finding of a court-martial in the case of Eddie Slovik, who was tried for desertion, and authorized his execution, the first such sentence against a U.S. Army soldier since the Civil War, and the only man so punished during World War II.
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