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From wheat to war -- a life for the poor
… still food left, the volunteers move it outside and continue serving people, filling up used plastic coffee or food containers for people to take with them to eat later. Catherine showed me …
Water with Blessings provides clean water in Honduras
… four inches from the bottom of a five-gallon bucket. A hose is secured through the hole with a plastic fitting. The hose is then attached to the filter. A clean container is set below the …
Anti-bank protests spread to major US cities
… totally sopped going into a meeting. I was very encouraged to see them covering themselves in plastic, covering their things in plastic. They were not leaving. They were not going anywhere," Sister Pat said. Asked whether she …
Deportee ministers to migrants with grace, humility
… the detention facility, he carried nothing but a few dollars in his pocket and the clear, plastic bag that held his belongings. Like so many people in Nogales, Magdariaga has a lot on his …
After 9/11, Pennsylvania men find strength in faith
… into a stand of hemlocks. Everything was reduced to mostly unidentifiable rubble. "Pieces of plastic from the main body of the plane hung eerily in the trees burning and melting. I'll never forget the constant sizzling sound the dripping plastic made in the leaves on the ground," Miller recalled. "I'll never forget that." Miller and …
Real art makes demands: Wendy Beckett on blasphemy and censorship
… controversial works of art in modern times: Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ," a photograph of a plastic crucifix in a bottle of the artist's own urine. To suggest the work is blasphemous, …
Growing carrots in wading pools
… Compost them. Begin growing vegetables. Lots of them. Grow them in kiddie wading pools, plastic grocery bags, and milk containers. See them thriving in abandoned playground sites, … yard long beans, flourish on the grounds of a former playground in little blue wading pools, plastic grocery bags, milk containers, on vertical A-frame wooden pallets and, yes, in the ground …
Not enough to stem the tide
… and fell around the cooperative’s warehouse as farmers arrived in pickup trucks filled with plastic jugs of honey. Cooperative officers weighed the honey, checked the quality and poured it …
Staking their lives
… Day morning, a small group of women from the Palenque parish hauled disposable plates, plastic forks, water and a tub of cooked noodles to the railroad tracks at the edge of town. …
The Catholic love of nature
… dove off a floating dock in the middle of the pond, but now they use diving boards and tubular plastic slides along a straight cement wall at the deep end. Despite the cement, the tree canopy …