Archive for August, 2009
Hope for the Poor: Vital Vitamins
Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless [...]
August 25th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: Street Art
I have made it my business to use the green economy as a social and economic solution to poverty. I want to Green the Ghetto. Majora Carter Back in February we began writing about Greening the Ghetto here in our own neighborhood in Juarez. Sure, it is a daunting prospect, but we are continuing to dream [...]
August 17th, 2009 by mmlindsey
Lament por El Toro
Lament por El Toro Poem by Michael E. Lindsey The coyotes howl – their plaintive cry echoes through the midnight sky. We sit around the campfire light and wonder of El Toro’s plight of a life on the streets of this mean town that’s ruined many a man and struck scores down. Alas… would the [...]
August 8th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Dark Side of the River
Poverty is not the problem, it is the symptom. The problem is an inability to share and to distribute the wealth. In 10 or 20 years, these kids roaming the streets will be the same kind of criminals we see here today. They will be killing and trying to smuggle drugs because they won’t see [...]
August 31st, 2009 by Misty Lindsey