Tag Archives: freedom

The power of a dream

By: Gabriela Yareliz Thank you Martin Luther King Jr. for dreaming. Thank you activists for marching. Thank you minorities for boycotting. Thank you God creating us for equal. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Continue reading “The power of a dream”

Four more years

By: Gabriela Yareliz May it be four more years filled with peace, FREEDOM, equality and free health care (wink). Congratulations president Obama. Don’t let the nation down, and finish what you’ve started. America has voted folks. This election’s electoral votes redeemed elections for me. The Gore-Bush thing left me traumatized. This time, the popular voteContinue reading “Four more years”

Remembering September 11, 2001

By: Gabriela Yareliz It is September 11 today. Eleventh year since the tragedy that struck so many innocent lives. Today, I went to the Night of Remembrance at the Manhattan Seventh-day Adventist Church, and it was phenomenal. A lot of people showed up, and the musicians were wonderful. Poets shared (The Two Titans and Heroes wereContinue reading “Remembering September 11, 2001”

Politicizing Religion

By: Gabriela Yareliz There is an 11-year-old girl being held for possible blasphemy for potentially having burned pages of the Koran in Pakistan. An 11-year-old girl?Really? That is terrible. This is what happens when religion becomes part of a political system. It is disgusting, it always has been whether it was with Catholicism, Islam–whatever. HousesContinue reading “Politicizing Religion”