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Oasis changing lives through football.

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Erasmus
September 10, 2019
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Oasis Founder Clifford Martinus has a contagious passion for sport and community. This is evident in the work done at Oasis Place with his belief that the connection to a team, fair play and sport can support an individual in overcoming the odds, both personal and social. This South African non-profit creates positive personal development opportunities for youth from marginalised backgrounds.

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Evolution and Ethics: It’s Not an Oxymoron

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Peter Corning
March 13, 2020

The evidence suggests that cooperation was the “master architect” of evolutionary complexity, especially in humankind.  That’s why ethics is so important. The selfish gene model of evolution is a one-sided caricature.  Darwin himself understood the important role of ethics in human evolution. The ethical implications of a fundamentally cooperative model of human evolution are obvious.  Effective social cooperation depends on having a harmonious social relationship.

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Natural Selection: “It Isn’t Just for Breakfast Anymore”

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Peter Corning
January 26, 2020

A sea of change is currently underway in our understanding of the evolutionary process, including especially our way of defining the core concept of natural selection.

The individualistic, gene-centered model of natural selection and evolution has constricted and distorted our understanding of the many different sources of causation in the natural world.

It is like looking into a very large room through a very small keyhole.  If we adopt a more inclusive model of natural selection, we will then be able to view the entire room.  

 

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“Biosocialism”: A New Social Contract for a Species in Peril

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Peter Corning
January 16, 2020

We can no longer indulge the one-sided, polarizing and divisive ideologies of the 20th century. The stakes are too high. Here is a very different alternative. 

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THE ROAD TO COURAGE JULIETA ALTAMIRANO CROSBY

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Patricia Vaccarino
January 10, 2020

In November 2019 Julieta Altamirano-Crosby won a position as a council member for the city of Lynnwood. She is the first Latina to hold that office in Snohomish County. 

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NOTES FROM THE WORKING-CLASS: The Last Star

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Patricia Vaccarino
January 01, 2020

Downtown Seattle is about to lose its Macy’s. The Macy’s building on Third Avenue and Pine Street was first occupied by the iconic Bon Marché that opened in 1890 to serve the working-class. Through a complex series of corporate mergers & acquisitions, the Bon Marché morphed into Bon-Macy’s and eventually became Macy’s flagship store in Seattle. When Macy’s closes its doors on February 28, 2020, the end of this era will signal the death knell for the way the working-class used to shop.

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