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Homeless in America: The Work of Rajni Shankar-Brown, Ph.D.

Patricia Vaccarino

April 19, 2021

Anyone can become homeless. All it takes is one tragic misstep that winds up leading to a bad sequence of events. You don’t become homeless without suffering. The brokenness of the homeless comes in many forms: Broken dreams, broken hearts, broken bodies, broken minds, and broken souls.

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The Connector January 2021

PR for People Team

January 18, 2021

Where is America as a culture? The Connector’s mission has always been to tell the truth by identifying the individuals who deserve recognition.

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World Views

A Woodstock Story

Nick J. Licata

January 23, 2019

Nick J. Licata remembers Woodstock as those three days in the summer of 1969 when it felt as if youth shared a belief that they could both enjoy and change the world; social justice at home and abroad was important, and doing something about it was possible.

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The Whole World is Watching

Patricia Vaccarino

November 12, 2018

In "The Whole World is Watching," Patricia Vaccarino reminds us that fifty years have passed since the Chicago Democratic Convention anti-war protests took place in August, 1968. Now in 2018, the whole world is indeed watching to see what Americans will do to restore normalcy to the White House. Restoring normalcy means we need to take back our democracy.

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The Social Contract: Who Needs It?

Peter Corning

March 21, 2018

Let’s begin with some political theory. Aristotle, in his great treatise, the Politics, concluded that there are, basically, only two different kinds of governments in terms of the outcomes for a society — those that serve the common good, or the public interest, and those that have been co-opted to serve the self-interests of the people who hold political power.