Community to Hold Emergency Forum to Discuss Homeless Shelter Near Elementary School

By Terry McMoore | December 19, 2006 |

The Urban Resource Center will host a Community Forum - Friday December 29, 2006 at the New Providence Hill Outreach Community Center, 207 Oak St. Clarksville, TN from 7: 00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

We will gather to discuss the recent move by the Clarksville Salvation Army to open a homeless shelter on the same property as the Byrns-Darden Elementary School.

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An Open Letter to Mr. Winston Gaffron regarding Exit 1

By David W. Shelton | December 18, 2006 |

I was notified of a comment to my earlier piece on Exit 1 this morning, which had some great information for this critical issue.  He said that we needed to redirect our attention at the source. I agree. With that said, this is the letter that I sent to Mr. Winston Gaffron as well as all of the relevant city and county officials:

Dear Mr. Gaffron,

I am writing in regards to a critical situation that has been a matter of intense frustration for myself and other residents in this area. The growth in this part of Clarksville and Montgomery County has been completely explosive to the point that the roads simply can not handle it. «Read the rest of this article»

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Video: Fiat Empire - A Closer Look at the Federal Reserve, and America Freedom to Fascism

By Bill Larson | December 15, 2006 |

These are two interesting films and if everything they claim is true, the situation is quite scary when you think about it. He who controls the currency, in the end controls everything.

I noticed a year ago, that the Federal Reserve Board would stop publishing its weekly M3 money supply number as of March 2006, but I never had any reason to think much about it until now.

M0 is all coins and paper bills. M1 is M0 plus all checking accounts. M2 is M1 plus savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit of less than $100,000. M3 is M2 plus all deposits, euro dollars, and repurchase agreements that are $100,000 and larger… M3 is the broadest measure of how much money is circulating in the U.S. at any one time. Unlike M2, M3 is the big stuff, the super-size deposits.

Basically it lets the Federal Reserve and the US Government hide direct manipulation of the stock and currency markets by the Federal Reserve. If you are interested in the details read this article by Harlan Levy. It seems to me to go right along with these film’s assertions. «Read the rest of this article»

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Pedestrian Crossing: a life and death gamble

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 15, 2006 |

I was dismayed but not shocked to hear of the recent pedestrian fatality on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard. Coming from a northern city where pedestrian walkways, bike ways, crosswalks and sidewalks are factored into every aspect of urban planning, where violators of pedestrians’ right of way face high penalties, the City of Clarksville is the least user-friendly city I’ve known to anyone who doesn’t drive on its high speed main thoroughfares.

The streets of Clarksville may not be intended as high-speed highways, but quite often there’s little difference between 41-A (Fort Campbell Blvd.), Wilma Rudolph Blvd., and even Madison Street, and I-24 between here and Nashville. Cars speed, weave, and have even run the suicide lane as if it were a bonus lane for high speed traffic. Crosswalks are almost non-existent, or, if they exist, are seemingly irrelevant in the motorist-pedestrian equation. «Read the rest of this article»

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What children see, children do - Think!

By Bill Larson | December 13, 2006 |

It’s true that a picture, or in this case a video, is worth a thousand words.

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Citizens opppose corporate media control

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 12, 2006 |

“Give us back our airways!”

That was the message delivered by the majority of speakers at the Federal Communications Commission’s second public hearing on the impact of media consolidation in Nashville Monday. The event drew a crowd of over 500 people from six states and a panel of celebrities to Belmont University’s Massey Performing Arts Center. The hearing was the second of six to be held across the country.

“If anyone tries to tell you that Big Media’s push for more consolidation has gone away, don’t believe it,” said Commissioner Michael Copps. “They haven’t gone away, and their lawyers and lobbyists haven’t gone away either. So if we are going on to a broader dialogue on the future of media in our democracy, it will be because of citizen action from millions of Americans and testimony at hearings like this one.”

“The law tells us that we are supposed to promote the public interest,” said Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. “And I think you, the public, know best what’s in your interest and not the lobbyists that we hear so much from inside the beltway.” «Read the rest of this article»

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One button says it all, Don’t buy war toys

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 10, 2006 |

I was rumaging through the last boxes, the little boxes packed within boxes, of things to sort in my new home, when I found this small blue button and its four word slogan, “Don’t buy war toys,” one of several given to me years ago by teacher, activist, and author Joyce Kornbluh, my inspirational first advisor at Goddard College in rural Vermont. The others had to to with the women’s labor movement, her passion.

I held it in my hand as I first considered putting it in my personal treasures box. Not good enough, I thought. I need to wear this again, now, when the frenzy of holiday shopping is at its peak and the fatalities in Iraq are skyrocketing toward the 3000 mark and the newest movies are being heralded as “bloodbaths,” each director trying to outdo competitors in graphic audio/visual detail. «Read the rest of this article»

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Peace on Earth

By Beth Robinson | December 9, 2006 |

Peace on Earth, good will toward men. Have you heard these words this Christmas season?

I’ve heard of Darfur but admit that I barely know where Sudan is except it is in Northern Africa. I’d guess alot of people said “I don’t know where Aushwitz is” before WWII.

Darfur is our 21st century Holocaust. Genocide. People are slaughtered. Families and children no longer have homes and are starving refugees.

There are days when I’d rather look the other way, change the channel, and pretend the problems don’t exist. After seeing a 60 Minutes piece about the horrors of Rwanda, I decided I must do something to help end this current human suffering.

Join me in contacting our representatives in Washington and tell them we care. We demand the US lead the international community to immediately send UN peacekeeping forces to stop the genocide in Sudan.

Get a pen and paper. Write that it is important to you that the US support a UN peacekeeping force in Sudan. Send your letter to President Bush, Senator Alexander, Senator Corker, Rep. Blackburn or others.

Be a part of the solution. Be a good Samaritan. It may be a small thing but it is something.

Peace to all this Christmas season.

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