dmegivern

Real Name:Deborah Megivern
Location:Saint Paul, MN
Joined:6-20-2007
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About me
Recently, a motivational speaker/trainer interviewed me for her internet radio show. I am not a polished media speaker by any means and I was very nervous, but the skeleton of the book I am writing in cooperation with my family is outlined in the show, click here
Why I use Clipmarks
I love my stolen minutes looking through clips. At first, Clipmarks was just a tool to collect information for research on writing my book. But, over time, I have grown to appreciate the connection with many other Clippers. I wish I were not chronically busy with my job so I could interact more.

Along with my sister and my mother, we are writing a book about the strong connection between poverty and mental illness.
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This Crumbling Empire
dmegivern
by dmegivern  4-30-2008    5
 I don't agree with the essay in its entirety, but thought it was thought-provoking.
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A Jew Seeking Justice, Again.
righthand
by righthand  7-18-2007    12
 This is the story of Israel - a stolen land taken from the Palestinians. The Zionist movement was founded on the principle that the Jews deserved a land; a land that they could call their State; their home but they would only be able to identify themselves as a wholly Jewish state at the expense of uprooting an existent civilization, the indigenous Arab population. The Jewish claim to Palestine is based on the existence of a kingdom that reigned for only 414 years. The Jewish kingdoms were only one of many periods of ancient Palestine. There exists the dangerous misconception that opposition to Jewish occupation stems from anti-Semitism. Tensions between Arabs and Jews began after Zionist settlers arrived in the 1880s and had bought land from absentee Arab owners. This led to the dispossession of land that had been cultivated by peasants. In effect, the Zionists were colonizing Arab land. The Zionists probably could not have been so successful in their acquisitions if it weren't
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