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Working a Different Side of the Streets

By LAH ⋅ December 13, 2010 ⋅ One comment

At night, Rangel hits the streets on his own, sometimes to find a particular child, but just as often to cruise rougher parts of town, checking on kids he knows and making himself available to anyone needing help. During the day, he steps into classrooms to deliver life lessons.

TJ Leyden: former racist skinhead now author and Peace activist—Part III

By Arno Michaels ⋅ September 18, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Not too long ago, I had the honor of engaging in a 2 ½-hour conversation with a man I consider a hero: TJ Leyden. TJ left the white power movement during the mid-nineties as I did, after spending many years recruiting kids to become violent racists. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for [...]

This is where my story comes in…

By Theresa Nickol ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

To trust again is very crippling, almost paralyzing in some ways. The biggest door to open is the emotional one we will not open once we are broken. To reverse back to infancy or a stage of pure innocence does not happen no matter how many therapy sessions we attend or self-help books we buy. [...]

TJ Leyden: former racist skinhead now author and Peace activist—Part II

By Arno Michaels ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

TJ: The old Aryan lie, “The Zionist Occupational Government put me in prison!” Well maybe it’s the fact that you went out there and beat that 90 year old homeless man.

…between Then and Now

By Arno Michaels ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The concept of interdependence—the idea that all of our fates are intertwined and that every action has either a positive or negative consequence that iterates through the lives of others—was discussed throughout the activities, and literally demonstrated as everyone supported each other.

Deported: The Diego Alvarado Story

By Angie Aker ⋅ July 18, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

1400, North American continent For centuries, the migration of indigenous peoples in the continents of North and South America happened in a natural, borderless fashion. If food became scarce, a tribe would leave behind the encampment and seek out the next place in which to survive. There was a natural order to this, a balance [...]

There's Everything Right About Being Unique

By Berni Xiong ⋅ July 18, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

THERE’S EVERYTHING RIGHT ABOUT BEING UNIQUE This is my positive spin on, “There’s nothing wrong with being different!” For over a year now, I have wanted to bring up this topic: Why are we judged and criticized for challenging the status quo? So, you ask, why do people judge or compare? I believe it is [...]

Survival Story

By Angie Aker ⋅ July 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Every once in a while, you stumble across something that’s going to change your life in a million wonderful ways you cannot predict. As we pulled out of a WI grocery store parking lot in 2008, a song came on the radio that my kids instantly loved. The hook went, “I can ride my bike [...]

Six Months of Life After Hate

By Arno Michaels ⋅ June 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

When I was about a year and a half old, my parents were building an addition to the plainish 1950s ranch house they had just bought. The structure my mother designed involved almost doubling the size of the house, and raising the roof to about 18′ to accommodate the cathedral ceilings and full-length picture windows [...]

A comparative review of Skinhead Confessions and Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead

By Arno Michaels ⋅ June 20, 2010 ⋅ One comment

In 2007 I sat down and started writing a memoir of my own. It started with a jot of a sentence. A jot of a memory. Line by line, and not necessarily in chronological order—just things that happened. As one-line memories started to add-up to pages, I tried to flesh-out the glimpses of experience into [...]

Sammy Rangel “FOURBEARS: Myths of Forgiveness”

FourBears: The Myth of Forgiveness: isn't a simple memoir; it is a graphically illustrated guide from tortured child, to remorseless beast, to healing and change. This book is about helping others find their way out of their history and into the here and now. Proof that what once held you down can now hold you up. After the book reflects on a horrific upbringing it looks to offer key and ground breaking insights of the inner workings of the mind of a victim and later a perpetrator of hate and violence. Service providers working in treatment centers and institutional settings would greatly benefit from this work. Anyone facing issues with forgiveness and change might find a process toward healing and recovery.