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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.

Art Auction Fundraiser for the Summer of Peace Initiative!

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

One of the first contacts we had after launching Life After Hate on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday last January was from SOPI Co-founder/Director Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle, who asked if I could come and speak to the Milwaukee teens she trains to become Peace Educators and community leaders. Along with Co-founder/Coordinator Fidel Verdin, Tanya [...]

Will Fellows: Shall Not Be Recognized co-creator —part III

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

Will Fellows is the author of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture, and the forthcoming Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s. Producing a heartfelt written compliment to Jeff Pearcy’s powerful photography, Will completed the gay-straight [...]

Will Fellows: Shall Not Be Recognized co-creator —part II

By Arno Michaels ⋅ June 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Will Fellows: Shall Not Be Recognized co-creator

By Arno Michaels ⋅ May 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

“I view some of what’s going on in the political arena, this roller-coaster going back and forth, as just a natural process of cultural change happening. It’s not all going to happen in a neat all-at-once kind of way. It’s going to go this way and then that way and forward and backward, and then lurch left and right.”

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.