Annabel Park recently spoke to Diane Rufino, leader of the Eastern North Carolina Tea Party, at the “Honor the Oath” rally at the State Capitol in Raleigh. NOTE: Listen to Annabel Park & Eric Byler talk about this video on Coffee Party Radio Diane had drawn

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Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, was interviewed on MSNBC at a protest yesterday in front of the US Supreme Court as it considered striking down section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  Barber later released this statement: When this nation began,

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In six years of collaboration, this is the first time I’ve uploaded a video of Annabel Park and me discussing our work. The night before, we had watched a classic documentary by Ross McElwee called Sherman’s March, and, as Annabel was dropping me off at the airport, we began a

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Eric and I are really enjoying and learning from the dialogue we are having on the Virtual Townhall series on Coffee Party Radio. The next Virtual Townhall is on Sunday (3/3) on the 3-year anniversary of the Coffee Party. This is the updated schedule for the Virtual Towhnall series in

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The deep divisions that exist in America along political, economic and cultural lines have led many Americans to take a highly cynical view of government and its power to serve the people. As we count down the final hours and minutes in which our leaders are unable to avert our economic plunge

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I’m not really sure what the “American Dream” is. For some people, maybe it’s to get “rich.” But I don’t care about being rich. One of my dreams is to do as much good, in my way, for as many people as I can before my time on this planet is up. Another

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Growing up, I was allowed to be open about religious issues although I was raised in a Jewish household with Jewish culture. My town didn’t have many Jews but had a number of churches. I was most certainly outnumbered growing up as I was usually the only Jew I knew in school besides my sister.

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For me the key takeaway is that, again, an otherwise decent person promotes an overtly and covertly racist and classist agenda with utter ignorance, while truly feeling victimized and baffled by allegations of same. I used to think that ignorance was willful.   Now I’m not so sure. The

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The journey of Darren Wagner will help you touch the surface of an ocean of despair that has washed over Newtown and Sandy Hook, Connecticut. We had to stop filming after Darren told this story to Annabel. She was overcome with tears and could not muster a follow-up question. Behind the camera,

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A big thanks to the 103 people who donated to our first crowdfunding campaign! We raised a total of $17,854 in six weeks. In addition to these funds, donations were made directly to Story of America making the total raised for our seed money nearly $33,000. As a result of these contributions,

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