Jarlath

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I am looking for compassionate souls who are interested in donating working computer systems for use by special needs kids. The computers can be old but I require Windows 98 2nd edition or later.
Some computers will go home with the children - other systems will be set up at a special needs childrens Learning Center to enhance computer skills.
More specific details are available upon request. Please help by donating working equipment such as computers, laptops, monitors, etc.
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BOYCOTT the Olympics and the sponsors!
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Yoko's Imagine Peace Tower in Videy Island, Reykjavik, Iceland!
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Great article from the Rolling Stone Magazine web site

Illustration by Matt Mahurin

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Closing T. Don Hutto and setting the Children Free!

This Evil in the Heart of Texas Must End!

Corrections Corporation of America is the world's largest and most notorious private prison corporation, operating more than a dozen prisons and immigrant detention centers in Texas alone. Demonstrators will protest CCA's profiting from immigrant detention expansion around Texas, including the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor which holds migrant families and asylum seekers, about half of whom are children. CCA makes $10,000 per person through this illegal imprisonment scheme.

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EThe Shameful Problem:Until the ACLU fought for a settlement this past August, the children at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, 35 miles northeast of Austin, lived in cells; they wore uniforms and received inadequate medical and educational services, were often cold and hungry, and were separated from their parents as punishment, and received only one hour of schooling per day and rarely played outside. Conditions have improved due to the court order, but they still live in prison cells.They are guilty of no crimes, and endanger no one. Their parents, who are incarcerated here because they are seeking asylum after fleeing such circumstances as war, torture, political persecution and rape, or are accused of violating civil immigration laws, have committed no crimes. Many of the children are US Citizens.Teachers at the center are not required to be licensed in Texas, and the state’s family welfare agency exempted Hutto from child care licensing requirements. Along with one other, less prison-like facility in Pennsylvania, Hutto is operated without official regulations.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the arm of Homeland Security that runs the two centers, relies on custody rules designed for inmatesCorrections Corporation of America (CCA), a for profit company running the majority of privatized prisons in the US, is paid 2.8 million dollars a month (7k per child per month or 84k per child per year) to keep these children behind bars.It would cost less to put them up at the Austin Hilton with room service.In contrast, putting a monitoring bracelet/anklet on a parent costs $660 per month.In past years CCA has made political contributions to key Texas politicians, 100k to Tom Delay and 100k to Governor Perry. Overall, for profit prison companies contributed roughly 519k to state level political campaigns in one year alone. Lt Governor Dewhurt's cut was 53k, while House Speaker Craddick received 34.9k.Why free the children when keeping them locked up makes so much money?

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Music, Photography, friends, guitar, great bookstores... Speaking of great bookstores... Be sure and visit Epiphanies Bookstore in beautiful downtown Denison.Tell Karen that I sent ya.

Some photography - mostly mine...
wife Joy and her daughter.

Sunset - taken from my back porch

Maggie and her brood of five

This pic is a little out of focus but the tshirt is killer!

My Gibson. Thanks for the stand Don!

How about this Tongue Drum!

Backyard Woodpecker - taken 01/14/07

My Alverez 12

At Baker Park

At Baker Park

Taken at a local cemetery - "Weeping Angel"