Kate Crisp (PDN Director)'s Blog – September 2008 Archive (3)

States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts

from the New York Times



Felony disenfranchisement — often a holdover from exclusionary Jim Crow-era laws like poll taxes and ballot box literacy tests — affects about 5.3 million former and current felons in the United States, according to voting rights groups. But voter registration and advocacy groups say that recent overhauls of these Reconstruction-era laws have loosened enough in some states to make it worth the time to lobby statehouses for more liberal voting… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 23, 2008 at 9:08am — No Comments

Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Program

Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Program:

A Visionary Program For Our Imperiled World





Santa Fe, New Mexico—The Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy Training is a comprehensive two-year certificate program for a new kind of chaplaincy intended to serve individuals, communities, the environment and the world. The program, launched in 2008, is now accepting applications for 2009.







The Upaya Chaplaincy Program is open to those who wish to serve as lay… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 18, 2008 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Denise Thornton: Dharma of Cancer

Denise Thornton is the life partner of PDN founder Fleet Maull. She is currently in the final stages of her journey with cancer and we expect her passing to occur this week. Posted below is an inspiring article that Denise wrote for Elephant Magazine. (Note: Denise died peacefully on Wed. Sept. 3 at 3:30pm)



"Do not pursue the… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 2, 2008 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

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