Declaration for Sensible Gun Control Measures
[Editor’s note: In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, that killed 49 and wounded 63, the American Nurses Association, the principal organization representing the nation’s 3.6 million registered nurses, issued this declaration for the enactment of sensible gun control measures. The association reminds us of its stance each […]
New Declaration of Independence
by Emma Goldman, 1896-1940, Editor/Founder in 1906 of what at the time was the radical if no anarchist Mother Earth magazine, anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. Still reads fresh to us. [Published in Mother Earth, Vol. IV, no. 5, July 1909.] When, in the course of human development, […]
Declaration of the Freedom-Loving People of China
Editor’s Note: I first found mention of this valiant Declaration on The Federalist’s website: [It’s worth mentioning that as soon as I then accessed this Declaration on Facebook, my account was immediately locked, with Facebook then writing me to say that someone may have tried to access my account without my knowledge/consent. Hmmm… I wonder […]
Islamic Declaration on Climate Change
Editor’s note: On August 18, 2015 (exactly nine years to the day that this editor’s first daughter was born), Islamic leaders “called on the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to play an active role in combatting climate change and have urged governments to conclude an effective universal climate change agreement in Paris” to be wrought later […]
Declaration of Conscience — Senator Margaret Chase Smith, June 1, 1950
[Editor’s note; Margaret Chase Smith, former U.S. Senator from Maine, is a profile in courage and a true states-person, the likes of which we arguably haven’t had in either chamber of Congress in the longest time, though such souls in elective office are more sorely needed in our times than ever. Senator Chase Smith, a […]
A Declaration by American Evangelicals Concerning Donald Trump
A Declaration by American Evangelicals Concerning Donald Trump Imperfect elections and flawed candidates often make for complicated and difficult choices for Christians. But sometimes historic moments arise when more is at stake than partisan politics–when the meaning and integrity of our faith hangs in the balance. This is one of those moments. A significant mistake […]
Estonian Declaration of Independence, or Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia (Manifest Eestimaa rahvastele), Feb. 23, 1918
Editor’s Note: This somewhat flowery document, that makes some nods to our July 4, 1776 Declaration, was issued in the midst of World War I by a committee of the Estonian Provincial Assembly. But independence really wasn’t won by Estonia for the first time until Germany formally ceded to it political power in November 1918 — only […]
Strictures Upon the Declaration of Independence of Congress at Philadelphia, October 15, 1776
Editor’s Note: Originally published anonymously in 1776, this 32-page missive against our July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Hutchinson, a prominent, despised Loyalist and erstwhile governor of the Massachusetts colony. In his Strictures Upon the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia, Hutchinson calls our Founders “impertinent” and insists that they “show in what case a […]
A Declaration of Liberty by the Representatives of the Slave Population of the United States of America, July 4, 1859
After the capture at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, of the white abolitionist, John Brown — who believed that only an armed uprising would rid our nation of slavery, and led the bloody raid on the federal arsenal — a set of documents was recovered at his base of operations. One of them, composed by Brown and transcribed […]
Black Lives Matter Declaration — State of the Black Union (2015)
Editor’s Note: “We the People, committed to the declaration that Black lives matter, will fight to end the structural oppression that prevents so many from realizing their dreams. We cannot, and will not stop until America recognizes the value of Black life.” These two sentences conclude the first ‘State of the Black Union’, issued by […]
