Thursday, April 28, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Superman Defies (a) God, USA in Action Comics’ Landmark 900th Issue | Underwire
The fact that there's this much written about a comic book might be newsworthy enough. That says, I might grab this on Free Comic Day (yes, geeky ones, I know this one won't be free...).
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
A Hard Name - TVO Documentary on 7 reforming and transformed habitual criminals
David Atkins, an Alpha for Prisons Coach, thought you might be interested in viewing this excellent Genie award winning documentary. For those who want to see it on good ol' fashioned TV in Ontario, it's on TVO Wednesday April 27th at 9:00 p.m.
To (further) quote Dave:
Some of you have already seen this raw and powerful video about the root cause of approximately 70 to 80% of habitual criminal behaviour, but many more need to see it. After watching it viewers will agree that simply continually locking up many of these people on a revolving door basis doesn't serve them or society well. What is needed is appropriate counselling and healing instead of more incarceration and trails of victims in their wake. In the past ten years of volunteer prison ministry (and thousands of inmates) we have witnessed the stark reality of this truth as revealed in this documentary. We hope that this documentary will encourage those in authority/responsibility in our justice system to address this heretofore hidden matter.
In no way does this documentary excuse the habitual criminal behaviour however it does shed much needed light on the reasons/background for it. As one of the very colourful ex-offenders from the Maritimes said on the documentary: "Why doesn't society know that this is the reason for all of us jail guys!!"
I am also sending this message to others who are in the prison ministry and ex-offender aftercare and justice/corrections business in the hopes of increased awareness and action.
As the producer/director of this film said recently "I was a middle class fellow and unaccustomed to what I was learning from the seven people (reforming and transformed habitual criminals) in my film. It (this revelation of truth) was so explosive that I thought I had a piece of dynamite in each hand and didn't know what to do with it."
