by Drick Boyd | Nov 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
One of the things that Heeding God’s Call has done has sought to make the buying, selling, owning and using of guns an issue of faith. This expression of the gun violence prevention movement, which started here in Philadelphia, has drawn its base from the religious...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
This week had a lot of good news for Wall Street. The Dow Jones indicators topped 10,000 for the first time in many months after dipping below 7000 at one point. Then because stocks were on the rise, the economists declared “the recession is over”. Then we heard that...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, September 30, Colismo’s Gun Shop on Spring Garden St. in Philadelphia closed its doors for the last time. Once ranked by the Brady Campaign as the fifth worst gun shop in the country when it came to allowing straw purchases of illegal guns, this was a...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yesterday (Sept 22), a group of us who have been leaders in Heeding God’s Call met to plan and strategize as to our next actions in the local gun violence prevention movement. A significant part of our conversation centered around what are next moves should be...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Former President Jimmy Carter raised a lot of hackles this week when he suggested that much of the intense opposition to Pres. Obama and his health care plan is racist in nature. He noted that as a Southerner, he can sense the “belief among a large number of white...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
OK, OK – You got my attention. I had regarded you as some small lunatic fringe, who did not represent the heart of the Republican Party. However, last Saturday, you were able to gather 100,000 people in Washington, D.C. You have done a good job of disrupting several...
