| ACTION - Ostara 2010 |
ACTION
The official newsletter for Alternate
Religions Educational Network
Founded Samhain 2004
Christopher Blackwell: Editor
Sandy Brundage: Copy Editor, Advisor
and domestic Correspondent
Glen Goldentree: Cartoonist
Bill Kilborn: Web Guy
| 1) When Disaster Gets Personal Interview with Peter Dybing By Christopher Blackwell |
Peter Dybing at his work (in white cap)Photo by Jason Henrey, used with permissionWe have watched with fascinated horror the disaster in Haiti. Many have donated to charities to help, some have formed charities to help within the Pagan community. All of this is good, but for some that is no where near enough, they have to be there. One of which is Peter Dybing. His first hand knowledge about the disaster made him a person readers wanted to have me to interview and he granted me this interview. ..........More |
| 2) Sergeant, Chain of Command, Stone Circle Interview with US A.F. T.Sgt.. Robert Longcrier By Christopher Blackwell |
News broke recently that a stone circle had been created at the United States Air Force Academy for the use of cadets belonging to Earth Based Religions. It will be dedicated in late March. We are used to Pagans having problems sometimes gaining space to do ceremony. So I became interested in just how this this situation was handled so successfully. So I decided to interview Technical Sergeant Longcrier. Christopher: Could you tell is a bit about yourself? What path do you follow? T.Sgt.. Longcrier: My name is Robert Brandon Longcrier and I was raised in the Quad Cities (Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Sheffield, and Florence) of North Western Alabama. I lived there until I left for Air Force Basic Military Training in September of 1995. ..........More |
| 3) Please sign the petition to end Witch hunts in Africa. By Damon Leff |
30 days of advocacy against Witch-hunts in Africa. Target: African Union General Assembly & Pan-African Parliament. Sponsored by: South African Pagan Rights Alliance & South African Pagan Council. 30 days of advocacy against Witch-hunts in Africa. 29 March to 27 April 2010 (Global) The witchcraft epidemic in Africa is fueled by religious extremism. Practitioners of traditional African religions, traditional healers, witch-doctors and Christian missionaries and religious leaders incite witch-hunts on this continent. ..........More |
| 4) On Pagan Weddings in Catholic Ireland Interview with Raymond Sweeny By Christopher Blackwell |
One of the more interesting developments in the last few months has been that Pagans have gotten the right to hold their own marriage ceremonies in Ireland. Considering American Pagan fights with our government sometimes lasting a decade, I was impressed they seem to accomplish this in only five years through the Pagan Federation of Ireland. So I contacted Raymond Sweeny of the PF Ireland to learn more about how this came to be. Christopher: How did the Pagans of Pagan Federation of Ireland decide this was the time to make the fight to let Pagan Priests and Priestesses do marriage ceremonies? ..........More |