Diamond in the Basalt

Several Violets have been involved in a local grassroots coalition that is looking to acknowledge community rights in Spokane. In our hyper-individualized culture, the concept of “community rights” is a new one and is understandably not intuitive to people.
The importance of discussing rights for communities has come out of the abuse of certain “corporate rights”. [...]

At the last planning meeting for our orgnization, someone came up with the idea of the DitB contributors doing profiles of our members. People liked the notion of sharing our interesting personal stories to get to know each other better, so here is the first one. This is more of a plug for a worthwhile [...]