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Author: Barbara Finch

Barbara L. Finch is a writer and former public relations practitioner. In 2005 she and three friends founded Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice, an organization of progressive women now numbering more than 500 members and friends.

In August I went to prison

September 21, 2011 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Ideas, Missouri region One comment

No, I wasn’t sentenced; despite a handful of speeding tickets, I have managed to avoid the caprices of the criminal justice system.  I went

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Reflections on September 11

September 9, 2011 Barbara Finch History, Ideas Leave a comment

I’m writing this on Sept. 8, as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedies looms large.  The media loves this.  It’s a chance

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Pitts: The education of Barack Obama

September 7, 2011 Barbara Finch Obama, Politics Leave a comment

 Leonard Pitts Jr., the eloquent and empathetic columnist for the Miami Herald whose work appears in more than 100 newspapers across the country (including

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Taxpayer dollars enrich Medicaid cost-cutters

August 16, 2011 Barbara Finch Corporations, Health care Leave a comment

If there were any benefits to the sound and fury accompanying the recent controversy about the debt ceiling crisis, one of them was this:

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Visit to Griot Museum prompts reflection

August 8, 2011 Barbara Finch Civil Rights Leave a comment

The temperature was stifling when members of Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice visited the Griot Museum on St. Louis Ave. in July. Thieves

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150,000 at-risk pre-schoolers await a champion

May 4, 2011 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Education, Missouri region, Youth issues Leave a comment

There are more than 300 agencies and organizations in the St. Louis metropolitan area working to provide programs and services for children, according to

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Justice and mercy: a troubling imprisonment deserves attention

March 28, 2011 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Courts, Crime/Violence, Missouri region One comment

Today it’s difficult to reconstruct exactly what happened on that hot August night in 1982.  Some details were murky even then.  But here’s the

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$15 pregnancy drug now costs $1,500 per dose.

March 15, 2011 Barbara Finch Health care, Missouri region, Women One comment

One might suppose that women who are in danger of delivering premature babies would not be thought of as profit centers by companies who

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The Golden Rule writ simple

March 11, 2011 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Ideas Leave a comment

I don’t know Kathy Conley-Jones, but I wish I did. I think I’d like her. Conley-Jones is owner of the Conley Financial Group in

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