Prone or aggression on a flat surface is OK in Martial Arts. However, prone restraints or the subduing of unruly chi[dren by pushing them to the ground is not legal. In almost all the States in the US, school districts and legislatures have outlawed prone restraints.
Recently, Senator Dave Cortese representing State Senate District 15 has successfully promoted his Senate Bill 483 titled End Violent Practices in Schools.
To learn more about this bill (expected to get full approval later in 2024 before moving to the Governor’s office for signature) go to sd15.senate.ca.gov.
In his book Making Peace In The Global Village the professor and pastor Robert McAfee Brown comes to the conclusion that social structures from churches to government agencies (even those filled with mostly good people) “can be instruments of evil.” [pg. 16, 1980, The Westminster Press.]
In a pre-Watergate world this notion as a theological perspective was much more uncommon than it might be in this new century. In 1970, in fact, Secretary George Romney was able to visit the United Presbyterian General Assembly. At that Chicago GA, he was able to persuade the conveners that President Nixon was likely to halt the devastating US bombing of Viet Nam by 1972. Despite some journalism revealing that Nixon was engaged in a secret war in Laos and a mountain of “dirty tricks” the GA under Moderator Bill Laws shepherded a resolution calling for the ending of bombing by 1972. (1970, Presbyterian Life).
Instead of the more complex and sometimes cynical view of government, the GA floor at that time accepted the general view that the Viet Nam war was a decades worth of governmental fumbling and statistical errors. Of course, Brown’s book was yet to be published. However, the Presbyterian delegates who voted for this soft stand on the ongoing war might have listened to the draft protesters who were staging some of their largest public protests in that same 1970 year. As it turned out, by 1975 the U.S. had dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the largest aerial bombardment in history.
A young woman loads groceries onto her electric bike at the reborn farmers, The popular market, which had been relocated to a shopping mall parking lot, was reestablished beneath the freeway in June of 2023. While not all the outdoor market vendors have come back to the old location, plenty of customers seem to be taking advantage of offerings at the outdoor venue in the shade of the overhead freeway.
In addition to foot traffic, many customers appear to be arriving on Sunday morning with the help of electric bicycles and traditional pedal bikes. Ample bike racks have been constructed across the street adjacent to a city park.
Michele Townsend, the active and award-winning editor at the West Sacramento News Ledger, is caught off guard as a local blog photographer catches her at work. Her office, in downtown West Sacramento, has begun a remodeling. The refurbishment has begun with the installation of a new rug. Tastefully matching the color of the desk and other furnishings, the carpet and spruce up reflec the commitment of Messenger Publishing to the important work of carrying the news in the town of West Sacramento.
West and East Capitol Avenue are mirrors of each other. The reflecting surface that images Sacramento is the line and plane that runs down the center of the Sacramento River. The exact center of the Sacramento River (if the exact center acdtually exists!) is the legal boundary between the two cities.
In the 19 Century, stage coach passengers bathed in the Sacramento River before they boarded the horse-drawn coaches for the last leg into the big city of San Francisco.
It didn’t matter which side of the river they dried off after the cleansing bath. Both banks of the Sacramento, during the 19th Century, were full off Cottonwood trees, Yellow Billed Magpies, and the occasional gold nugget washed down accidentally from the sluice boxes along the American River stretching up into the legendary Mother Lode.
A Hornet pitcher and an accomplished catcher from the same Hornet softball squad pose briefly after finishing their duties during the recent cleanup near the Guy West Bridge on the East side of campus.
Encounter the corners and crannies of downtown with reporters Dimitry and Bill. Their features center on personalities, town history and the patently unusual.
Together, Dimitry and Bill capture what is special, memorable and pure gold about Sacramento’s urban setting.
Most parents realize that involving children in healthy eating is complex. Kids learn how to appreciate flavors AND healthy dining habits.
In fact, savoring exciting flavors and natural spices can lead to healthy diet choices. Beyond salt, sugar and the scourge of preservatives, spices and intrinsic flavors can EMPOWER a nutritional meal.
The new program from Matthew 25 and Open Sky encompasses engaging young people in spice gardens at schools, restaurants and other venues around Sacramento.
The ocean is like forgiveness and connection. An endless series of curls, of tides offering cleanliness and bounty of a sacred meal. Only now we know that even the ocean is not invulnerable to climate change or pollution.
In Hawaii, the young who are learning Hula go down to the ocean to cure their gourds. Gourds are part of this dance’s sacred ritual. Witnessing washing of the gourds, this seemed like seeing a communion. This ritual can be thought of as part of holy communions taking place around the world.
Similarly, the Rev. Archie Fugate has written at Louisvillle Theological that the mountain tops of eastern Kentucky are infinitely more valuable than the coal within them. Mountain topping, in which these peaks are processed for dangerous fossil fuels, might be considered as sinful as making the air less breathable.
Prayers are in order for Glasgow, Scotland as it hosts the second large world conclave on the environment. Particularly the U.S., China and India need to lead the way to assure a 50% decrease in carbon emission within ten years.
Pope Francis has indicated that the care for the environment should be considered for Matthew 25 status: a corporal mercy that is directly linked to our duties to the marginalized who are most at risk of environmental catastrophe.
Scotland, of course, is a mother country for Presbyterianism. We can be proud of her role in Glasgow as we can be proud of the Papal concern expressed above. Proud of all belief that embraces humanity and the earth right along with their Creator.
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