Left Justified: We are losing the war

By Stanley Campbell I think we lost it. Not the war against terror—we never had a chance. And the drug war
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March 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: Rockford’s civil rights movement

By Stanley Campbell Rockford is not known for leading any crusades for civil rights. Nay, I would say Rockford is still
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March 2, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Schools are governed by law

By Stanley Campbell I think the biggest shock for teachers came when police were removed from the schools, and rowdy students
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February 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Chocolate temptations

By Stanley Campbell Valentine’s Day elicits thoughts of love, letters, fine food and romantic evenings. And chocolate! Deep, dark, rich, sweet
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February 9, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: The Founding of Rockford, a play

By Stanley Campbell I’ve written the following skit for a future legal (or not) Follies. I hope someday it will be
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February 2, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: What happened? No vote on a sure bet

By Stanley Campbell We thank god that no vote was taken on Illinois Senate Bill 737, the massive expansion of gambling
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January 26, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Murder: How little it takes to erase so much

By Stanley Campbell I do not want to talk about the outrageous shooting of a moderate Democrat Congresswoman in Arizona. Seems
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January 19, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Rockford should remember Edsel Ammons

By Stanley Campbell A civil rights leader from Rockford in the 1980s just died, I am sorry to report. Bishop Edsel A.
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January 12, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: A prayer for the new year

By Stanley Campbell Let’s start the new year with a prayer. Here’s one I said before the Severson Dells fund-raising breakfast
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January 5, 2011 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Things I’d like to do in 2011

By Stanley Campbell These are some of the things I would like to do next year. These are NOT resolutions; more
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December 29, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: How to win the war in Afghanistan

By Stanley Campbell You can’t win the war in Afghanistan. Now, before you turn away, please hear me out. I thought it was
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December 22, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: The real war on Christmas—updated

By Stanley Campbell “The little baby Jesus don’t like killing, no matter what the reason for,” paraphrased from “Your Flag Decal
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December 15, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: A season of peace?

By Stanley Campbell This Saturday, Dec. 11, the Rev. Michael Mann, former associate pastor at Court Street United Methodist Church, will
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December 8, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Here comes the peace activist

By Stanley Campbell The church hires peace activists to help bring the measure of God’s love to the world. At least
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December 1, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Happy Interfaith Turkey Day, and have fun shopping fair trade

By Stanley Campbell What do we have to be thankful for? The economy is still in the toilet; the war in
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November 17, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: The needs of the veteran

By Stanley Campbell Another war, another batch of wounded veterans. When will we ever learn? My friend (and hero) Ray Parrish counsels
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November 10, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: Author shares his Middle East experiences Oct. 28

By Stanley Campbell I want to go to Jerusalem. I’d like to be there in January of 2011. My hope is
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October 27, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: Standing up to intolerance

By Stanley Campbell The radical Christian who wished to burn a holy book is protected by our Bill of Rights and
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October 13, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: More about the candidates’ forums

By Stanley Campbell The first of our regular “get the candidates for a few minutes in a church hall and let
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October 6, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: What’s happening in Haiti?

By Stanley Campbell Americans have short memories. But I was relieved to receive a phone call asking about recovery programs in
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September 29, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Here come the candidates

By Stanley Campbell I like hosting candidate forums. They are all so polite and cordial. The candidates greet me, the audience
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September 15, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Fuel is a film and a need

By Stanley Campbell Our little peace and environmental groups are showing a new film called Fuel, and already I can hear
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September 8, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Labor’s Utopia

By Stanley Campbell I remember reading Looking Back by Edward Belamy in high school. It was a Catholic high school, and
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September 1, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Rule of mob or of law?

By Stanley Campbell A mob storms the jail, drags someone out to a tree and strings him up. Is that what
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August 25, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Mighty Quinn signs H.B. 4927, expands video poker

By Stanley Campbell I’m going to vote for the Green Party candidate for governor. I decided after the Mighty Quinn signed
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August 18, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: On the Waterfront and other end-of-summer thoughts

By Stanley Campbell I’ll be hawking peace buttons again On the Waterfront. Rockford Peace & Justice has had a table since
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August 11, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: 65th anniversary of Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings

By Stanley Campbell Sixty-five years ago, our military blew away two Japanese cities, killing more than a quarter of a million
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August 4, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 4 Comments

Left Justified: A great 25 years

By Stanley Campbell U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9) was the keynoter at Rockford Urban Ministries’ (RUM) 48th annual dinner Sunday, July
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July 28, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: A good congresswoman

By Stanley Campbell U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9) will speak at Rockford Urban Ministries’ (RUM) 48th annual dinner this Sunday, July
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July 14, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Running the blockade

By Stanley Campbell Cuba is gonna get our oil, though not delivered the way they like. BP’s oil spill should wash
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July 7, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Spilling your guts

By Stanley Campbell I don’t know what to do about that oil spill. People keep harping like we should go down
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June 23, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Summertime thoughts

By Stanley Campbell Chocolat by Daniel has a new variety called Summer Thyme. It took me a while…I like taking my
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June 16, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Peace activists delivering aid to Gaza attacked

By Stanley Campbell I was asked to help deliver aid to the Palestinians living in Gaza. I considered going, but the
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June 9, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: Memorial Day

By Stanley Campbell Happy Memorial Day, and if you are a disabled American veteran, you’ll soon be one of the war
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May 26, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: What to do on Memorial Day

By Stanley Campbell Rockford Urban Ministries hosts an annual Memorial Day Service at 7 p.m., Monday, May 31, at JustGoods Meeting
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May 19, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Why do conservatives ignore military-industrial waste?

By Stanley Campbell I got into another argument, which does not help my blood pressure. This time, it was about cutting the
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May 12, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Writing our congressman

By Stanley Campbell I sent my congressman a suggestion. He answered my question with a firm “No.” It was delivered via
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May 5, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: The lessons learned after 25 years of urban ministries

By Stanley Campbell I’ve been doing urban ministries for the United Methodists for 25 years. Here are some things I learned: Don’t
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April 28, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: I need better health care

By Stanley Campbell I get yelled at a lot. Usually by phone, usually by someone who disagrees with one of my
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April 21, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: We’ll be judged by how many poor people we help

By Stanley Campbell Let me explain why I am a Christian. Christianity is a nice story. God becomes man and tells
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April 14, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: Twenty-five years

By Stanley Campbell I’ll be celebrating 25 years as executive director of Rockford Urban Ministries (RUM) Thursday, April 22, with a
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April 7, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Afghanistan not like Vietnam

By Stanley Campbell Why does the military insist our colonial wars are “not like Vietnam”? I can unequivocally say that Afghanistan
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March 31, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Art Simon in Rockford March 25-26

By Stanley Campbell I remember meeting former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) in Freeport, Ill. He’d just spoken at the local
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March 24, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Reminisces of ‘Rockford’s Rads’

By Stanley Campbell It’s been three years since Jon Lundin left this world, and I’d like to reflect upon his death.
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March 10, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: How the hell did we get into this mess?

By Stanley Campbell I kinda understand how we got into this economic mess, and I assume the government knows how to
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March 3, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Refighting the Civil War

By Stanley Campbell In honor of Black History Month, I’ll retell the heroic tale of a Belvidere abolitionist of African descent
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February 24, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Blessed are the generous

By Stanley Campbell Rockford is a very generous community- cautious, but giving, to local and overseas relief. Especially during these hard
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February 10, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: I admit, I was wrong

By Stanley Campbell I make mistakes. Too many, it seems. The latest includes what I said in last week’s article about Haiti
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January 27, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: The tragedy in Haiti

By Stanley Campbell Disaster relief is outside our scope of consciousness (except for you saints at the Red Cross), but I
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January 20, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Betting on video slots

By Stanley Campbell Rockford will lose in the long run by allowing video slot machines in every bar in town. Unless Rockford
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January 13, 2010 | Also published in Left Justified | Comments (0)


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