August 22, 2025 Dear Family and Friends, On August 26, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, George, William, and I gathered to finalize Katrina’s obituary, a collaborative effort with family and friends. In the early morning hours, as the storm passed, our small group birthed Katrina’s Dream. Twenty years later, this vision…
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CHILLICOTHE, OH – Productive talks with three Senate offices bring new opportunities for bipartisan support. ERA Momentum Builds in the Senate Recently, Katrina’s Dream and ERA Action met with the offices of Senators Lisa Murkowski, Cynthia Lummis, and Joni Ernst to advance bipartisan support for the Equal Rights Amendment. In these productive conversations, we discussed…
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May 26, 2025 Dear Friends and Family, This past Friday was the last day for several of my Haitian co-workers. They are no longer eligible to work in the USA, their TPS expiring. Patrice expressed that he was grateful for the experience of working and living in another country. Djudly was going to do her…
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The Second of May, in the Year of our Lord 2025 Greetings One and All, It’s Eastertide, The People’s Pope has died. The conclave will convene May 7, 2025, a Jubilee Year. It is safe to say many are thinking of their loved ones who passed on and those who are here, as we contemplate…
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March 30, 2025 Sent via email Dear Friends and Family, Seems like just the other day folks we were determining who would be heading the Executive Branch of our nation. Then Election Day whizzed by Americans made their choice, and Donald Trump was re-elected President. The Holidays followed fast behind. Before you…
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Women and the Labor Movement Coming Together… AI, Automation, Amazon Labor Unions, and the Equal Rights Amendment Katrina’s Dream and ERA Action March 10, 2025 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm United Nations Church Center 777 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 Katrina’s Dream and ERA Action are hosting a parallel event at this years 69th United Nations Commission…
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Sent via email 21st of November, 2023 Dearest Family and Friends, As it is each and every Thanksgiving I reflect on much. For me, Thanksgiving is all the Holidays rolled into one. The Thanksgiving that transformed my life was the day my mother took me to a Salvation Army program in the Battery area of New York City…
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Sent via email and available on the Dreamscape Blog January 1, 2023 Dearest Friends and Family – Everyone, Everywhere, It is that time of the year in the Winter Season that many take stock of where they are and what they will set themselves to the task of making the necessary moves to achieve ambitious personal,…
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September 16, 2022 Dear Friends and Family, I would like you to attend as observers in the meeting Katrina’s Dream has scheduled with Majority Leader Schumer’s office today at 12:00 pm ( some of us will be on a little early to just chat) to discuss his holding the vote on SJ Res 1 which…
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Third of July, 2022 Good Day Friends and Family, The Fourth of July, Independence Day, has significant meaning to me. Following my marriage to William that both Katrina and George Swanson blessed on the Summer Solstice in 2004 at St. Saviour’s in Bar Harbor, Maine, that on our honeymoon in Bolinas, California in front of…
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LUSUKA, Zambia – Aug. 3, 2021 PRLog — Zambia will hold national elections on Aug. 12. Among the 16 candidates for president is an Anglican prelate, The Rt. Rev. Musonda Selwyn Trevor Mwamba, the former Bishop of Botswana, is rated as a remote possibility by most political observers, who see the campaign as mainly a race between…
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 WASHINGTON, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Having successfully shepherded the Equal Rights Amendment through ratification by the remaining three states and approval of House Joint Resolution 17 by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 17, 2021, ERA supporters have now adopted a strategic pivot to surmount the final hurdle approval by the U.S. Senate….
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“The world will not survive religion based on tribal consciousness. It will destroy the world. But if those who arrive at what is truest from their own tradition, which transcends their own tradition, they recognize each other. And if they would speak up, religious people could be a source for world unity and world peace. 
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Good Day! This year’s 3rd Annual 2017 DC Women’s Equality Day Advocacy Action and Celebration was a huge success! While the group that attended the Advocacy Action was small, it gave a powerful voice to the reinvigorated efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. To watch local news coverage of the Advocacy Action Click Here….
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Katrina’s Dream published a new poem today by Malcolm Boyd about torture in American prisons. The poem connects torture in our American jails and prisons with Jesus’ suffering. The publication is timed to encourage the Episcopal Convention in Anaheim this July to pass a resolution asking Congress to outlaw torture in American jails and prisons. …
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Our Agenda at General Convention We will strive for justice and peace build respect for the Dignity of Every Human Being. Baptismal Covenant—Prayer Book page 305 The booth will pursue the church’s mission: to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ and promote justice for women, prisoners, Indigenous Peoples, and…
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: April 29, 2009 The New York Times When a woman reports a rape, her body is a crime scene. She is typically asked to undress over a large sheet of white paper to collect hairs or fibers, and then her body is examined with an ultraviolet light, photographed and thoroughly…
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From Sea to Shining Sea by Diana Ramsdell Newman Note by George: This is the first piece by Diana here on Katrina’s Dream web site. I wanted to get this up as soon as possible. In the future we will have a special page (something like “Just Words”) which will focus on Liberty and Justice…
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[The Rev. Robert Coolidge was a friend of Katrina and George Swanson at Harvard/Radcliffe in the early 1950’s, graduating with George in 1955. I’m grateful for his sharing these recollections with Katrina’s Dream. Until we got married Katrina was known by her nickname, Keppy. – George] I don’t clearly recall how Ellen and I got…
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