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Gabriel Mongefranco is an experienced developer and security analyst. On his free time, he is also a writer, poet, musician, philanthropist and adventurer. He runs an Information Technology firm from Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA). Learn more.
Social Justice – Justicia Social Archive
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Worship Symposium Week Is Here!
Posted on 2012.01.25 | No CommentsI spent countless hours writing Velocity code and hacking up some Lucene queries in dotCMS for the website, but this was only a needle in the haystack of preparations needed to make an 1800-people, 40-country+ event go smoothly... -
With Regret in the Air
Posted on 2011.04.24 | No CommentsYou were still the innocent, fun, good-hearted pretty girl who loves to dance and has more faith in God than the whole world. But those cowardly friends of yours who looked the other way, they didn't know you like I did. -
Paul in Leonard
Posted on 2009.08.12 | No CommentsToday is a rainy day, so he is forced to setup camp on a piece of cardboard just outside of the shopping area. One side of his cardboard reads, "Will work for food." The other is merely his chair. -
The City of the Living Dead
Posted on 2009.03.17 | No CommentsShe cries in desperation. She cries with excruciation. But this time, she cannot cry herself to death. She can only cry, and scream for compassion, and toss and turn, and feel the sharp pain killing her from tooth to brain. -
A job I would not mind
Posted on 2009.02.16 | No CommentsThere is the power, for instance, that comes with driving the biggest vehicle in town. There is also networking with people of all sorts.... -
Me and their world
Posted on 2009.02.03 | No CommentsBut of all things, what was hardest yet to understand was how much my own parents were sacrificing to get me out of that dying world. Growing up, it was easy to be blinded by the idea... -
Jesse
Posted on 2008.11.15 | 1 CommentI am very sorry to hear that, I said -- what else could I have possibly said to that? What else could I have possibly said to a man who aside from not having sight, had also lost everything, absolutely everything, in a fire.... -
If their hearts could be heard
Posted on 2008.11.08 | No CommentsI still wake up in the middle of the night thinking, if only their hearts could be heard. If only all victims of violence, greed and hate could tell their stories without fear of prosecution, the world would be a different place. -
Who drew the line?
Posted on 2008.06.14 | 6 CommentsIn the few years I’ve been in the United States, I have seen many wonderful places and experienced a great life. I have learned why this country is so great... -
Why, o why?
Posted on 2008.05.30 | No CommentsTonight, I went to Buffalo Wild Wings with my buddy to watch the Pistons game. As we were driving in, the guys in a car driving out yelled, “You niggers!”...