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May 24, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment
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Thank You SPLC!

May 24, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Mary Beth and Mike thank the Student Press Law Center for their generous donation of $7,500 to the Tinker Tour. We also want to thank the Center for its willingness to […]

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May 23, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment
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Remembering when Birmingham was Bombingham

May 23, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

by Mary Beth Tinker (posted at naacp.org) Fifty years ago, when I was ten, I watched on TV as children of the Birmingham Children’s March were attacked by German Shepards […]

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Update: A Personal Message from Mary Beth Tinker’s Other Half (of the Tinker Tour)

May 21, 2013by Mike Hiestand 1 Comment

My name is Mike Hiestand. And I’ve been telling Mary Beth’s story for more than two decades. Close to a month ago, Mary Beth and I launched a crowdsource campaign […]

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Mike's Musings

If you want to change the world, tell a better story.

May 21, 2013by TinkerTour 1 Comment

We’re down to the final ten days of our crowdsource campaign. Sort of do or…not do. If we hit our minimum goal of $50,000 we do. If we don’t, we […]

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Thank You JEANC!

May 21, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Mary Beth and Mike thank the Journalism Education Association of Northern California for their generous donation of $500 to the Tinker Tour. We are delighted — and so very grateful — to add […]

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Thank you, Anonymous!!!

May 20, 2013by Mike Hiestand 1 Comment

So Saturday evening we received a contribution of $2,500 through our StartSomeGood campaign that, for me, pretty much made all the sweat and tears (actually, not many tears yet!) poured […]

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Thank You JEA!

May 18, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Mary Beth and Mike thank the Journalism Education Association for their generous donation of $2500 to the Tinker Tour. We are delighted to add them to our list of em-powering tour sponsors.

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Life in Bizarro World: Veronica Mars v. Mary Beth Tinker

May 17, 2013by Mike Hiestand 1 Comment

Not to take anything away from Veronica Mars (indeed, more power to her!), but if a “make believe” Veronica Mars can raise $2 million in 12 hours (and close to $6 […]

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