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Do We All Have the Same Rights?
Today, December 3, 2008, is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=109
Keeping Migrant Workers’ Kids at School
I found an interesting report on the National Public Radio (NPR) website about a new program in a small town in Florida called Immokalee. Immokalee is a town where many migrant workers’ families stop by every year, and call it home, for some period of time anyway, in their yearly march following the crops of fruits and vegetables.
Unsafe at Any Sip?
The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") discovered the industrial chemical melamine in samples of baby formula sold in the United States and notified the manufacturers of its findings but not the American public.
The Time Has Come to Close The School of the Americas
Thousands gathered this weekend near Fort Benning in Georgia to call for the closing of the School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).
Medika Mamba
Baby Breeding Factories and the Exploitation of Women
A story posted this week from correspondents in Enugu, Nigeria working with the Agence France-Presse, reveals that raids by the police have found an apparent network of baby “farms” in Nigeria. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24650838-23109,00.html Twenty teenage girls were rescued earlier this year from a hospital in Enugu.
In Alaska They are Still Counting
I just read an article on the Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/11/alaska_senate_count_the_votes.html?hpid=topnews about the 2008 elections in Alaska to determine their United State Senator. I was really s
Working on My YP4 Project - Creating a Website to Connect College Students with Disabilities
My YP4 project is a website connecting people with disabilities in college together so that they can share their experiences and jointly work on other activism issues. <> http://www.weconnectnow.net/Home
The Quest for Political Power, Did Women Achieve any Progress In This Election Cycle?
People like to talk about how women have moved up in positions of power; how they don’t just hold the traditional mother/homemaker roles they used to hold in earlier times.
Is the World Finally Taking Notice of the Humanitarian Crisis in the Congo? Is It too Little, too Late for Congo's Children?
Congo is in the news again this week as rebels advanced to the outskirts of Goma, the eastern regional capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (the "Congo"), before unilaterally declaring a ceasefire and halting their advance.