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Can 'Caring Across Generations' Change the World?
April 13, 2012Ask anyone. We all have our “care stories.” What we don’t tend to have is a plan for what we’ll do when someone we love needs care, or when we ourselves turn out not to be invincible. We don’t have a plan, and neither does our government, and yet a crisis looms.Rev. Jesse Jackson on George Zimmerman's Arrest
April 12, 2012"When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to go to the back of the bus if we had focused on the bus-driver and not on the states rights law, we would have missed the point... We must not just settle for Zimmerman, we must repeal the Stand Your Ground Law," Rev. Jesse Jackson told GRITtv.Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller?
March 17, 2012Jeffrey Sachs would like to lead the World Bank to a new era with aid, trade and --- population control?Tim Wise: Dragging Racial Bias Into the Open
August 25, 2011“The bank of justice is bankrupt” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in DC 1963. Now, as a King Memorial is unveiled in DC., too little has changed. And the Obama team's race-neutral politics aren't helping, says racial justice scholar Tim Wise in this critical interview from September 2010.Evicting Rioters from Public Housing? David Cameron Meet Michelle Alexander
August 14, 2011Getting tough the US way has created a closed-system of mass incarceration in which ex felons are discriminated against in housing and employment -- for life. And yet that is precisely the system British Prime Minister David Cameron seems keen on in response to last week's riots.Michelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Jim Crow
July 30, 2011The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination that has brought Jim Crow with us into the age of Obama.No More Gag Rules; Let's Spark a Movement that's Pro-Voice!
July 25, 2011Talk may not heal all that ails us - and our politics - but it's certainly true that where abortion's concerned, we could do with less grandstanding about "gag rules" and more honest listening - and talk.Dorian Warren: The 'Walmart Way'
June 20, 2011"It's a targeting of workers' abilities to come together against big companies," says Columbia University professor Dorian Warren of the Walmart v. Duke case. The case was decided in favor of the company this week.Anika Rahman: Fighting the Womancession
May 12, 2011"I imagine a world in which my seven-year-old daughter doesn't say to me 'I can't be the president because I'm a girl.'" Anika Rahman was horrified and yet not surprised when her daughter expressed that sentiment. As the new CEO and president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Anika works to empower women to fight for their right to control their bodies and their lives.
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