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...power of government to help the powerless. This focus has led many progressives into electoral politics. But good elected officials and good policies only happen when the people demand them. As the labor movement has declined, the working poor have lost the organ that allowed them to express their voice. They have been unable to elect progressive politicians, and they have been unable to hold politicians accountable. While corporations hire more lobbyists to represent them, a smaller and smaller slice of working Americans have any organized body representing their interests...
According to a recent Gallup poll, only 34 percent of blacks express confidence in the police and 16 percent in the local courts. Coupled with the fact that one in seven black men is barred from voting because of penal disenfranchisement and that criminal conviction can make one ineligible for government services, including college financial aid and public housing, the sense of alienation and nihilism that many young black men and women feel is very real and very dangerous. America needs an immediate and honest conversation about the role of incarceration in a democracy and how racial paranoia...
...lived in an orphanage, with a tidy bed that he never sleeps in. Fearing another quake, he insists on sleeping outside on the portico despite freezing temperatures. "If anything happens, I'll be able to flee," he says gravely. In the rehab program, such children are asked to express their emotions in songs and drawings and given individual counseling. "There is a lot of invisible reconstruction going on," says Kari Egge, UNICEF's director in Iran. There are encouraging signs, such as the 24,000 children who've returned to school in makeshift classrooms. But the Bamis, as they...
Rami R. Sarafa ’07, a member of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, said divestment is “one of the most civilized and diplomatic measures you can take to express your political discontent with a country, a group or an individual...
...survey also reported that students find biased professors more likely to express liberal sentiments than conservative leanings...