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Sadr's ceasefire did allow U.S. forces to concentrate on hunting al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Mosul and Diyala without having an open front in the south. But it also allowed the cleric to rearm, clean his own house and retake the reins of his splintering movement. However, Sadr's devoted rank and file seem to be itching for a fight now as the Iraqi government and their American backers take sides with rival factions and continue to crack down on Sadr's Jaish al Mahdi, or JAM. "Sadr has had an interest in making sure everyone knows he's still...
...Iraq analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Cordesman warns against jumping to conclusions that the south is rising up. He says it's more likely that the recent violence is a sign that the many Shi'ite factions that have broken from Sadr's movement are seeking to prove their mettle, and that al-Qaeda cells are seeking new ways to strike as they are forced out of more and more areas by U.S. and Iraqi forces...
...exactly the kind of experience, he notes, that few minorities and immigrants in the U.S. - more likely to be living in urban areas isolated from nature - would ever have. Still, growing up Sanjayan says that there were few if any role models of color in the conservation movement for a young South Asian like himself. David Attenborough, Jacques Cousteau: all great conservationists, all white men. "If you don't see someone you can identify with yourself as a kid, it can be hard to imagine yourself in that role," he says. "I think that has a big impact...
...Nature Conservancy scientist would like to see green groups take more aggressive steps to diversify their workforce, identifying promising young minorities who are still in school and actively recruiting them. That's worth pursuing. As America itself grows more diverse, the environmental movement risks irrelevance if it remains largely white and elite. "We need to communicate to all of our constituents," says Sanjayan, "and we'll do a better job of that if we have a range of voices in our own organization." Diversity becomes even more important as the environmental movement tries to tackle truly global threats like climate...
Fortunately, there are already signs that the green movement can be more than just white. At home in the U.S., a new crop of African-American activists like New Yorker Majora Carter and Oakland-based Van Jones are adopting environmentalism, fighting for clean air and water in the inner city or green jobs for the underemployed. Around the globe, Sanjayan notes, U.S. environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy have put local staffers in positions of authority. But more can and should be done. "As a conservation community, we badly need to do this," says Sanjayan. Diversity - in all its forms...