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...citizenship tests. "Citizenship cannot just be nodded through," she said. In the Netherlands, right-wing Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stands a very good chance of winning this month's vote for party leader among members of the vvd party, which is part of the governing coalition. Her take-no-prisoners approach to stanching immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic growth depends increasingly on immigration, creating more obstacles for immigrants may bear heavy costs in the future. And demonstrators who gathered on the weekend in France to protest the new immigration...
...family; God help us all if Bush's brutality to the poor continues much longer. It's a small but very vocal minority, the Democratic pundits, who abhor what I represent because it doesn't fit the stereotypical image of the modern woman who has escaped from domestic prison. Fifty years ago, a stay-at-home mom who loved her husband would not automatically be assumed to be a Republican. The image of the Democratic Party that used to come to mind was of a workingman and his wife sitting at the kitchen table worrying about how they were going...
Formerly incarcerated women shared their experiences transitioning to life after prison at Ticknor Lounge last night. The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Prison Education Groups and the Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group co-hosted the panel, “Women and The Prison Crisis: Issues Facing Incarcerated Women in Massachusetts.” “The purpose of the panel was to reach out to the broader Harvard community,” said Connie E. Chen ’08, co-director of the Harvard Suffolk Prison Education Program. “The prison crisis is a huge problem...
...there was at least one episode at Abu Ghraib where Jordan does seem to have been personally involved. After after the death of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner who collapsed under interrogation in CIA custody, Jordan apparently ordered that his body be put on ice, according to court testimony. Pictures of the body packed in ice with Abu Ghraib soldiers mugging for the camera later became some of the most publicized images of the scandal. Jamadi's body was kept on ice for several days and smuggled out of the prison, supposedly to avoid upsetting other detainees. Jamadi...
...When most people, myself included, think of racism against black Americans, we usually think of men - situations like police pulling over black male drivers, Klansmen dragging black men through the streets, the systemic problems that land black men in prison at seven times the rate of white...