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Tag was last used: Aug 23, 2011
 
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Panorama // TIG Blogs
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 15, 2011

  Does America need a new social contract?
By Rebecca Theodore If liberal democratic theory and practice in America thrives under the classical social contract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, then it would be sacrilegious of me to suggest something different. Why fix it if it is not broken? On the other hand,...... [view]
Posted By:  Stories
Posted On:  Jan 10, 2011

  Ain’t nobody a stranger to me
Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me   A long, long time ago, when I was a little, little girl, my Gran’pa let me come along on his weekly visit to his apple orchard. “It’s the last piece of land I kept,” he told me, waving his hand in a...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 1, 2010

  Jamaica: Emancipendence and more
MICHAEL BURKE This year, a few of us will be observing an octave of emancipendence. An octave is really eight days of prayer of either supplication or thanksgiving. The octave of emancipendence will focus on thanksgiving for the various steps from slavery through political independence to...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 4, 2010

  Miss Haiti: This Black Nation's 'White' Hope
By Anthony L. Hall: “Fifty years ago, when everything white was right, it should have come as no surprise that little black girls preferred white dolls – as psychologist Kenneth Clarke showed in his seminal 1954 experiment. But it came as a disheartening surprise in 2005 when a similar...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 12, 2010

  Jamaica, no problem, mon
LLOYD B SMITH NOWADAYS, Jamaica reminds me of a company that is going out of business and so has put up everything for sale. What is frightening in this scenario is that it is not only the country's physical assets that are being disposed of but its morals, principles, heritage and, yes,...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 5, 2010

  Europe urged to recognise slavery as crime
by Dave Clark: PARIS, France (AFP) -- Historians and anti-racism campaigners are to urge the countries that oversaw and profited from the Atlantic slave trade to recognise it as a crime against humanity, opening the way for reparations. Next week, activists are to send a letter to the...... [view]
Posted By:  Norma63
Posted On:  May 1, 2010

  What Will Happen When Africa's Resources Run Out?: The History of a Race in Decline-Part 1
Read more about hybrid maize here: http://www.nutritionafrica.com/ This series was inspired by a conversation I had with a colleague, and which is gaining currency in the media: Africa’s masses are so powerless because they are too poor to pay taxes; and therefore they cannot influence...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 23, 2010

  America's Tea Party revolutionaries
By Anthony L. Hall: I was amused by a cartoon recently, which depicts the members of the Tea Party, America’s latest political movement, as mostly resentful white folks who have been ginned up with existential fear by right-wing demagogues. The cartoon shows one of them reacting to...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 27, 2010

  The world as seen from the mountains of Haiti
By Jean H Charles: Each nation, whether as small as Haiti or as big as the United States, tends to believe it is at the center of the universe, the world turns around them and their action can have global impact. Indeed, some nations albeit small in size did and continue to have some...... [view]
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Browse Resources Browse Resources
 
Organizations

  World to Form
Submitted By:   h3yitselaine
Phone:  626-831-8955
E-mail:  worldtoform@yahoo.com 		  Vision:   World to Form is a youth-led organization that strives to advocate and stress the importance of freedom of expression as well as other basic human rights. We hope to fund art supplies and musical instruments to trafficked......
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  World To Form
Submitted By:   h3yitselaine
Website:  http://www.dosomething.org/project/world-to-form
Phone:  626-831-8955
E-mail:  h3yitselaine@yahoo.com 		  Vision:   FINDING HOPE THROUGH ART 50% of the 27,000,000 people that are enslaved today are youth under 18 years old. We try to promote art therapy and provide the arts/music to trafficked/exploited youth. We just believe that it......
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  Stop the Traffik
Submitted By:   StopTheTraffik
Website:  http://www.stopthetraffik.org
Phone:  0207 921 4258
E-mail:  intern@stopthetraffik.org 		  Vision:   Stop the Traffik is a global movement working to combat the fastest growing global crime, people trafficking. Around the world men, women and children are being treated as commodities — something to be bought, sold, and......
  City:   London
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  BeatingDebt.org
Submitted By:   eric731
Website:  http://www.beatingdebt.org
E-mail:  moreinfo@beatingdebt.org 		  Vision:   The mission of BeatingDebt.org is to bring users together to share, track, and beat their debt using proven Biblical principles in order to affect change in all other aspects of their life. Debt makes us slaves. It is......
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Commitments

  Alleviating child labour
Submitted By:   aerishunnytree
Committers:  63
Date Created:  2008-04-09 		Description:   By enlisting in this commitment, I promise to take precautions to ensure that the clothing and goods I purchase and use are not produced by child laborers. Further, I commit to learning more about this issue, and raising awareness about it and voicing my concerns to companies who profit from this practice.
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