Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
(Via Le Monde)
Today, the Council of Europe launched a campaign against most forms of corporal punishment, including slapping, spanking, hitting, mistreating, humiliating and any other practice that damage the dignity of a child. The campaign will consist in TV ads, the publication of a manual for parents on violence-free parenting [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Joan Walsh weighed in on the piece in the New Yorker about Keith Olberman, that I wrote about earlier today. Walsh took offense as I did to what MSNBC head Phil Griffin told the New Yorker Hillary supporters who will “come back” because there’s “nowhere else to go”:
I have some advice for Phil Griffin, not that [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
I watched The Devil’s Miner (website) last night for the first time (it was originally from 2005) and what a film this is. The central question of the film is
How do we live in dignity?
Especially when you are 14 years old, living in Potosi, Bolivia, and you work at a mine inCerro Rico, “the [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
A recent report shows that female veterans are getting inadequate healthcare in nearly 1/3 of VA clinics. Speak out:
More than 155,000 women in America’s armed services have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. But as these distinguished women return home, they are finding a veterans health care system better equipped to deal with the needs [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by PanMetron
Now that our presidential nominees are set, the partisan battles in the media and online have shifted into general election mode. Even before the Democratic nomination was sealed, the DNC sent e-mails and press releases criticizing John McCain as running for Bush’s third term, accusing him of wanting to wage 100 years of war, being [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I gave up on watching Keith Olbermann months ago. Watching the primary coverage early in the season, I got turned off by the coverage on MSNBC and decided I had seen enough of Olbermann’s “angry man” routine to last me quite a very longtime. The primaries are over now, but I still can not bring [...]
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