Organizing Against Poverty

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:55:14 +0100

What can people in poverty do to improve their lives? Mary Gonzales takes an atypical approach; organizing disadvantaged communities to exercise political clout they didn’t know they had.

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Mediators Beyond Borders

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Mediation isn’t just for family or business disputes. It can also be applied to tribal or international conflicts, and the organization called Mediators Beyond Borders was created to do just that.

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Sebastopol’s Enmanji Temple, a cornerstone of the area’s Japanese culture, is the subject of a short documentary film that reveals a key episode in the preservation of the historic structure.

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Bruce Robinson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Poisonings, both accidental and criminal, have been happening for centuries. But the science of investigating those deaths is barely a hundred years old.

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As she began to research the history of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York, science writer Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook, says she was struRead More...

FBI Raid at SSU

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:37:29 +0100

County and federal investigators raided administrative and financial offices at Sonoma State Thursday morning, as part of a long-running investigation into allegations of fiscal mismanagement of a large grants administration program on campus.

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Nonviolence

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Conflict doesn’t have to be violent. In fact, proactive non-violence can be used to force change, and those skills and tactics can be taught and practiced. That’s what Cynthia Boaz is doing at an international conference in India this week.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Sixteen years after it was adopted, the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gay and lesbian service members is up for review, as public support for it is waning.

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Blog entries tagged justice

Organizing Against Poverty

Mediators Beyond Borders

FBI Raid at SSU

Nonviolence

Don't Ask, Don't Tell