Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Segregation in the 21st Century
Posted OnJuly 16, 2010 bySomething interesting I found on the IPS website today: The United States and South Africa Share Great Challenges July 14, 2010 · By Dedrick Muhammad and Christopher Towne Originally published in The Huffington Post Both the United States and South Africa, despite black leadership and multicultural societies, still labor under the legacy of segregation and…Read More…
Throwing an Open Mic 101
Posted OnMarch 16, 2010 byAlthough it’s taken a little while, here is the promised post on how to throw your very own Open Mic Night! No matter where you find yourself, open mics are a great way to bring communities together and generate creativity. College campuses are especially good places since there are often lots of places to…Read More…
Problems with NAFTA
Posted OnDecember 10, 2007 byIn the early 1990s, George Bush was trying to master a plan to create a free, three-way trade agreement with Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The plans were initially secret but in 1992 when President Bush, Prime Minister Mulroney, and Carlos Salinas signed this two-thousand page agreement, the public was let in on the…Read More…
Some Sunday Reflections: Multiculturalism v. Cultural Relativism
Posted OnAugust 12, 2007 byAn incident this weekend (which I may or may not go into in a future post) got me thinking about multiculturalism and cultural relativism. Cultural relativism and multiculturalism are too often used as synonyms, when, really, they are two different (if not mutually exclusive) concepts. In the modern state system, multiculturalism is the tolerance of…Read More…
Youth Activist and Civic Engagement Organizations
Posted OnJune 27, 2007 byHi all — We’re getting ready for our "Social Entrepreneurship and Global Change" summit and we just got the awesome links below to great organizations young people should check out from our presenter on Progressive Youth Movements… check these out! Seth OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE www.soros.org A Sample of Youth Activist and Civic Engagement Organizations AMERICANS…Read More…