Source: miamistudent.net “We don’t stop, we don’t move backwards. We move forward onto the next movement,” Marian Wright Edelman said, talking about a new civil rights movement that would fight child poverty in America. Edelman spoke in Hall Auditorium Thursday, Feb. 5. She is the first guest speaker to visit Miami this spring in the …
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Alex Lizzappi’s insight: ‘TURN FORMAL DEMOCRACIES INTO LIVING ONES’Haiti: Aristide on Democracy
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 The South American country was the last place in the Americas to abolish slavery. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: Photos Reveal Harsh Detail Of Brazil’s History With Slavery See on www.npr.org
“He inherited a system of government that was based on killing people,” said Jean-Claude Bajeux, a democracy activist in Port-au-Prince. “I think that was the tragedy of this guy: He was not aware of the monstrosity of what he was doing every day. To him, killing people and torturing people was normal life.”Human rights cases …
Can Haiti be rebuilt without the rule of law? A year after the earthquake, a powerful look at the violence threatening the country’s stability … and future. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/battle-for-haiti/
