To End Violence Against Women, We Must Also Confront Climate Change...

網頁版本  |  更新喜好  |  取消訂閱 讚 Tweet 轉寄 www.texasproduction.com To End Violence Against Women, We Must Also Confront Climate Change Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Frances Beinecke Today is International Women’s Day, a time for celebrating women’s achievements and calling for greater equality. The United Nations has focused this year’s events on ending violence against women—not with more pledges and promises but with real, concrete action. We have made some recent strides. Just yesterday President Obama signed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Yet far too many women continue to suffer at the hands of others: 70 percent of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime according to the UN. read more When Public Is Better Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Robert Kuttner Long before we thought of founding The American Prospect in 1989, I came to know Paul Starr through a prescient article titled “Passive Intervention.” The piece was published in 1979, in a now-defunct journal, Working Papers for a New Society. read more Don't Be Fooled: 7.7% Is Likely a Short-Lived Low in the US Unemployment Rate Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Dean Baker More than five years into the downturn, it doesn't take much to get people excited about the state of the economy. The Labor Department's February employment report showing the economy generated a better than expected 236,000 jobs and the unemployment rate had fallen 0.2 percentage points to 7.7% was sufficient to get the optimists' blood flowing. read more How the US Exported Its 'Dirty War' Policy to Iraq – with Fatal Consequences Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Murtaza Hussain In one of the fiery oratories for which he was well-known, the late Hugo Chávez once stated his belief that "the American empire is the greatest menace to our planet." While his detractors have often sought to paint his rhetorical flourishes as a manifestation of unprovoked and unpopular extremism, to his death Chávez remained extremely popular with the majority of t read more Day Laborers Defend Their Right to Public Space in Court Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Michelle Chen Looking to hire someone for a little landscaping work or a construction job? There might be a local agency that can offer free security services to ensure that workers will work as hard as possible for as little as you’re willing to pay: the local police department.Day laborers talk with a prospective employer on a street corner in Tucscon, Ariz. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) read more Roberts, Scalia and Voters Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Christopher Brauchli The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. — Thomas Babington, On Horace Walpole (1833) read more This Week in Poverty: American Winter Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Greg Kaufmann City Harvest Mobile Market food distribution site, New York. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)Since the beginning of the Great Recession, I’ve been waiting for a documentary to make the case that low-income people and the middle class are now in the same boat—that old distinctions people created to divide them are obsolete, with so many people living near poverty, or an illness, lost job, or disaster away from poverty. read more A Patriotic Fix for America’s Hunger Epidemic Posted by jacob on 9 March, 2013 Michael Shank One nation, underfed. That’s the tagline for the new film out by Participant Productions, entitled A Place at the Table, which looks at America’s growing hunger epidemic. Participant Media, which produced Lincoln, The Help and Food Inc., does not disappoint with its latest take on what America must tackle. And in light of the March 1 sequester cuts to social programs, the film’s timing couldn’t be more appropriate. read more 修改訂閱 | 取消訂閱

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