Archive for the ‘Social Justice’ Category

In Defense of Slum Tourism

What kind of twisted individual is willing to exploit another’s poverty for his own pleasure? I had to meet these sickos.

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Dust with Jeans On: a Lenten Experiment

Wearing clothes has been about proving I’m not one of those people, or that I am, but what if I considered my clothing in terms of generosity?

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KwaZulu-land

From Washington, DC to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, for an agricultural development conference, held at the Golden Horse Casino Hotel, May, 2007.

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Hope Between the Bars

Crime can never be abolished by disregarding the criminal, but only by loving him, and there can be no love without forgiveness first.

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Broken Wheels in Need of Fixing

Several weeks ago, I rode in a Toyota Qualis to a small conference center just outside of Bangalore, India to interview several former slaves. All had come to Bangalore months or years earlier with the promise of work, leaving their families behind and promising to send their earnings home. But there would be no earnings to send.

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Face to Face

How might restorative justice have changed the trial of James Bonard Fowler?

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Banking on Community

For members of Phoenixville Area Time Bank, “exchanges are not exchanges. They’re connections.”

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Cruel and Usual

Those lovable lefties have taken up the faithful arms of that pesky Eighth Amendment once more in order to propel the next Great Debate: life imprisonment for minors.

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An Interview with
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

Filmmakers – and sisters – Sarah and Emily Kunstler talk with Sarah Hanssen about their new documentary and their father’s fight for justice.

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Human Trafficking, Craigslist, and Kijiji

“Using Craigslist is like buying a coach class ticket on the upper deck of a slave ship,” I think I yelled.

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