Divided Cities Conference

I’ll be volunteering for most of this next week:
Leaders from Divided Cities to Meet at UMass Boston April 14-16
Building on his successes at bringing together leaders from divided societies in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Iraq, Padraig O’Malley, the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of [...]

Saletan on Singer, or Are you stupider than a monkey?

Link : Slate – Animal-Rights Farm
Animal-Rights Farm

Ape rights and the myth of animal equality.
By William Saletan
Should apes be treated like people?
Under a resolution headed for passage in the Spanish parliament, respecting the personal rights of “our non-human brothers” won’t just be a good idea. It’ll be the law.
The resolution, approved last week by a parliamentary [...]

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World Bank/IMF Protest

This past Saturday (October 20),  I attended a protest outside the World Bank headquarters in DC with a group of fellow novo collegians.  After the protest had subsided, we were ambushed by a local news reporter, with whom my buddy James and I engaged in a brief interview.  Upon returning from DC the following Monday morning, we discovered [...]