America, what on Earth do you think you're doing?!Someone, please, explain how this makes any sense. It could be a good thing in disguise. Disability issues don't usually get looked at because even the right-wing bigots are nice enough to "pitiable cripples", treating them as the deserving rather than the undeserving poor and all that rubbish. Now ( Read more... )

It might just be my changing tastes, but it would seem to me that the quality of chocolate has gone drastically down hill in recent years. (Especially if it's North American.)
The American FDA is certainly not helping matters, either

All the more reason to buy from Europe.

This sort of people see and hear only what they expect to

IXIMCHE, Guatemala (AP) - A whiff of incense, a sputter of candles, a hum of prayer. Mayan Indian activists on Thursday offered the gentlest protest yet ( Read more... )

As we approach, once again, the dreaded February 14, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that
Some of us don't appreciate having the day thrown in our faces quite so much. Some of the concerns noted in the article I share, others I'm not as concerned with, but any opportunity corporations have to make billions of dollars off of ( Read more... )

I have to do a paper for my human rights course, which doesn't necessarily focus on the issues surrounding a particular rights violation, but rather examines the image that issue, and rights in general, have in public discourse. In other words, we must select an issue of institutionalized terror, genocide, crimes against humanity, exploitation, ( Read more... )

In school we learn about slavery, the kind that happened years ago. We learn about the victims who have been heeded, and the laws passed long ago to prevent such a historic crime against humanity. But very few of us are aware of the magnitude of the modern slave trade, in the form of the international sex industry. It's worth hundreds of millions ( Read more... )

I've tried often to explain my problems with mainstream Euro-North American Christianity. In particular, I'm thinking of the rampant popular fundamentalism which teaches non-Christians not the true message, that God loves them, but that they are unworthy and unloved, for petty reasons such as their race, sex, sexual orientation or level of ( Read more... )

Lost ( Read more... )

As some of you may recall, I Emailed the minister responsible for Status of Women Canada a couple of months ago, regarding the Conservatives' funding cuts and the program's lack of retaliation. This is the response I finally received.

Dear Ms. Shaw ( Read more... )