… the heritage of French colonialism, and ethnic segregation. In The Suffering of the Immigrant, Abdelmalek Sayad presents a series of interviews with Algerian immigrants who arrived in France with similar hopes. One man from Kabylie, who arrived in France in the 1970s, contemplates on his immigration dreams, “The only door that was left was France - it was the only solution left. …

Tags: Africa, Algeria, citizenship, collective memory, community, diaspora, France, identity, law, media, migration, police, politics, poverty

… Seems like the distinctions between the last 3 were created just to round out the list to 7. Does excessive wealth not create poverty? Either way, I think 4 - 7 make sense. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to start going to confession any time soon (even if I was Catholic).

Tags: drugs, environment, ethics, morality, poverty, religion, sin, Vatican, wealth

… With factories closing overnight, no new jobs on the horizon and the reality of empty dinner tables setting in, workers began to resist. They were not driven by political conviction or an ideological vanguard, but by an inability to stand the sight of more working factories boarded up in a moment of such personal and community-wide need.
Like with this current wave of resistance, …

… and inequality” are root causes to lack of clean water. ( UNDP’s Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis ) Although 70% of the earth is made up of water, only 2.5% is fresh water. Less than 1% of the earth’s water is renewable and ready for human consumption. ( Water Facts ) The world’s clean water supply is also decreasing from pollution, overuse and …

… and persons with disabilities” (SUFA 1999). While much attention has been directed toward the former through attempts to eradicate child poverty and debate over a universal child care system, the latter group has remained on the margins of public policy discussions. Canadians with debilitating health conditions who are incapable of employment yet who fail to meet the rigid …

… alleviation during the neoliberal phase. “One consistent theme, however, is that work requirements serve to provide the “appropriate incentives” for recipients of poor relief” (Besley, 249). This idea became more popularized in the Thatcher and Regan years; with an added sense of individualism (necessary for neoliberalism), the public became less responsive and weary of the …

… In contrast to this notion of rule of law, Frug argues that its importance is in “restraining the excercise of arbitrary power”.

This concept seems quite fair, but what exactly might we constitute as “arbitrary”? Fundamentally, Frug points out that arbitrary power is any decision-making authority that is not democratically excercised. This too warrants a definition: …

… kills
In the ghetto, your heart is frozen to death
Art is life support: it is your last breath
In the ghetto you can’t afford to bleed
Individual pluralism leads to greed.
- Oni the Haitian Sensation

I was going to keep quiet about this for a long while… I wanted to see if it was possible to find mass radical, exciting changes within Graffiti.
Today I broke down and …

… and pollution fill the pages of the same papers that publish Stiglitz’s words. The concern expressed for the well-being of workers and consumers is frequently used to criticize environmental activists, as though jobs and the environment were entirely separate issues - with the former trumping the latter.
Stiglitz’s celebration of China and India is indicative of his narrow, …

… or anti-war, or for some other form of social change. Can you say something about why such folks ought to pay attention and relate to the free software movement?
RMS : If you are against the globalization of business power, you should be for free software.
JP : — But it isn’t the global aspect of business power, is it? If it were local business power, that wouldn’t be …

… Alleviation through Participation in Fair Trade Coffee Networks: Comments on the Implications of the Mexico Reports.” (August 2002). www.colostate.edu/De…
Godfrey, Claire. “A Future for Caribbean Bananas: The Importance of Europe’s Banana Market to the Caribbean”. Oxfam GB Policy Department. (March 1998). www.oxfam.org.uk/wha…
Paggi, Mechel and Tom Spreen. …

… (ibid.). Reasons for women’s independent migration are diverse, and include economic, political, and socio-cultural rationales. Women’s negotiation of a combination of push factors in countries of origin and pull factors in potential countries of destination compel them to migrate (Hill Maher 2004).
While comprising nearly half the official migrant stock is significant, the …

… An examination of the Gin Acts and crime would be incomplete without reference to poverty and the role poverty played in exacerbating the problems that arose in London related to gin consumption. Most people who drank gin were among the city’s working class poor. Since the poor were small, malnourished, and lived in an unsanitary environment, they were ill equipped to metabolize the …

… images being created are the most beautiful of all.

Comment by Sean B: … wreaking the half-paved …

… Affairs 83(4), 2007.

Comment by Mekonen Haddis: … and income disparity in …