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    Economic Justice

    Posted on June 1, 2011 by pkc

    Opportunities and fair treatment are often denied to people based on their income or wealth. When looking at economic justice, there are many factors that come into play. The economic make-up of most communities is often unbalanced.

    Turn Down the Heat infographic

    Posted on December 14, 2012 by pkc
    Posted in Biodiversity, Climate, Demand Reduction, Economic Justice, Energy, Environmental Justice, Food, Fossil Fuels, Human Rights, Precautionary Principle, Renewable Energy, Resource Extraction, Rights of Nature | Mother Earth, Stewardship, Sustainabilty & Health, The Commons, The World, Unsustainable Energy, Water & Watersheds |

    Sustainability Questions for Students & Educators

    Posted on September 19, 2012 by Peter Crownfield

    To make good decisions about sustainability, people need to know the facts. Here are some questions that have arisen and might be suitable for class projects or independent study: What steps can local & county government take to produce immediate reductions in … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Biodiversity, Campus Sustainability, Civil Liberties, Climate, Community Land Trusts, Community Rights, Corporate Personhood, Decentralization, Demand Reduction, Democratic Education, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Environmental Health, Fair Trade, Food Distribution, Food for Health, Going Local, Habitat, Human Rights, Local Food, Local Health Issues, Media, Migration, Militarism, Minority Rights, Nonviolence, Palestine, Production For Need, Resource Extraction, Restorative Justice, School Food, Students' Rights, Transportation, Violence Against Women |

    ‘Progress’, a poem by Lisa J. Parker

    Posted on September 7, 2012 by pkc

    …on the human effects of coal mining and other resource extraction industries: Progress In a ton of black gold boring through the fatness of the Blue Ridge on the Clinchfield freight lines, three generations are trapped. The first generation talks … more →

    Posted in Air, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Resource Extraction, Shale gas, Workers' Rights |

    What Part Is Labor Playing in the Transition?

    Posted on May 7, 2012 by pkc

    Working class. Ahhh. To someone steeped in the leftist lingo freely expressed in the New York City of the 1960s, with its peace, civil rights, labor, and leftist activism, it’s refreshing to hear such culturally repressed language out in the … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Agriculture, Building Community, Cooperatives, Corporate Personhood, Economic Justice, Going Local, Local Businesses, Social Justice, Transitions, Workers' Rights, working class |

    Echoes from the 1960s

    Posted on May 7, 2012 by pkc

    Billionaire George Soros recently warned that the world capitalist system faced the potential of massive street violence—if not collapse. Mainstream discourse has failed to give due credence to the most widely shared argument of Occupiers: our democracy is broken, corporations … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Building Community, Civil Liberties, Community – Empowerment, Community Rights, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Human Rights, Media, Quality of Life, Social Justice |

    The Sun

    Posted on May 6, 2012 by pkc

    Summer vacation with the family in Vermont. Rainy morning. Aha! Monopoly! I decide to teach my two girls – Hannah (7) and Dhara (5)—how to play. I figure it’s best for them to learn by playing. First they pick their … more →

    Posted in Banking & Financial, Cooperatives, Economic Justice, Learning & Schools |

    Social Research | Social Justice 2012 – Student Presentations

    Posted on April 8, 2012 by pkc

    April 13, 2012, Moyer Hall (Muhlenberg College) More information 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast Mendham Gallery 9:30 – 10:40 a.m. RESEARCH SESSION I PANEL ONE: Framing Discourses of Popular Media: Gender and Sexuality [Moderator: Kate Richmond, Muhlenberg College] Melissa Pieller, … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Arts & Culture, Childhood obesity, Democracy, Diversity & Heritage, Economic Justice, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Food for Health, Human Rights, Industrial Food Production, Justice System, Media, Militarism, Minority Rights, Nonviolence, Resource Extraction, School Food, Shale gas, Sustainability Education, Sustainabilty & Health, Sustainable Growing, Violence Against Women, War & Peace, Youth Development |

    Big Changes in Fair Trade! [UPDATED]

    Posted on January 23, 2012 by pkc

    As of December 31, 2011, Fair Trade USA (formerly TransfairUSA) has dropped out of the World FairTrade Organization and lowered their standards to the point where it will hurt small growers—as well as many small, independent shops here in the … more →

    Posted in Community – Empowerment, Cooperatives, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Fair Trade, Sustainable Growing |

    MLK’s Final Speech

    Posted on January 20, 2012 by pkc

    I Have Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr. April 3, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee “Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered … more →

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    Fair Trade links & resources

    Posted on January 14, 2012 by pkc

    Reliable sources for information on authentic Fair Trade Reports & News Stories: Why Your Morning Coffee Could Be the Product of Child Labor (Faster Times, November 2011) Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production, by Jeff Nall (Toward Freedom, January … more →

    Posted in Economic Justice, Fair Trade, Human Rights, Stewardship, Sustainable Growing, Workers' Rights |