• Minority Rights

    Posted on July 12, 2011 by Peter Crownfield

    The idea of minority rights includes not only normal individual rights for members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, or sexual minorities, it also includes rights accorded to these groups as a whole.

    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 |

    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 |

    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 →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Civil Liberties, Community – Empowerment, Democracy, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Human Rights, Minority Rights, Nonviolence, Workers' Rights | Tagged

    MLK: Breaking the Silence

    Posted on January 7, 2012 by pkc

    Dr. King gave this talk nearly 45 years ago, but it seems remarkably applicable today if you replace the name Viet Nam with Iraq, Iran, or the Middle East. And despite our ast resources, we have made little progress against … more →

    Posted in Community – Empowerment, Democracy, Discrimination, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Human Rights, Learning & Schools, Militarism, Militarism in schools, Minority Rights, The World, War & Peace | Tagged

    Occupy Wall Street’s Moral Ground

    Posted on November 5, 2011 by pkc

    By Kathleen Moore in Yes! Magazine, November 1, 2011] Much of the Occupy movement’s power comes from a simple moral message: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. The Occupy Wall … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Banking & Financial, Community – Government & Rights, Community Rights, Environmental Justice, Fair Trade, Minority Rights, Workers' Rights |

    Statement from the NYC General Assembly

    Posted on October 5, 2011 by Peter Crownfield

    Following is the first collective statement from the New York City General Assembly, issued October 5 2011. As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Banking & Financial, Building Community, Civil Liberties, Community – Government & Rights, Democracy, Discrimination, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, Justice System, Militarism, Minority Rights, Nonviolence, Privatization, Rights of Nature | Mother Earth, Systemic Approaches, Violence Against Women, War & Peace | Tagged

    Embracing Diversity

    Posted on April 25, 2011 by pkc

    by Emma Cleveland — Think about that poster—I’m sure you’ve seen it because it hangs in many an elementary school classroom—of children holding hands around a cartoon globe, their skin varying shades of the rainbow. They might be wearing traditional dress from … more →

    Posted in Discrimination, Human Rights, Migration, Minority Rights |

    Why Students’ Rights Are So Important

    Posted on February 12, 2011 by sustain

    Although some schools act as if the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to students in school, the Supreme Court of the U.S. has made clear that it does apply. In many schools right here in the Lehigh Valley, students are denied … more →

    Posted in Civil Liberties, Democratic Education, Learning & Schools, Minority Rights, Students' Rights |

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Posted on February 11, 2011 by pkc

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948 On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the … more →

    Posted in Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Justice System, Minority Rights, Students' Rights, Systemic Approaches, The World |