5.16.05 allying against oppression

Obama: Fully Fund HIV-AIDS. Protesters die-in at Social Forum 2010 (with video)

According to HealthGap, a new study published in Lancet shows that treatment with anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) decreased likelihood of transmission of HV by 92%.

Despite this finding, the Obama Administration is failing to live up to it's promises to fully find HIV-AIDS prevention and treatment worldwide. Without more funding, millions of people will die, unnecessarily, from HIV-AIDS. In New York, Governor Patterson is threatening to veto a law providing housing assistance to people with AIDS.

Freedom Summer: A School for Young Community Organizers

Authors: Maile Kaneko

Summary:Youth conduct power analyses of policies and institutions that specifically affect people of color and poor communities.

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The Immigration System: Maybe Not So Broken

Los Angeles, California, May 1, 2005. On May Day, immigrants and their supporters filled the streets of Los Angeles twice in one day -- a huge march downtown, and another through the Wiltshire Districtís Miracle Mile. Marchers protested anti-immigrant bil
Authors: David L. Wilson

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Why do we so rarely hear the views of the people most directly affected -- the millions of undocumented immigrants themselves?

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Feminist Declaration: From the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala

Woman with microphone
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A good life must be based on an equal distribution of power.

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Imagine. Pray. Resist. Build.

Stetson, ME, July 2008. Jim Harney. photo: Kelly Bellis
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There is something to meeting head-on
the evil of the world and being in
solidarity with the impoverished — hope abounds.

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Passionate About Books - and Social Justice

Reading in Chilean Recycling Cooperative, November 2007. PHOTO: © MARTA ESCOTET

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The 2007 Gustavus Myers Book Awards by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

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From the Editor's Desk

Outside a bookstore in Beijing, China, February 2006. Photo: J. SAMUEL B.
Authors: Sam Diener

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Peacework Co-Editor Sam Diener reviews Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus Bordewich and comments on the themes of this issue.

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Human Rights and "Asian" Values

Authors: Amartya Sen

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When Zilu asks him "how to serve a prince," Confucius replies, "Tell him the truth even if it offends him."

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006

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We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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Israelis and Palestinians Call for a Ceasefire

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