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'Pretty Much a Catastrophe': Anna Deavere Smith and the Disaster of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Source: AlterNet
MSNBC video: Focusing on the school-to-prison pipelineBy Emily WilsonPhoto Credit: iofoto / Shutterstock.comIn the last 20 years, there has been a shocking rise in the number of schools that embrace zero tolerance policies that regularly leave students suspended, expelled or arrested for the kinds of infractions…
Resource type: News
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Ireland’s Economic Problems – No Excuse to Send Human Rights into Recession
Source: Gara LaMarche
For many around the world, Ireland in the last ten years or so has represented two things: first, a strong voice for human rights and justice, from Presidents like Mary Robinson to prominent private citizens like Bono. And second, a powerful economic success story: the…
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Philanthropy for social change: a response to Michael Edwards
Source: OpenDemocracy
By Gara LaMarche Michael Edwards, in his openDemocracy essay " Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush" (20 March 2008), raises an important and necessary voice of concern about trends in philanthropy that have received too little scrutiny to date - either because, as is often the case…
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