+Social Justice


BONUS: GROWINGUP ONLINE - What is the video trying to say? 
Respond with 250 word typed reflection.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/main.html

ANTI WAR  Huge resource of articles and sites to explore 
movements to end war.  Make sure to include 1st page of source 
with your BONUS.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Specific_Conflicts/Iraq/Anti-War_Movement/

NEW INTERNATIONALIST:  Go to the list on the side and click on 
Back issues.  An excellent magazine with amazing back issues on 
numerous social justice issues.  Go here and click on one of the 
links to issues that interest you and write a 250 word 
reflection - there are MANY to choose. Make sure to INCLUDE a 
copy of the article you choose to write on.
http://www.newint.org/index4.html

GLOBALIZATION:  There are four readings (Four Bonuses) at this 
site to choose from.  Read the article and information for each 
topic and answer the questions at the bottom of each to complete 
each bonus activity.
http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/globalization2.html#1

CONSORTIUM NEWS:  Some more alternative sources for news.  Get 
the view from the other side and the underside. Go here and click 
on one of the links to issues that interest you and write a 250 
word reflection - there are MANY to choose.  Make sure to INCLUDE 
a copy of the article you choose to write on.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/index.html

BONUS: Catholic Social Teaching.  Get the highlights of more than 
a century of church documents relating to social teaching.  
Choose on of the documents, read it for its major points and then 
write a 250 word reflection.
http://www.osjspm.org/social_teaching_documents.aspx

BONUS:  The effects of War and Militarism on the Environment.  
Read article and give a 250 word typed reflection.
http://www.seac.org/militarism/connection

BONUS: Compare and contrast the two traditions of Just War theory 
and PACIFICISM as explained by Walter Wink in his article on the 
Nonviolence of Jesus; repond in a 250 word reflection typed.
http://www.cres.org/star/_wink.htm

BONUS:  Read and discuss this article which highlights the limits 
of media and its use of propaganda in coverage of the war on 
Iraq.  Type a 250 word reflection.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/med-m25.shtml

BONUS:  Comfort Women and the trafficing of women in war.  Read 
how women were taken as virtual sex slaves in one armed conflict 
and reflect how woman are treated generally in times of war in a 
typed 250 word reflection.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_japa.htm

BONUS:  John Kerry's Statment regarding the Vietnam War.  Read 
and discuss what he had to say.
http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

BONUS: Alternative Links.  Go here and click on one of the links 
to issues that interest you and write a 250 word reflection - 
there are MANY to choose.  Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the 
article you choose to write on.
http://www.populist.com/links.html

BONUS:  ANTI WAR.  An article critical of the Bush 
administration's glib attitude to the soldiers who are dying in 
IRAQ - the day before Remeberance Day 2005.
http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=7973

BONUS: Great Article about the present struggle of peace 
advocates and how the US government has attempted to silence and 
punish those who dissent to their policy on the war.
http://vitw.org/archives/994#more-994

BONUS:  SOAW - School of the Americas Watch, or WHINSEC 
"Western Hemisphere Institute for Security ooperation", 
profiles various countries - look at these and the main website 
and discuss why this school needs to be shut down.
http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=343

BONUS:  The Truman Show. Read the info at this sight and click on 
the link titled: The Meaning of the Truman Show  Read this a 
write a 250 word reflection.
http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm


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