China: Olympics countdown — important reforms marred by increasing repression
Filed Under China | Posted on May 24, 2007
[Amnesty International: Aril 30, 2007]
Despite significant reforms to the death penalty system and new rules for foreign journalists in China, there is little evidence of improvement in other areas of human rights related to the Olympics — and there has been increasing repression of human rights activism and domestic journalism, said Amnesty International today.
In […]
The Immigration Debate
Filed Under Commentary | Posted on May 24, 2007
Every time I watch Lou Dobbs start ranting about the immigration debate, I’m reminded of a verse from Lou Reed’s Dirty Boulevard:
Give me your hungry, your tired your poor Ill piss on ‘em,
Thats what the statue of bigotry says.
Your poor huddled masses, lets club em to death and get it over with
And just dump […]
UU Buddhism Profiled in UU World
Filed Under Buddhadharma | Posted on May 23, 2007
UU World, the magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, devotes its cover to Buddhism within Unitarian Universalism and publishes several related articles in its Summer 2007 issue.
The publication of this issue is a strong recognition of the growing importance of Buddhism within modern Unitarian Universalism. James Ford notes in […]
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