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Our Thinness Obsessed Culture Is Destroying Women | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet
Society & Culture  (tags: women, eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, feminism, models, fashion industry )

Moody
- 86 days ago - alternet.org
When did our collective disgust at the sickness and sicked-up stomach juices that fuel the fashion industry get replaced by an oh-so-ironic appreciation?
TASERED: Legless Middle-Aged Man in Wheelchair
Society & Culture  (tags: Handicapped, AfricanAmerican, DogJustice, MaryNeal, DoubleAmputee, Taser, PoliceBrutality, OveruseOfForce, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll )

Mary
- 86 days ago - freespeakblog.blogspot.com
Please don't taser legless middle-aged men in wheelchairs, even if they are African Americans. Please. Blessings!
Child Protection Services Fixer Uper
Society & Culture  (tags: Child protection services, children, family, families, child, petition, rights, rules, DCFS, CPS, DHS, education, corruption, dishonesty, crime, culture, abuse, americans, freedoms, family, ethics, government, humans, news, police, society, sadness, violenc )

Geri
- 276 days ago - petitiononline.com
This is a current petition on another site. Very detailed. Over 1300 signatures and counting. You can read all the comments and signatures. http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/CHAN GE_REFORM
Strip Search of 8 Year Old
Society & Culture  (tags: child, children, strip search, parent, rights, family, DCFS, CPS, freedoms, corruption, americans, abuse, child, crime, dishonesty, government, safety, society, usa, law, ethics, family )

Geri
- 276 days ago - apfn.org
This child was in second grade and had an "adult" male take him into a room and pulled down his pants. Removed his underwear and look at his genitals.
New York Moves Toward Lighter Sentences for Potheads
Society & Culture  (tags: pot, marijuana, drugs, laws, New York, Rockefeller, war on drugs, prohibition, smoking, joint, society, police, government, humans, freedoms, culture, americans, rights )

Tom
- 279 days ago - nbcnewyork.com
The state Assembly has struck a blow for the state's stoners by voting to repeal the Rockefeller drug laws that have threatened so many tokers with the wrong kind of joint. Drug policy will be based on the premise that drug addiction is a health problem.
VIDEO: Healing the Legacy of Indian Boarding School Abuse 1879-2009
Society & Culture  (tags: Native Americans, Indians, schools, suicides, children, trauma, apology, United States, genocide, government, crime, ethics, terrorism, abuse )

Tom
- 280 days ago - wellbrietyjourney.org
White Bison President Don Coyhis talks about his Care2 petition's 40-day, 6800 mile cross-country journey and it's goal of promoting awareness, dialogue and forgiveness among Native peoples for the historical trauma of the Indian Boarding School Era.
4-Day School Week Gains Momentum Amid Recession
Society & Culture  (tags: education, recession, savings, 4-day week, growing trend )

Little
- 280 days ago - boston.com
TAMPA, Fla.--With the nation's school districts strapped for cash, more are considering a schedule that delights students and makes working parents cringe: Class only four days a week. By extending school hours and eliminating a day of classes each week...
Teenagers 'Deserve' to Sleep in
Society & Culture  (tags: education, health, interesting, teenagers, sleep )

Rosa
- 281 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
A headteacher who pioneered 20-minute lessons for schoolchildren has said that teenage pupils deserve a two-hour lie in.
The Year in Hate
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, culture, ethics, government, law, rights, politics, society, corruption, abuse, racism, hate, fascism )

Casey
- 281 days ago - splcenter.org
Number of Hate Groups Tops 900 - From white power skinheads decrying "President Obongo" at a racist gathering in rural Missouri, to neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen hurling epithets at Latino immigrants from courthouse steps in Oklahoma,
The Corporate 'Nexus' That Assisted the Nazis
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, constitution, congress, democrats, republicans, news, politics, government, ethics, holocaust, eugenics, corporations, history, presentculture, ethics, humans, rights, violence, society )

Town
- 281 days ago - njjewishnews.com
The words "never again" must resound not just among the victims, but within the boardrooms of corporations that have yet to come to terms with their past.
 
 
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