La Paz Not sure that we were doing the right thing since many of our Organizers’ Forum delegation were still shaky with the altitude transition, before 9 AM we embarked on a different kind of experience – a walking tour from El Alto down to La Paz with La Paz on Foot for four hours. It …
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Looking at Occupy and the Arab Spring
Springfield Looking at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement was an irresistible topic for the 20th conference of AADERT (African and African-American Development, Education, Research, and Training) at Springfield College. In fact anything that seeks to look deeply at social movements and …
A Juror’s Duty to Acquit or Convict on a Lesser Charge to Reform Criminal Justice System
New Orleans Jury service is a citizen’s obligation in the United States. In the smaller City of New Orleans my fellow jurors and I are called to the jury pool every two years for a month of service in the criminal courts. The pool is broken in half each month so each juror draws between …