Over this Labor Day weekend, hundreds of people from across Vermont, the US and Canada will come to the three day People’s Convention for Human Rights in Burlington, VT. The convention is a project of over 11 Vermont grassroots organizations that currently work in a wide array of areas, such as climate justice, disability rights, workers’ rights, and immigrant rights.
Conversations with a group of journalists championing human rights and democracy in the DRC, despite the pressures of working in a conflict zone.
This labor day weekend, come out to the People's Convention for Human Rights to explore how we are struggling to meet our fundamental needs, and how we can work together to fight for our human rights, for dignity for everyone, a healthy environment and real democracy. The People's Convention will include workshops, kids activities, music, art, street theater, food, and much much more!
Government investment, rather than privatization or international aid, offers the best solution for water services in Ghana.
With the US presidential election in sight, the outsourcing of American jobs overseas has become one of the hottest campaign issues. Both leading candidates are calling on corporate America to bring jobs back to US shores even though the outlook for more jobs to go overseas is as bleak as ever.
In 1895, when Oscar Wilde was arrested for "Gross Indecency," it was not only his sexuality, but also his art, that stood accused. During his trials, the opposing counsel cited the evidence of some of Wilde's aphorisms, his poems, a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas -- "those red rose-leaf lips of yours ... have been made ... for madness of kisses" -- and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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