Structural violence in popular music
The other day I came across a jazz/brass band performance of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the name of”, and I found myself pondering the popularity of a group[…]
Category: Inequality
Al-kidd v. Ashcroft
Coming this week before the US Supreme Court is the case of Al-kidd v. Ashcroft. Abdullah Al-kidd is a Kansas-born American citizen who was arrested in Dulles airport in 2003,[…]
Justice in Ecuador
I previously mentioned a documentary called Crude that follows the efforts to find justice for inhabitants of the Ecuadorian rainforest. Here’s a review from the LA Times. After decades of[…]
Blue and red in Washington State
The Stranger had an interesting article last week (thanks to my friend, Adam, for mentioning it to me), looking in some depth at the allocation of state tax monies to[…]
Battle for Haiti
PBS Frontline has published another episode on Haiti, ostensibly timed to commemorate the progress (or lack thereof) one year after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010. The episode opens[…]
Measles Funding Shortfall
Measles kills a child every three minutes, despite the fact that we’ve had an effective vaccine since 1963 — a vaccine that costs $.26 to produce. Unfortunately only rich and[…]
Arizona and white-washing
Arizona recently passed the Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, which Human Rights Watch points out is against the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)[…]