I received this link in response to the "How Much Longer" post a while back:
"It's about profit. End the profit, and you end the problem."
Has anyone seen the film, "LORD OF WAR"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Warhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
posted by Jesslyn at 9/24/2006 09:46:00 AM
This is an email submission I received a while back With the start of another school year, I thought it apt to reprint the exchange here.My daughter came home from Kindergarten:
"I hate it. My teacher is nice, but there aren't ANY brown kids, and no brown teachers. Not anywhere. I don't think they like brown people very much. They make them clean up after us, and call them by their first names."
After her first day in first grade:
"Mommy, the school is doing better! They let a brown lady teach music,and we get to call her by her big name!"
posted by Jesslyn at 9/24/2006 09:43:00 AM
Article by Norm Ball on
New Orleans and post-Katrina reconstruction:"New Orleans languishes today in a state of economic disrepair. With disruptions to the normal balance of life so complete, the traditional paths to economic recovery--aid, grants, job programs, private charities--cannot take hold. The self-healing, virtuous circle has been severed: no jobs, no people, no people, no jobs. When economic activity comes to a dead stop, what or whom steps in as the Prime Mover?"
posted by Jesslyn at 9/24/2006 09:12:00 AM 
