This past weekend I took a crash course in the economy and inequality studies. My guide? Pathways Magazine, the brainchild of Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and two senior editors – David Grusky and Christopher Wimer (along with an editorial board of scholars from the nation’s top colleges and universities). …
"Recently a group of Vermonters who work with refugees, asylum seekers and new immigrants have joined in a collaborative effort to ensure that Vermont’s torture survivors get access to all the medical, psychological, legal and social services they deserve. The group, called New England Survivors of Torture and Trauma, or NESTT, has been quietly working …
"What we’re seeing is a modern incarnation of white flight...It should scare the hell out of us." -danah boyd- danah boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has spent the past four years studying, observing and analyzing how US teens use social networks. What she's found is that high-school students began …
Do Social Networks Like MySpace and Facebook Reveal Class Divisions? Read More »
"It's almost like being back in law school in 1956, when there were 9 of us in a class of over 500, so that meant most sections had just 2 women, and you felt that every eye was on you. Every time you went to answer a question, you were answering for your entire sex. …
The Place of Women on the Nation’s Highest Court: An Interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg Read More »
"There has been a tragic loss of life and it is essential that an urgent independent investigation takes place to bring all those responsible for the deaths to justice...Violence and abuses from either the authorities or protestors is in no way justified."-Roseann Rife, Amnesty International's Deputy Director Asia-Pacific- Amnesty International today called on the authorities …
Dropping Knowledge, the Berlin- and San Francisco-based group founded in 2003 by Mindpirates, has launched a neat new e-postcard campaign. The group is dedicated to exploring how "provocative, challenging and entertaining questions, communicated by innovative multimedia, can inspire new thinking." I think these images speak for themselves. Spread them around to start a conversation, or …
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard always has a cool and informative lecture taking place. Today at 12:30pm, Ben Wikler of Avaaz.org, a 3.5-million member global online advocacy organization, will speak on how his organization is trying to expand its model of campaign organization via social media. To quote: "Now, we're exploring …
Changing the World of Changing the World: Pushing the Models of Online Organizing Read More »
For more than twenty years, Echoing Green (the name is from a Blake poem) has provided new leaders who possess vision and a smart idea (in areas such as civil and human rights, education and youth leadership, health, and public service) with the seed money and support to put their ideas into action. The angel …
Echoing Green Announces 2009 Roster of Social Entrepreneur Fellows Read More »
"'Brother, why would you need a cellphone?' one performer asks as he passes the only microphone. 'To flirt with the most popular girl in the village,' comes the answer. The crowd giggles." Read more of the Wall Street Journal's "The Infomercial Comes to Life in India's Remotest Villages" to learn about how rural advertising is …
The Spread of Global Consumerism Brings Traveling Salesmen to India Read More »
Food, Inc. won’t be out until June 12th in select cities, but in you can visit their website for more information. Watch this video trailer for a sneak peak.
