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Latest update: September 7, 2000
jeanne.

Much of the news presented here comes to us directly from listservs, colleagues, and our own reading. Many of the links are to the independent media. For mainstream reporting, turn on your television and/or peruse your local newspapers.

Welfare to Work Report

• Post-Welfare Jobs No Cure for Poverty, Study Finds
  Link added September 7, 2000.
• The Cage of Poverty
  The most recent Report of the Economic Roundtable
  Link added September 7, 2000.

School Vouchers

• Blacks Split Over Vouchers
  Link added September 7, 2000.

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July-August 2000 News:

Environmental Justice

• Hanford fire put plutonium into the air
  by Lisa Stiffler, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter
  Thursday, July 13, 2000.

Genetics and Justice

• The Human Genome Project
  June 2000
• Re: The Human Use of the Human Genome by Mark Weigand, Sociology Graduate Student Disccussion on the Communication for a 27 June 2000
• The Human Use of the Human Genome by TR Young 26 June 2000
• The Human Use of the Human Genome: Postmodern Understandings of Race and Gender
  by T. R. Young

Race as a Lived Reality

• How Race Is Lived in America
  The New York Times Series. July 13, 2000. You need to register, but it's free.

U.S. Presidential Election Antics

• Ted Goetzel, Rutgers
  Protesters' Perspective on Republican Convention.
  Ted has put up pictures he took on July 30, 2000. Sixties' reminiscences. Nice pictures.
  Link added July 31, 2000.
  • The New York Times article.
    Link added July 31, 2000.
  • Philadelphia Inquirer article.
    Link added July 31, 2000.
• POLITICO: The Magazine For Latino Politics And Culture
  Article on California Assemblyman Abel Maldonado's speech in Spanish to the Republican Convention. Link added August 4, 2000.
• Philadelphia: Sunday, July 30th
  by Leslie Cagan. Independent Media Perspective. Link added July 31, 2000.
  • Independent Media Coverage of Repulbican Convention Link added July 31, 2000.
  • Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
    I almost didn't put this one up. It's humor, aimed at the the enormous wage gaps in the US and throughout the world. It is funny and well done. But I found I wasn't laughing. These are fundamental differences in what we mean by justice, and we'll be studying them in Distributive Justice. I was reminded of Henri Bergson, saying that we laugh at the rigidity of others. Moliere built his comedies on that principle. But laughter evades responsibility; it denigrates the pain of finding ourselves facing that gap by assuming that the gap is inevitable. Not so. We choose to accumulate great surplus or to share the world's resources. I find nothing funny in laughing at the poverty resulting from unfair accumulation of resources. Link added July 31, 2000.

  • Millionaires for Bush
    Linked through the Democratic National Committee Site.

  • The Tax Calculator
    on the George w. Bush for President Official Site. Check it out. Link added July 31, 2000.

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