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Image drawn as a variation on Ari Kletzky's traffic signs. Ref: http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/criminal.justice/pblspari01.htm Kletzky wants to post signs on traffic islands to remind us to think and talk to one another. I want to post them everywhere. jeanne.

Talk to Each Other

 

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: July 2, 2008
Latest Update: July 3, 2008
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Topic of the Week:

When Things Go Wrong
and Violence Happens

  • Introduction

    Two articles in the Los Angeles Times stopped me cold this morning, and I read the LA Times first, before the New York Times, which usually starts my day. Not only is our medical research being neglected by a focus on practical short-term solutions, whose long-term effects we do not know, our research on violence, its antecedents, and how to build communities that opt for collaboration and peaceful co-existence have been sadly neglected to focus on incarceration and retribution. These stories reflect the problems we are encountering.

    More soon. jeanne

  • Discussion Questions

    1. QUESTION

      Consider WHAT JEANNE WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN SHE WROTE THE QUESTION. AND LINKS TO SOURCES YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER IN ANSWERING THE QUESTION.

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  • Presidential Candidates and Foreign Policy

    I received a new alert today from the institute

    International Rebuplican Institute A non-partisan institute in which John McCain is on the Board of Directors. In a quick search I didn't see a mission statement, but found this one on Wikipedia, which should only offer us clues as to what to look for, since anyone could edit on Wikipedia:

    "Initially known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs, the IRI's stated mission is to expand what it interprets as freedom throughout the world. Its activities include teaching and assisting with political party and candidate development, good governance practices, civil society development, civic education, women’s and youth leadership development, electoral reform and election monitoring, and political expression in closed societies."

    I'll search for more information because the Institute is funded by our government. July 3, 2008. jeanne

    The Council on Hemispheric Affairs Comments on the International Republican Institute:

    "Presidential hopeful John McCain is hiding a skeleton in his closet. Not your typical political scandal, Senator McCain’s dirty little secret is his longtime involvement with the International Republican Institute (IRI), an organization that operates in 60 countries and is budgeted by millions of US taxpayer dollars each year. The IRI is “officially” a politically independent entity, though in reality it is aligned in most respects with the Republican Party and its ideals. Senator McCain has been chairman of the IRI since 1993 and Lorne Craner, president of the organization, is one of the presumptive Republican candidate’s informal foreign policy advisors. If McCain’s involvement with the IRI does not worry Latin America yet, it certainly will if the policies that have had such a destructive influence in the past are backed by the power of the presidency. His connection to the IRI could endanger already stressed US-Latin American relations in the event of a McCain victory."

    I'm not sure I would agree with the phrase "dirty little secret," but I do think that this affiliation gives some idea of how McCain would handle foreign policy. Tha means we all ought to be aware of it, and how it fits with our own values. jeanne

  • Science and God

Visual Sociology

  • Talk to Each Other

    bookmark for Talk to Each Other with jeanne's mouse, no graphics tablet.

    Bookmark

    I did this with Paint and a mouse. It doesn't take much to make a small bookmark or postcard of issues we are sharing with our respective communities. This small memento brings the conversation back to mind and increases awareness. Try it. It works. jeanne

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