Social Welfare Institutions

The link below is to this article I found very interesting.  It actually deals with what we were discussing in class about how democracy might be a good system, but it isn’t implemented as should be.  Being a possible cause as to why democracy does not work.  Also this article highlights the issue of privatization…I would like to […]

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I watched the film “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo as one of my events. This film is a re-inaction of the civil war in French Algeria in the period of 1954-1960. This war of independence was fought by the Algerians against the French imperialism. This movie, unlike most war movies, shows both sides […]

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This documentary, produced by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, was about how the Republican Majority leader of the state of Texas attempted to sell out Congress. “The majority leader is a partisan position in a legislative body”[1]. Tom Delay took advantage of this position to do what he pleased. The first thing he did was […]

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outlawbodies.pdf

This event should be really interesting - its a feminist legal scholar who’s going to talk about the ways in which the law creates hidden spaces - what she calls spaces of “abjection” - i have a feeling that there will a lot of parallels to draw between what she talks about and what we’ve […]

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Wal-Mart and its Workers: Not the Same All Over the World
 
Chris Tilly
Department of Regional Economic and Social Development
University of Massachusetts Lowell

This presentation draws from Chris Tilly’s “Wal-Mart and Its Workers: NOT the Same All […]

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