BONUS Social Justice

BONUS: "GROWINGUP ONLINE" - What is the video trying to say?  Respond with 
250 word typed reflection.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/main.html

ANTI WAR  Huge resource of articles and sites to explore movements to end 
war.  Make sure to include 1st page of source with your BONUS.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Specific_Conflicts/Iraq/Anti-War_Movement/

NEW INTERNATIONALIST:  Go to the list on the side and click on "Back 
issues".  An excellent magazine with amazing back issues on numerous social 
justice issues.  Go here and click on one of the links to issues that 
interest you and write a 250 word reflection - there are MANY to choose.  
Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the article you choose to write on.
http://www.newint.org/index4.html

GLOBALIZATION:  There are four readings (Four Bonuses) at this site to 
choose from.  Read the article and information for each topic and answer the 
questions at the bottom of each to complete each bonus activity.
http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/globalization2.html#1

CONSORTIUM NEWS:  Some more alternative sources for news.  Get the view from 
the other side and the underside. Go here and click on one of the links to 
issues that interest you and write a 250 word reflection - there are MANY to 
choose.  Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the article you choose to write on.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/index.html

BONUS: Catholic Social Teaching.  Get the highlights of more than a 
century of church documents relating to social teaching.  Choose on of the 
documents, read it for its major points and then write a 250 word reflection.
http://www.osjspm.org/social_teaching_documents.aspx

BONUS:  The effects of War and Militarism on the Environment.  Read article 
and give a 250 word typed reflection.
http://www.seac.org/militarism/connection

BONUS: Compare and contrast the two traditions of Just War theory and 
PACIFICISM as explained by Walter Wink in his article on the Nonviolence of 
Jesus; repond in a 250 word reflection typed.
http://www.cres.org/star/_wink.htm

BONUS:  Read and discuss this article which highlights the limits of media 
and its use of propaganda in coverage of the war on Iraq.  Type a 250 word 
reflection.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/med-m25.shtml

BONUS:  Comfort Women and the trafficing of women in war.  Read how women 
were taken as virtual sex slaves in one armed conflict and reflect how woman 
are treated generally in times of war in a typed 250 word reflection.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_japa.htm

BONUS:  John Kerry's Statment regarding the Vietnam War.  Read and discuss 
what he had to say.
http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

BONUS: Alternative Links.  Go here and click on one of the links to issues 
that interest you and write a 250 word reflection - there are MANY to 
choose.  Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the article you choose to write on.
http://www.populist.com/links.html

BONUS:  ANTI WAR.  An article critical of the Bush administration's 
glib attitude to the soldiers who are dying in IRAQ - the day before 
Remeberance Day 2005.
http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=7973

BONUS: Great Article about the present struggle of peace advocates and how 
the US government has attempted to silence and punish those who dissent to 
their policy on the war.
http://vitw.org/archives/994#more-994

BONUS:  SOAW - School of the Americas Watch, or WHINSEC "Western Hemisphere 
Institute for Security Cooperation", profiles various countries - look at 
these and the main website and discuss why this school needs to be shut down.
http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=343

BONUS:  The Truman Show. Read the info at this sight and click on the link 
titled: "The Meaning of the Truman Show".  Reda this a write a 250 word 
reflection.
http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm

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