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: 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: 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: 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