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Thoughtful Thursday: Local Unions Disagree Over Tar Sands Pipeline
Check out this article from the Seattle Times… & check out this article from earlier this week on OAG, written by Emma Newman. What is your take on the Keystone XL Pipeline? What is your take on harvesting tar sands oil for fuel? What do you(th) think?
Thoughtful Thursday: Sweatshops
This question originally appeared over at PugetSoundOff.org, another Seattle-based platform for youth voice. PSO & OAG are currently working on creating an organizational partnership. — While many people in America protest poor labor standards in countries around the world, others argue that sweatshops are actually benefiting those developing countries. Where do you stand on this [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Dukes vs. Walmart Stores
On Monday June 20th, a decade long legal battle over employment discrimination was decided by the Supreme Court. The case was a class-action lawsuit led by Betty Dukes (pictured right) ostensibly on behalf of the over 1.5 million female workers at Wal Mart stores. According to Equal Rights Advocates, legal support network for women’s rights [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Libya Intervention 2 Months Later
Hey Generation! Two months later, the fog of war has cleared and the picture in Libya is perhaps different than we at first expected. From a US perspective, things have changed in that the US administration changed tact from originally not threatening Gadaffi’s position, to now saying that there shall be “no let up” on [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Osama Bin Laden
This Thoughtful Thursday we are stepping back and observing the death of Osama Bin Laden, the rhetoric that surrounds it, and trying to gain perspective about this event’s place in the history of the War on Terror. A Rorschach test is used by psychologist to gain a better understanding of the interworkings of a persons [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: French Intolerance
Too often, the image of the niqab, and perhaps even the hijab, is used in Western societies to symbolize and stereotype Islam as an unchanging, regressive religion that forces women to become invisible and silent. In response, there exists a deep dichotomy in the discussion regarding the veil’s role as a political and religious marker. Defendants of [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Civil Disobedience
This Thoughtful Thursday we turn to a question that I believe will become central to this generation’s attention at one point or another. Imagine you are working to create change in a particular policy area. Let us say, you are against the war in Afghanistan, or believe polluters should be held responsible for the harm [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Tea Time in Holland
In light of yesterday’s holiday and the whispers presently flitting through local political channels, today’s (fashionably late) Thoughtful Thursday urges you(th) to pause and have a thought about pot. And before you shy away because herb’s not for you, please remember that this issue’s hinge rides even more squarely upon the shoulders society’s nonsmokers than [...]
