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 [...]
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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: 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: What’s Your Passion?
Hey Generation! I had to take over this week’s Thoughtful Thursday post because I had a really hot (burning you might say?) question for the world. What is your passion in life? How do you give back to the world that gave you life for free? This is no guilt trip by any means. I [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Public Sector Workers
The eruption in Wisconsin has brought to stage the disparity in opinion over Unions. It has also catalyzed this debate over whether Public Sector workers are the benefactors of ‘cozy government jobs’ that are spoiled like a child on Holiday, or if they are the brave “civil servants” that their occupation implies. Unfortunately, asking Google, [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: US Foreign Aid
This Thoughtful Thursday doesn’t need much introduction: the various perspective on the debate over US foreign aid are outspoken and often heard. However the revolutionary uprising in Egypt and its reverberations through the region revealed some of the effects of our foreign aid program, so we must revisit this question and start forming the tough [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Voting Age
On Monday, Jan. 31, Washington State Senator Scott White (D-46) introduced legislation in Olympia that could give Washington State’s high school students far greater influence over their education. Senator White’s bill would allow public school students as young as 14 years old to vote in school board elections in their districts. If passed, the bill [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Livestock and Sustainability
As we face looming environmental problems and increasing waistlines, agriculture has become a centerpiece in the discussion about living a more balanced, sustainable life. It has been said since the ’50s that more people die in the world from over-eating than from starvation, and that is almost definitely true in the United States. Now that’s [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Wikileaks & Transparency
Nearly the whole world is tuned into the Wikileaks developments since their release of a treasure-trove of top-secret and classified diplomatic cables. To say the least, it has been circus of opinions, accusations, demonstrations, and so on. The most recent development is that documentary director Micheal Moore has posted $20,000 bail towards the release of [...]
