Haiti’s Incarcerated Minors: My Friends, the Children Ask for Freedom

by Alice Speri -Haiti- Eleven-year-old Carmen Suze quarreled with a classmate and ended up in jail. Barely audible, she explains that her friend had lifted her skirt and had been the first to throw a rock. The plastic butterfly hairclips...

Posted by Alice Speri on July 23, 2010 12:01 AM

California’s Prison Spending Grows While the State Budget Shrinks

by Rachel Meyer - USA - As I sit and write this, a young man sits in County Jail awaiting his sentence. Three years ago he was involved in a fight while in juvenile hall for drug related charges. This...

Posted by Rachel Meyer on January 28, 2010 12:00 AM

Former UFW Organizer Dolores Huerta Weighs in on Leadership, Immigration and Society

by Diane Solomon - USA - Like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. before them, when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez organized California’s exploited and marginalized farm workers into the United Farmworkers of America (UFW) in the 1960s...

Posted by Diane Solomon on July 16, 2008 12:00 AM