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Cocaine Kids
On a hill overlooking Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Lesly Narvaez Castanon and her staff wage a struggle against substance abuse. Opened in 2005, the government-supported Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Youth Integration Center(CIJ) became the first drug prevention and treatment center to serve this Pacific Coast … Continue reading
Posted in drug war, drugs, economy, education, Human Rigths, poverty, traffic
Tagged Addictions, Centers and Counseling Services, Guerrero, Health, Mexico, Substance abuse, United States, Zihuatanejo
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Hooked Up: Finding Casual Sex Through Online XXX Classifieds
What happens in a casual hook-up with someone you only met online? SeXis Magazine /By Rachel Rabbit White The Internet has forever changed the way we have sex. A recent study by Shape and Men’s Fitness showed that Facebook alone has a … Continue reading
Posted in drug war, drugs, economy, education, Human Rigths, internet, Journalism, movies, religion, sex, sexuality, USA, web
Tagged Casual sex, Chicago Reader, Classified advertising, Emily Post, Facebook, Men's Fitness, Sexuality, Sexually transmitted disease
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11-Year-Old Girl Horrifically Gang-Raped; New York Times Article Blames the Victim
[Trigger warning for sexual violence, victim-blaming, and rape apologia.] There is an awful story in the New York Times today: Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town. It’s about the arrest of 18 boys and men, ranging in age “from middle schoolers to … Continue reading
Posted in drug war, drugs, economy, education, Guggenheim, guns, Human Rigths, Journalism, low income, poverty, sexuality, USA
Tagged Alumnus, Boy, New York Times, Rape, Rape culture, Sexual assault, Texas, Victim blaming
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US Government Creating Vast Domestic Snooping Machine
By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet WaPo reports on the new extent of the surveillance state: Predator drones on the Mexican border, wireless fingerprint scanning and vast databases on its own citizens. The surveillance state is real, Big Brother is watching more … Continue reading
Posted in drug war, drugs, economy, education, guns, Human Rigths, low income, poverty, traffic, USA
Tagged Dana Priest, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Janet Napolitano, RH Reality Check, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, Washington Post
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Building Border Food Security
In recent years, the word “security” has dominated discourse about the US-Mexico border region. For the most part, security debates have revolved around support for or opposition to border walls, military deployments and the like. But in southern New Mexico, a … Continue reading
Mexico’s drug war: Made in the US
By Steve Kingstone / BBC News, Houston, Texas The Obama administration has called Mexican drug cartels “the single greatest organised crime threat to America”. But why are the cartels fighting each other … Continue reading
The War on Drugs Is a War on Poor People
By Bruce Western / The Nation America doesn’t have a drug problem. It has a poverty problem. Policy reform — as salutary as it often is, and like the drug war before it — risks mistaking symptom for cause. America’s drug policy … Continue reading
Posted in drug war, drugs, education, Human Rigths, low income, poverty, USA
Tagged Drug policy, Drug subculture, Drug War, Harvard University, Illegal drug trade, Poverty, United States, Wall Street
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Saving Mexican journalism
The Knight Center invited Luis Manuel Botello of the International Center for Journalists to write about his experience attending a summit held in El Paso, TX, where editors, journalists and press freedom monitors gathered to focus on violence against journalists working along … Continue reading
Waiting for Superman
New documentaries take strong steps to undermine the “Blame the Teachers” mentality of Davis Guggenheim‘s superficial take on education system ills. In light of the success of Davis Guggenheim’s documentary, Waiting for Superman, many education experts have come out with … Continue reading
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