SCU Race, Gender and Public Health in the News
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Apply what you read in Prime Suspects, as detailed in the syllabus (see homework for Tues). Back up your claims.
This is the social news site for Sally Lehrman's Race, Gender and Public Health in the News class.
Extra Credit review question: How would you use the information in this news story to develop a profile of a leader working to create more opportunities for good health?
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The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It
In this dream world of global capitalism, young people are going from zero income on the farm to a few dollars a day on a 12-hour factory shift, and as a result, based on the ... -
How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'
In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor ... -
60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda: Part 1, “Counterinsurgency Cops”
This Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes was a brilliant case study in the media’s ability to manipulate the public mind. The entire hour is worth studying, if only as one of ... -
Being a Democracy Hating, Corporate Power-Defending Newspaper Owner Runs Deep in the Koch Family
There’s a rumor going around that the Koch brothers are interested in buying up the Tribune Company, which includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore ... -
Obama: partisan battles in Washington holding back US economy
President says US must get beyond 'short-term tactical thinking' and gives highly personal commencement address in Atlanta President Barack Obama complained on Sunday that ... -
Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
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Climate change isn't AN issue, it's THE issue
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Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms, claims new research
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Warming extremes 'not as likely'
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Needing Medicaid
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