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Social Change

From solidarity activists in Palestine to local communities organizing against systemic poverty in the United States, movements for social change always deserve more attention than they get. This section of the Weave spotlights the efforts of and challenges faced by those who are struggling to transform dominant social structures and make the world a better place.

Muslim Rage

Submitted by akassab on Sun, 10/14/2012 - 22:48

The media has a lot of power in today’s world to endorse and suggest favoritism directed towards society’s dominant ideology. Along with the media’s power to affect change, overdetermination of power is its ability to shape that change. As a result of institutional dominance, perspectives represented in the news become limited; it grows harder to recognize that we’re being indoctrinated into the ideology and how it has major effects on our individual way of seeing and interpreting the world around us. It’s extremely important to critique ideology in order to create an awareness of the biases that exist and influence the way we think.

Everyday Islam

LOST GENERATION

Submitted by Łukasz W. Niparko on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 08:30

There is not a better beginning of a day than to have your morning coffee, and some oatmeal with fruits, and one expired issue of Business Day in New York Times from yesterday – and then reading over and over again how YOU ARE, I mean I AM, “the lost generation.” Over years, I thought that we are the I-generation, that is focused mostly on “I” meaning ourselves with and i-phones plugged in to our ears.

SOLIDARITY Avenue

ONE YEAR OCCUPYING…and then what?

Submitted by Łukasz W. Niparko on Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:38

When last week I was choosing the key words for my blog description, I opened the Oxford Dictionary on the word “solidarity” and read that SOLIDARITY is “the fact or quality, on the part of communities, of being perfectly united or at one in some respect, especially in interests, sympathies, or aspirations.” My dictionary search came along with the first anniversary of the Occupy Movement, also known as The Black Monday. And the same week, as usually happens Monday was followed after three days with Friday, which was the first anniversary of the death of Troy Davis, who was executed once the US Supreme Court refused to admit - visible for many - mistakes of the judiciary system that most likely sentenced an innocent person or a person of questionable guilt to death.

SOLIDARITY Avenue

The AKP Generation: Political Party or Political Entrepreneurs?

Submitted by somdeepsen on Tue, 08/28/2012 - 07:35

How should we conceptualize the AKP in Turkey? 

Source: http://www.diplomaticourier.com/news/middle-east/932

Les Temps Changent

The Spanish Dilemma: A Blessing in Disguise?

Submitted by somdeepsen on Tue, 08/28/2012 - 07:28

Originally Featured on OpenDemocracy:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/somdeep-sen/spanish-dilemma-blessing-in-disguise

 

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when crisis is upon them – Jean Monnet

Les Temps Changent

Blotchy Jurisdiction

Submitted by Okiokwinon on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 17:11

 

The Feather and the Gavel

The Forgotten Hero

Submitted by Thomas Matt on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 17:01

August 28, 1963.  The day America became perfect and racism and inequality were forgotten.  At least, that is what our media and government want us to think.  It was the day that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington.  In 2011 a massive memorial was dedicated to Dr. King as a reminder that all of his goals were accomplished.  Yet, maybe if the statue of Dr.

Crime and Capitalism

Can an Indian steal LAND?!

Submitted by Okiokwinon on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 19:14

Native American people have been fighting hard for hundreds of years, since contact basically, to reclaim their traditional lands that were taken from them by force and extermination. Much more in recent decades, we are beginning to see a stronger fight to reclaim those territories that once belonged to our ancestors. Many tribes across the country (and perhaps all of them) can safely say that they do not reside on the lands that once traditionally belonged to their people.

The Feather and the Gavel

A Vacation Behind Bars?

Submitted by Thomas Matt on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:24

In 1995, New Jersey politician Dick Zimmer famously called prisons “vacation spas”.  Is rape a problem at vacation spas?  Zimmer used a couple of examples of misuses of taxpayer money within the prisons to justify his claim, but overall it was not true then and it certainly is not true now.  Incarceration rates have

Crime and Capitalism

Nation of Incarceration

Submitted by Thomas Matt on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 18:37

My name is Thomas Matt and I am a Global Studies major at St.

Crime and Capitalism

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