Bad Economic Times Can Heat Up Intolerance and Hate

Excellent source for teachers, aunts, uncles, and parents to help your children escape from our history of hate and intolerance against minority and recent immigrants - people different than "us."

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Teaching Tolerance Magazine Equips Teachers with Strategies for Economic Crisis
	As a new president takes the helm of a country facing an historic economic downturn, the SPLC's Spring 2009 issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine offers classroom strategies to help teachers address the pressures that students, families and school systems inevitably face during harsh economic times.

Death Penalty too expensive for Illinois - Lawyers say

Illinois was state that first discovered that it's death penalty or capital crimes cases were hugely flawed over the years - so this recommendation comes from real experience with many who were wrongly accused and sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

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Death Penalty's Expensive, Lawyers Recommend Ending It Bob Roberts Reporting WBBM Newsradio 780

CHICAGO (WBBM) - A Chicago Bar Association committee is unanimously recommending an end to the death penalty in Illinois. The 10-0 vote by the group's criminal law committee did not surprise retired Cook County Judge Sheila Murphy, who told the committee that multi-million dollar payouts being made by the city of Chicago and state of Illinois for wrongful death sentences is money that could be spent for far more useful purposes.

New Methods Needed to Combat Bird Flu

Greed, as well as the need by small farmers to earn once a year extra cash from selling poultry for Tet (Lunar New Year) has and will continue to subvert the means to contain or stop bird flu and even new flu mutations. Introducing a market for collecting and fermenting/digesting manure can defeat the virus and serve needs of farmers.

clipped from www.gmanews.tv Vietnam finds bird flu virus in Chinese chickens 01/13/2009 | 03:51 PM Email this | Email the Editor | Print | ShareThis HANOI, Vietnam — Animal health officials in Vietnam detected the bird flu virus in chickens smuggled from neighboring China, highlighting the danger of outbreaks as the Lunar New Year approaches, an official said Tuesday. Eight of 16 samples taken from nearly 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of poultry confiscated by authorities late last month in the border province of Lang Son tested positive for the H5N1 virus, said Do Van Duoc, director of the provincial animal health department.

International Center for Research on Women

Awesome organization doing great research based work and link to fantastic resources and careers for women who want to help women and children around the world.

clipped from www.icrw.org ICRW seeks to promote a world free of poverty in which women and men, girls and boys have equal opportunities to achieve their potential and realize their rights. Research to Insight Founded in 1976, ICRW has earned a reputation as the leading international institution on gender and development.