Worldview—March 31, 2006 |
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Chicagoans help build the Buchifi Community Center in Kenya.
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Global Activism: HIV Positive Americans Fighting AIDS in Africa
Brad Ogilvie—Founder, Mosaic Initiative; Former Director, Canticle Ministries
Brad Ogilvie has been living with HIV for more than 20 years. Brad was working to empower HIV-positive individuals in the U.S. through the faith-based group Canticle Ministries. Canticle decided to bring delegations of Americans living with HIV to help with prevention efforts in Kenya. Brad has now formed a separate organization called The Mosaic Initiative which will continue these delegation trips and focus on getting local religious leaders involved in HIV prevention and education programs. |
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Worldview—March 30, 2006 |
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Paul Munsen, Director of Sun Ovens International, and former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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Global Activism: Cooking with the Sun
Paul Munsen—President of Sun Ovens International
Two billion households worldwide cook over open flames on a daily basis. Smoke inhalation puts their own and their children’s health at risk. Many risk assault or stepping on a landmine when searching for firewood. And in many countries, deforestation has made finding wood more and more difficult. Paul Munsen hopes to provide an alternative through solar cooking. His company Sun Ovens International has brought solar ovens to 126 countries. |
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Guadalajara Film Festival
Milos Stehlik—Film Commentator, Director of Facets Multimedia
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Worldview—March 29, 2006 |
Global Activism: Person-to-Person Aid
Marc Gold—Founder of the “100 Friends Project”
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Marc Gold with a landmine victim in Afghanistan.
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In 1990 Marc Gold was in India when he encountered a woman with a terrible ear infection. Marc changed this woman’s life by giving her a very small amount of money to seek medical care. This experience led Marc to found the “100 Friends Project.” Every year Marc collects donations from about 100 people and personally distributes the money to the neediest people he can find. So far he’s distributed more than $100,000. |
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Worldview—March 28, 2006 |
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Nigeria—Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is Missing
Jibrin Ibrahim—Director of the Center for Democracy and Development, Abuja, Nigeria |
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Global Activism: Fighting for Women's Reproductive Health
Jane Roberts—Co-Founder, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund)
In 2002 the Bush administration announced it would withhold $34 million dollars that Congress allocated to the UNFPA—the United Nations Population Fund. Jane Roberts got the idea to ask 34 million Americans to donate at least $1 to show that Americans support UNFPA’s efforts to support vulnerable women plan families, have safe births, and protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Jane was so inspired by support they’ve received that she wrote a poem and a book called 34 Million Friends of the Women of the World. |
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Worldview—March 27, 2006 |
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Saudi Oil: Processing Vulnerability
Matthew Simmons—Chairman, Simmons & Company International
Simmons is the author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy |
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Global Activism: Using Economic Development to Fight HIV in Africa
Tom Derdak—Founder and Executive Director, Global Alliance for Africa
More than a decade ago, Tom Derdak and a group of health care professionals with concerned citizens came together to do something about HIV and other health problems in Africa. Since then they’ve learned a great deal about fighting HIV in Africa. Through economic empowerment, the Global Alliance for Africa focuses on helping children and families affected by HIV. By partnering with African organizations they reach more than 4000 children.
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“Be a Light in the Life of a Child”
Saturday April 29, 2006 @ 6:30 pm
Grand Ballroom
6351 South Cottage Grove Avenue
The evening includes dinner, music by the Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra, and WTTW's John Callaway as the guest speaker. For more information call 312.382.0607.
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Worldview—March
24, 2006 |
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International Criminal Court Arrests First Defendant
Doug Cassel—Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School; Human Rights Commentator
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Belarus—Presidential Election
Jeff Lovitt—Executive Director, Policy Association for an Open Society |
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Ukraine—Legislative Elections
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern—Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University |
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Worldview—March 23, 2006 |
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Ecuador—Indigenous Peoples Protest over Free-Trade Pact with U.S.
Carol Pier—Labor Rights and Trade Researcher for Human Rights Watch |
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Global Activism: Performance Art for Bolivian Street Youth
John Connell—Founder of “Performing Life” in Cochabamba, Bolivia
The UN estimates that 30-170 million children live on the streets globally. This number is expected to grow to 200-300 million by 2010. Bolivia is Latin America's poorest country. Nineteen year-old American John Connell works with Bolivian street youth and teaches them performance art skills to support their living and educational expenses.
For more information about “Performing Life” email John Connell at jconnell536@yahoo.com. |
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Worldview—March 22, 2006 |
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Water: Privatization May Doom Millions
Maude Barlow—National Chairperson, Council of Canadians
Barlow is the author of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water. |
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Water: Efficiency May Solve the Crisis
Fred Pearce—Environment and Development Consultant
Pearce is the author of When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century.
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Worldview—March 21, 2006 |
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Iraq—Bush Working to Prevent Civil War
We listen to an excerpt from
President Bush's press conference held on March 21, 2006. |
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Iraq—Civil War(s)
Larry Diamond—Senior Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution
Diamond is the
former senior advisor on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. |
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Iraq—Bush Defends War
An additional excerpt from President Bush's March 21, 2006, press conference. |
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Worldview—March
20, 2006 |
The Chinese Century
Oded Shenkar—Professor of Management & Human
Resources at Ohio State University.
Author of The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy,
the Balance of Power, and Your Job
Americans in the 19th century were accused of not observing copyrights and stealing technology. Once the U.S. developed,
though, it played by the rules. Two hundred years later, will China follow the same course?
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Worldview—March
17, 2006 |
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Kosovo—Reality Points to Independence
Wesley Clark—Retired Four-Star General, Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO
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Kosovo—More than Autonomy, Less than Independence
Desko Nikitovic—Consul General for Serbia and Montenegro in Chicago |
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Kosovo—Heading Toward a United Europe
Elmi Berisha—Former Representative to the United States of the late Kosovar Albanian Leader Ibrahim Rugova |
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European Union Film Festival
Milos Stehlik—Film Commentator, Director of Facets Multimedia
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Worldview—March
16, 2006 |
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Belarus—Presidential Election
Jeff Lovitt - Executive Director, Policy Association for an Open Society
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Ukraine—HIV Prevention Stifled by Harassment and Intimidation
Rachel Denber—Deputy Director of the Europe/Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch Report: Rhetoric
and Risk: Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine's Fight against
HIV/Aids |
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Global Activism: Building With Books
Jim Ziolkowski - President, CEO and Founder of Building with Books
Jim Ziolkowski was trekking in Nepal when he came accross the opening of a school in a remote village.
After seeing how much villagers appreciated the opportunity to access education, Jim started the group
Building with Books. Building with Books works with American students to build schools in developing countries.
So far they've built more than 150 schools in nine countries.
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Worldview—March
15, 2006 |
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Haiti—Memory Village to Commemorate Meeting of Three Continents
Djalòki Dessables and Carla Van Dusen Bluntschli—Co-founders of
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a Sonje (“We Will Remember”),
a Haiti-based group working to build a Memory Village in Haiti |
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Indonesia—Condi Rice Visit and Controversial
Pornography Law
Jeffrey Winters—Professor of Political Economy
at Northwestern University |
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Worldview—March
14, 2006 |
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Iraq—Parliament Delayed
Andrew Arato—Professor of Political and Social Theory at the New School
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Uganda—Coffee Co-op of Jews, Christians and Muslims
J.J. Keki—Founder and Director, Peace Kawomera Cooperative in Uganda
Ben Corey-Moran—Representative, Thanksgiving Coffee Company
Thanksgiving Coffee's Mirembe
Kawomera “Delicious Peace” Tour |
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Worldview—March
13, 2006 |
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Darfur—Agreement May Replace African
Union with UN
Suliman Baldo—Africa Program Director, International
Crisis Group
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Darfur—Solutions and Refugee Exhibit
Georgette Gagnon—International Human Rights Lawyer,
Deputy Director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch
Olivier Bercault—Senior Emergencies Researcher for
Human Rights Watch
Exhibit Information:
Smallest
Witnesses: The Crisis in Darfur through Children's Eyes
Spertus Museum 618 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
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Uzbekistan—Opposition Leader Sentenced to over Ten Years
Gulam Umarov—Son of Jailed opposition Leader Sanjar
Umarov
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Worldview—March
10, 2006 |
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Sex, Honor, and
Shame: Confronting Violence Against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sherizaan Minwalla—Staff Attorney, Midwest
Immigrant and Human Rights Center program, Heartland Alliance for Human
Needs and Human
Rights; Attorney, “New Futures
Project,”
serving immigrant survivors of domestic violence.
Minwalla recently returned from Iraqi Kurdistan where she worked
with the Asuda
Organization for Combating Violence against Women. Asuda
assists women fleeing domestic violence. They even negotiate
with families to prevent honor killings. Heartland Alliance
is helping Asuda set up legal and medical assistance programs. |
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Sex, Honor, and
Shame: Sexual Violence and Conflict on Film
Milos Stehlik - Worldview Film Commentator
Director of Facets Multimedia
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Sex, Honor, and
Shame: Criminalizing LGBT Communities:
Sodomy Laws around the Globe
Scott Long—Human Rights Watch's Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
Human Rights Watch criticizes the negative impact of sodomy laws on the rights of LGBT communities in countries such as India, Fiji, etc. Colonial-era laws are used to make arrests and for entrapment. They also argue that they harm HIV prevention efforts.
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Sex, Honor, and
Shame: Cameroon Press Outs Public figures;
Government Imprisons Yaounde Eleven
Joel Nana—Cameroon-based LGBT rights activist, Editor
of mygaypal.com, a resource for LGBT activists in West Africa
Joel Nana discusses the imprisonment of eleven gay men, now
known as the Yaounde Eleven, and the recent ‘outing’ of
public figures in several major newspapers. |
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Worldview—March 9, 2006 |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: HIV as a Form of Domestic Violence: A Personal Story
An anonymous advocate for HIV-AIDS awareness and treatment in India tells her personal story of seeking treatment for her family in India.
Originally broadcast August 30, 2005 |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: Buddhist Nuns Fight HIV and Trafficking in Nepal
Chicago Public Radio’s Jason DeRose reports on Buddhist nuns building a school to prevent girls being sold in prostitution. The nuns are in Chicago for the Buddhist Women’s Conference this weekend.
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Dhamma Moli |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame and Global Activism: Recovering From Trauma—From Chicago to Rwanda
Mary Fabri—Senior Director of Torture Treatment Services and International Training, The Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, a program of the Heartland Alliance
Mary Fabri traveled to Rwanda with the group WE-ACTx to administer trauma testing to HIV-positive Rwandan rape survivors. |
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Worldview—March 8, 2006 |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: More Countries Embrace U.N. Convention to End Discrimination against Women
Doug Cassel—Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School; Worldview Human Rights Commentator
Read the transcript of Cassel's commentary.
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U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: Gang Rape Survivor Fights Back
Mukhtar Mai—Pakistani gang rape survivor and human rights activist
Mukhtar Mai was gang-raped on the order of a village council in Pakistan. While most women in her position commit suicide, Mukhtar Mai fought back and has taken her case through the courts. She has received international recognition for her efforts and has been able to raise funds to build schools and a women's center in her home village.
Originally broadcast Nov 14, 2005 |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: Fighting Violence Against Women in Pakistan
Amna Buttar—Founder and Director, Asian-American Network Against Abuse of Human Rights.
Originally broadcast Nov 14, 2005 |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: Red-light Family Culture in Pakistan
Louise Brown—Author of The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Ancient Pleasure District
Louise Brown explores the life cycle of sex-workers in Pakistan by following the story of one family living in a historic red-light district. |
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Worldview—March 7, 2006 |
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Sex, Honor and Shame: Rape in South Africa
Carrie Shelver—Training and Public Awareness Manager, People Opposing Woman Abuse (POWA)
South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma is embroiled in a case of alleged rape. The high profile case has highlighted widespread problems in how South Africa deals with rape allegations, and the extent of the problem. A woman is raped in South Africa every 26 seconds. |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: “Human Dogs”—Exploring Kenya’s “Rape Red Zones”
Interworld Radio’s Winnie Onyimbo explains efforts to prevent sexual violence in Nairobi’s “rape red zones.” |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: The Madam Pink Project
In Ghana many women who are raped refuse to report it because of the extreme social stigma. Worldview producer Andrea Wenzel shares her experience researching sexual violence in Ghana and a video project (shot in a fictional comic book super-hero format) called Madam Pink that aims to provoke a dialogue about sexual violence.
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Zongo Mundo |
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Sex, Honor, and Shame: The Five Fingers of Self-Defense
Self-defense teachers and survivors at Thousand Waves Martial Arts and Self-Defense Center explain how verbal and non-verbal strategies can be used to prevent and fight sexual violence. |
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Worldview—March 6, 2006 |
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Sex, Honor and Shame: The Global Sex Trade
Victor Malarek—Author of The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
Originally broadcast September 10, 2004 |
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Sex, Honor and Shame: A Decriminalization Perspective
Dr. Ana Lopes—International Union of Sex Workers |
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Sex, Honor and Shame: A Trafficking Horror Story
Winifred Williams was abducted as a sex slave during Sierra Leone's civil war. After a harrowing escape she was later trafficked to Germany by European smugglers. She spoke with filmmaker Louis Stippel and students from the Academy of Screen Arts, located in Ghana. |
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Sex, Honor and Shame: Chicago Responds to Trafficking
Who is being trafficked to Chicago and where are they coming from? Worldview intern Emily Goligoski examines local efforts to confront global trafficking here in Chicago. |
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Worldview—March 3 , 2006 |
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Iraq—Political Disputes with Civil War Background
Fawaz Gerges—Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
Gerges is the
author of The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. |
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Series Preview—Sex, Honor and Shame
Legalizing Polygamy in Canada
Angela Campbell—Professor of Law at McGill University
Campbell is the author of Polygamy in Canada: Legal and Social Implications for Women and Children-A Collection of Policy Research Reports |
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Super Infector: Stigma and the Criminalization of HIV
Kai Wright—Writer and Editor, Blackaids.org
Wright is the author of the article “Super Infector” that appeared in the winter 05-06 edition of Colorlines magazine. |
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Worldview—March 2 , 2006 |
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Global Activism: Building Schools in a Mexican Garbage Dump
David Lynch—Founder, Responsibility
25 years ago New York special education teacher David Lynch volunteered to teach children near the municipal dump in Tijuana, Mexico. He’s been hooked to the community ever since. Lynch’s organization Responsibility has worked with more than 3,500 children and built medical clinics and more than 40 homes for a community that makes their living salvaging garbage from the dump. |
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Human Rights Report Card on the U.S. Government
Patrick Regan—Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center on Democratic Performance; Binghamton University
Regan is
Coauthor of the “Third Annual Report Card of the Policies and Preferences of Presidential Administrations with Regard to Human Rights.” |
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Guatemala—Impact of Globalization on Indigenous Peoples
Irma A. Valesquez—Mayan Sociologist and Indigenous Rights Advocate
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Dinner and Speech
Woman, Hope, and Peace
Saturday, March 4, 2006, @ 6PM
St. Luke Church
1500 West Belmont
Chicago
E-mail casaguate@aol.com for more information. |
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Worldview—March 1 , 2006
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Supernotes Pose Impediment to Nuclear Negotiations
Peter Hayes—Executive Director, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development
Chapter Four of the paper “The 'Sopranos State?' North Korean Involvement in Criminal Activity and Implications for International Security” concerns Supernotes |
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Dubai Uproar is Just Politics
Doug Cassel—Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School; Worldview Human Rights Commentator
Read the transcript of Cassel's commentary. |
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Philippines—President Arroyo Cracks Down
Paul Hutchcroft—Associate Chair of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hutchcroft is the
author of Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines. |
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Thailand—Massive Financial Scandal Nets PM
Panitan Wattanayagorn—Assistant Professor of International Relations, Chulalongkorn University |
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