Today was the first day of the Life is good Festival, and it was a lot of fun. Life is Good founders Bert and John Jacobs announced from the stage that the festival had exceeded last year’s totals and is close to reaching the goal of $1 million to help children in crisis. But close isn’t good enough. Perhaps you can help with a donation? You can learn more about the cause and make a donation on this page. You can also just come out to the festival!
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Car-Free Week! By Choice?
Image: Vincent Fung via StreetsBlog Network
Car-Free Week is an expansion of World Car-Free Day, celebrated on September 22, which began in in Europe in the 1990s. Now communities all around the world are offering incentives to encourage people to walk, bike, use public transportation or carpool this week. You may just discover it’s easier and more pleasant than you thought. Personally, I like getting my exercise during my commute when I bike. If I take mass transit, I can actually do a bit of reading or even some work. Driving is, at best, an opportunity to think and maybe make a couple calls. It’s also generally cheaper.
Here’s some links about Car-Free Week in general and here in Massachusetts. There may be specific activities in your city, so do a local search in your area, as well.
World Carefree Network
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Car-Free Days blog
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Strive Not to Drive
Academic Freedom Media Review–September 10-16, 2011
The Scholars at Risk media review seeks to raise awareness about academic freedom issues in the news. Subscription information and archived media reviews are available here. The views and opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily those of Scholars at Risk.
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CHILE: New student demands in three-month conflict
María Elena Hurtado, University World News, 9/15
Egyptian student protests hit elite Cairo university
Jack Shenker, The Guardian, 9/15
Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has jail sentence reduced
Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian, 9/14
Who Sets E-Mail Rules?
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 9/14
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Why is Virginia Really Challenging the Health Care Law?
What is wrong with the state government in Virginia? Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond threw out Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act, but now he and Governor Bob McDonnell have vowed to appeal.
Why are the Republicans in Virginia against ensuring that everyone has access to health care? As I understand it, the law is being attacked as un-Constitutional because it compels everyone to purchase insurance, and the federal government does not have that power. What, then, is the solution? A national system in which the government is guarantor is fine by me, Medicare for all. However, that is not palatable to the right, for one reason or another. It’s costly, inefficient and unlikely to remain solvent, or so they say. My interactions with Medicare have generally been favorable, and wonder about these characterizations. Even if they are true, can’t these things be fixed? Wouldn’t expanding the pool of participants in medicare with healthy, younger people be a way to do that. But the Right is not particularly interested in solving these issues because their real concern is ideological, and they think Medicare is a form of socialism. (Click here to cue ominous music!)
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Only 9 Days to Raise $380. I Can Do It. Even if it's $5 at a Time.
There are just 9 days left in my challenge to raise $1,000 to help children struggling to overcome life threatening challenges such as the trauma wrought by poverty, disease, abuse, neglect, natural disaster, violence or other causes. I’ve been working hard, asking everyone I can think of, and as of this moment I have raised $620. Thank you Glen Collins, Christopher Cox, Robert Ward, Justin Adams, Michael McKenna, Paul Harris, Tom Goss, Jami Woods and Bill Jennings. I know none of you donated for public acknowledgement. In fact, I have several anonymous donors. I want to thank them all, named and unnamed, for helping me reach 62% of my goal.
There are 9 days left in the campaign and I still plan to reach 100%. It will feel good to reach, or even exceed a goal right now. If you can help me do it, just go to http://lig.convio.net/goto/MikeToler and click on the yellow “Support Me” box.
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Thoughts on Remembrances of September 11
It is fitting that we pause today to remember the events of September 11, 2001 in New York, NY and Washington, DC. It was a day in which a small group of terrorists once again reminded us just how much ideology and religious fervor can so blind the eyes of men to right and wrong to the point that they will turn aircraft loaded with innocent people into missiles to be used to commit deliberate acts of barbaric, cold-blooded murder against thousands of other innocent civilians.
It was also a day in which firefighters, police, rescue workers and even ordinary citizens committed selfless acts that taught us the meaning of heroism. Through the coverage of 9-11 memorials and tributes, the media has done a good job of reminding us of all of this. It has also reminded us of the deep sense of loss and the threat we face. We’ve been called on to remember the soldiers who volunteered to fight against the terrorist threat and did not come home. Nearly 4500 coalition forces have been killed in Iraq, and 1800 in Afghanistan (source). The number that have been maimed or psychologically scarred is even larger.
As Americans, however, we must realize that 9-11 was a global tragedy and we were not the only ones affected…
SAR Academic Freedom Media Review – September 3-9, 2011
The Scholars at Risk media review seeks to raise awareness about academic freedom issues in the news. Subscription information and archived media reviews are available here. The views and opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily those of Scholars at Risk.
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Brazil invests to expand tropic of learning into rural areas…
Paul Jump, Times Higher Ed, 9/8
Revolutions Yet to Happen
André Elias Mazawi, Inside Higher Ed, 9/8
A Dissenter Is Fired
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 9/8
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