Archive for April 2025

What’s needed now is not just understanding and outrage, but organized defiance. Education must be reclaimed as a vehicle of liberation, capable of producing critical, informed, and courageous citizens. This is not the time for silence or spectatorship. It is a time to act in defense of freedom, justice, equality, and the fragile dream of a democracy not yet fully realized.

Associate Professor of the Practice Rachel Forbes, who is director of the university’s Western Colorado Master of Social Work (MSW) program, believes that social workers have always been on the front lines of environmental issues, but there is much more work to be done.

Haiti does not make firearms nor ammunition. How are they getting into the country? They come in primarily from the United States, some directly on small ships that leave overwhelmingly from Florida. There i an increased number from the Dominican Republic, still originating in the US, that come over the border, which is very porous.Above: A protest is viewed from a police vehicle in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the region’s vast petrochemical industry. A new study led by Tulane University backs up that view, revealing stark racial disparities across the U.S.’s petrochemical workforce.

Different services and community focal points have evolved beside units for older people at St Brendan’s Village, in Mulranny, Co Mayo