Help end discrimination, celebrate Human Rights Day 2009… and beyond

Secretary-General's Message for Human Rights Day 2009

The United Nations has since its very beginning set as one of its goals “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person” without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion1. Discrimination undermines that goal. Still, its eradication has proven very difficult, as this phenomenon is more subtle, more corrosive and more resilient than any one had thought.

For millions of people globally, the struggle to extract themselves from situations of discrimination at almost every turn in their daily lives is an impossible ambition. Tragically, as we have seen in the past twenty years, policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide, policies based on discriminatory ideologies, have led to destruction, exile and death.

Despite the challenges and setbacks, there has been and continues to be a rejection of discrimination. There have been enough successes to demonstrate that this scourge can be eradicated.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is a world leader in the stand against the forces of discrimination. As the guardian of international human rights law, the UN human rights office advocates for and promotes human rights reforms in many countries across the globe and throughout the UN community.

On Human Rights Day Thursday December 10, resolve to embrace diversity and end discrimination.

1. Charter of the United Nations

Thomas Frank: Confront the Wrecking Crew

Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation, has spent a lot of time thinking about why people are Republicans or Democrats. His study of conservatives has left him convinced that having anti-government people in charge of government leads only to destruction.

KONZ - Flint Hills Community Radio Update

On a recent edition of Media Matters Whitney Hodgin, a student at K-State's A. Q. Miller School of Journalism, produced a feature on KONZ - Flint Hills Community Radio.

Naomi Klein on the 'new climate ball-game'

At the climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, environmental groups have said that while everybody agrees that there is a climate crisis, no action has been taken in accordance with the consensus. Naomi Klein, author and journalist, tells Al Jazeera why climate change has emerged as the single greatest barrier to human development, and why there is a critical need for a mass movement to tackle it.


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John Nichols: Congress Missing On War Debate

Obama might have laid out his reasons for continuing the war in Afghanistan, but The Nation’s John Nichols wants us all to remember that the Constitution actually gave Congress the power to make war. Obama might be consistent with his campaign promises to escalate, but, Nichols notes, public opinion has shifted and Congress is better equipped to respond.

Why is the US in Afghanistan?

F William Engdahl is an economist and author and the writer of the best selling book "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order." Mr Engdhahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. Mr. Engdahl contributes regularly to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine; Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and Switzerland respectively. He is based in Germany.




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Keeping the Internet Open and Free

Think the internet should be a space free of corporate run media holdings? Well, congress just introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009. It would make net neutrality as it's called the law. You can find out more about the law and how you can help at savetheinternet.com.

Reporters Without Borders: Interview with Craig Aaron

Craig Aaron is the Communications Director for Free Press, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organisation that works to reform the media.

The Real News Network RSS Feed

The Real News Project produces groundbreaking investigative journalism and timely, well-sourced, deeply explored accounts of the truth behind current events. We hope that our work will inspire others, and we invite collaboration from experienced journalists, and input from all.

That's right readers, Community Bridge prides itself in being your source for the news, opinions, and ideals that are ignored, overlooked, scoffed at, or just down right disliked by our local sources for news and information - be it print, radio or television. In addition to articles and commentaries from a broad variety of progressive or just solid journalistic sources, occasionally Christopher throws in his own opinion on what the wacky right wing-nuts are doing to screw up our town and state as well as trample on your civil/human rights.

To read the entire article all you have to do is click on the title, unless instructed otherwise. You will be taken to the source article, so remember to come back to us! (It helps drive up the total on the sitemeter.)

10 July 2009

July 9 Part 2 - Kansas Health Care for All

For our extend summer program we welcome Vashti Winterburg and Dickie Heckler, co-chairs of Kansas Health Care for All. Founded in 2003, Kansas Health Care For All is a group of concerned citizens of Kansas advocating for universal access to quality, affordable, comprehensive health care for all Americans. KHCFA supports a single payer model of health care financing as the most equitable solution. They are affiliated with Healthcare--Now! and the Physicians For a National Health Program. They endorse House Resolution 676: The United States National Health Insurance Act, authored by Congressman John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan.


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