Military use of children. The military use of children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers), or they can be used in support roles such as porters, spies, messengers, look outs; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda. Throughout history and in many cultures, children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were against cultural morals. Since the 1970s, a number of international conventions have come into effect that try to limit the participation of children in armed conflicts, nevertheless the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reports that the use of children in military forces, and the active participation of children in armed conflicts is widespread.
International law[edit] United Nations[edit] The United Nations Security Council convenes regularly to debate, receive reports, and pass resolutions under the heading "Children in armed conflict". War crimes[edit] P. Bill Moyers Essay: What Are Our Kids Dying in Afghanistan For? Thoughts on David Graeber’s ‘Debt: the first 5,000 years’ I finally finished this book after reading it on and off for months. First, I'll say this is a very unsettling book. By this, I mean it makes you think again about things you thought you knew already, and can't be easily assimilated into an existing worldview. For that reason alone, it's worth reading. What follows isn't really a review, but some thoughts on some of the concepts put forward and ideas raised in the book. This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on one side is the logic of the market, where we like to imagine we all start out as individuals who don’t owe each other anything.
Communism, exchange and hierarchy The first thing I'd like to pick up on is Graeber's claim that all societies are a configuration of three fundamental organisational/moral principles: communism, exchange and hierarchy. These involve exchange and hierarchy. Finally, hierarchy. The distinction between ‘human economies’ and ‘commercial economies’ Graeber wrote: Marx, critique and utopia. Teens, Social Media, and Privacy. Overview Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.
Interactive feature: Sharing Information on Social Media Interactive feature: Teens on Facebook: What They Share with Friends Infographic: Teens, Social Media, and Privacy Infographic: What teens share on social media Infographic: Teens: Median number of Facebook friends Focus group highlights: What teens said about social media, privacy, and online identity Key findings include: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006: About the Survey. I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet. I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul.
" It's a been a year now since I "surfed the web" or "checked my email" or "liked" anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up. And now I'm supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. But instead it's 8PM and I just woke up. I didn't want to meet this Paul at the tail end of my yearlong journey. In early 2012 I was 26 years old and burnt out. I thought the internet might be an unnatural state for us humans, or at least for me.
My plan was to quit my job, move home with my parents, read books, write books, and wallow in my spare time. My goal would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years But for some reason, The Verge wanted to pay me to leave the internet. My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years. This was going to be amazing. Read next. What teens said about social media, privacy, and online identity. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project conducted focus groups with teenagers in a variety of locales.
What follows is a list of some of the most revealing and interesting comments about how teens think about social networking sites and how they navigate issues of identity and privacy. Facebook is a major center of teenage social interactions, both with the positives of friendship and social support and the negatives of drama and social expectations. Female, age 14 -- “I think Facebook can be fun, but also it's drama central. On Facebook, people imply things and say things, even just by a like, that they wouldn't say in real life. " Female (age 14): “OK, so I do post a good amount of pictures, I think. Friending mom and dad: It’s complicated Male (age 16): “Yeah, [I’ve gotten in trouble for something I posted] with my parents. Male (age 17): “It sucks... Friending teachers and preachers Party tweets might get you busted. The Tattoos of Perception. It’s no secret – if you’ve looked at our pictures or met us – that both Chloe and I are fairly covered in tattoos.
I couldn’t say why I first started getting them, but at this point it’s addictive. I try to get several new tattoos a year, and Chloe is constantly tinkering on her own when she has her tattoo gun (but it’s in Colorado right now). So, as we travel and meet people, I’m always curious to see people’s reactions. Tattoos used to be somewhat unacceptable in the US, but that’s not true anymore. Largely, at home, no one even notices our tattoos. Everyone has one. This is not the case in every country. In Korea, it wasn’t quite so bad. One explanation I’ve heard is that the military won’t allow you to serve if you have too many tattoos. In Taiwan, everyone liked our tattoos. But in a surprising twist, the only negative comment I received was about my beard. Of course, on the whole, everyone in Taiwan was friendly and accepting. But the Philippines! Related 19 February 2015 In "Mexico" Your student loan isn’t really a loan.
It’s becoming an annual ritual. Every June, Congress debates what to do about the interest rate on federally subsidized student loans, to avert what this year will be the imminent doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. But interest rates alone don’t tell the whole story. At a time when overall student debt approaches $1 trillion, the facts reveal that student loans aren’t loans, not in the traditional sense. They exhibit none of the qualities of modern consumer financial instruments, and are often sold under false pretenses, with the promise of a lifelong benefit that never materializes.
We need to change how these loans work and have a broader conversation about what we should be doing — including bankruptcy and refinancing — to help future generations obtain a quality, affordable education, which is critical to our economic future. This is basically how student loans work. This happened almost by accident. Ultimately, keeping college affordable is the answer. Thom Hartmann & Neil Howe: Are we in the Fourth Turning? The Court Ruling That Could End Unpaid Internships for Good - Jordan Weissmann. Having young adults work for free is now officially a legal liability. The unpaid intern, that lowly, coffee-scalded creature of the modern office, might be about to become a thing of the past.
For the last two years, media companies have been combating a series of lawsuits brought by interns claiming the right to a paycheck under state and federal law. Things began looking good for team management this past May, after a federal court scuttled the class action filed by a former Harper's Bazaar intern against Hearst Magazines. But yesterday, corporate's luck took a turn for the worse. A federal district judge in Manhattan, William H. Pauley III, ruled that Fox Searchlight studios had indeed broken New York and federal minimum wage laws by failing to pay two interns who had worked on the set of its Oscar-winning flick "Black Swan. " How stringent are we talking? To be sure, Judge Pauley is just a single trial court judge, and there's no guarantee that his ruling would survive on appeal.
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization. The Fixie Bike Index. The Fixie Bike Index “Messengers are big fixie aficionados, but more and more fixed-gear bikes are being ridden by nonmessengers, most conspicuously the kind of younger people to whom the term “hipster” applies and who emanate from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn.”- New York Times, 2007 According to our data, Manhattan is actually more hipster than Brooklyn.
Short of surveying the snugness of men’s pants in each borough, it’s not an easy assertion to quantify. That’s where the Fixie Bike Index comes in. At Priceonomics, in order to build our bicycle price guide, we measure what kind of used bikes people are trying to sell and the quantity sold in any city. Fixies (fixed gear bikes) are considered to be a strong indicator of hipsterness. In short, fixed gear bikes = hipsters, and New York boroughs that have more fixies per capita should have more hipsters per capita. To our surprise, fixies are nearly twice as popular in Manhattan than Brooklyn! The Top Cities for Bicycling in America. How to be a Japanese Hipster.
Teenage Riot: Athens. Did Mayors, DHS Coordinate Occupy Attacks? When a series of crackdowns on the Occupy camps suddenly occurred in, more or less, the same week, many observers wondered if perhaps the attacks had been coordinated at a national level. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan confirmed that suspicion during an appearance on the BBC - excerpted on The Takeaway radio program - when she casually mentioned taking part in a conference call with the leaders of 18 US cities right before the raids. “I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation," said Quan.
It turns out one of the 18 leaders who sat in on the call was Portland Mayor Sam Adams. The calls, according to Adams, were organized "to share information about the occupying encampments around the country. " He described the calls to the New York Times as "check-ins to share information and advice on how various cities were handling the demonstrations. " The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week.
An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park. But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Why this massive mobilisation against these not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people?
Ten Things You Should Know About Friday’s UC Davis Police Violence | 1. The protest at which UC Davis police officers used pepper spray and batons against unresisting demonstrators was an entirely nonviolent one. None of the arrests at UC Davis in the current wave of activism have been for violent offenses. Indeed, as the New York Times reported this morning, the university’s administration has “reported no instances of violence by any protesters.” Not one. 2. Students had set up tents on campus on Thursday, and the administration had allowed them to stay up overnight. 3. After police made a handful of arrests in the course of taking down the students’ tents, some of the remaining demonstrators formed a wide seated circle around the officers and arrestees. UC Davis police chief Annette Spicuzza has claimed that officers were unable to leave that circle: “There was no way out,” she told the Sacramento Bee. 4.
Chief Spicuzza told reporters on Thursday that her officers had been concerned for their safety when they began spraying. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Victims of Judicial Corruption Kids For Cash Prison Slavery Ring, Pennsylvania. Editorials. In addressing youth violence, myth and reality become so intertwined that the true causes and effective solutions become obscured.
This issue of Social Justice appears at a time when myths about youth and crime are running rampant in the U.S. Moreover, these myths are driving policy development in the area of juvenile justice. A thoroughgoing attack is taking place not only on youth, but also on the juvenile justice system itself. This system was originally established in Illinois in 1899 to "prevent cruelty to children. " Although it also extended social control over poor, working class, and youth of color, it did provide some protection to minors who had been institutionalized in reformatories and other "houses of refuge. " The trend of the last 30 years to deinstitutionalize young people and to create community-based alternatives is now being reversed in favor of an intensified focus on incarceration and punishment. Several articles dispute established myths and stereotypes.
National Youth Rights Association » Young and Oppressed. While most common oppressions, such as sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, even speciesism, have been identified, widely acknowledged, thoroughly discussed and deeply analyzed, one oppression remains largely untouched. This fact is astonishing given that the group oppressed by this ignored injustice is one to which every adult human has once belonged. It is the one oppression with which all humans can identify, having suffered from it directly. It is not an oppression of a tiny minority to which few will ever belong. It is not the oppression of people who can be blamed themselves — by any stretch of the imagination — for being among the oppressed. The oppressed group is that of young people — all young people. As we will further demonstrate, adults and adult institutions in our society regularly commit acts of abuse, coercion, deprivation, indoctrination and invalidation against young people.
Which brings us to why ageism is unique among oppressions: we are all directly its victims. Dispelling the myth that youth equals crime | Society. It's 18 months since the launch of a tough, high-profile local police operation tagged Excalibur. But a tenants' representative in Higher Openshaw, east Manchester, concedes: "It's the youth club as much as Excalibur that's reduced crime round here. " She had previously been one of the strongest advocates of the police offensive in an atmosphere where talk of youth clubs would have been seen as rewarding "the scum". This particular scum are the Sandywell lads, whose joyriding made life hell for local residents, young and old.
The youth club is Higher Openshaw Youth, set up by parents frustrated by public meetings where they never got an answer to questions about youth provision. With the help of a voluntary sector organiser, and the headmaster of Higher Openshaw community school, the parents turned a large classroom into a club, with PlayStations, computers, a tuck bar and use of the football pitch. As elsewhere, anxieties over crime have prompted a sharp response. David Brindle. Exposing the myth of youth predators. ‘Anonymous’ Forces 40+ Child Pornography Sites Offline. Judge Adams Beats his daughter Hillary Adams. Arkansas Republican endorses death penalty for children. Kids Be Gone: High Pitch Only Teens Can Hear Used As Deterrent (AUDIO) Why I hate “I hate children…” Are Children an Oppressed Class?
The Most Oppressed Group in the World - Carolyn Gage. LulzSec - the computer hackers who brought chaos. The Sentencing of UK #Lulzsec Activists & The Plight of Jeremy Hammond. The Anonymous Solidarity Network. » Truth on trial: A special event for Bradley Manning in Washington DC Bradley Manning Support Network. The Battle for the Minds: Modern Gaming and Propaganda | Games Abyss. Why Children are Killing Children in Modern Society (2:2) List of rampage killers: School massacres. Psychologist Lt. Col. Dave Grossman On The Act Of Killing. A Few Good Kids? Tel Aviv Fashion Week. Women Are Turning Themselves Into Barbies in Bizarre Ukrainian Beauty Trend. Living Barbie Doll ! Real Life Ken Doll: The 100 Thousand Dollars Man, Justin Jedlica. The Women Who Dated Men With Eating Disorders. A&F 2003 - Back to School.
How to live without money. The Haight Street Kids. Children Under Ground - Mongolia. Swansea Love Story. Teenage Heroin Epidemic. Child Soldiers Cry - Liberia. Children of War - Sierra Leone. Streetwise Kids - Romania. The Lost Children - Romania. Killing Boys - Russia. Cheated of Childhood - Russia. Child Prostitution - South Africa. Children For Sale - Brazil.