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Washpost: Fear of Islam violates our traditions

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

By: Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Interreligious Understanding
Professor Marshall Breger, Catholic University of America
Suhail A. Khan, Institute for Global Engagement
The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

We are here as a single voice that comes from the three Abrahamic faiths, because we are seeing a new slogan ripple from downtown Manhattan across the US. Its timing particularly resonates as some of us have just returned from an unprecedented tour of concentration campsin Europe, where we stood side by side with a delegation of the most influential US Imams and Muslim leadership. Together, those of us who are Jewish and Muslim, came face-to-face with the unambiguous lesson that religious demonization can and does lead to unimaginable violence and horror.

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AOL: Cliques Who Click: Beware of Damaging Effect of Cyberbullying

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Remember the good old days when the worst the “in” crowd could do was whisper in the hall about who did what with whom? While the old idiom about sticks and stones is mostly untrue — words can hurt — at least the words would typically be forgotten within a few days as the next juicy bit of gossip developed.

These days, our kids are faced with situations that can not only damage their reputation among their peers while in school, but also have a serious impact on the rest of their lives.

• Know where your kids have social networking accounts
• Find out more about their online “friends”
• See photos posted by or tagged with your child
• Get alerted to posts that contain trigger words about drugs or violence

Thanks to mobile texting, blogs and social networking, the spread of information is so fast, easy and free that it makes telling gossip in the halls look downright archaic. Kids don’t have to wait for a story to pass from one person to another to another. They can tell one story to a thousand people with one click. And, instead of just whispering about who did what with whom, kids can now post photos or videos of the act — easily obtained with cell phone cameras and possibly manipulated with tools like PhotoShop.

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UN Dispatch; Sudan Cracks Down on Journalists Who Talk About Southern Secession

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Mark Leon Goldberg – July 22, 2010 – 10:26 am

Bec Hamilton writes a very important dispatch from Sudan where she reports that Sudanese authorities are heavily censoring what journalists may write about South Sudan’s  looming independence.

Before the elections, journalists say that the government’s main “red lines” were the publication of articles on the International Criminal Court’s case against the Sudanese president, and on the conflict in Darfur. Now though, the government has a bigger concern – the unity of the Sudanese state.

In January next year, the people of southern Sudan will have a referendum on whether they want to become an independent nation. The right to self-determination was granted to southerners in a 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the NCP and the main southern political party, the SPLM. In theory, both parties were supposed to spend the six years until the referendum making unity an attractive option.

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Posted in AFRICA, Analysis and Opinion, Bullying, Civil Rights, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, Sudan, journalism | No Comments »

AFP: Two German hostages freed in Darfur

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

By Guillaume Lavallee (AFP) – 4 days ago

KHARTOUM — Two German aid workers kidnapped in June when gunmen swooped on their offices in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region were freed on Tuesday and are in good health.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced their release in Berlin.

“Both men… will be brought to Khartoum in the course of the day. They are well, considering the difficult circumstances,” he said.

The men work for Technische Hilfswerk (THW), the disaster relief arm of the German interior ministry. The foreign ministry gave no details on the circumstances surrounding their release.

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Posted in AFRICA, Bullying, Darfur, GENOCIDE, Hate Crimes, Human Rights Abuses, Racism, Sudan, War Crimes Trials | No Comments »

Sudan Tribune: African Union moves aggressively to shield Bashir from prosecution

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

July 28, 2010 (WASHINGTON) — The heads of states who attended the African Union (AU) summit in Kampala this week decided to take a more radical approach towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and adopted a final resolution that stresses non-cooperation with the Hague tribunal and also condemned the conduct of its prosecutor.

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Public News Service: Stopping School Bullying Could Make Communities Safer

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

CHARLESTON, W.V. – Police and victims advocates say low-level violence such as school bullying is connected to serious problems like domestic violence. But, they say one good way to help everyone to feel safer is to ensure victims are not left isolated.

Tonya Barnett works on school bullying for southwest West Virginia non-profit Step-by-Step. She says 60 percent of school bullies end up having a serious criminal conviction by age 21.

“If it doesn’t get solved, it continues to grow. It will grow into domestic violence or into child abuse, vandalism, your dropout rate. It’s just a stepping-stone that leads into other problems.”

Barnett says communities tend to accept a culture of violence, but that can be changed when bystanders help the victims.

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Boston Herald: Expert: Leak of Phoebe Prince’s past a bullying move

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Ex-prosecutor blasts ‘strategy’

By Marie Szaniszlo

The leak of private information about Phoebe Prince’s mental-health history is part of a “sick” defense strategy that could backfire against the six South Hadley teenagers charged in connection with her suicide, a former prosecutor said yesterday.

Details about Prince’s past, including her self-mutilation and a previous suicide attempt, are “irrelevant” to whether the 15-year-old Irish transfer student was bullied, said Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor who teaches at the New England School of Law.

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NYTimes: There’s Only One Way to Stop a Bully

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Op-Ed Contributors
By SUSAN ENGEL and MARLENE SANDSTROM
Published: July 22, 2010

HERE in Massachusetts, teachers and administrators are spending their summers becoming familiar with the new state law that requires schools to institute an anti-bullying curriculum, investigate acts of bullying and report the most serious cases to law enforcement officers.

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AP: New MTV show attempts to tackle school stereotypes

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
By ALICIA RANCILIO (AP)

NEW YORK — A new show on MTV attempts to help students look past school stereotypes.

Each episode of “If You Really Knew Me” focuses on a different school, where students go through a program called Challenge Day. They share their experiences with each other in exercises designed to cut down on bullying and gossiping.

The cameras follow five students before, during and after the program.

One student who was filmed, Leiken (LIK’ in) Poppino, says the experience “changed people for the better.”

Poppino says her school, Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., had a “miraculous change” for about a week after Challenge Day last year. After that, students who took part worked to keep the momentum going.

“If You Really Knew Me” airs Tuesdays at 11 p.m. Eastern.

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Gadsen News: Commentary: Memories of bullying don’t fade

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

By Melanie Jones

The bully stereotype is of a loner with low self-esteem who picks on kids more defenseless than he or she is. We think of the big kid threatening the little kid to get his lunch money, or a senior shoving a freshman in a locker. We think of swirlies and wedgies.

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