Kent State—Thirty Years Later:
What We're Still Fightin' For
by Mac Lojowsky
This past May, at Kent State University, the thirtieth
anniversary of the National Guard shootings of Vietnam War
protesters in 1970 was commemorated with a rally that showed the
student movement in the United States is alive and well.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media's sensationalist and hostile
coverage of only one of the nineteen leading activists who were on
the commemoration program—death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal (whose
words were prerecorded)—made it clear that "objective" news
reporters and editors continue to advance an establishment agenda.
Articles:
A Humane Death Sentence?
by Mary Frances Robinson
How humane, really, are today's methods of execution? Is
lethal injection truly painless? What about the preparation
process leading to it? And what about life on death row? An
advocate for incarcerated women examines the recent execution of
Bettie Lou Beets, thus providing a clearer picture of what really
goes on behind prison walls.
Selling Serenity
by Andrew Meacham
A former editor at a leading self-help publication shows
how sincere efforts to guide and aid the troubled can easily
become entangled with exploitative and dangerous fads. As a
result, a healthy skepticism should be the first guidepost on the
road to recovery.
No, Virginia, Abortion is NOT Genocide
by Joyce Arthur
Can abortion really be compared to genocide? And do those
who say so actually believe and act on their words? In this
article, a pro-choice activist fills a serious gap in the current
debate by carefully dissecting the abortion-as-genocide rhetoric
and exposing its fallacies and inconsistencies. Also critiqued are
the tactics of the leading anti-abortion porponents who use this
argument.
The Evolution of Moral Values
by John M. Chrisman
When we ask, "How can we know right from wrong?", we are
asking the wrong question. Right and wrong aren't static things
leading to unchanging rules applicable in all cases. They are
evolving ideas that we grow into as we test and develop them over
the centuries in ever-changing societies and situations.
