Living activist struggles to end social injustice

Social action program outlined to fight injustice

The Catholic Church's Bicentennial Program to combat social injustice "must involve the full community of the Church if it is to succeed," John Cardinal Dearden said last night. The Archbishop of Detroit outlined a two part social action program of the Catholic bishops of America in his address to the Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry <CCUM) conference. ''Basically, our plan for the American...

Social Authentication for End-to-End Encryption

Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy

Screen and song celebrate social justice movements that protested in the streets when they were convinced that existing institutions and their normal procedures only reinforced the status quo. Many rights have been won in democratic societies by means of courageous activism — the eight hour day, votes for women, the right to sit at any lunch counter. Yet contemporary democratic theory rarely re...

Social Media Participation in an Activist Movement for Racial Equality

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement, social media has been instrumental in driving and supporting socio-political movements throughout the world. In this paper, we present one of the first social media investigations of an activist movement around racial discrimination and police violence, known as "Black Lives Matter". Considering Twitter as a sensor for the broader community's percept...

Silence = Defunding, New Infections, Social Injustice, and Death.

Thirty-six years ago, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described a rare lung infection in five previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles (AIDS.gov, 2016). The report in the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report was America’s introduction to what would become known as HIV infection and AIDS. Since those early years, significant scientific advances–isolation of HIV ...