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2012

Democracy

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The Unbordered Borders, Winston Langley Jul 2012

The Unbordered Borders, Winston Langley

Winston E. Langley

Many have taken on the task of purportedly advancing the cause of human rights by abstractly reciting them and clamoring for their implementation. Some speak about one’s right to free speech and democracy, for example, with a convenient forgetting of the right to education, which can promote the type of dialogical encounter that is sponsoring of liberatory, integrative construction and reconstruction of self and human societies. Others champion the right to freedom, but not the right to food, careless of the fact that the hungry are un-free, left as they are to the crushing dictates of their bellies; and still …


Op-Ed: Banning Protesters An Attack On Democracy, Stephen D'Arcy Apr 2012

Op-Ed: Banning Protesters An Attack On Democracy, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

A defence of academic freedom at Western U.


Economics Prof Shares History And Memories Of Polish Solidarity Movement, Lucjan T. Orlowski Dr. Feb 2012

Economics Prof Shares History And Memories Of Polish Solidarity Movement, Lucjan T. Orlowski Dr.

Lucjan T. Orlowski

Orlowski, who is a former Solidarity member, shared with those gathered how the Solidarność went from being a labor movement to a leading political party that helped transform Poland from communism to a democracy.