Friday, March 27, 2009

Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto



About this talk

In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Official PETA video

A world of fading light and sound

Doctors have told Rebecca Alexander she will likely go completely blind and deaf within the next 10 years. "As my sister describes it, "It's like I am slowly being taken from the world around me -- like the end of an old Warner Brothers cartoon on TV where the picture becomes an increasingly smaller hole until it finally fades to black."

Rebecca, 30, has a rare genetic disorder called Usher syndrome, type III. It is among the cruelest of disorders -- progressively stealing normal life away from roughly 16,000 people nationwide. And, currently, there is no treatment or cure. Rebecca lives courageously each day with the hope that a cure will be found before it's too late."

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Friday, March 13, 2009