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Perspectives on
Social Issues
Monthly Perspectives in 2004
Blue triangle December 2004
Environmental justice project between village in India and Wisconsin interfaith group,
water increasingly a commodity for corporate profits, building a peaceforce in Sri Lanka, school uniform project supports life-saving jobs, U.S. prison population increasing

Blue triangle November 2004
NAFTA'S failed promises to Mexicans, real security issues for U.S., environmental impact of sugar production, farm worker victory in North Carolina!, cancer alley activist honored

Blue triangle October 2004
Indian prison conditions: "a national disgrace, power of letter-writing to politicians, eating healthier meat, activists protest dirty energy, gap between rich and poor increases

Blue triangle September 2004
Ranks of uninsured, in poverty, rises; U.S. oil dependence? a choice; reducing computer disposal in landfills; take back your time day; death in Baghdad

Blue triangle August 2004
Sudan's great humanitarian crisis, U.S. public perception of nuclear weapons, dead zones growing in oceans, using alternative fuels in Yosemite, "sanctions for evil"

Blue triangle July 2004
Housing assistance funds endangered, computers and the environment,
gas prices too high or too low?, living wage campaigns, Coca-Cola or clean water?

Blue triangle June 2004
Benefit Bank lifts people out of poverty, "environmental peacemaking," statistics to reflect on, young people vote when registered, "trickle-down injustice"

Blue triangle May 2004
Shareholders bring social and environmental change, dangerous mercury levels for newborns, juveniles in adult prisons continued inequalities between blacks and whites, environmental concerns

Blue triangle April 2004
Creating a dialogue to transform health care,
churches silent about family violence, reducing students' exposure to air pollution, horror in Uganda, especially for children, health disparities of minorities

Blue triangle March 2004
Mental illness among prisoners,
Ireland cuts use of plastic bags, peacemaking as "presence," environmental costs of golf, micro-financing success

Blue triangle February 2004
Low-income housing crisis, churches oppose for-profit prisons, long-lasting dangers of cluster bombs, commitments to clean energy, no glory in Enola Gay

Blue triangle January 2004
Slavery persists,
movement for clean elections, fair trade chocolate success, prison rape, facts about use of coal


Perspectives on Social Issues
Gratitude to the Institute for Peace and Justice
for use of their Pope Paul VIth graphic.