Welcome to the Change Agency, the new progressive activist group on campus! After a lot of hard work from a lot of talented people, the Change Agency is finally ready to go public and bring activism at Brandeis to new heights. And each and every one of us can bring our talents together and play [...]
Posted on: August 16th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, Honesty, Schuster Institute reports, The Public Good
In 1972, the young reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein almost single-handedly uncovered the evidence of the political scandal of the century and forced the resignation of a corrupt President. Thirty years later, another corrupt administration lied the nation into an ongoing war with the complicity of a media that served as cheerleaders [...]
Posted on: August 14th, 2010
Category: Activism, Break Blogging, Campus Camp Wellstone, Elly, International Issues, Massachusetts, National Issues, Take Action, The Public Good
IF YES….. I received this e-mail from the national Democracy for America group, one of the many causes I support and wish I was more involved with but sadly am not…Don’t let the same thing happen to you. (I love you, Howard Dean!) It takes three things to win elections — good candidates, good campaigns, and [...]
Posted on: August 9th, 2010
Category: Activism, Break Blogging, Elly, International Issues, National Issues, News, Protect the Powerless, Take Action
What could come of dozens of the nation’s richest people getting together? The options are limitless. Bill&Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet, longtime billionaires and philanthropists, have teamed up to create a network of America’s richest people, reaching out to the Forbes 400 in order to ask for donations. However, this campaign, now known as The Giving Pledge, goes further than any have in [...]
Posted on: July 27th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, International Issues, National Issues, The Public Good
Treatment of mental health conditions has long been the most underfunded aspect of the American health care system (the other contender is preventive care, but the Affordable Care Act has finally taken steps to address it). People with mental health disorders are frequently denied not only the funding to seek appropriate treatment but also, all [...]
Posted on: July 26th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, Honesty, News, RoseArt, The Public Good
Two days ago, I wrote about the exciting news that the Rose Art Museum was named one of 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts. That, however, will be cold comfort if the Museum is later disbanded or if its collection is devalued by the sale of some of its major works. Unfortunately, the latest updates in [...]
