Fundraising event at Athletic Bilbao stadium, to raise money destined to Saharawi refugees suffering of famine through Development NGO PTM – Mundubat. Picture by Western Sahara / Flickr.com. Some rights reserved (CC BY-SA 2.0).A day before the first ball is kicked in Moscow to launch World Cup 2018, FIFA members will for the first time…
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Toronto Wins First MLS Championship And Builds Opportunity For Youth In Toronto
Toronto Football Club scored two recent victories: The team defeated the Seattle Sounders on Dec. 9 to win their first MLS Championship and they managed to help local youth as part of Major League Soccer’s community outreach initiative last week. Through the league’s MLS Works program, which strives to improve the lives of people through…
The Italian electoral campaign and the issue of immigration: a Twitter analysis in the aftermath of the Macerata attack
Luigi Di Maio, Five Star Movement (M5S) leader, attends the presentation of the political program for the upcoming general elections in Rome on January 30, 2018. The Italian general election will be held March 4, 2018. Giuseppe Ciccia/Press Association. All rights reserved.In the run-up to the general elections on March 4, Italy has seen a…
A Scholar Watched NRA TV For 6 Months So You Wouldn't Have To
As the National Rifle Association — the most influential gun rights advocacy group in the U.S. — comes under pressure from victim groups and gun control advocates, internet companies like Amazon, Apple, and YouTube are finding themselves uncomfortably close to the center of the controversy. These are among the companies that currently stream the NRA’s official…
New Study Shows Early Childhood Education Programs Have Big Benefits For Students And School Boards
The United States is woefully behind the rest of the industrialized world when it comes to early childhood education (ECE). A 2016 study found that out of 36 countries, the U.S. ranked 29th in enrollment rates for its 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. In 2014, only 42% of 3-year-olds and 68% of 4-year-olds were enrolled in ECE…
What does ‘mainstream media bias’ mean in a digital age?
Craig Benzine speaking at VidCon 2012 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Wikicommons/ Gage Skidmore. Some rights reserved.30 years ago, it was easy to silence ideas. Not reporting on something could guarantee its obscurity. The internet changed all that by allowing almost anyone to start up a blog, vlog, or website and do…
Fighting Nigeria’s Sexual Health Stigma One HIV Testing Kit At A Time
THE GOOD NEWS: One woman is reducing stigma in Nigeria by delivering self-testing HIV kits straight to the homes of patients. In Nigeria, deeply embedded cultural fears and stigmas have largely prevented health advocates from educating the population on sexual health concerns. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS and the limited number of people getting tested only…
What would a world without barriers to feminist solidarity look like?
Six Nobel peace laureates meet in Belfast in 2013. Credit: John Murphy Aurora PA.“We want all the barriers down,” declared Nobel peace prize winner Mairead Maguire yesterday, opening the 10th anniversary of the Nobel Women’s Initiative gathering in Dusseldorf, Germany. She was, incidentally, joking, referring to the fact that – due to variations in height…
TCU Donates 1,000 Pounds Of Food From Every Football Game To A Local Homeless Shelter
Food waste in the United States is a major ecological and moral problem. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans in 2015 wasted 31% — or 133 billion pounds — of their overall food supply. This is a tremendous waste of natural resources, contributes to climate change, and squanders food that could be saved for the…
Venezuela’s administration and organized crime: a partnership?
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) reacts during an event to deliver the formal request for a National Constituent Assembly to modify the country's Constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 3, 2017. Boris Vergara/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images There is evidence that drugs produced in Colombia continue to pass freely through Venezuela’s border. Following the demobilization of the Revolutionary…