In a moving show of civil disobedience, activists from both the civil rights and environmental movements laid down in front of trucks carrying PCB-contaminated soil into the largely African-American Warren County - already inundated with more industry than any of the other counties in North Carolina. ... "Bullard offers case studies such as the Warren County movement, but fails to address workable solutions to the problem, and Friedman does not contest Bullard's allegations, but merely explains that poverty is much more detrimental to minority health than pollution, and, thus, "separat...

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It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the UN Commission on Human Rights is "convinced that notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they are a threat to peace, security and the self-determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of human rights by peoples". ... Contrary to the main international human rights instruments, the Convention has not established a monitoring mechanism. ... In this regards...

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Such tendentious revisionism may provide a useful corrective to older enthusiastic assessments, but it fails to capture a larger historical tragedy: Jacksonian Democracy was an authentic democratic movement, dedicated to powerful, at times radical, egalitarian ideals "but mainly for white men. Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. ... Southerners sought low tariffs, greater respect for states' rights, and a return to strict constructionism. ... To aid hard...

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