How do Media and Politics intertwine with social issues?

What drives unrest and civil disobedience?

Looting In London

London in Flames, On Point Newscast from NPR August 10,2011
National Public Radio Newscast

Did a student protest against rising tuition fees get taken advantage of?


Why are these 10-20 something youths fighting for human rights, as they violate them toward others?  Are the strong or the poor entitled to help themselves in a pinch?  


Now there are vigilante groups forming and the authorities in London do not want to find themselves unable to distinguish the law abiding citizens from the gangsters. 


Can these communities grow beyond their racial and economical prejudices and differences? 




Human Trafficking

Photo courtesy of the Eugene Weekly, see link to article below
Illustration by Sam Wolfe Connelly

People for Sale, Sex Trafficking hits home in Eugene Oregon 


Article in the 8/4/11 Eugene Weekly by Shannon Finnell




Good story on human trafficking and how it is more common than most of the public realizes


I am not so sure that laws that fund entitlement programs for communities with this problem is 


the best tactic, as that creates people wanting there to be a problem to fix. 


We even have people trying to get in jail for room and board in this current economy.




What do you think your community can do to address this issue impacting the I-5 corridor?


How STAR TREK the original series reflected troubled times in history


Squidoo lens about the later 1960s and how social unrest wove itself into society, including the television shows of the day.   


Do you like this lens, and did you realize that America landed on the moon, changed public opinion against winning the war in Vietnam, and Martin Luther King jr and Bobby Kennedy were shot down at the same time the Original episodes of Star Trek were aired on NBC?