The Phoenix on Activism
Community Partnerships and student present Human Rights films to campus
by Shakira Croce
Wednesday February 22, 2006
“The War on Terror,” “The Axis of Evil,” “Wanted: Dead or Alive”: these anxiety-producing phrases became an intricate part of American political lingo in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Speakers illuminate genocide, bring personal views
by Elizabeth Henderson
Wednesday February 22, 2006
"The war in southern Sudan has been going on almost forever," Thiep Angui began last Thursday’s talk to raise awareness about the ongoing genocide in Sudan.
U.S. should lead U.N. towards Sudanese peace
by Rebecca Harshbarger
Wednesday February 22, 2006
This February there has been much at stake. The international community can now mark the deaths of about 400,000 civilians in western Sudan, where the Sudanese government in Khartoum has attempted to wipe out and exterminate three Afro-Sudanese ethnic groups: the Fur, from which Darfur gets its name, the Zaghawa, and the Massaleit.
Second, as it does every month, the Security Council has rotated its presidency. During its presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month the United States, led by Ambassador John R. Bolton, has passed a statement–but not a resolution–calling for the deployment of thousands of peacekeepers to Darfur. Nothing short of a resolution, which has the teeth that a statement does not, will improve the chances of ethnic groups in Darfur, who are now primarily living in camps for internally displaced people in Darfur and Chad. A Security Council Statement merely triggers contingency planning towards a possible future peacekeeping mission, and does not formally commit the Security Council to such a UN mission in Darfur.
Yonkers day laborers' fight for rights
by Angel Canales
Wednesday February 22, 2006
When I first moved to the United States from Puerto Rico at age 21, I held a job as a security officer in a residential building. I was not allowed to take lunch breaks. I remember taking a break one day and almost losing my job because the building’s tenants complained to my management company. I continued to work for this company due to my ignorance of labor rights, the language barrier and my financial burdens. After that day, I would avoid leaving my post for lunch, but I began looking for another job in which I could be afforded basic rights, including the right to eat.
Why the world cannot wait
by Kaz
Tuesday February 7, 2006
I’d like to respond to the article ("On Nov.2: Can the world wait three years?") written about The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out The Bush Regime that appeared in Vol. 10, Issue 3 of The Phoenix.
While The World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime chapter here at SLC really appreciated the coverage, there are certain things in the article that were flat out incorrect and need to be addressed. First of all, The World Can’t Wait has nothing to do with communism. Yes, there are communists in the group, but there are a lot more people that are not communists.
New Orleans Diary
by Elizabeth Henderson
Tuesday February 7, 2006
As our plane circled over New Orleans, I kept my eyes glued to the window. I wanted a perspective on the damage below that did not come secondhand from television or the papers. Soon our group from Sarah Lawrence—a professor, a dean, nine students and two alumnae–would be landing. It was January 5.
We had come for a nine-day stay to work with ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Filling Empty Bellies is what Dana Frasz does best
by Meredith Ogilvie
Monday November 28, 2005
This season, altruism just may be the new black. Senior Dana Frasz has been awarded the first youth award from the Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless. Frasz was chosen for the award for the work she has done with the student group Empty Bellies. The group picks up unused food from Bates and local restaurants and gives it to Part of the Solution, a food shelter in the Bronx. The Phoenix spoke with Frasz about Empty Bellies–from its inception to the founder’s hopes for it in the future.
SLC marches on Washington DC
by Kim Nguyen
Sunday November 13, 2005
At 7 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 24, approximately 60 Sarah Lawrence students departed from Andrews Parking for the march against the Iraq War in Washington, D.C.
A senior’s perspective on the campus’ Katrina response
by Sarah Kaufmann
Sunday November 13, 2005
I witnessed something on this campus on the evening of Sept. 8, that, as a senior I can say, has yet to be paralleled.
