News Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, sister of former President JFK and Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, is in critical condition at a Massachusetts hospital. It’s Justice Sotomayor now. Human trafficking Sex trafficking ring busted in New Jersey. Combating human trafficking in Austin, TX. Green Electric car company Tesla is now profitable! Politics Florida Senator Mel Martinez …
Starting with an oldie but a goodie … Star Wars as retold by a person who’s never actually seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2GmBkkaTU&hl=en&fs=1& News Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the next US Supreme Court Justice by the Senate by a count of 68-31. Here’s President Obama’s response. Bill O’Reilly sings Obama’s praises … seriously. Jobless claims are …
News Stimulus spending is patchy. Britain mourns its last surviving World War I veteran, Harry Patch, who died aged 111. Rupert Murdoch says the age of free news is ending. Human trafficking New book "The Snakehead," by Patrick Raddan Keefe, delves into human trafficking in New York’s Chinatown. Excerpted on NPR here. The Rio Grande …
Week Six Read A Crime So Monstrous by Ben Skinner, as an exercise in information gathering. It’s one of the best books I’ve read on human trafficking, as he documents his journey to learn more about the new slave trade. It began as a journalistic endeavor: “Before I met those slaves and those traffickers, I …
News LA Police Chief William Bratton is stepping down after seven years at the helm. Human trafficking INTERPOL rescues 54 child slaves in West Africa. A new Underground Railroad: modern day Harriet Tubmans in Iraq. Life as a slave … in Britain. An article from 2001, going inside the sweatshops of Los Angeles. Green Nissan …