The Compromises of Social Inequality

Given the conflicts between a world dominating liberal economic philosophy and world realities, we discuss how to create a world of justice. We aim to bring our world realities into focus, highlighting the inconsistencies between the values we claim and the realities we accept, by presenting a series of powerful venues that will shatter the safety of apathy and instil a commitment to change.

• A speaker series that will confront the dilemmas of AIDS in the developing world and will also examine the shortcomings of the international community and individual states' reaction to the humanitarian emergency.

• Crimes of War: the human side of collateral damage - a photographic representation.

• The Downtown course for the Humanities" | If one has been 'trained' in the ways of poverty, left no opportunity to do other than react to his or her environment, what is needed is a beginning, not repetition," Earl Shorris said in an interview last year. "The humanities teach us to think reflectively, to begin, to deal with the new as it occurs to us, to dare. If the multi-generational poor are to make the leap out of poverty, it will require a new kind of thinking-reflection. And that is a beginning." + more

• The Paradox of Hunger

 

 

 

 

 

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