Judi Bari was born November 7, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was raised in Baltimore, and attended college at the University of Maryland, where she majored in “anti-Vietnam War rioting,” as she once said. With no real direction and already in her fifth year at the school, she decided to drop out and took a…
History
The 1968 ‘Stolen’ Presidential Election and its Impact on American Politics
Introduction With Berlin still smouldering and the War in the Pacific raging, Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945 signified an end to four decades of American ‘isolationism’ in world affairs. There would be no return to the period of ‘normalcy’ which Warren Harding pledged after the First World War, nor would America be able…
Sleazy Credit: Providian Financial subprime ethics
By now consumers should not be surprised to hear that another large company has taken advantage of its customers and has used unethical business practices. As of late, it almost seems normal to be unethical in the business world. Presently, the most popular story concerning corporate fraud is Enron. Enron used an accounting style that…
Grave Violations of Human Rights
Does the international community care? The Human Rights Movement is constantly evolving, and universal respect for human rights has improved dramatically in the past century. Although the international community has progressed in it’s recognition and attempt to protect individual human rights, it has been widely unsuccessful in it’s ability to prevent the violation of grave…
American Indians in National Parks
Until the late 1990s, there were thousands of books about American Indians, a considerable body of literature on national parks, but almost nothing linking the two. Two monumental works on government Indian policy, Federal Indian Law by Felix Cohen and The Great Father by Francis Prucha, contain one passing reference to national parks between them.…
The History of American Capitalism
Capitalism defines America. The United States was founded on capitalism and has stood by it throughout the course of history. The story of the first transcontinental railroad, not surprisingly, was also born of capitalism. Four books by Oscar Lewis, Wesley Griswold, Robert Athearn and David Haward Bain explain that the building of this iron line…
The Events of May 1968 in France: Points of Analysis
“I take my desires for reality, because I believe in the reality of my desires.” Various labels have been attached to the ‘events’ of May 68: a ‘revolution’, a ‘student uprising’, a national strike of which the Western world had never previously witnessed, an ‘episode’ that transformed French society and intellectual thought. Personally, I believe…
Muckrakers: Journalism for Liberal Reform
The beginning of the 20th century was a time of many social and political changes in America. Throughout this time, we saw the rise of the vast-stretching Progressive movement, a movement which lacked a central focus and really emphasized only one idea-that America was due for some changes and now was the time to change…
Women in Journalism: A Triumph Over Time
Currently, journalism is an occupation shared by both males and females. Not fewer than fifty years ago journalism used to be an almost exclusively male profession. Even though journalism was strictly a man’s occupation at first, some women battled the rough world of journalism. Women had to deal with issues that female journalists in today’s…
The Cold War Beginnings vs. The Start of Vietnam
The beginning of the cold war in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s set in motion a chain of events that would change the United States forever. From the way the country handled foreign relations to the launch of the space program, the events that happened at beginning of the cold war are some of…