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NATO Protest Coverage
By The Protest NATO Team
Photo by Joyce Lee
The Protest sent a nine-person reporting team into the field Sunday, May 20 to cover the anti-NATO demonstrations. From the peaceful morning rally to the afternoon’s violent clashes with police to the protesters’ last stand outside the Art Institute, here’s your one-stop shop for coverage of Sunday’s protests.
Background
Timeline: A History of NATO Action
Analysis: What’s Wrong With Obama’s Foreign Policy?
Sunday Day of Protests
Part One: Thousands Gather at Grant Park
Part Two: March to McCormick Place Photos and Video
Part Three: Protesters and Police Clash
Part Four: Determined Protesters Continue at Art Institute
Working for Sustainability: A Real Food System
By Leah Varjacques
Photo by Jack Foster
Every day more than 2,000 students pay about $11 per meal on the weekly 13-meal plan. Why is it that we can get a more nutritious and healthful meal at Whole Foods for less than that? What is in our food and where does it come from?
Daughter of Democracy
By Charles Rollet
Art by Jack Foster
It’s not very often that Ghanaian members of parliament visit Evanston. But Samia Nkrumah, who represents the constituency of Jomoro in southwestern Ghana, is no ordinary MP.
If Northwestern Didn’t Spend So Much on Flowers…
By Kathryn Prescott
Photo by Jack Foster
Northwestern University is a great place to be in the springtime. It’s a time of lighter jackets, lighter homework (for some), and, quite ostensibly, perfectly cultivated landscapes with bright purple, white, and pink flowers blanketing every corner of campus. Yes, they are beautiful, but where does one draw the line between beauty and excess?
The New “Good Germans”
By Matthew Kovac
For those who lived in Nazi Germany, every day posed a moral crisis. Forced to choose between resistance and collaboration, dissent and complicity, ordinary Germans faced one of the ultimate existential problems: what does a good person do in the midst of overwhelming evil?
The Modern Slave Trade
By Yu Sun Chin & Joyce Lee
Photo by Jack Foster
Slavery is not dead. In fact, it is flourishing: there are more slaves now than there were in the transatlantic slave trade. Worldwide, up to 27 million people are victims of sex and labor trafficking, child labor and indentured servitude, according to the CNN Freedom Project. Children as young as 12 are forced to sell their bodies to hundreds of men in India, Latin America, Burma, Switzerland and the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Laborers are captured by slave owners and even sold by family members into horrific working conditions with little food or water.
The Business of Teaching: Is TFA Too Rotten for Our Schools?
By Audrey Cheng
While Teach for America has become one of the leading nonprofits countering educational inequality, the mounting criticisms against the program have led some college graduates to join competing alternative teaching programs.
How Safe Is Evanston?
By Amy Li
Photo by Jack Foster
Although security at Northwestern has been a high priority for the university, a few robbery incidents on and around campus have left students and residents concerned.
What Is To Be Done?
By Rafael Vizcaíno
That was the question Lenin asked at the dawn of the 20th century. We know how the rest of the story unfolded. Halfway through the 20th century, Ernesto “Che” Guevara warned us that “cruel leaders are replaced, only to have new leaders turn cruel.” We are also aware of the historical irony here.
What Is ASG?
By Mauricio Maluff Masi
We call it student government, but it’s not really government in the usual sense of the word. If I have a dispute with another student, I don’t go to ASG to decide who’s right. ASG doesn’t make laws that I have to follow. And it certainly can’t put me in jail. So what exactly does it do? What is its function, and how does it affect us as Northwestern students? These questions have many possible answers. Here I offer only four:
Waging War on Women
By Corinne Zeman
Photo by Beatrice Murch, courtesy of Flickr
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened America’s first birth control clinic. Aided by a progressive minority, she lobbied for women’s quality of life — for unfettered access to contraception and the decline of back-alley abortions. It is 2012, one century later. And yet here we are, debating the morality of birth control, the legality of abortion, and the tenuous bearings of female empowerment. We are, once more, fighting battles that were waged by our mothers and grandmothers.
The Power of Forgiveness: Stories From Grace House
By Aozora Brockman
Art by Jack Foster
At Grace House, a recovery home in Chicago for women exiting the prison system, Lisa Robinson reads her story with quiet strength:
Shoving Bullying to the Forefront
By Alexandria Johnson
When the documentary Bully was tagged with an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, The Weinstein Company, congressmen, celebrities and activists mobilized to petition for a rating change.
From Fort Hood to Chicago: A Soldier’s Journey to the NATO Protests
Story by Matthew Kovac
Video by Jenny Starrs
For some activists, Sunday’s NATO protest was a defiant political statement in an age of austerity. For others, it was a humanitarian outcry against perpetual war. But for Army veteran and conscientious objector Chris May, who ceremoniously returned his medals, it marked the culmination of a personal transformation two years in the making.
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