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Mixed Populations
Abril 15, 2009, 3:59 pm
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OriginsThe Segregated Origins of Social Security
Abril 15, 2009, 3:50 pm
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This is a long overdue book- since completing my dissertation thirty years ago, I


have wanted to have a full description and explanation of The Segregated Origins


of Social Security. Mary Poole offers public historians, social historians, social


scientists, social workers, and students of policymaking a detailed reading of


primary sources by those men and women instrumental in shaping and enacting


the first four programs of the 1935 Social Security Act-Grants to States for Old


Age Assistance (Title I), Federal Old-Age Benefits (Title II), Grants to States for


Unemployment Compensation Administration (Title III), and Grants to States


for Aid to Dependent Children (Title IV).


“African Americans were not denied the benefits of Social Security because


of the machinations of southern congressional leadership, as is assumed,” Poole


argues. “The Act was made discriminatory through a shifting web of alliances of


white policymakers that crossed regional and political parties … who genuinely


sought to build a fairer and better world, and devoted their waking hours to that


challenge, but whose vision was steeped in racial privilege” (p. 6).


 
















AUTOR: W. Andrew Achenbaum
TÍTULO: [ los orígenes segregados de la Seguridad Social ]
FUENTE: Diario de la caída social 2007 del no1 207-8 de la historia 41
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Creative Commons South Africa Drafts Now Available
Marzo 25, 2009, 5:12 pm
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Matt Haughey, October 19th, 2004

The innovative nonprofit pairs with
South African experts to offer localized versions of its “some rights
reserved” copyright licenses soon

SAN FRANCISCO, USA AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
October 19, 2004— Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a
body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today
that South Africa is the latest country to join its international
efforts. Creative Commons copyright licenses, which are available at no
charge from the group’s website (http://creativecommons.org),
allow authors and artists to mark their works as free to copy or
transform under certain conditions—to declare “some rights reserved,”
in contrast to the traditional “all rights reserved”—thereby enabling
others to access a growing pool of raw materials without legal
friction. South Africa joins twelve other nations in the draft phase of
adapting the Creative Commons licenses; another nine nations already
offer localized Creative Commons licenses.

Led by the Johannesburg-based LINK Centre,
Creative Commons South Africa plans to adapt the copyright licenses for
use under South African law and to build local engagement with and use
of Creative Commons-licensed content. Andrew Rens, a former lecturer at
Wits University Law School, is leading the legal aspects of the project
while Heather Ford, LINK Centre associate, directs the overall South African effort.

“South
Africa is well-placed to pioneer developments in the field of
intellectual property law,” said Ford. “Through the Treatment Action
Campaign we have had huge success in gaining access to cheaper HIV/AIDS drugs. More recently South Africa has helped to lead a ‘development agenda’ at WIPO which aims to use knowledge as a tool for empowerment, rather than to deepen existing divides.”

Rens
says that South Africa’s innovative constitution has resulted in
dramatic changes to many areas of law affecting the transmission of
ideas including freedom of expression and access to information a
development with potentially interesting consequences for the local
enforcement of copyright laws.

South Africa offers unique
opportunities and poses unique challenges for the Creative Commons
model. Since the demise of apartheid, South Africa has emerged from
global isolation as a model for democracy around the world. With one of
the world’s most progressive constitutions and a Bill of Rights that
stresses individual freedoms, it is also a leader in African policy
development, and a champion for the causes of the developing world.
South Africa is, nonetheless, still a divided society. A small,
wealthy, relatively sophisticated population lives side by side with
and a large, unskilled informal population. Only 4 million of the
nation’s 43 million residents are online.

To join the
discussion on the local ‘porting’ of the Creative Commons licenses and
help make some real change, go to South African website,: <http://za.creativecommons.org>, or view the South African drafts <http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/za/>.

More about the LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand

The LINK Centre
is the leading information and knowledge hub providing training,
research and consultancy in the Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) arena in order to develop public, private, NGO and community-based capacity within the Southern African region.

The
institution focuses on capacity building in the public and private
sectors and development arenas through quality training, applied
research and consultancy services necessary to maximize the benefits of
the Information Society and economy.

For more information, see <http://link.wits.ac.za>.

Contact

Heather Ford
Creative Commons South Africa
Ford.H@pdm.wits.ac.za
Phone: +27 11 717 3113
Cell: +27 82 872 7374

Andrew Rens
Creative Commons South Africa
andrewrens@yahoo.com

Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn@creativecommons.org

+1.415.336.1433

Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit/



More resources required to address growing social needs.
Marzo 18, 2009, 5:03 pm
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The article reports that African Methodist Episcopal Church is searching for sources of income from outside the Church to answer immediate social needs. According to Reverent Ronald Eugene Braxton the Church has to search and solicit support to generate income for global missions, such as partnering with government and private sectors. One mission is the McFarland & Associates which is aimed at supporting and strengthening social welfare institutions that address problem social problems.

see this link for complete text in PDF:http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=16&hid=13&sid=002897b6-f8d7-4d65-80a1-c5d35989ad6f%40SRCSM1



Corneal blindess in a southern Indian population: need for health promotion strategies.
Marzo 18, 2009, 4:57 pm
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Aim: To assess the distribution and causes of corneal blindness in a population in southern India. Methods: A total of 11 786 people of all ages from 94 clusters representative of the population of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were sampled using a stratified, random, cluster, systematic sampling strategy. These participants underwent a detailed interview and eye examination including measurement of visual acuity with logMAR charts, refraction, slit lamp biomicroscopy, applanation tonometry, gonioscopy, and stereoscopic dilated fundus evaluation. An eye was considered to have corneal blindness if the visual acuity was <20/200 due to a corneal disease. Results: Of those sampled, 10 293 (87.3%) people participated in the study. Corneal blindness in at least one eye was present in 86 participants, an age, sex, and urban-rural distribution adjusted prevalence of 0.66% (95% confidence interval 0.49 to 0.86), which included 0.10% prevalence of corneal blindness in both eyes and 0.56% in one eye. The most frequent causes of corneal blindness in at least one eye included keratitis during childhood (36.7%), trauma (28.6%), and keratitis during adulthood (17.7%). Nearly 95% of all corneal blindness was avoidable. Multivariate analysis showed that the prevalence of corneal blindness was significantly higher with decreasing socioeconomic status and with increasing age. Of the 99 eyes with corneal blindness, 51 (51.5%) had visual acuity of inaccurate projection of light or no perception of light. Conclusions: There is a significant burden of corneal blindness in this population, the majority of which is avoidable. Eye health promotion strategies are warranted to raise awareness about the causes and prevention of corneal blindness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
 
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