Tasmanians are being urged to use Social Justice Sunday this weekend to reflect and act on its theme of dignity and justice for Indigenous Australians.

I am creating this thread for an OPEN DIALOGUE around diversity and social justice issues. Please share your thoughts, feelings, ideas around diversity issues.

Hillel's Spitzer Forum on Social JusticeOmni Shoreham HotelWashington , DCSunday, February 25, 2007, All DayHillel, the foundation for Jewish Life, presents theCharlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Forum on Social Justice:Your life. Your world. Your future. Make it sustainable.www .hillel.orgtzed ek

Children's Defense Fund founder and President Marian Wright Edelman once said, "The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place." Echoing Edelman's sentiment are graduate students Jeff Kirkpatrick and Brett Bruner, who want the Social Justice League to allow everyone to feel comfortable on campus.

At the same time, the very idea that one can work for a concrete and knowable idea such as "justice&q uot; is challenged by the other intellectual stream shaping my discipline: post-modernism. From this vantage point, working for justice seems na've at best, and at the same time leads to many complicated questions such as "What kind of justice" and "Justice for whom "

A Sonoma County activist group, the Peoples Revolutionary Organization, has been falsely accused of committing vandalism by the local media based on recent events they held discussing graffiti (where Faultlines held a workshop amongst other speakers) and being politically involved in the community. The article written displays irresponsible journalism by not citing it's sources (one of the sources being indybay) or author and putting a legitimate organizations memberssupporte rs in jeopardy. The following articles explain the situation and are another prime example of the mainstream media and police efforts to repress positive community activism by playing the blame game and attempting to shift organizers focus on the defensive and not on their intended goals to work for local social justice.

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