Resources and Links

 

Urban City Runaways

         

Bass, Deborah. Helping Vulnerable Youths: Runaway and Homeless Adolescents in the United States. United States: NASW Press, 1992.

Bolnick, S. Tina, Bolnick P. Jamie. Living at the Edge of the World: A Teenager's Survival in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station New York: St. Martin's Press,  2000. Costin, B. Lela, Karger, J. Howard, Stoesz, David. The Politics of Child Abuse in America. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kryder-Coe, H. Jullee, Salamon, M. Lester, Molnar, M. Janice, ed. Homeless Children and Youth: a New American Dilemma. New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.): Transaction Publishers, 1991.

Michener, J. Anna. Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Old. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Rohr, E. Michael. Adolescent Runaway Behavior: Who Runs and Why. New York and  London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997.

Jacksonville.com: Runaways. 17 August. 1999. The Florida Times-Union. 16 April. 2002 http://www.jacksonville.com/special/runaways/

Juvenile Offenders and Victums: 1997 Update on Violence. August. 1997. Washington,    DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 22 April. 2002  http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/juvoff/neglect.html

National Runaway Switchboard Statistics: 2000. 2001. National Runaway Switchboard. 20 April. 2002 http://www.nrscrisisline.org/2000stat.asp Teichroeb, EB. Ruth. “State's runaway centers provoke controversy: Program divides those working with youth.” Seattle-Post Intelligencer.12 July 2000. 22 April 2002  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/lock12.shtml

Guatemala's Street Children

Rigorberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Ed. Elisabeth Burgos-Debay. Translated by Ann Wright. Verso, 1984.

Stoll, David. Rigorberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. West View Press, 1999.

Wilson, Richard. "Surviving State Terror." Maya Resurgence in Guatemala. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London, 1995.

Warren, Kay B. "Civil War: Enemies Without and Within." Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala. Princeton University Press, 1998.

Trudeau, Robert H. "Power and Participation: The Late Cerezo Administration." Guatemalan Politics: The Popular Struggle for Democracy. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993.

Tucker, Lee. Guatemala's Forgotten Children: Police Violence and Abuses in Detention. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1997.

Tierney, Nancy Leigh. Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children. 1997.

"Guatemala's Lethal Legacy: Past Impunity and Renewed Human Rights Violations." Amnesty International. 28 Feb. 2002. 3 March 2002 http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index

"Police Violence Against Street Children." Human Rights Watch: Violence Against Children Worldwide. 5 March 2002 http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/children/5.htm

Claman, Elizabeth. Writing Our Way Out of the Dark: An Anthology by Child Abuse Survivors.  Queen of Swords Press. 1995.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast Telegraph Online http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/

Byron, Thomas A.  “The Shame of Belfast: On the streets of Northern Ireland, children learn bigotry from those old enough to know better.”  Time  Sep. 17, 2001: p38.

Cairns, Ed.  Caught in the Crossfire: Children and the Northern Ireland Conflict.  Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Casciani, Dominic.  “Holy Cross School: Hatred amid the hope.”  BBC News.   http://news.bbc.co.uk.   24 October, 2001.

Holliday, Laurel.  Children of the Troubles: Our lives in the crossfire of Northern Ireland.  New York: Pocket Books, 1997.

Irish American Information Service http://www.iais.org/

Martin, Peter F.  “Suffer The Little Children: Pupils return to school in North Belfast for a new term, but instead of math and English they get lessons in the age-old and violent hatreds of Northern Ireland.”  Time International  Sep. 17, 2001: p.32.

McGuffin ,  J .  (1974) .  The guineapigs .  In CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet  [Online] .  M. Melaugh , (Ed.). Available: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/intern/docs/jmcg74.htm

McLernon, Frances: Cairns, Ed.  “Impact of Political Violence on Images of War and Peace in the Drawings of Primary School Children.”  Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.  Vol 7  2001  p 45-57.

Muldoon, Orla T.; Trew, Karen; Kilpatrick, Rosemary. “The Legacy of the Troubles on   the Young People’s Psychological and Social Development and Their School Life.” Youth and Society.  Sep. 2000, Vol. 32: 6-32.

O’Mallay, Joseph.  Letter addressed to me with pictures of Shankill murals.  24 March, 2002.

 

Los Angeles Uprising

           

“Fire and fury” Newsweek May 11 1992: 26+

Garcia, Robert. “Riota abd Rebellion: Civil Rights, Police Reform and the Rodney King Beating” 16 Mar. 2002. www.Timespick.com

Gates, Daryl: “We’re not the enemy.” Newsweek May 11 1992:39

Gooding Williams, Robert . Reading Rodney King/ Reading Urban Uprising.  New York: Routledge, 1993

Haddock, David D. “Understanding riots.”  The Cato Journal  16 Mar. 2002 <http://www.cato.org>.

             

Leland, John .“The word on the street is heard in a beat” Newsweek May 11 1992:52-53

Matthews, Tom, et al. “The siege of LA” Newsweek May 11 1992: 30+

Morganthau, Tom. “The Price of neglect: A powerful reminder of the rage of the possessed. And  proof that one way or another we will fight the war on poverty.” Newsweek May 11 1992:54-55

Salholz, Eloise, et al. “Blacks and police: up against a wall” Newsweek May 11 1992:52

Smith, Anna Deavere .Twilight Los Angeles 1992.  New York: Anchor Books, 1994

Washington, Frank. “A night of hell at ground zero” Newsweek May 11 1992:35

 

East Timor

Black, Eric. “East Timor: An Inconsistent Case of U.S. Policy.”  Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6 Jun 1999.  East Timor Action Network: http://etan.org/et99/june/6-12/6easttim.htm.

Hartung, William.  “U.S. Arms Transfers to Indonesia 1975-1997: Who’s Influencing Whom?”  World Policy Institute Mar 1997. http://worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html.

Jardine, Matthew.  East Timor: Genocide in Paradise.  Chicago:  Odonian, 1995.

 

Laakso, Jan.  “Village Women of East Timor Still Have Great Hope.” Capital Times, 7 Dec 2000. PC Users Group: http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/Village.htm.

Marshall, Robyn.  “East Timor: Women Face Uphill Struggle.” Green Left Weekly, 24 Jan 2001.  http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/433/433p24b.htm.

Mo Jo Wire.  “East Timor Coverage.”  http://www.motherjones.com/east_timor/.

Mydans, Seth. “Sexual Violence as Tool of War: East Timor’s Women Pay a Toll.”  New York Times, 1 Mar 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/01/world/01BAD-TIMO.html.

Pinto, Constâncio, and Matthew Jardine.  East Timor’s Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance.  Boston: South End Press, 1997.

 

Ramos-Horta, José.  Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor.  Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997. 

Tanter, Richard, Mark Selden, and Stephen Shalom, Eds.  Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community.  New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Sweatshops in Haiti
       

An Open Letter to Walt Disney. (1996, May). Charles Kernaghan, http://www.nlcnet.org/DISNEY/Disapp.htm.

Assembly Factories in Haiti. (1998, May). Christian Peacemaker Teams,
http://www.angelfire.com/yt/childslavery/haiti.html.

Disney Sweatshops in South China. (2000, December). Sweatshop Watch,
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/swatch/headlines/2000/disneyfindings_dec00.html.

Disney’s Wonderful World of Sweatshops. (2002, April). John K. Wilson. http://indy.pabn.org/archives/105disne.shtml.

Firings and Suspensions at Disney/Haiti Contractor. (1998, July). Michel Liautaud, Megatex S.A.,
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/289.html.

Labor Committee Charges Companies With Profiting From12 Cents An Hour Wages In Haiti. (1996, March). Corporate Crime Reporter,
http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/CNMS/archivio/lavoro/wages_haiti.html.

The U.S.-Haiti Connection. (1996, April). Eric Verhoogen,
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Caribbean/US_Haiti_Connection.html.

 

El Salvador’s Co-Madres

Americas Watch.  El Salvador’s Decade of Terror: Human Rights Since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero.  Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1991.
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP).  “II. The Situation of Women in El Salvador.” 2001.

Connors, Maria and Nancy Pfaff.  “Report From El Salvador: D.C. Nurses at the Front.”  off our backs.  19 (1989): 1.

Golden, Renny.  The Hour of the Poor, the Hour of Women: Salvadoran Women Speak.  Crossroad: New York, 1991.

Henze, Laura.  “Enough Crying of Tears: The Story of the CoMadres of El Salvador.”  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum  12 (1987): 30.

Hutchinson, Bill.  When the Dogs Ate Candles: A Time in El Salvador.  University Press of Colorado: Niwot, 1998.
McClintock, Cynthia.  “The U.S. Role in El Salvador.”  Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador’s FMLN and Peru’s Shining Path.  United States Institute of Peace Press: Washington D.C., 1998. 221-235.

Ready, Kelley and Jennifer Schirmer.  “Women in El Salvador’s Popular Movement.”  Soujourner: The Women’s Forum  13 (1988): 18.

Sosa, America.  “El Salvador.”  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum  12 (1987): 12.

Stephen, Lynn.  Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power From Below.  University of Texas Press: Austin, 1997.

 

American Farmworkers

           

Atkin, S. Beth. Voices from the Fields. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.

Chavez, Cesar. “Farm Workers at Risk.” Toxic Struggles. Ed. Richard Hofrichter. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1993. 163-170.

Espada, Martín. “Federico’s Ghost.” Poetry Like Bread. Ed. Martín Espada. Willimantic: Curbstone Press, 1994.

Garcia, Diana. When Living Was a Labor Camp. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 2000.

Hart, Elva Treviño. Barefoot Heart. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1999.

Moses, Marion. “Farmworkers and Pesticides.” Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Ed. Robert D. Ballard. Boston: South End Press, 1993: 161-178.

Porter, Warren P., James W. Jaeger, and Ian H. Carlson. “Endocrine, immune, and behavioral effects of aldicarb (carbamate), atrazine (triazine) and nitrate (fertilizer) mixtures at groundwater concentrations.” Toxicology and Industrial Health 15. 1999: 133-150.

Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.

Wargo, John. Our Children’s Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.