Human Rights

Let These Women Glow: Help Tiwale Build An Education Center For Women In Malawi

By Drew Gibson on April 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

It is not coincidence that movements of social change are usually born on the backs of the young. The old saying may have it that with age comes wisdom, but with the knowledge gleaned from a lifetime’s experience comes a… Read More ›

Let Them Drink Pop: Detroit’s Water Crisis & The Fight For Basic Human Rights in The Motor City

By Drew Gibson on July 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

During the Super Bowl earlier this year, Chrysler unveiled the latest iteration of the “Imported From Detroit” advertising campaign that has been such a key part of their rebranding efforts in the wake of their filing for bankruptcy in 2009…. Read More ›

No Justice, No Peace…But We Do Have Photos: The Turn on the Water Detroit Rally

By Drew Gibson on July 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

Today, I made the drive up I-75 from Cincinnati to the Motor City to attend the March & Rally to Turn the Water On in Detroit, which was put on by National Nurses United, Robin Hood Tax USA, Moratorium-MI.Org and… Read More ›

We Are Our Mountain’s Keeper: The Fight for the Soil & Soul of Appalachia

By Drew Gibson on June 27, 2014 • ( 5 )

West Virginia is no country for young men. Nor is it a country for old men, brown men, poor men or women. West Virginia is a country for rich men; men with no names and no faces who live far… Read More ›

The Quality of Mercy in Oklahoma

By Drew Gibson on May 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

Go to Oklahoma and you will find the quality of mercy is now strained. It withers in the rainless, nameless plains out west and finds no purchase in the Cross Timbers or the Red River Basin down south. Twice profaned… Read More ›

Watching As He Wastes Away: How a Kentucky Prison Let a Mentally Ill Man Starve to Death

By Drew Gibson on April 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

As I type this, a delectable, carbohydrate filled pretzel bagel from Servatti’s is busy baking in the convection oven of my favorite coffee shop. Within the next minute or so that bagel will be brought out to my table and… Read More ›

Same as it Ever Was: Anti-Semitism in the Ukraine

By Drew Gibson on April 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

I am a Jew. I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, attended a Jesuit college, know The Lord’s Prayer and The Nicene Creed by heart and have never been inside a synagogue for any other purpose besides watching a friend… Read More ›

The Eye of God Looks Upon You: Eastern State Penitentiary & The Failure of Solitary Confinement

By Drew Gibson on April 7, 2014 • ( 4 )

In three of the four Gospels of the New Testament, the two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus are but bit players. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark portray them as impertinent and ignorant men who readily echoed the… Read More ›