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This article speaks about how it is widely accepted to use cigarettes and alcohol. However, the use of medical marijuana is still unaccepted. It goes into detail about the approval in various states.

There are many pros and cons of legalizing marijuana. This site gives a bit of more information on what these pros and cons are. For example, Marijuana is no more harmful to a person's health than alcohol or tobacco, which are both legal and widely used, and regulated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, and Some Americans believe that marijuana ingestion is immoral, and that their moral standards should be required of all Americans.

Article stating both sides of legalizing marijuana. Talks from several perspectives

Some of the pros of legalizing marijuana are that it can be taxed, law enforcement could be doing more productive things with their time and that whether one smokes it should be their own decision. Some of the cons include that marijuana could possibly lead to other drugs and that long term use could be harmful.

This article is about the Mayor of New York banning soda. New York City Mayor Bloomberg struck what he claims is another blow for the cause of public health yesterday by announcing a ban on the sale of all sugared drinks in containers that measure larger than 16 ounce servings. Because soft drinks are widely believed to be part of the obesity epidemic, he believes it is his duty to try and stop the citizens of Gotham from harming themselves.

Article about how New York mayor wanted to ban large sodas. Analyzes how this effects personal freedom from both sides.

About 700 to 1,000 activists came out to voice their opinion for change during the March for Social Justice and Equality in Murray, chanting and holding signs with ambitions to send a message to the new presidential administration on the first day of the term. This is widely known as the "Women's March." It was much more than the dislike of Donald Trump, or abortion, it was about other social justices such as defending people of different colors, races, and sexual origin.

Summary: This article is based off a nonprofit origination that wants to give victims of prostitution a new beginning. Providing them with a new home, new clothing, food, employment, or schooling. The Everyone's Kid, Everyone' Gives campaign wants to raise awareness, and empower women/girls/children that there is a better life outside of trafficking world. They want them to have an ease that their safe, and not feel they will be criminalized and punished if they leave. In order to provide them with this comfort it requires a need for resources. That is why Everyone's Kids, Everyone Gives is a wide range fundraising event to make it possible.

Today is Open Borders Day - an international event created to celebrate the ideal of freedom of movement across international boundaries. Open borders is a radical principle, but also one deeply rooted in American history and in widely held liberal values of liberty and happiness.

Two U.S. states do not protect a mother's right to nurse her child in public: WV And ID. Three additional states only exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws: WY, SD, MI. Every state except West Virginia, has some law related to breastfeeding but the laws vary widely.

Sugary drinks has been linked to 180,000 deaths world wide. Drinks such as soda has been linked to major heart diseases and obesity.

This article goes into the relationship between access to mental healthcare and suicide. This article is important because it is crucial to be mindful of what is at stake when we're talking about why it's important to have wide access to mental healthcare.

Its freightening how unaware we are as a people to mental health conditions. A condition that America has called its epidemic is obesity, but the root cause of so many conditions is actual mental health. Mental health is more than just people who struggle with a psycological problem.

It should be noted that at the end of the article it was concluded that the correlations between these to things do not nesssasirly entail causation.

The link between poverty and human-trafficking. World wide human trafficking has become paramount affecting poverty stricken countries largely. The affects ruining peoples lives or losing their lives.

Human trafficking has been affecting many people and countries over time. This is a huge problem or issue that needs to stop.

human trafficking is one main issue that this country faces each day. human trafficking's does affect many lives and can also be dangerous for many of these countries facing this problem.

Oxford Acedemics updates its social justice wall everyday with new stories as well as updates. They are a reliable source due to the fact that it is the press from oxford university.

This article talks about women's rights across the world. The article lists countries who rank the highest and countries who rank the lowest. The United States surprisingly falls lower than expected. No country is ranked a perfect 100% but there are countries who come close, USA not being one of them.

Such a shame from a country that widely considers itself advocates for equal rights. There are many of us that recognize this same concept, that being gender inequalities and pay gaps still exist, and advocate for that to be abolished. With the recent advances in how sensitive our society is regarding social issues, how long is this really going to take? One would think that we, as a culture of the U.S., would have already arrived to a point of true gender equality.

This is a very interesting article. I knew there is a significant pay gap within the U.S. and was honestly surprised to see it so high up. As someone else said, it certainly is a shame that we are so low yet consider the US to be one of the most progressive countries with social issues.