SVHS HWC '12-'13

The speaker addresses the issue of slavery in the contemporary world by presenting ideas on how to fight this despicable phenomena.

Khanna uses maps to show how the roots of border conflicts and proposes "simple" solutions.  An option for station 4 of the globalization & development activity.

"Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing as it never has before."  An option on station 4 of the globalization & development packet.

Google posts suspected North Korean concentration camps on GoogleMaps.  Is this a new form of activism?

Clip from the West Wing in which "Cartographers for Social Equality" explain the inherent biases of the Mercator projection

Dr. Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, presents a lecture that uses statistics to illustrate global poverty and argues that this systematic poverty is a violation of human rights.  (November 2012)

An interactive website that includes photographs of China (1850-1959)

A fun game to review your map and investigate World Heritage Sites.

Photographer Lisa Kristine documents the plight of slaves in contemporary Nepal and Congo.

Interesting analysis of media coverage and political gamesmanship surrounding the Sept. 11 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya.