Seeking Justice in Different Ways
October 26, 2007 by Zulema
Well, as you can all guess, summer did not end up being a productive time for us, as we had troubles in communication and with the website design. Now that we are well into another overwhelming schoolyear, deadlines for our project’s progress are again facing us. With the long break quelling the burn-out a lot of us went through last year, we have plunged into our project once again with renewed fervor.
This Monday, we will have our already-established website up and running. What a relief that will be! Because of our schedules, we won’t be doing as many abstracts as originally planned, but hopefully this will increase when we get more volunteers… and this reminds me, K.E.P has joined forces with the Students for Social Justice Club at La Sierra University! Why is this great news? It means that though our original eight members are still going to be doing much of the same work, we might be getting a few more volunteers to help us increase the number of articles we write. This, of course, depends on how enthusiastic other students are, but we shall see next week during our first meeting of the year.
K.E.P. does not simply want to inform the public of media bias, but to raise awareness of injustices and unfair perceptions… right now, specifically in the Middle East… perhaps one day, in other regions of the world. We are excited at the prospect of joining hands with a group that is looking to not only raise awareness of local and worldwide injustices, but also to act wherever, whenever, and however we can.
The focus this month is on the dire situation in Burma. Yes, I call it Burma and not Myanmar. Apparently, the democracy movement inside the country, the United States, the Europian Union, and other media outlets, has used the name as a symbolic protest against the regime.
Members of Students for Social Justice and K.E.P. will join many others in a rally and protest at the Westwood Federal Building in Los Angeles on November 3rd. For more information, go to: http://web.mac.com/losangeles88/iWeb/Ron/Home.html
