Published on Feb 16, 2013
When a student shows up to school out of dress code, the guidance counselor discovers that his disheveled demeanor is because he is currently homeless and does not have a place to wash his clothes.
Published on Feb 17, 2013
A program known as “Know Thy Heritage” brings young Muslim and Christian Palestinians to Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. Linda Gradstein reports for The Media Line.
Published on Feb 17, 2013
A diverse group of young Americans spent ten days in Israel attending seminars and meetings. Their goal was to learn more about another culture in an attempt to make them better teachers at home. Linda Gradstein reports for The Media Line.
Is taking part in school sport just a matter of keeping fit, or are there more unexpected benefits? And what of those pupils who want to make a career out of sport do they also need a good education?
Olympic champions Carl Lewis and Ian Thorpe conquered the world in their chosen sports, swimming and athletics.
The two sporting heroes advocate sport on the school curriculum and recall their days in the classroom.
*Beating the bullies through sport*
Sports lessons can tackle the problems of bullying and bad behaviour in school helping young people channel aggression and anger into healthy competition. A project in the USA is leading the way and shows why which shows why playing games matters in school matters.
*Sowing the seeds of excellence in Senegal*
Basketball is the key for a better future. That’s the belief behind the Seeds Academy, based 70km from Dakar, the capital of Senegal. It is where teenagers come to practice their favourite sport, and prepare for what might be their future career. Sacrifice, rigour and discipline are the key values at this academy.
Published on Feb 17, 2013
Palestinian schoolchildren struggle with insufficient educational facilities and textbook censorship in their East Jerusalem neighborhood, according to a new report. Some say Israel should let Palestine handle schooling in the area. Linda Gradstein reports for The Middle Line.
Published on Feb 17, 2013
Despite the concerns of Israel, the U.S. and its Western allies, Iran denies it’s developing atomic arms under the cover of a civilian nuclear program. Meanwhile, the severe international sanctions are hitting the lives of everyday Iranians in need of medicine, as RT’s Maria Finoshina has found out.
Published on Feb 17, 2013
The Unification Church, whose followers are often called Moonies after the group’s late founder, has held a mass wedding in South Korea, the first such group nuptials since Reverend Sun Myung Moon died last year. Some 3,500 couples from 70 nations tied the knot at the Korean wedding and an additional 12,000 couples from 149 countries were also said to be attending the ceremony via satellite links.
Published on Feb 15, 2013
In Morocco, increasing numbers of parents are refusing to register their children’s names with the state under the pretext it it woudn’t be aproved. Civil servants used to insist on names approved by the interior ministry in 1996, though while that system was scrapped in 2002, ethnic Berber names are still a problem.
LYRICS
Everythin’ to know about me
Is written on this page
A number you can reach me
My social and my age
Yes, I served in the army
It’s where I learned to shoot
Eighteen months in the desert
Pourin’ sand out of my boots
No, I’ve never been convicted of a crime
I could start this job at any time
I got a strong back, steel toes
I rarely call in sick, a good truck
What I don’t know I catch on real quick
I work weekends, if I have to, nights and holidays
Give you forty and then some
Whatever it takes
Three dollars and change at the pump
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up
I put Robert down as a reference
He’s known me all my life
We attend the same church
He introduced me to my wife
I gave my last job everythin’
Before it headed south
Took the shoes off of my children’s feet
Food out of their mouths
Yesterday my folks offered to help
But they’re barely gettin’ by themselves
I got a strong back, steel toes
I rarely call in sick, a good truck
What I don’t know I catch on real quick
I work weekends, if I have to, nights and holidays
Give you forty and then some
Whatever it takes
Three dollars and change at the pump
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up
I’m sure a hundred others have applied
But rumor has it you’re only takin’ five
I got a strong back, steel toes
I’m handy with a wrench
There’s nothin’ I can’t drive
There’s nothin’ I can’t fix
I work sunup to sundown
Ain’t too proud to sweep the floors
The bank has started callin’
And the wolves are at my door
Three dollars and change at the pump
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up
Published on Dec 19, 2011
Vice founder Shane Smith managed to get into North Korea after a year and half of trying and is witness to the craziness of this hermit nation.
Published on Dec 19, 2011
Shane visits the North Korean side of the De-militarized Zone (DMZ) and surprisingly finds that it’s more relaxed than the South however the propaganda and is out of control. North Korea is serious.
Published on Dec 19, 2011
The next stop on VICE’s tour of North Korean propaganda was The People’s Library, this place is weird and creepy – just like everywhere else in North Korea. The creep keeps on coming.
