Jose-Antonio Orosco is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He is also the director of the OSU Peace Studies Program.
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Views Monday, January 06, 2014 Dr. King’s Lessons for the Climate Justice Movement Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the most striking aspects of his acceptance speech is the hope he expressed in humanity’s ability to overcome war. This was no mere idealism on his part. Read more
Views Friday, November 18, 2011 The Occupy Movement: At Least One Founding Father Would Support Protests Herman Cain and other conservative politicians are calling the Occupy movement "extremist" and "un-American." But with its message of concern about wealth inequality in the U.S. and the corruption of government by special interests, Occupy is a movement that definitely would have been supported by the Founding Fathers. Perhaps not necessarily by the ones most of us are familiar with, but with the group known as the Anti-Federalists and, in particular, their spokesman, Robert Yates. Read more
