by Robin Kirk | Aug 6, 2013 | Robin Kirk
Thousands of people flooded Asheville’s downtown yesterday in a campaign to bring Moral Mondays to each congressional district, now that the disastrous legislature session has concluded. Here’s my take on the protests and my arrest on June...
by Robin Kirk | Apr 29, 2013 | Robin Kirk
Margaret Thatcher’s death reminded many of her more outrageous policies, including the failure to constructively deal with prison-based protests, like hunger strikes. In Northern Ireland’s Long Kesh prison, also known as the Maze, ten men who belonged to...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 15, 2013 | Robin Kirk
There’s a fascinating and necessary debate emerging over the past of the new Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took the name Francis. On one side is Nobel Laureate Alfredo Pérez Esquivel, a fellow Argentine and principled human rights defender, who is saying that...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 25, 2013 | Robin Kirk
The Oscars have ignited important human rights debates linked to two prize-winning movies: “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Lincoln.” Love or hate the movies, the discussion swirling around them has made this one of the most human rights-centric Oscars...
by Robin Kirk | Oct 8, 2012 | Robin Kirk
My class blogpost on The Age of Miracles, climate change and human rights…
by Robin Kirk | Sep 24, 2012 | Robin Kirk
My new post on Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and the issue of how the second generation remembers… Related articles Bernhard Schlink: Being German is a huge burden (My Thoughts)
