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The Digital Outback: World Issues Forum

The "Digital Outback" is a multimedia collection of audio and video stories, presentations, interviews, and samples of student work at Fairhaven College. This page contains video of the most recent World Issues Forum lectures, viewed here as Windows Media files, or you can subscribe to the podcast to see them as QuickTime movies. More recent videos are on our Channel on Vimeo.

Student Life

Overview Bellingham, WA

The Outback Farm

Overview Gardens Events History

Activities

National Security

12/17/09: Margaret Stock on Immigration and the post 9/11 debate.

Immigrant Youth

12/15/09: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana on the invisible work of immigrants.

Malalai Joya

11/12/09: A Woman Among Warlords, former Afghan parliamentarian speaks out.

Genocide in Rwanda

10/21/09: Carl Wilkens, last American remaining in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Haiti in the World

Michelle Wucker

10/14/09: Haiti needs help. How does the international community step in?

Globalization

Ernesto Sagas

10/7/09: How have globalization and emigration affected Carribean societies?

International Justice

Babafemi Akinrinade

9/30/09: To what extent is international criminal justice "international"?

Poaching Healthcare

Re-enter the Dragon video: .wmv file

5/27/09: Amy Hagopian discusses how the US lures health workers from abroad.

Re-Enter the Dragon

Re-enter the Dragon video: .wmv file

5/20/09: Margaret C Lee discusses China-Uganda economic relations.

Poverty Alleviation

Poverty Alleviation video: .wmv file

5/06/09: Alia Parker & Eric Vermeers, Adventure Learrning Grantees.

Immigration

Illegal Immigration: Video .wmv file

4/29/09: Hiroshi Motomura speaks about illegal immigration.

Women Resisting War

Women Resisiting War video-wmv file

4/22/09: Nidia Castellanos discusses the role of the Arauca Peasant Association.

Climate Crisis

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4/20/09: Elizabeth May talks about why US leadership is urgently needed.

NAFTA turns 15

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4/24/09: Baldemar Mendoza Jiménez looks at affects on Oaxaca's indigenous.

Beyond the Green Zone

10/20/08: Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, tells about his experiences in Iraq.

Rick Steves: Drugs

Rick Steeves: World Issues Forum Fall 2008

10/24/08: Rick Steves, travel author, shares lessons from Europe on drug abuse.

Intelligent Design

10/29/08: Gordy Slack, science writer, speaks on legal aspects of Intelligent Design.

Global Warming

10/25/08: Tom Ackerman discusses global warming as fact or fiction.

Politics of End-Times

10/22/08: Rev. Rich Lang, Methodist pastor, addresses apocalyptic theology.

Economic Growth

11/17/08: Dr. Richard Robbins, anthropologist.

Politics of Health

11/5/08: Stephen Bezruchka, discusses healcare.

Not One Drop

12/3/08: Riki Ott,discusses the wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.

Watch / Listen

Watch the World Issues Forum on vimeo.com!

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