Ginning up the fears of his base, President Trump fantasizes about a caravan of asylum-seekers “invading” the country, a threat he is apparently prepared to meet by wasting the time and resources of active-duty military personnel. But who are these people really? Drug-dealers and murderers, or families fleeing gang violence?
Read MoreThe Courts and Congress should hold Trump and his coterie accountable. Despite their protestations, this isn’t policy for the benefit of America’s security, this is criminal behavior that should not go unpunished.
Read MoreWhy would a white person call the cops because a 12-year-old black boy is mowing the lawn in her neighborhood? It would be funny, if it weren’t so frightening. Is there something that could be done to stop the madness?
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency has signaled its intention to review and roll back key protections for children exposed to pesticides in American agriculture.
Read MoreEPA head Scott Pruitt has proposed rolling back protections aimed at guarding child farmworkers from pesticide poisoning. Here's why this is a truly terrible idea.
Read More"Child Abuse - down, down!" Indian schoolchildren chant to protect their peers from sexual exploitation on the Bharat Yatra marching throughout India.
Read MoreFour years after his death, Robin shows up in India.
Read MoreMedia Voices is excited to announce sweeping updates to our website, as well as changes to our monthly newsletter proceedings.
Read MoreAny infrastructure plan that ignores the needs of children is a failed plan.
Read MoreYoung teenagers used as mules in Campo Grande drugs trade.
Read MoreWith the Presidential election in full-swing here are four things President Obama and the Congress can do to help children, now.
Read MoreIt really is past time for the United States to join the rest of the world in ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Read MoreIf we can imagine a world where a tiny tax on financial transactions generates hundreds of billions of dollars every year to be used to alleviate poverty, it would be fair to ask, "Who gets this money", "How do we deliver money and services to the poor?" and, "How can we be sure the aid won't be stolen or wasted?"
Read MoreFor the past twenty years, I have filmed children all over the world in every conceivable form of poverty and abuse, from global child labor (Stolen Childhoods, 2004) to the struggles of street children (Rescuing Emmanuel, 2009). The Same Heart is the third film in this trilogy, and it confronts one of the central issues of our time: growing inequality and poverty with its impacts on children in the U.S. and abroad.
Read MoreThe playground appeared perfectly normal with students clustered here and there laughing and enjoying their lunch break. But if you looked closely, you’d notice another group milling about or sitting alone, the students with empty lunch pails.
Read MoreLen Morris is interviewed for Worldview on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Public Radio about The Same Heart.
Read MoreIf you believe as we do that inequality and poverty have created an emergency for today's children and that a financial transaction tax can provide the funding needed to meet children's needs, please show The Same Heart to your friends, organizations and classmates.
Read MoreFilming in Kenya in late 2012 we interacted with hundreds of children; at their schools, in their homes and as we crisscrossed the country in our production van. The filming had gone on for weeks and it was depressing to see these bedraggled babies, with their rags and obvious malnutrition. We wished a major charity was in the van, handing out food aid and clean water but we settled on lollipops, thousands and thousands of lollipops.
We'd see a group of children by the side of the road and stop and prepare for a lollipop moment, a way of giving love with no strings attached.
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