With most celebrities and businesses now entangled in the web of tweets, it’s difficult to shake this addictive habit. For some, Twitter can be a useful and productive networking tool but for others the ability to broadcast inappropriate personal thoughts is quite tempting. In recent months, athletes and others involved in the sports industry have been testing the limits of twittering.

With immigration to the US always growing, prejudice and nativist attitudes have skyrocketed, placing immigrant workers life threatening situations. In particular, regions with the greatest degree of documented and undocumented workers have experienced drastically increased violence against immigrants. Last year’s killing of an undocumented worker in Suffolk County, New York is a shocking example of how much hatred towards immigrant workers has amplified. Reporting on instances like this is minimal and difficult to find considering raging political opinions. Nonetheless, should the rights of immigrant workers be limited or has hatred gone too far?

“It is high time you recovered your consciences.”

Archbishop Oscar Romero, an American protestor against El Salvador’s US-backed dictator. spoke these final words just one day before he was assassinated.

Taking Romero’s final sermon to heart, Father Roy Bourgeois and his fellow activists played a recording of these words outside the School of the Americas, a military training facility in Fort Benning, Georgia. Through this demonstration, Father Roy sought to confront Latin American officers being trained in brutal torture tactics in the United States.

The sweet taste of chocolate is something we probably all enjoy once in awhile, but chocolate is the cause of cruel and abusive treatment to one of the world’s most vulnerable populations. While child labor has been around since the dawn of civilization, the use of young labor is becoming an increasing problem in countries that harvest cocoa. Considering that chocolate is one of our most satisfying pleasures, cocoa is in high demand - and cheap labor is vital for maintaining low production costs for struggling farmers.