The USA and Israel Fall Elections: Getting Out the Vote and Facing Challenges
Standing Together leadership considers the most significant objective to be “getting out the vote in Palestinian sectors.”
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When Doves Try: Tracing an Israeli Peace Movement
Sifry affirms his commitment “to the concept of Zionism as a movement of Jewish national self-determination.” Nevertheless, he adds, “I deplore, however, the racist and militarist forms it has taken from early on.”
Feminist Leader and Human Rights Activist Yanar Mohammed Assassinated
Mohammed believed that all women, including those in the LGBTQ community, needed to achieve social integration and equality in order for democracy to occur in Iraq.
Activist, Mother, ExxonMobil Shareholder: Jane Dale Owen
Owen told me, “Houston made me become an environmentalist because of the air pollution.”
Girl Be Heard: Staging the Revolution via Theater
Girl Be Heard (originally known as the Project Girl Performance Collective) is a not-for-profit theater group that is the brainchild of Ashley Marinaccio, Artistic Director, and Jessica Greer Morris, Executive Director. They have melded...
“Trashed” Examines Global Waste
As part of the “Reel Pieces” movie series at the 92Y in New York City, Annette Insdorf hosted Jeremy Irons in a screening of Trashed. Irons, the executive producer of the film, also takes...
A Portrait of Activism: “How to Survive a Plague”
Individual activism matters. Coalesced into group action—it is mighty.
The Artist as Dissident — “Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry”
Ai Weiwei learned early on about politics and art through the experience of his father Ai Qing, a renowned poet who was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek.
Dayle Haddon Models a New Paradigm of Beauty
Determined to open a conversation on defining beauty differently, Haddon’s question was, “What are the components of beauty?”
Uniting on the War Against Women
At the April 28, 2012 Unite for Women In New York March and Rally, there was consistent, verbalized incredulity that in the 21st century women were refighting old battles that were supposed to have been won.
