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August 2018

  • Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay, friends!

    by Mitko August 9, 2018
    August 9, 2018

    We’re celebrating with our grantee Survival International: “More than one hundred and fifty million men, women and children in over sixty countries live in tribal societies. Far from being ‘primitive’ …

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  • Devastated with the death of our FREE WESTERN SAHARA rapper friend Flitox Krizi Sahraui

    by Mitko August 8, 2018
    August 8, 2018

    He was featured in our film Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara. I had the honor of interviewing him in the occupied territories and documented his passion …

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  • BANGLADESH: release award-winning photographer and activist Shahidul Alam and end violent crackdown on student protests!!!

    by Mitko August 7, 2018
    August 7, 2018

    Shahidul Alam’s arrest on 5 August 2018 shines a light on the dangerous escalation of the government’s crackdown on dissenting voices! https://www.amnesty.org/…/bangladesh-release-photographer-…/ [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

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  • A great example of education as resistance: helping Iraqi and Syrian refugees get college educations!

    by Mitko August 7, 2018
    August 7, 2018

    Proud to support our friends, the Iraqi and Syrian Student Project, work with universities in the US and Canada to help war-displaced Iraqi and Syrian students acquire an undergraduate education. …

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  • “We are not drowning. We are fighting.”

    by Mitko August 6, 2018
    August 6, 2018

    Last year, a delegation from the Pacific Islands went to one of the dirtiest fossil fuel extraction sites in the world: the Canadian tar sands. As climate change threatens to …

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  • We’re proud to support the Arabic translation of Norman Finkelstein’s latest book, “Gaza”!!

    by Mitko August 6, 2018
    August 6, 2018

    “Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein’s new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in …

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  • SEOUL

    by Mitko August 4, 2018
    August 4, 2018

    When waves of North Koreans began arriving in the South during a devastating famine 20 years ago, many encountered a world that might as well have been on another planet. …

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  • CURAÇAO

    by Mitko August 3, 2018
    August 3, 2018

    These kunuku houses were built by the enslaved population in the 1700s, and are currently a proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site. The homes are built from cornstalks, mud, and manure …

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Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder/director of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity and connects and supports agitators, educators, farmers, and artists to build a more just and peaceful world through creative resistance and nonviolent action!

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Iara LeeIara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder/director of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity and connects and supports agitators, educators, farmers, and artists to build a more just and peaceful world through creative resistance and nonviolent action! Read more here.

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  • today my new, scholar friends gave me a full lesson on Buryat Buddhism…

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