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Violence Against Women in Afghanistan: Documenting Prevalence, Organizing for Change

Opening pomegranates. Arghand soap cooperative, Kandahar, Afghanistan. photo: © www.Sarahchayes.net
Authors: Diya Nijhowne Lauryn Oates

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62% of women surveyed survived multiple forms of violence.

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Ten Ways To End the Occupation of Afghanistan: Inform, Educate, Agitate, Organize

Protesters of the war in Afghanistan collect blankets for Afghanistan refugees at Boston City Hall Plaza, November 8, 2001. Over 75,000 blankets were collected and sent within four months. photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: maTT De Vleger

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To organize, we need to inform ourselves and share what we learn.

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Building on Afghanistan's Traditions of Peacemaking: An Interview with Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Authors: Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

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We're caught between warlords, drug lords, the government, international armies, and the Taliban.

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The Challenges of Reconciliation: Learning from Survivors in Rwanda and Burundi

Listening exercise for Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities workshop in Rwanda. photo: African great lakes initiative
Authors: David Zarembka

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When reconciliation occurs, people report feeling that they have rejoined the human family.

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There is Not Only Violence in Iraq: The La Onf Week of Nonviolence Takes Hold Across the Country

Volunteers from LaOnf, a network of nonviolence advocates in Iraq, visited schools and exchanged soccer balls for war toys (www.laonf.net)
Authors: September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

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In these places, the simple act of gathering in public to make a statement of nonviolence and unity took tremendous courage.

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From Hermitage to Heritage: Del Martin's Declaration of Lesbian Pride, 1956

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, Nov 20, 1994. Photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: Del Martin

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The solidarity of a cooperative front can replace a tight fist of security.

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How Effective is Personal Storytelling?: Strategic Insights from Social Movement Theory

Fannie Lou Hamer, photo: Warren K. Leffler, US News & world report, now in the Library of Congress
Authors: Betsy Leondar-Wright

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By Betsy Leondar-Wright reviewing Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life and It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics.

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Repression at the Republican Convention: The Criminalization of Dissent

Anti-war demonstration in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008. photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Authors: Tom Good

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The Republican Party Host Committee bribed St. Paul to violate protesters' rights. The city, and Homeland Security, complied.

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The Joys and Challenges of Public Schools: An Activist Roundtable

Peace Rally at PS 191/Hudson Honors Middle School, New York City. Photo: Peace Games (www.peacegames.org)
Authors: Curtis Gomez James Noonan Kathleen Kelly Lisa Graustein Sara Burke

Summary:In order to fix our schools, we all need to start taking responsibility for the racism, poverty, and violence that are what's really undercutting them.

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Beyond "No Child Left Behind"

Olivia Kirby, Wellete Ransy, and Tonya Brown listen to the "senior speech" being given by a classmate at the Codman Academy Charter School in Boston, MA. The speeches are part of Codman Academy's graduation requirement that seniors must stand in front of
Authors: Monty Neill

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The country must change the conversation from passing tests to teaching and learning.

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