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Elvin from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo. The video above is about Elvin, a healthcare professional who has worked as a nurse for more than 20 years and also holds a degree in political science. He has been married for 25 years and has three children. As InvisiblePeople.tv writes: "Elvin sounds like someone you'd meet at a …
"The door remains open for the regime to respect the wishes of the Burmese people and international community, and to step toward the path of engagement after so many years of isolation."-United States Department of State- Aung San Suu Kyi, the visionary Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was sentenced Tuesday to three …
"Studies have shown that up to 46 percent of women in developing countries have experienced at least one episode of sexual abuse in childhood. Most girls in developing countries live in a world completely devoid of safety. In a previous blog I talked about a World Bank study that found that as far as poor …
Girls Start to Speak Out About Violence Against Women Read More »
This past weekend I took a crash course in the economy and inequality studies. My guide? Pathways Magazine, the brainchild of Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and two senior editors – David Grusky and Christopher Wimer (along with an editorial board of scholars from the nation’s top colleges and universities). …
"Recently a group of Vermonters who work with refugees, asylum seekers and new immigrants have joined in a collaborative effort to ensure that Vermont’s torture survivors get access to all the medical, psychological, legal and social services they deserve. The group, called New England Survivors of Torture and Trauma, or NESTT, has been quietly working …
"What we’re seeing is a modern incarnation of white flight...It should scare the hell out of us." -danah boyd- danah boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has spent the past four years studying, observing and analyzing how US teens use social networks. What she's found is that high-school students began …
Do Social Networks Like MySpace and Facebook Reveal Class Divisions? Read More »
"It's almost like being back in law school in 1956, when there were 9 of us in a class of over 500, so that meant most sections had just 2 women, and you felt that every eye was on you. Every time you went to answer a question, you were answering for your entire sex. …
The Place of Women on the Nation’s Highest Court: An Interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg Read More »
"There has been a tragic loss of life and it is essential that an urgent independent investigation takes place to bring all those responsible for the deaths to justice...Violence and abuses from either the authorities or protestors is in no way justified."-Roseann Rife, Amnesty International's Deputy Director Asia-Pacific- Amnesty International today called on the authorities …
Dropping Knowledge, the Berlin- and San Francisco-based group founded in 2003 by Mindpirates, has launched a neat new e-postcard campaign. The group is dedicated to exploring how "provocative, challenging and entertaining questions, communicated by innovative multimedia, can inspire new thinking." I think these images speak for themselves. Spread them around to start a conversation, or …
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard always has a cool and informative lecture taking place. Today at 12:30pm, Ben Wikler of Avaaz.org, a 3.5-million member global online advocacy organization, will speak on how his organization is trying to expand its model of campaign organization via social media. To quote: "Now, we're exploring …
Changing the World of Changing the World: Pushing the Models of Online Organizing Read More »
