Rally in DC for Palestine

Jerusalem is the demand. No embassy on stolen land.

Roughly two thousand people gathered on the southwest corner of the Ellipse to demand that the US not move its embassy to Jerusalem. In the shadow of the National Christmas Tree and the National Menorah, they said Jerusalem was the capital of Palestine, not Israel. While most participants stood around the platform, ...
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Rally in DC for Palestine

Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

Protestors sing for Trump’s impeachment

Some three dozen people gathered across the street from the White House a few days before Christmas to sing carols to President Donald Trump. A dozen were dressed in the red cloaks of the handmaidens from The Handmaid’s Tale. Their signs evoked recent events, such as the seven forbidden words. Others wore the ...
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Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

DREAMers and Unions Rally at the Capital

Activists take to DC streets

On December 6, about two thousand union members and immigrants rallied at the nation's capitol to demand that young immigrants be allowed to stay in the US without fear of deportation. They want a DREAM Act which will provide a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants. In September, Donald Trump announced ...
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DREAMers and Unions Rally at the Capital

GIDEST: End of Life

A nonfictional film

End of Life recently premiered at Doclisboa in Lisbon and will soon have its North American premiere at the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival. GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, ...
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40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference

University of Houston celebrates feminism then and now

 From November 18 to 21, 1977, over 20,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas to celebrate International Women's Year and identify goals for women for the next decade. This was the first and only national women's conference to be sponsored by the federal government. On November 6 and 7, 2017, a few hundred people ...
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40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference