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Giving a mother’s or a father’s name to children at birth has become a battleground for activists in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Uprooting naming conventions is no easy task, but activists in Central Asia, especially women and LGBTQI+ people, are defying…

The project will allow families and individuals residents of the Republic of San Marino to take MSNA into custody, including those coming from the Greek islands.  Still I Rise has been involved with the project from the start. The Republic…

Luciane Silva, Tiago Abud, Eliz Rosa – Researches with the Núcleo Cidade Cultura e Conflito of UENF The death of Henry Borel, a child of 4 years, has captured the attention of the researchers for the Núcleo de Pesquisa Cidade,…

On this show we are speaking with Michael Beer about his new book Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century, published by the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict. Michael is the director of the organization Nonviolence International, who advocates for…

Welcome to the first in what we hope will be a series of interviews in which we look at the Middle East region and try to understand better what is going on there. The view from the West is that…

LITERARY         by Jhon Sanchez Unlike John Casquarelli, my dear friend and classmate of the MFA program, I don’t like taking pictures very much. I don’t even use my phone camera and rarely take selfies. But I…

LITERARY         by Andrea Clark Libin       About the Poet:  Andrea Clark Libin is a Brooklyn-based writer, teacher, and the author & artist of the novella, Orphan of the Moon—Notebook of a Girl in a Moscow…

Literary         by Daniel Owen saying goodbye is always one way to keep the past from vanishing completely. you can say it over and over again, while you still can. what can be said anyway about how…

LITERARY         by John Casquarelli He calls me into his office, gives me a copy of The Origin of the World and Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently. I stare at his bookshelves, half-listening. He smiles…

LITERARY         by Amyre Loomis Not Alone on Saturday at 2 AM For Prof. Warsh, LIU English 503, October 2010 2am night moon and window light wakes-up my four bedposts just walked up tar path past the…