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Freedom Summer: A School for Young Community Organizers

Authors: Maile Kaneko

Summary:Youth conduct power analyses of policies and institutions that specifically affect people of color and poor communities.

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With Sadness, Myers Center Closes: Announces Awards for Outstanding Titles in Human Rights

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May our relationships and commitment to building a just and equitable future continue, for in the struggle for justice is the hope of the future.

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STATE OF THE DREAM 2009: THE SILENT DEPRESSION

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Resisting the Pull of Violence

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Everything Is Different — But our Work Goes on: A Report from United for Justice with Peace

Authors: Joseph Gainza

Summary:

Just as the sources of the crises confronting
us are connected, so too must be the
solutions we bring forward and
demand be implemented.

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Justice is Served: Restaurant Workers Organize in the US and Around the World

New York City, April 10, 2008. Delivery workers protest low wages at the Saigon Grill in Union Square. Photo: Dan Melinger
Authors: Saru Jayaraman

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As long as you’re thinking about sustainable and local food, let’s talk about sustainable labor conditions too, because you’re never going to have a sustainable food system without sustainable labor conditions.

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No Need to Steal From Our Own Gardens: The Spiritual Memoir of Global Solidarity Activist Marisa Handler

Marisa Handler with her book at the January 27, 2007 anti-war march in San Francisco.
Authors: Julie Oxenberg

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By Julie Oxenberg reviewing Loyal to the Sky:Notes from an Activist.

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Passionate About Books - and Social Justice

Reading in Chilean Recycling Cooperative, November 2007. PHOTO: © MARTA ESCOTET

Summary:

The 2007 Gustavus Myers Book Awards by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

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From the Editor's Desk

Outside a bookstore in Beijing, China, February 2006. Photo: J. SAMUEL B.
Authors: Sam Diener

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Peacework Co-Editor Sam Diener reviews Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus Bordewich and comments on the themes of this issue.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

Majora Carter
Authors: Majora Carter

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The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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The Dream Reborn: Bringing King's Vision Forward into a Green Economy

Authors: Van Jones

Summary:

It has always been assumed that attendance at environmental conferences would always be 90 percent white and overwhelmingly affluent. Not this time.

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