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Linked with Emma Goldman – Lithuania-Russia-USA (1869 – 1940).

The mission of the Jewish Women’s Archive JWA is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … A national non-profit organization founded in 1995 and based in Brookline, MA, the Jewish Women’s Archive presents the stories, struggles, and achievements of Jewish women in North America. We create and disseminate educational materials, develop partnerships, sponsor programs, conduct and support original research, and maintain an innovative website all designed to help us understand our past and shape our future.

The website offers a Virtual Archive, curricula and other educational materials, a variety of online exhibits, oral history guides, a blog, a growing collection of reminiscences of recently deceased Jewish women, and a myriad of other resources for anyone interested in the experiences of American Jewish women, both celebrated and unheralded.

In 2007 the Jewish Women’s Archive branched out into film, producing Making Trouble, a prizewinning documentary about three generations of funny Jewish women, featuring Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein. Shown at over 60 film festivals in 2008, Making Trouble will also be released on DVD and shown on cable television.

The Boston College is a private, coeducational Jesuit university with 8500 full-time undergraduates and 4000 graduate students. ‘Third World Literature’ is part of it.

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Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Associate Professor, English Department, teaches courses in the critical philosophy of postcolonial studies, political and cultural theories of nationalism, and Anglophone literatures of India and Africa … She is the founding chair of the Postcolonial Studies seminar at Harvard’s Humanities Center, and the convenor of the Postcolonial Studies Discussion Group at the MLA. She was visiting fellow in Women’s Studies at SUNY Stony Brook in Spirng 2002, where she taught a graduate seminar on « Feminism and Universalism. » In Spring 1999, she co-taught with Professor Laura Frader (History, Northeastern University) a graduate seminar « Gender, Race, Class, and Colonialism » in the Graduate Women’s Studies Consortium at Radcliffe. (Homepage).

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Introduction: This course focuses on the problems of interpretation encountered in the first world classroom when reading novels and poetry from the so called third world, in this case Africa, India, and the Middle East. We shall work from two premises:

• a) The artifacts of any given culture are embedded in their local context – social and political history, traditions, aesthetics, etc. – and thus are not transparent in their meaning or significance.
• b) Secondly, we cannot recognize the humanity of the « other » – the culturally strange, the foreign, the alien – without examining ourselves and how we impose meaning on the incomprehensible.

We shall try to come to terms with these two factors by:

• a) researching as much as we can of the local context – we shall use films and music to supplement our quest;
• b) by performing the texts we shall we be reading in class as a means of reflecting about cultural gaps;
• c) maintaining a consciousness journal.

Required Texts: … (full text).

International directory of abuse hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centres and women’s organizations, plus domestic violence information …

The goal of the Hot Peach Pages is to provide information on abuse in as many languages as possible, along with lists of abuse help agencies for every country in the world … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … Currently, we either have or link to:

• abuse information in 79 languages;
• lists of agencies for 229 out of the approximately 238 countries in the world (including independent states, disputed states, and inhabited dependencies & areas of special sovereignty);
• the web pages of listed agencies (when available).

We do not provide direct service. If you are in need of assistance, search our site for the agencies closest to you, and contact them for information and support.

The Hot Peach Pages is checked at least once a month for broken links to web pages. We are currently not able to check email addresses.

Why call it the Hot Peach Pages? … (full text).

The International Relations and Security Network ISN

Linked with Ken Egli – Switzerland, and with Switzerland – Security vs. Justice.

The ISN is a free public service that provides a wide range of high-quality and comprehensive products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide. The ISN works to promote a better understanding of the strategic challenges we face in today’s changed security environment … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: Based in Zurich, Switzerland, at the Center for Security Studies CSS at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), the ISN’s dedicated team – drawn from various disciplines, including the humanities, the social sciences, and information and communication technology – engage in research projects and education activities, provide news stories and in-depth analyses, and develop technologies for information sharing and for creating and supporting e-learning.

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Linked with Gore Vidal – USA, and with Aijaz Ahmad – India.

Our Mission: The Real News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. Our staff, in collaboration with courageous journalists around the globe, will investigate, report and debate stories on the critical issues of our times. We are member supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding. (About 1/2).

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About 2/2: We won’t blindly follow wire services or official press releases that attempt to set the news agenda. We will cover the big stories of the day, but we will broaden the definition of what’s important.

The Real News will investigate, report and debate stories that help us understand the critical issues of our time.

The movements for the rights of working people, women, children, immigrants, indigenous people, for freedom of religion and conscience, for moral and spiritual values and for peace and against racism are news. The health of our planet will be a story, day after day.

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GPPi is an independent, non-profit think tank based in Berlin and Geneva.Our research focuses on effective and accountable governance. Our consulting practice offers services for public and private institutions. We provide a platform for debate and foster strategic communities bringing together the public sector, civil society, and business. Our team is supported by an international advisory board.
(Homepage). And: GPPi GPPi builds on the work of the Global Public Policy Project. Based in Washington D.C., this project … (full text Background);

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About: Our Mission: The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent think tank based in Berlin and Geneva. Our mission is to develop innovative strategies for effective and accountable governance and to achieve lasting impact at the interface of the public sector, business and civil society through research, consulting and debate.

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Linked with Tripurari Sharma – India.

The National School of Drama is one of the foremost theatre training institutions in the world and the only one of its kind in India. It was set up by Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1959 as one of its constituent units. In 1975, it became an independent entity and was registered as an autonomous organization under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, fully financed by Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Besides the training programme which is of 3 years duration, the School has explored new vistas in the areas of Children’s Theatre and decentralization of theatre training through workshops under the Extension Programme. In 1999, the School organized its first National Theatre Festival, which was christened Bharat Rang Mahotsav and is generally held during the second week of January each year … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: The training in the School is highly intensive and is based on a through, comprehensive, carefully planned syllabus which covers every aspect of theatre in which theory is related to practice. As a part of their training, students are required to produce plays which are then performed before the public.

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Quaker values in action

Linked with David Harris (the protester) – USA;

The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC’s work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures … (About 1/2).

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Address: AFSC National Office, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, Phone: (215) 241-7000, Fax: (215) 241-7275;
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About 2/2: … AFSC’s work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. The organization’s mission and achievements won worldwide recognition in 1947 when it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with the British Friends Service Council on behalf of all Quakers.

The AFSC is directed by a Quaker board and staffed by Quakers and other people of faith who share the Friends’ desire for peace and social justice.

The AFSC turned 90 this year. Please add your memories of 90 years of spirited engagement to ours by writing your thoughts. Share your reflections.

Linked with Matthew Lipman – USA.

The International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) was created in 1985 by philosophers and teachers interested in engaging children in philosophical inquiry … (full text about).

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What is Philosophy with Children? Philosophy with Children is a movement that has been in existence more or less formally for as long as there have been adults who are interested in children’s ideas about the world, about themselves as human subjects, and about the fundamental issues-epistemological, ontological, aesthetic and ethical-which are the common heritage of us all. In addition to educators who were also writers-like Tolstoy or Bronson Alcott-who recorded and reflected on their conversations with children, there are no doubt countless unsung teachers and parents who have listened with a keen ear-sometimes philosophically trained and sometimes not-to their child interlocutors. The British poet William Wordsworth, in one of the most popular poems of the 19th century-« Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood »–characterized the young child as « best philosopher. »

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Lié avec Matthew Lipman – USA.

English translation of La Traversée: C’est un organisme à but non lucratif situé sur la Rive-Sud de Montréal (Québec, Canada).

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1984 à 2003:

• Entre 1984 et 2003, La Traversée offrait des services d’aide psychologique aux femmes et aux jeunes filles de plus de 14 ans, victimes d’agressions sexuelles.
• Durant toutes ces années, La Traversée a travaillé sur toute l’infrastructure clinique : code de déontologie général et professionnel, protocole des pratiques, supervision clinique et séminaires théoriques.

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Linked with Matthew Lipman – USA.

There are countless places around the world where children and adults engage in philosophical inquiry together�a practice at least as old as Socrates. Since 1974 the IAPC at Montclair State University and its Affiliate Centers have been largely responsible for the proliferation of Philosophy for Children (P4C) programs in schools and other settings around the world … (full text, the world of P4C).

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Contact and address: IAPC, Montclair State University, University Hall 2151, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA, Tel: 973-655-4278, e-mail the IAPC.

About: Since its inception in 1974, the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children has pursued a three-fold mission:

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OUR MISSION  is to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal peoples in an urban environment by supporting self-determined activities which encourage equal access to, and participation in, Canadian Society; and which respect and strengthen the increasing emphasis on Aboriginal cultural distinctiveness.

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About: he National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) was established in 1972 to represent the growing number of Friendship Centres, at the national level.

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Linked with Walter Jon Williams – USA.

Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences?  The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.

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About (on the Homepage): « John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics » is an electronic newsletter that exposes and analyzes the flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic conditions, net of financial-market hype.

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Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

The housing organization Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America NACA – STOP THE TAXPAYER’S BAILOUT OF WALL STREET, JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR MAIN STREET

Linked with Bruce Marks – USA

The Main Goal: NACA is leading the fight against the bailout of lenders and investment bankers while advocating for real solutions for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The focus is the outrageous $30 billion taxpayer bailout of JPMorgan/Chase’s takeover of Bear Stearns. On Wednesday March 26th, NACA organized more than 200 homeowners, many at risk of foreclosure, to storm the Bear Stearns corporate office in New York City. For over an hour we demonstrated inside their « home ». This is another non-violent « attack » as we bring the homeowner’s anger and frustration to the corporations and wealthy executives who created and profited from this mortgage crisis. A few press clippings are provided below: The campaign needs to continue. Please access the link to sign the petition to stop the bailout of these financial predators and to implement the Homeownership Stabilization Initiative for all owner-occupied non-investor homeowners:

1. Stop the resets
2. Reduce interest rates to the initial rate
3. Impose a moratorium on foreclosures
4. Require default mitigation including restructuring the mortgage to an affordable long-term mortgage payment. (NACA’S Mainpage).

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About: The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (« NACA ») is a non-profit, community advocacy and homeownership organization. NACA’s primary goal is to build strong, healthy neighborhoods in urban and rural areas nationwide through affordable homeownership.

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Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

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