Despite broad consensus that previously long-held beliefs about race that emerged from social, economic and political agendas rather than anthropological, historical or biological facts, and despite forward strides made in the American civil rights and South African anti-apartheid movements, race is still used as an instrument to divide and subjugate. Read more…
IT WAS LATE APRIL in the Capital, a time of blossoming cherries, daffodils, and other imported botanical cheer. The annual White House Easter egg hunt had recently passed — as, incidentally, had the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Washington, DC was in particular good form, enjoying the Read more…
Mary Mazzio, attorney-turned-humanitarian documentarian, impassioned founder of 50 Eggs Films, and producer of such films as Underwater Dreams, The Apple Pushers, and Contrarian, spotlights another human rights issue — child sex trafficking — in her latest film, I Am Jane Doe. Versed in asking tough questions, challenging the status quo, Read more…
San Francisco’s Temenos Catholic Worker house, the ministry founded by the Rev. River Sims, takes the Worker mission to the city’s front lines. Sims was ordained a priest in the Evangelical Anglican Church in America in 1995 and later consecrated bishop of the denomination’s Society of Franciscan Workers in 2007. Read more…
The Latin adage Ex oriente lux, ex occidente lex (“from the East, light, from the West, law”) expresses a yin-yang-like balance, signifying that both Orient and Occident are needed for harmony to exist. Imbalances between these two result in power struggles and losses – from personal to political. Such is Read more…
Greece is a microcosm of the world, complete with money problems and refugees. The EU should be doing more to aid those rendered most vulnerable by the crisis. Being of Armenian descent, I was born into the history of Asia Minor, an exotic sounding nomenclature used by my grandfather’s generation Read more…
Though diabetes is exploding worldwide, the tribes of the American Southwest take the lead. The ravages of diabetes in the U.S. Native American population are harder hitting than in any other ethnic group in the country. Nonexistent four and five generations ago, half of their adult population now suffers with Read more…
We live on a rhythmic, vibrational planet where everything is energy, vibrating at frequencies that produce sound — even if imperceptible to the human ear. According to NASA, if humans had antennae instead of ears, we’d be able to hear Mother Earth’s symphonies. All that exists — from planet Earth Read more…
Immigration authorities raiding a shuttle business suspected of being used for human trafficking across the border in Tucson, Arizona, on April 15, 2010. (Photo: Monica Almeida / The New York Times) Human trafficking is the commercialization of that which no one has the right to sell – human lives. These Read more…
Documentary and indie filmmaker, broadcast journalist, actress (with starring roles in more than 20 films), and writer (with two feature-length screenplays under her belt), Dina Demetrius has worked for ABC News, reported, written and produced a thousand-plus national and international stories for Nightline, Good Morning America, Prime Time and World Read more…