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May 18th, 2012
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Loading ...George Lakey: Nonviolent Warrior
Co-founder of the ground-breaking radical community, the Movement for a New Society, which laid the basis for many of the facilitation and decision-making systems in common activist use today, George Lakey has spent much of the last 40 years training people – 1,500 people on five continents.
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...Generations for Peace Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Inside the Games
April 18th, 2012
Generations For Peace (GFP), the international non-profit organisation which uses sport as a tool to resolve conflict, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with events taking place across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Read More (+3 rating) Loading ...Making the Grade: Empowering the community through education, peace march
The Californian
April 4th, 2012
Whether it’s students inviting the community to participate in a peace march to bring awareness of the harm gang violence causes in their neighborhoods or a computer raffle for low-income adults who do not own one — the objective is education and inclusion.
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Global Envision
March 29th, 2012
These five women are fighting poverty in a serious way, but they’re not handing out aid. We hope to see them scale up their models this year and make an even bigger impact.
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Bellingham Herald
May 8th, 2012
In a ceremony April 30 that honored Bichsel’s life and commitment to peace and justice, Picasso’s 1953 line drawing “La Visage de la Paix (The Face of Peace)” was offered up by the Jesuit priest on behalf of the reconciliation group he led to Japan in 2009.
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Greater Good
April 27th, 2012
The plot of the new film sounds cynical. But it reveals a surprising amount about the science of human goodness.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...GRIP Program Targets At Risk Youth
Daily Titan
April 9th, 2012
In an effort to gain control of the increasing problem of gang activity, the Anaheim Police Department (along with other police agencies in Orange County), the Orange County district attorney’s office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department collaborated to form the Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership (GRIP).
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...Art Start Showcases Talent Of At-Risk Youths
NY Daily News
April 4th, 2012
Founded 20 years ago by local artists, Art Start is a non-profit agency that holds creative arts workshops for at-risk youths in homeless shelters throughout the city.
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Yes! Magazine
March 28th, 2012
There are few human beings who have the cultural depth, breadth, and perspective of 96-year-old Grace Lee Boggs. Born during World War I to Chinese immigrant parents, she has lived through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s, gay rights, and disability dignity movements, then 9/11 and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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