Human Rights

For the Want of a Home

Thumbnail image for For the Want of a Home by Moments Count February 5, 2012

From Bronwyn Harris for Teaching Tolerance: Like many of us, I sometimes overuse the word “need.” I have a tendency to say that I need the new iPhone or I need a pedicure, even though those are clearly things that I want, rather than need. My greatest lesson on distinguishing between a want and a [...]

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A Post About Empathy

Thumbnail image for A Post About Empathy by Catherine Ryan Hyde January 28, 2012

Years ago, I was doing a lot of business travel. And I do mean a lot. I was supplementing my writing income as a public speaker. It got out of hand, at least by my standards. I was on the road for about a third of the year. One day I was exhausted and trying [...]

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Red Tails – the film even George Lucas almost couldn’t make

Thumbnail image for Red Tails – the film even George Lucas almost couldn’t make by Thomas Norman DeWolf January 26, 2012

George Lucas, producer director of some of the most profitable films in Hollywood history (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc), has been working on Red Tails, an action-packed, special effects-laden World War II movie for 23 years. He paid for it himself. He figured a studio would eventually come in and pay for distribution and publicity. [...]

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Portraits from Kathputli Nagar

Thumbnail image for Portraits from Kathputli Nagar by Shoot 4 Change December 18, 2011

(Text and Photos by: Isaak J. Liptzin ) I arrived in Jaipur intending to stay only for a few days, but I ended up meeting a group of people who lived in the Kathputli colony. (click to see the photogallery) I visited their home, and spoke to them about the school they were trying to [...]

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Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation

Thumbnail image for Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation by Thomas Norman DeWolf December 6, 2011

Sharon and I both love cemeteries. One important aspect of the work we’ve committed ourselves to along our healing journey involves burial grounds. We both turn our heads to check them out when we pass them in our cars. We’ll walk through them and read headstones whether we have relatives buried there or not. Over [...]

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Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion

Thumbnail image for Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion by Moments Count November 18, 2011

Video and article from NPR The U.N. estimates that the world’s population passed the 7 billion mark on Monday, 10/31/2011. Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China. Those two countries have been among the world’s most populous for centuries. But a demographic shift is taking place as the countries [...]

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Reasons why we sing

Thumbnail image for Reasons why we sing by Kevin Robison November 5, 2011

It’s been one of those summers. You think things are going one way, then suddenly life throws a curve, and then a curve back, and all of the sudden you feel like you are on an endless slalom. The ride can be fun, but when you find yourself passing very big trees at a very [...]

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Violating Gender Norms

Thumbnail image for Violating Gender Norms by Adam J Pearson October 3, 2011

                    We are taught to live by the norms for our gender, but when these norms are too rigid and contradict the truth of our being, we can and should violate them. We need not be afraid to be strong, but also nurturing, reflective, but also [...]

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Himba

Thumbnail image for Himba by Shoot 4 Change September 13, 2011

A hydroelectric dam threatens ancient tradition of the Himba in Namibia. Click to see the entire photo gallery The history of the Himba, a nomadic ethnic group located in northern Namibia, known for the distinctive red ocher of their body, is a story of human tragedy.  Periods of severe drought took turns with armed attack [...]

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The Problem We All Live With

Thumbnail image for The Problem We All Live With by Thomas Norman DeWolf September 1, 2011

Thank you to my Coming to the Table friends Sharon Morgan and Edie Lee Harris for sharing this story. In 1960, a 6-year old African American girl named Ruby Bridges was escorted by federal marshals into an elementary school in New Orleans after integration became the law of the land. In 1963 Norman Rockwell captured [...]

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