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‘Impossible small evil choices’ of genocide: Myss
Author, teacher and speaker Caroline Myss discusses how she recently addressed anew a classic audience question: How can such bad things happen to good people – like the individuals who suffer and die in genocide? She answered the man with another question: “Have you ever hurt someone you love?” Read more of their conversation, including […]
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Honoring Maine’s Sudanese: World Refugee Day
Today, we’re passing along a video by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), recognizing World Refugee Day, Sun., June 20. The IRC provides lifesaving aid to refugees around the world, including Sudan. The event calls attention to the families forced to flee their homes by conflict, persecution and disaster. Maine is home to refugees from the Darfur […]
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Take steps to avoid war: Clooney, Prendergast
In a recent USA Today opt-ed, George Clooney and John Predergast have urged the Obama administration to take serious steps to avoid total war in Sudan. “The largest conventional war on the face of the earth in 2011 will occur in Sudan unless bold diplomacy led by the U.S. prevents it. The most dangerous tripwire […]
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival begins today
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival runs through June 24 in New York, featuring 30 films from 25 countries. Several films making their New York debut include Enemies of the People, winner of the 2010 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize, about a man’s quest to find justice after the Cambodian genocide. It follows the project of […]
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Send thoughts to Officer Johns’ family, friends
“Our darkest day” – that’s how Sara Bloomfield, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), described June 10, 2009, in a letter to supporters. One year ago, Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns (1969-2009) died from injuries suffered after he opened the Museum’s door for an elderly man and was shot in the […]
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