Update 2/25: Lena Pyssina provided a version of this video with English subtitles here.
Local Project Kesher groups are launching nearly 20 Not In Our Town coalitions in cities across the former Soviet Union. Project Kesher unites 150 grassroots women's organizations that serve more than 6,000 women from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Israel.
The Russian cities of Kineshma, Oryol, Ryazan, Kursk, Vladikavkaz, Volograd and Balakovo have already launched multi-faith, multi-ethnic coalitions using the Not In Our Town model. This month, women leaders in two cities in the Ukraine—Dnepropetrovsk and Cherkassy—are rolling out their coalitions as well.
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February 24, 2011 - 11:57am
As Black History Month nears an end, we share this profile of outstanding youth advocate, Dr. Joseph Marshall Jr. Dr. Marshall is the host of nationally syndicated radio talk show, Street Soldiers. The Street Soldiers website highlights some of Dr. Marshall's achievements during his decades of work in education and youth advocacy:
Dr. Marshall is the first person to classify youth violence as a disease, and his work has been recognized in the 2001 Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence. As Executive Director of the Omega Boys Club, he oversees the Omega Leadership Academy for academic and life skills education, the Omega Training Institute on violence prevention; and Street Soldiers Communications, which includes a nationally syndicated radio talk show.
February 16, 2011 - 4:13pm
On Feb. 1, 1960, four young black students sat at the whites-only Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they were refused service by staff and heckled by patrons. By fall, sit-ins spread to more than 100 Southern cities and historians estimate that as many as 100,000 participated in the non-violent protest. These couragous acts continue to inspire the anti-hate movement today.
Here are clips from the PBS documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The historical footage includes students walking to lunch counters and students leaders describing their motives and strategies. Our education partners at Facing History created an Eyes on the Prize study guide.
February 15, 2011 - 5:37pm
For Black History Month, we share this video, "Profiling Kevin," featuring a young man whose passion for racial and social justice leads him to engage his teachers and classmates about issues of diversity and equality in his school and community. Standing in a classroom at Palo Alto High School, 16-year-old Kevin tells his classmates, "We need to ... take a bite of the apple of knowledge and realize where we stand and where we need to go."
February 11, 2011 - 3:20pm
From our educational partners at Facing History and Ourselves comes this video of Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, a man called "one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement ever produced." Rep. Lewis was among the Freedom Riders and later chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that challenged segregation in the South. He wrote the foreword to Facing History's study guide for the documentary, Eyes on the Prize.
During Black History Month, we will be sharing a number of resources that touch upon the continued struggle and incredible inspiration that stems from African-American history. This video, in particular, captures the importance of coming together as a nation. As Rep. Lewis says: