Podcasts about human rights activism

Despite jail, torture, and death threats, activists are resisting the Taliban in the country and abroad. Paul Berry reads In Afghanistan, Women Haven't Given Up About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+Learn more at AMI.caConnect with Accessible Media Inc. online:X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail feedback@ami.ca

 His Week That Was – Kevin Healy, The year that was with human rights activist Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees, Launch of campaign to oust Peter Khalil from seat of Wills at next election – Michael Shaik, member of Free Palestine Melbourne, Two veteran US peace activists, Brad Wolf and Kathy Kelly talk about activism, the past year and prospects with Trump in the White House, Retired academic, foreign affairs advisor, author and much more, Tony Kevin at the speed of the demise of Assad, and who was behind it. Head to www.3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday for full access to links and previous podcasts

Formal treason charges and denied bail for journalist Evan Gershkovich, a rejected appeal from opposition politician Ilya Yashin (who's serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence for spreading supposed “disinformation” about Russian war atrocities in Ukraine), reportedly new felony charges against jailed anti-corruption icon Alexey Navalny, and 25 years behind bars for Vladimir Kara-Murza, the anti-Kremlin politician who helped lobby into existence the Magnitsky Act, which authorizes the American government to sanction foreign government officials around the world (especially in Russia) that are human rights offenders, freezing their assets and banning them from entering the U.S. These courtroom news headlines are all from just the past few days. And this doesn't even touch on the thousands of cases against less prominent, sometimes nearly invisible activists and even apolitical types who find themselves caught in the teeth of Russia's increasingly brutal prosecution of political disloyalty. As political persecution in Russia escalates to something resembling moments from the Stalinist period, supporting the legal system's victims and simply understanding its intricacies become matters of life and death. And that is at the center of work by the journalists, lawyers, and activists who make up a project called OVD-Info. To explain the organization's operations, The Naked Pravda spoke to journalist and activist Dan Storyev, who serves as the managing editor of OVD-Info's English-language edition and the author of The Dissident Digest, a weekly newsletter summarizing and explaining major events in Russia's domestic political repressions. Timestamps for this episode: (4:57) What is OVD-Info? (8:32) Who qualifies for assistance from OVD-Info? (9:59) What assistance can OVD-Info offer to victims of political repression? (14:19) What factors determine whom the Putin regime actually prosecutes? (17:02) What legal statutes are most common in political prosecutions? (20:43) The ruling against Vladimir Kara-Murza (23:39) Prison life in Russia today

This week we talk with champion soccer player and co-chair of the Australian Republic Movement, Craig Foster, about everything from the upcoming coronation of King Charles to matters much closer to home, including the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Voice to parliament. As well: how as a country we're at an important inflection point, grappling with the legacy of colonisation and dispossession, genocide and racism.The conversation, hosted by Good Weekend senior writer Jane Cadzow, also explores Foster's childhood in Lismore, along with the many campaigns he has waged on behalf of asylum seekers and the personal toll of such humanitarian crusades.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Judge Ron Rangel and Human Rights activist Steve Huerta  —director of the non-profit organization “All of Us or None” — in this powerful episode as they examine the important and timely issues of restorative justice, undue disenfranchisement, and rehabilitative services for the formerly incarcerated in our community. Support the show

This week I got to talk to my friend and colleague, Ana Florence, Brazilian clinical psychologist and researcher, about the impact of globalization, the export of psychiatry from the global north to the south, and what it means to be a clinician dedicated to consistent self-inquiry. Also in this episode: Psychology and human rights activism in Brazil, how open dialogue revolutionizes crisis treatment, social determinants of health and the power asymmetries between global north and south when it comes to the medicalization of mental health, subverting academic spaces by fostering critical doubt, self-inquiry, and tolerating uncertainty. Dr. Florence is an early career investigator at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is a Brazilian clinical psychologist fluent in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. As the project manager of the NIMH Early Psychosis Intervention Network -- OnTrackNY Hub -- her current research focuses on early intervention for first-episode psychosis. Other research interests include global mental health and community-based participatory research. She is a person with lived experience. Links: - Institute for the Development of Human Arts - https://www.idha-nyc.org/ - Healing as Homecoming Dec 4th 2022 - https://idha.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/idha/event.jsp?event=44 Research: Cristian Montenegro- Chilean sociologist discussing the gaze of the global north on the global south - https://sites.google.com/view/crmontenegro/home Jose Bleger - Argentinian institutional analyst Joana Montcrieff, psychologist and researcher - https://joannamoncrieff.com/ Interview with Dainius Puras for Mad in America: https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/05/bringing-human-rights-mental-health-care-interview-dainius-puras/ Global South activism: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10597-022-00959-1.pdf https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/human-rights/research-and-practice/health-human-rights-and-social-justice Email: ana.florence@nyspi.columbia.edu

Hey, Green Junkie!I have dedicated the past several years educating others about sustainability and using sustainable practices in my everyday life.  And I hope that you have been inspired by my actions and my passion to make changes in your own life and those around you. But today, I wanted to take this conversation one step further because while we have to take care of our planet, we also have to take care of people. Because green living is about both - people AND planet. So today I'm bringing on two amazing women, Devon and Maithreyi who are changing the way we shop for products and support brands by helping us be not just sustainable with our products but also support human rights and the people who work tirelessly to create those things that we put into our shopping cart. You won't want to miss this episode where we discuss, What is fair trade fashion and why is it importantThe secret inhumane practices in the fast fashion industryThe importance of sustainable business models which include both planet AND peopleHow certifications can help you be a more conscious consumerHow to know if what you're buying is fair trade and sustainableYou'll discover that and so much more in this episode.If you love this podcast be sure to leave a review and share a screenshot of this episode to your IG stories. Tag @thisisstephaniemoram so I can shout you out and publicly say thanks. Thanks for listening and being here.Your green bestie,Xoxo StephanieHang With Devon & Maithreyi www.peopleheartplanet.comhttps://www.instagram.com/peopleheartplanet/https://www.facebook.com/peopleheartplanethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/peopleheartplanet/Previous Episodes Mentioned:#38. Sustainable Fashion A-Z With Karly Hiser#33. Creating Sustainable Businesses with Sara Miltenberger#30: Changing the Fashion Game with Camille Lee#23. Closet CleanoutSnag 1 on 1 Sustainability Consulting with StephanieFollow me on InstagramFollow me on TikTokJoin me on LinkedInProduced by: Alecia HarrisMusic By: Liz Fohle

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Overshadowed by the military aggression against Ukraine, "Memorial" was banned and forced to close in Russia. The oldest non-governmental organization in the region, dating back to the late Soviet era and Andrey Sakharov's engagement, "Memorial" has been a prominent actor in Human Rights and memory politics.  Anna Dobrovolskaya is a former Executive Director of the Human Rights Center "Memorial". In this episode, she is talking to RECET's Managing Director Irena Remestwenski on roots, activities, heritage of the movement, and not the least on hope and perspectives for democracy in Russia. 

In this episode we want to find out what the early creators of the term ”prisoners of conscience” had meant by it, and what motivated them to institutionalise this status legally. In 2021, Amnesty International celebrated its 60th anniversary. Since then, the organisation has played a key role in mobilising international support for political dissenters and dissidents. This protection often revolves around the act of assigning the status of a “prisoner of conscience” to a protected individual. We also want to go all the way back to the early modern history of political Dissent, associated with such figures as the Quaker William Penn, who had been imprisoned several times in the Tower of London for his religious views but later in life founded a colony in America which was to become one of the United States - Pennsylvania. The term “Dissenter” describes the experience of religious oppression under different ‘old regimes' in Europe. In more recent times, ‘dissent' has been associated with the activism of political dissidents under different oppressive regimes, from the Soviet Union or modern Russia to Myanmar and China. What is the relationship between the faith of dissenters and their political dissidence? At which point does the collision of dissenters with the cultural and legal system of their societies render them from powerless victims to powerful speakers and politicians? With us to discuss the long history of Dissent in politics are Tom Buchanan, Professor in British and European History at the Dept for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and the author of Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977 which came out in 2020 with Cambridge UP. Andrew Murphy, Professor for Political Science at VIrginia Commonwealth University and just published, in 2021, the political writings of William Penn for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. He is also the author of a biography of William Penn. A Life. (Oxford UP, 2018). The episode also features exclusive recordings by Cy Grant, with the kind permission from his family and the London Metropolitan Archives Tracks featured: Psalm 137, By the Rivers of Babylon Untitled Calypso (recorded ca. 1976) Fayo (a Haitian lullaby)

Australia has been selling munitions and military technology to war-torn countries in Africa, SBS News can reveal, including those where child soldiers are still forced into combat. As the government aims to cash in on the market for military hardware, campaigners are urging it to take a closer look at some of its customers. - Sipas nje zbulimi te fundit te bere nga sherbimi i lajmeve SBS, Australia ka shitur municione dhe teknologji ushtarake në vendet e shkatërruara nga lufta në Afrikë, përfshirë ato vende qe rekrutojne fëmijët të luftojnë si ushtare. Ndërsa qeveria Australiane synon të arkëtojë te ardhurat e fituara ne tregun e pajisjeve ushtarake, aktivistët i kërkojnë asaj te vrojtoje me nga afer disa nga klientët e saj te armatimeve ne bote.

Meet Pallabi Ghosh, a human rights activist specialising in work related to anti-human trafficking  activism. She completed her studies from Lady Shree Ram College, Delhi University and then decided to embark on the journey towards Human Rights Activism. She is a UN Woman, is on the board of and is a consultant to many Civic Society Organisations, and has set-up a trust with some renowned philanthropists, journalists and leaders in society. Her work gets featured in media across the world. Her work takes her all across India and the under bellies of our cities and villages. She is an ardent supporter of education and she is a core part of ANNEducation, where I met her and we have been working together ever since.Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallabi-ghosh-b2b9a349/https://www.facebook.com/pallabighosh90.lsrANNEDuction - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgpV1n51zr0zywFQK17Zi7A Subscribe and Follow SCM - https://linktr.ee/suchconversationsmatter#HumanRights #Activism #AntiHumanTrafficking #HumanTrafficking #SaurabhNanda #sustainability #SuchConversationsMatter #IndianPodcast #SpotifyPodcast #Podcast #GooglePodcast #ApplePodcast 

In an interview with our assistant editor Bence Bari, Vera Mérő, Hungarian journalist, media researcher, human rights activist, founder and host of the Facebook page and foundation “Nem tehetsz róla, tehetsz ellene” (“You are not responsible for it, but you can respond to it”) discusses the questions of representation, popularization, internal conflicts and successes, challenges and leeways provided by the political and the social sphere when it comes to human rights activism in Hungary since 2016 - a space much defined by the ambiguous policy and rhetoric of the Orbán governments.

Yasmin Khan, a long-time human rights activist, is the author of Ripe Figs, a book focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean — part travelogue, part cookbook, part meditation on the notion of borders in the 21st century. On the pod, we discuss the refugee crisis, what we can do as individuals and as a society to address the issues, and reasons for hope. "I've really grown to understand that there isn't some kind of (new) refugee crisis anywhere. People throughout all of history have migrated as a species when it's been necessary for our survival. It's just an intrinsic pattern of how we exist," Yasmin says. She also describes the spectacular recipes of the region and how they bring a sense of comfort, safety and a shared humanity. Tune in for a comprehensive take on how food crosses borders and bridges, rather than segregates, experiences.Want to stay up to date on the latest Speaking Broadly episodes? To hear more conversations with Dana Cowin and her fierce guests, subscribe to Speaking Broadly (it’s free!) on iTunes or Stitcher. If you like what you hear, please take a moment to rate + review us on Apple’s podcast store and follow Dana on Instagram @speakingbroadly and @fwscout. Thanks for tuning in!Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Speaking Broadly by becoming a member!Speaking Broadly is Powered by  Simplecast.

La pittrice Abigail Lutzen, cresciuta tra Uruguay e Australia, omaggia le donne e il loro ruolo fondamentale nella società contemporanea.

"L'anno che verrà" per l'organizzazione Terra Nuova sarà "un anno di opportunità da sfruttare" in America Centrale, ha raccontato Roberto Pecci.

Các doanh nghiệp Úc cần làm nhiều hơn nữa để chống lại tình trạng nô lệ thời hiện đại, bằng các quan tâm nhiều hơn đến chuỗi dây chuyền cung cấp hàng hoá cho họ. Lời kêu gọi nầy được nêu lên trong Ngày Quốc tế Nhân quyền, do một chuyên gia về đạo đức của doanh nghiệp và trách nhiệm công ty, thuộc đại học RMIT ở Melbourne phát động.

༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་ལ་ནོ་བྷེ་ཞི་བདེའི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་འབུམ་བཞེས་མཛད་ནས་ལོ་ངོ་ ༣༡ འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན་དང་། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་གི་ཉིན་མོར་སིཌ་ནི་བོད་ཀྱི་གཞོན་ནུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག བོད་མི་སོགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ཚབ་མདུན་དུ་ངོ་རྒོལ་སྐད་འབོད་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།

السيد ياسين موسى الناشط الرياضي والاجتماعي في مدينة ملبورن كان من بين الاسماء العشرة التي تكريمها هذا العام، بعد ان لعب دورا بارزا في دعم سكان المباني الحكومية التي خضعت لاجراءات عزل مشدد اثناء الموجة الثانية لوباء كورونا في ملبورن

Ufanisi wa pendekezo la muswada wa serikali ya shirikisho, kubadili mfumo wa baadhi za kazi wahojiwa.

For my second season of BlackPolitik, I decided to do a news brief on the CIA sponsored fake news coming out about Xinjiang and the Uighur Muslims. Sadly, a lot of well meaning people are falling for this hoax rafted by the US govt to damage China’s reputation. This is right out of the colour revolution playbook. Exploit a genuine area of some tension in a country and exaggerate and focus on it microscopically to topple the government. Special thanks to @AdrienZenz, the con artists behind most of the fake numbers behind this story. As everyone should know by now, if there was a genocide of Muslims happening anywhere, the US would probably be at the front of carrying it out, not condemning it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Indonesia was estimated to have between 55,000 and 100,000 political prisoners as a result of the Army-led anti-communist violence of the mid-1960s. Some of these prisoners maintained long-lasting epistolary friendships with supporters and human rights activists overseas. Who initiated these friendships and how did they evolve over time? What kind of broader support networks for political prisoners emerged out of this letter writing? And what legacy did this activism leave for contemporary human rights campaigners? In this week’s Talking Indonesia podcast, we take a closer look at one of these epistolary friendships. Joining host Dirk Tomsa is historian Dr Vannessa Hearman, a Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, and the author of 'Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia', which was recently awarded the 2020 Early Career Book Prize by the Asian Studies Association of Australia. In 2020, the Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Dave McRae from the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, Dr Jemma Purdey from Monash University, Dr Dirk Tomsa from La Trobe University, and Dr Charlotte Setijadi from the Singapore Management University. Look out for a new Talking Indonesia podcast every fortnight. Catch up on previous episodes here, subscribe via iTunes or listen via your favourite podcasting app. Photo courtesy of Vannessa Hearman

Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist Rez Gardi is part of a team of lawyers working to uncover and prosecute ISIS fighters for atrocities committed against the Yazidi people.

Derçûya Zanîngeha Harvard ya parêzeriya mafê mirovan Rêz Gerdî ku nuha li Duhokê li Herêma Kurdistanê ye li ser dozên mafên mirovan kar dike.

中國全國人民代表大會以大比數通過授權人大常委會制定「港區國安法」，在不經香港立法會審議下，針對四類罪行直接納入香港《基本法》實施。

Thứ Hai 25/11/2019, ông Đỗ Hoàng Điềm - Chủ tịch Đảng Việt Tân sẽ tham gia điều trần trước một số dân biểu liên bang Úc ở Canberra với nỗ lực vận động từ nhiều phía giúp công dân Úc gốc Việt Châu Văn Khảm sớm được trả tự do sau bản án 12 năm tù vì tội "khủng bố chống chính quyền nhân dân". - Thứ Hai 25/11/2019, Chủ tịch Đảng Việt Tân ông Đỗ Hoàng Điềm sẽ tham gia điều trần trước một số dân biểu liên bang Úc ở Canberra với nỗ lực vận động từ nhiều phía giúp thành viên của đảng này, công dân Úc Châu Văn Khảm sớm được trả tự do sau bản án 12 năm tù vì tội "khủng bố chống chính quyền nhân dân".

For over 35 years, John Prendergast has worked as a human rights and anti-corruption activist to create and sustain peace in Africa. He served as the Director of African Affairs on the National Security Council under the Clinton Administration, and has founded and worked for a variety of humanitarian organizations.Prendergast is the founding director of the Enough Project, an organization aimed at countering genocide and crimes against humanity, and co-founder of The Sentry, an investigative initiative chasing the assets of African war criminals and their international collaborators.John Prendergast was recently at the University of Chicago to speak with Obama Scholars in the Harris School’s Masters of Arts in International Development and Policy (MAIDP). Lauren Manning (Harris MPP ’20), a Fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict, sat down with John Prendergast to discuss his work as a human rights activist, recent trends in Africa, and advice for future aspiring humanitarian activists. Credits:Lauren Manning (MPP '20), interviewerHaz Yano (MPP '20), producer, engineer, and editorSpecial thanks to the Obama Scholars program for bringing Mr. Prendergast to the University of Chicago.

For over 35 years, John Prendergast has worked as a human rights and anti-corruption activist to create and sustain peace in Africa. He served as the Director of African Affairs on the National Security Council under the Clinton Administration, and has founded and worked for a variety of humanitarian organizations.Prendergast is the founding director of the Enough Project, an organization aimed at countering genocide and crimes against humanity, and co-founder of The Sentry, an investigative initiative chasing the assets of African war criminals and their international collaborators.John Prendergast was recently at the University of Chicago to speak with Obama Scholars in the Harris School’s Masters of Arts in International Development and Policy (MAIDP). Lauren Manning (Harris MPP ’20), a Fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict, sat down with John Prendergast to discuss his work as a human rights activist, recent trends in Africa, and advice for future aspiring humanitarian activists. Credits:Lauren Manning (MPP '20), interviewerHaz Yano (MPP '20), producer, engineer, and editorSpecial thanks to the Obama Scholars program for bringing Mr. Prendergast to the University of Chicago.

NYU graduate and documentarian, TJ Parsell, shares his experience creating his latest documentary film, Invisible, which sheds light on the discrimination of gay or queer artists in the country music industry.

Aziz Adam is a refugee detained on Manus Island since 2013, he is among three nominees for a global human rights prize, the Martin Ennals Award. - إنه عبد العزير آدم، الذي سمعنا صوته عدة مرات في أس بي أس عربي 24 متحدثا من مركز الاعتقال في جزيرة مانوس. هو الآن مرشح للحصول على جائزة عالمية لحقوق الإنسان

Democracy in Chains: The Origins of Today's Radical Right and the Crisis of American Democracy Author of the National Book Award finalist "Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plans for America," Nancy MacLean will present an introduction to her thesis in this special All Souls Lifelines Program. Booklist calls "Democracy In Chains," “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to alter irrevocably American government.” The Guardian said, “It’s the missing chapter, a key to understanding the politics of the past half century,” and The Nation magazine named it the “Most Valuable Book” of 2017. MacLean traces the history of the radical right’s thought in the United States, outlining how it informed campaigns to privatize everything from public education to Social Security. Beginning her story in the 1950s with the civil rights struggle to desegregate public schools, she traces the career of the Nobel Prize winning political economist, James McGill Buchanan, who taught wealthy libertarians like Charles Koch that for capitalism to thrive, democracy would need to be “enchained.” MacLean goes on to show how the Koch network’s strategic applications of Buchanan’s thinking has produced today’s relentless efforts to eliminate unions, suppress voting, stop action on climate change and alter the Constitution. Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and immediate past President of the Labor and Working Class History Association. She is the author of several books, including "Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan" and "Freedom is not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace." She also served as editor of "Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism."

Institute of Historical Research "It's all a matter of timing" - Human Rights Activism, Soviet Dissent and the Cold War Mark Hurst (University of Kent) International History seminar series

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities and college, including Trinity College. Margaret was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968, share important years of the Cuban revolution (1969-1980), the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project (1980-1984), and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974). Her four children—Gregory, Sarah, Ximena and Ana—have given her ten grandchildren: Lia, Martin, Daniel, Richi, Sebastian, Juan, Luis Rodrigo, Mariana, Eli, and Tolo. She has lived with her life companion, the painter and teacher Barbara Byers, for almost a quarter century. Among Margaret’s more than 80 published books, some titles still in print are CUBAN WOMEN NOW, SANDINO’S DAUGHTERS, SANDINO’S DAUGHTER REVISITED, CHRISTIANS IN THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION, RISKING A SOMERSAULT IN THE AIR, THE SHAPE OF RED (with Ruth Hubbard), DANCING WITH THE DOE, THIS IS ABOUT INCEST, WALKING TO THE EDGE: ESSAYS OF RESISTANCE, HUNGER’S TABLE: WOMEN, POLITICS & FOOD, THE PRICE YOU PAY: THE HIDDEN COST OF WOMEN’S RELATIONSHIP TO MONEY, WHEN I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR AND SEE YOU: WOMEN, TERROR & RESISTANCE, NARRATIVE OF POWER: ESSAYS FOR AN ENDANGERED CENTURY, WHERE THEY LEFT YOU FOR DEAD / HALFWAY HOME, INTO ANOTHER TIME: GRAND CANYON REFLECTIONS, STONES WITNESS, TO CHANGE THE WORLD: MY YEARS IN CUBA, THEIR BACKS TO THE SEA and MY TOWN. AS IF THE EMPTY CHAIR / COMO SI LA SILLA VACIA (bilingual poetry, Wings Press) and FIRST LAUGH (essays, University of Nebraska Press) will be out in Spring 2011, RUINS (poems, University of New Mexico Press), SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THE CORNFIELDS (poems, Skylight Press), MORE THAN THINGS (essays, University of Nebraska Press), CHE ON MY MIND (Duke University Press), THE RHIZOME AS A FIELD OF BROKEN BONES (poems, Wings Press), and DAUGHTER OF LADY JAGUAR SHARK (poem, Wings Press). Ask for them at your local bookstore, or order through Amazon.com. In 1984, Margaret came home to the United States, only to be ordered deported when the government invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be "against the good order and happiness of the United States." The Center for Constitutional Rights defended her and many writers and others joined in an almost five-year battle for reinstatement of citizenship. She won her case in 1989. In 1990 she was awarded the Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett grant for writers victimized by political repression; and in 2004 was the first recipient of PEN New Mexico’s Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. In 2009 two of her photographs were accepted into the Capitol Arts Foundation permanent collection of work by New Mexican artists on display at the State capitol. For more, visit: www.margaretrandall.org

Born on Columbia Road, award-winning author Linda Wilkinson traces the history of the fragrant home of East London’s famous flower market. From the earliest times when the land was pastureland for cows whose milk supplied the City of London, through the influx of the Huguenot weavers and up to the present day, this talk is part historical and part social memoir based on familial recollections. Linda Wilkinson spent the first 25 years of her working life as a Research Scientist with many publications to her name. In the late 1990’s she began writing for the theatre, where her first play garnered a major award. Her first history book won the Raymond Williams Prize. She has written plays for Radio 4 and her stage plays have been performed both in England and Europe. She was Chair of Amnesty International UK for 6 years and continues to be involved in Human Rights Activism. She still lives just around the corner from Columbia Road.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago Law School is proud to welcome Gary Haugen '91 for the 2010 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwarz Memorial Lecture. The Schwartz Lectureship is held by a distinguished lawyer or teacher whose experience is in the academic field or practice of public service. Haugen is President and CEO of International Justice Mission, a human rights organization with operations in 12 countries. The Schwartz Lecture will take place Thursday, February 18 at 4:00 p.m. in the Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom.Haugen's lecture, entitled "A New Mandate for Human Rights: Why a Half Century of Human Rights Activism and International Development is Failing the Poor, and What Can Be Done about It," will probe why significant contributions by the international development and modern human rights movements have failed to establish a platform of basic rule of law in the developing world.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago Law School is proud to welcome Gary Haugen '91 for the 2010 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwarz Memorial Lecture. The Schwartz Lectureship is held by a distinguished lawyer or teacher whose experience is in the academic field or practice of public service. Haugen is President and CEO of International Justice Mission, a human rights organization with operations in 12 countries. The Schwartz Lecture will take place Thursday, February 18 at 4:00 p.m. in the Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom.Haugen's lecture, entitled "A New Mandate for Human Rights: Why a Half Century of Human Rights Activism and International Development is Failing the Poor, and What Can Be Done about It," will probe why significant contributions by the international development and modern human rights movements have failed to establish a platform of basic rule of law in the developing world.