Remove Cultures Remove Human Rights Remove Seminar
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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing

Zinn Education Project

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. The sign (in Hebrew) reads: “There is no academia without democracy. (No?)” We can and must do more.