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Originally posted on The Jew and the Carrot. This is the story of a fishpond. Not just any old fishpond, but a fishpond in Muchucuxcah (Pronounce the x like a sh), Mexico, four hours west of Cancun. I was in Muchucuxcah for ten days in January with American Jewish World Service’s Rabbinical Students Delegation. We were there …
On March 19th, 1,500 rural and indigenous community members in Guatemala began marching for nine consecutive days to defend their natural resource rights. Tragically, state-sanctioned practices are destroying forests and mountains, contaminating rivers and water sources, and preventing rural Guatemalan communities from sustainably producing their own food. Nearly one year ago, hundreds of rural Maya …
Fans of The Hunger Games—you know who you are—are getting excited for the movie version of the first of Suzanne Collins’s trilogy of young adult novels. The film arrives in theaters this weekend. (Midnight or 3 a.m. IMAX screening, anyone?) We want to doff our hat to Oxfam—one of our friends in the campaign to end global …
Friday started off as one of those days in which I remember why I decided to move to Washington, DC. At Sherman Circle, a block from the Sudanese Embassy, hundreds of activists gathered to protest the Sudanese government’s blocking food aid. The rally called on the United States and world leaders to stop the violence and …
Most of you have probably followed the coverage and controversy of KONY 2012. Myriad articles about the campaign’s merits and shortcomings saturated the media last week. Ricky Richard Anywar, the founder and executive director of AJWS’s grantee Friends of Orphans in northern Uganda, shared his own thoughts about Kony 2012 in National Geographic. Ricky’s response …
