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Calling College Graduate and Young Professionals
Travel to India for 11 months on a fully funded program! World Partners Fellowship applications are being accepted until January 30, 2012. Learn more »
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AJWS in The New York Times
Robert Bank tells The New York Times that rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people must be an integrated piece of the global human rights agenda. Read more »
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Sonia Pierre, 1963 - 2011
Always dreaming of a different Haiti, and a better life for Dominicans of Haitian descent, she fought tirelessly to make the dream real. Read more »
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Food Justice Conference Call!
If you missed our recent activist call about what’s next with the Farm Bill and AJWS’s Reverse Hunger campaign, the recording of the call is now available.
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East African Famine Relief
East Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years, resulting in a severe food crisis and famine. Read more »
For most of us, land is an abstraction. Growing up in cities and towns, we feel the earth only in tiny backyards or small neighborhood parks, or when, once or twice a year, we make an effort to seek out nature for a day or two of camping and hiking. We have smartphone apps to help us identify leaves and plants, and Facebook games like Farmville to give us a touch of that old agricultural spirit our ancestors had lost a century or more ago, when America leaped into industrialization and left its fields and trees and brooks behind. Our thoughts of land focus on real estate—a... Read more »
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