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Just Another Goodbye
Source: StoryCorps
When Isaac Lugo was 15, his father was deported. The two had spent nearly Isaac’s whole life in the United States. Isaac tells his story with Mike McAuliffe, the boxing trainer who became his foster father. Learn More > At This Boxing Gym, Former Undocumented…
Resource type: Video
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. This video summary of the report shows how the disparate and highly clustered use of the…
Resource type: Video
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AFT Conference Aims to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education
Source: Schott Foundation
Over the last 30 years, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has organized a series of biennial Civil, Human and Women’s Rights conferences addressing a wide range of social justice issues. The 2013 conference focused on public education. Will it continue to exist as a truly…
Resource type: Video
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South Africa’s Journey to Democracy: Reflections by Albie Sachs
Source: C. S. Mott Foundation
How has South Africa changed in its journey toward democracy? Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist who spent twenty-four years in exile during apartheid, reflects on this question. Sachs, 78, lost his arm in a bomb attack by South African security agents during his…
Resource type: Video
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Where I Am Going: A Campaign to Change the Conversation About Stop-and-Frisk
Source: Communities United for Police Reform
Communities United For Police Reform, an Atlantic grantee, recently launched Where I Am Going, a video series that peeks into the lives of people who’ve experienced NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk policy. These short documentaries gives us a glance into the lives of ordinary New Yorkers — a…
Resource type: Video
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Pensioners Speak for Themselves at Northern Ireland “Pensioners Parliament”
Source: Age Sector Platform
‘The best thing probably about the Pensioners Parliament is that it is from the bottom up, from the people on the ground.’ – Nixon Armstrong, County Armagh MPP (Member of the Pensioners Parliament) Almost 200 pensioners attended the 2013 Northern Ireland Pensioners Parliament in Belfast,…
Resource type: Video
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A Return to Community-Controlled Reform
Source: Our City - Our Schools
Our City – Our Schools is a call to action from the parents, students, teachers and advocates on the front lines of public education in Philadelphia. Bringing together four community organisations to collaborate on shared priorities, Our City – Our Schools helps its member groups work…
Resource type: Video
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Eastern Cape Schools Solidarity Visit
Source: Equal Education
From 23-26 April 2013 Archbishop Thabo Makgoba lead a delegation of eminent South Africans on an Eastern Cape Schools Solidarity Visit organised by Equal Education. The delegates were able to witness the extent of the infrastructure crisis and draw attention to the dire need for infrastructure…
Resource type: Video
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Abolishing the Death Penalty in Maryland
“Maryland today becomes the 18th state to abolish the death penalty….In doing so it joins every other western country and almost every country on the planet…..But most importantly, today, Maryland pushes America towards abolishing the death penalty and rejoining its rightful place as a global…
Resource type: Video
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¡Salud! the Film-Trailer
Source: MEDICC
Produced in 2006, this documentary offers an examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, and looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores…
Resource type: Video
