Category: War/Genocide

GI-NET at the Alliance for Youth Movements Summit

The Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) held their annual international summit in London this week from March 9th to March 11th. The summit, which boasted 59 speakers from over 18 different countries, offered young, emerging activists the opportunity to discuss the best practices for ending global violence through communication technology and social media. Some of the world’s [...]

S4S Update: Library taking shape at Pope Paul VI Anaka

Pope Paul VI Anaka’s first library is nearing completion! Here’s an update on its progress.
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Mentoring ain’t all roses.

Not every trip a mentor makes to a student’s home is inspired by good news. Sometimes mentors have to help families take corrective action to help students succeed. Jessica, our Comm. Assistant, went out with a few mentors the other day to make some difficult home visits.
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3rd Artist Announced for the Take Away Show/Uganda Documentary

We’re proud to announce that LYKKE LI will be joining us on our trip to Uganda with Yeasayer and The Polyphonic Spree
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Feeling epic? There’s a playlist for that

This website offers a playlist for your every mood. Ten playlists later, and my emotions are confused.
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Hulu is nice to Invisible Children

You may be seeing an ad for Invisible children on Hulu. That’s because we got free ad space. Thank you Hulu!
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Rudyard Kipling’s “IF”

“If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise”
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Tolstoi on ‘what is art’

“…the importance, the value, of art consists in widening man’s outlook, in increasing the spiritual wealth that is humanity’s capital.”
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MAJOR NEWS: The bill just passed the Senate unanimously!

Proof that the Oklaholdout was worth it. Young people changing the world. We are so stoked right now.
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La Blogotheque project fundraising success!

We reached the first round of fundraising for the IC/Blogotheque collaboration to take Yeasayer and the Polyphonic Spree to Uganda! You have 4 hours left if you still want in.
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Ja’mie King: we can be heroes

This is what we’re dealing with in the world. These people are real. Though this one is not.
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Team Pacific Northwest update from Northern CA

“…Northern California tricked us into falling in love with all this beauty: almond farms, orange groves, rolling hills and a cow named Red.”
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Dear future, I’m here. Nice to meet you.

I don’t mean to alarm you, but this is a personal jet pack. I don’t know how we’re going to use this in the bush, but you can be darn sure we’re figuring it out.
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Foreign Policy: The LRA has entered Darfur

“The news of the LRA’s arrival in Darfur should be a clear wake-up call for not only U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, but the entire international community.”
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Currently reading: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

A tidbit of wisdom from children’s literature.
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