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Provides 14-16 independent, non-fiction programs every year on PBS. Known for their intimacy, storytelling and timeliness -- they put a human face on contemporary social issues such as the criminal justice system, the environment, gender inequality, immigration, politics, racism, war & peace.
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A feature length documentary that tells the story of members of a family displaced by the Syrian conflict who are remaking themselves after the parents separate -- as they both walk the line between their Muslim values and the new world in which they find themselves.
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From Damascus to Chicago
A short documentary from POV Films about two young Syrian siblings recently resettled in Chicago who enroll in a dance class as their family navigates a new city and country.
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4.1 Miles
An intense, short documentary about a coast guard captain on the small Greek island of Lesbos, that is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning in a narrow channel of the Aegean sea during the European migrant crisis.
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Food and Friendship, A Recipe for Humanity
A resource of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), shows how
using food and camaraderie as common denominators, conceived of a "supper club" as a way to create additional pathways to increased independence for resettled refugees who are just getting on their feet in a new country and to encourage more people to seek out first-hand encounters with refugees beyond what they read in the news.
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How to Reduce Poverty? Fix Homes
A TED Talk featuring architect Paul Pholeros who shares the story of how he was challenged to "stop people getting sick" in a small indigenous community in south Australia, meant thinking beyond medicine and the founding of Healthabitat, which works to reduce poverty through practical design fixes.
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Campaign Nonviolence
A call to join an eighteen-month journey including the 2017 Week of Actions, Sept. 16-24 through the 2018 Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions—September 15-23, 2018—when thousands of nonviolent actions will take place across the U.S. For more information click here.
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Important Dates This Month
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Individuals Honored This Month
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We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
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Change only takes place through action, not through meditation or prayer alone.
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Peasant people…don’t have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there’s only so much to go around.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
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