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Interview Ai WeiWei
Humanity in Action is pleased to share a 32 minute video of an hour-long conversation on the role of art and organizations like Humanity in Action in upholding civil democracies and humanity in our current, turbulent times with Judith Goldstein and the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at his studio in Berlin.
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Recognizing What We See and Don't See: Bridging Communities through Nonviolent Communication and Storytelling
The “Recognizing What We See and Don't See: Bridging Communities through Nonviolent Communication and Storytelling” project strives to teach individuals new approaches to respond to discrimination by using techniques from intercultural and nonviolent communication.
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Make Reality
Make Reality is an animated film on the theme of reality in the context of Humanity in Action's mission. It explores the pressures on reality, community and active citizenship in a time of increasing social and political discord.
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My 100 Day Plans
My 100 Day Plans was a civic action campaign encouraging participants to take one action every day for 100 hundred days to directly counteract Donald Trump’s first hundred days in office.
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The NET Mentoring Group
The NET Mentoring Group provides students with tutoring, mentoring, STEM programming and connects them to existing resources in Boston.
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Indigenous Corps of Discovery - Presidential Portrait Expedition
"Indigenous Corps of Discovery - Presidential Portrait Expedition" is an interactive tour of the Smithsonian's Presidential Portrait Gallery that combines the personal and political as Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren acts as a tour guide and artist, recounting US Presidential history through the stories of the Catawba Indian Nation.
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Learning Assistance for Roma Children
Learning Assistance for Roman Children is a grassroots tutoring service that seeks to support Roma youth in Warsaw's Praga District.
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Empowering Victims to Report Hate Speech in Poland
Empowering Victims to Report Hate Speech in Poland organized for a number of volunteers to be trained in identifying and reporting hate speech as well as in offering immediate support to victims of such.
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"The Ghoul Exhibition" - Guns, Performance and Social Justice
"The Ghoul Exhibition" - Guns, Performance and Social Justice is an artistic response to the unfolding tragedy of gun violence in the United States, questioning how the “representation” of violence in the media and the arts actually contributes to the problems behind gun violence.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.