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80 years: The Flight and Rescue of the Danish Jews 1943 - 2023
In 2023, it will be 80 years since the flight and rescue of the Danish Jews. Humanity in Action marks this through a number of events in September and October. The memory is our shared responsibility and our only way to prevent repetition.
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James Sykes Selected as a New Leaders Council - St. Louis Fellow
Senior Fellow James Sykes has been selected as a 2021 New Leaders Council - St. Louis Fellow.
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Inside the white supremacist global network
Senior Fellow Beth Goldberg's work for a research project by Jigsaw involved infiltrating and learning about white supremacy networks in the United States. This study focuses on the methods of radicalization and communication between members of white supremacist groups, dispelling of the idea that white supremacy terrorist attacks are singular and the results of self-radicalized extremists.
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No Deportation to Syria, No Cooperation with the Assad Regime
Senior Fellow Mariana Karkoutly is one of many Syrian activists and organizations meeting with the German Interior Ministers about extending the Syrian deportation freeze.
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Newsmatch: A Unique Program to Fund News "For the People, With the People"
Senior Fellow Aasha Abdill writes about the importance of news and local journalism, and how the nonprofit news is suffering and people are losing local news sources that help them make important decisions.
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The women changing how we think about business - comment
Landecker Fellow Laura Westring published an article in The Scotsman on how businesses and the economy can shift for the better. In the article, she discusses her thoughts and journey of researching and studying the economy and our relationship with it.
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Berlin has Become the Secret Capital of Bashar al-Asad Opponents
Senior Fellow Mariana Karkoutly has been featured in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in an article by Ulrich von Schwerin. The article discusses Syrians living in Germany and how they are using the voices and freedoms that were limited in Syria to speak up agains the Bashar al-Asad regime.
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Informal housing and the rise of vigilantism in West Coast Thessaloniki
Landecker Fellow Nikos Vrantsis wrote an article on how the EU migration policy in Thessaloniki does not work.
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A World From Scratch
Senior Fellow Tamar Guttmann has started the podcast A World From Scratch, in which she asks guests to reimagine starting the world from scratch and share what that looks like and how we can make their visions a reality.