Long time over due, these are the photographs from the 2010 Rocky Mountain Region Jam with José Ramos-Horta. More to be added soon. Enjoy!

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The object of the game is to imagine the public reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of race in America, at the end of the game, wins.

Constance McMillen has become a lot of things to an awful lot of people these past few weeks. Less than a month ago, she was an 18-year-old high school student at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi. Today, she’s become a de facto face of the movement for LGBT student rights, blazing a trail from the courtrooms of Mississippi to the couches of America’s most popular talk shows.

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We spent the morning talking about what each of us feels about “Ubuntu” - a Zulu word that means, “I am because you are because we are.” Our first week, Thuli taught us how to say this in sign…

So why won’t the U.S. be joining so many of its allies in renouncing land mines? “We … determined that we would not be able to meet our national defense needs nor our security commitments to our friends and allies if we sign this convention,” Kelly said in the briefing.

According to an analysis of statewide data taken from 1998-2001, women in Oregon who made less than $50,000 a year were more than three times likely to report they were discriminated against by health providers because of their insurance status during pregnancy and delivery.

Sara Power saw the problem in the Corvallis area and came up with Jamming for the Hungry

Walking around her neighborhood, Sara Power couldn’t help mourning all the fallen fruit wasting away in yards and along sidewalks come harvest time. At the same time, the Corvallis-area volunteer was troubled by the distinct lack of jams and jellies on local food pantry shelves.

Join us on July 25, 2009 for a rally in your city in support of the Iranian people and in condemnation of the human rights abuses being committed by the Iranian government.

The database demonstrates that while violent conflicts over water are rare, peaceful interactions abound. “We are finding that water, rather than being the driver of conflict, is the one resource that unites people. It is simply too important to fight over,” Turton says.