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GI-Net Efforts Pay Off In Sarah Palin's Divestment From Sudan

Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) celebrated an important victory last week as Governor Palin divested $15,000 of her money from companies complicit in the Darfur genocide. Palin’s investments in "high-offender" companies were first reported by ABC News, which learned of them by drawing on the Sudan Company Report, produced annually by GI-Net.
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October 14, 2008 - 12:53pm

Shreen Abdul Saroor Wins 2008 Voices of Courage Award

2005 Echoing Green Fellow Shreen Abdul Saroor has dealt with war and displacement her entire life. In 1990, she and her family were forced to flee their Sri Lankan home after persecution by a militant sect. Inspired by her family’s hardship, Shreen dedicated her life to helping women facing violence and oppression.

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Posted by: Regina
January 31, 2008 - 5:59pm

Sasha Chanoff's Thoughts on the Violence in Kenya

The post-election violence in Kenya has been troubling to many members of the Echoing Green community. To share his opinion on the situation, 2006 Echoing Green Fellow Sasha Chanoff, founder of Mapendo International, wrote an editorial piece for the Boston Globe. In it, he discusses the problem of simply blaming the violence on tribal conflict, and urges everyone to contemplate the influence of poverty and politics on the Kenyan people.
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Posted by: Regina
January 25, 2008 - 4:50pm

Bridging the Arab-American Divide through Social Media

Leave it to an Echoing Green Fellow to apply cutting-edge social media technology to the intractable cultural divide between the west and the Arab & Muslim world.  Soliya, the brainchild of 2004 Echoing Green Fellows Lucas Welch and Liza Chambers, provides video conferencing and training tools to facilitate dialogue between university students. Their powerful project was profiled in the lead story of CNN's Inside the Middle East last week.

Lucas recently reports:
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December 3, 2007 - 4:26pm

Eric Dawson

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Peace First

1996 Echoing Green Fellow

http://www.peacefirst.org/

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Education & Youth Leadership, Non-Violence


Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan

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PINE TREE

2001 Echoing Green Fellow

La Trinidad, Philippines
Arts, Culture, Humanities, Civil and Human Rights, Community Improvement & Economic Development, Education & Youth Leadership, Environment, Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Non-Violence, Public Service


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Van Jones

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Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

1994 Echoing Green Fellow

http://www.ellabakercenter.org

San Francisco, California, United States
Community Improvement & Economic Development, Education & Youth Leadership, Non-Violence


Liza Chambers and Lucas Welch

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Soliya

2004 Echoing Green Fellow

http://www.soliya.net

Brooklyn, New York, United States
Community Improvement & Economic Development, Non-Violence


Randy Parraz and Scott Sherman

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Transformative Action Institute

2005 Echoing Green Fellow

http://www.transformativeaction.org

Santa Ana, California, United States
Non-Violence


Mark Hanis

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Genocide Intervention Network

2006 Echoing Green Fellow

http://www.genocideintervention.net

Washington D.C., United States
Non-Violence


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