Human Rights First’s podcast, on iTunes! FirstCast, brings you compelling human rights stories from around the world and provides insight and analysis on today’s most important issues. This week’s FirstCast features Shehrbano Taseer, the daughter of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer who was assassinated by his bodyguard for publicly condemning the misuse of blasphemy laws in […]

Ahmed Ali Haile, Martha, and their children served as Eastern Mennonite Missions workers from 1994-2009. Haile died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 26 at the age of 58 following a six-year struggle with cancer. Haile served as a peacemaker in Somalia and in the Somali refugee community in Kenya, as a leader in the Somali […]

Bobby McFerrin is an explorer on frontiers of the human voice; he sings the territory between music and the human spirit. I knew this when I sat down to speak with him, but I couldn’t guess how beautifully he would be able to put it into words or how theologically he does so. As an […]

These are a series of spoken words performance by my friend, Joel, that I think all of us “white”, “rich”, “Christians” should be able to relate to. Dave   Joel McKerrow “My Confessions” Part One – “For the White Part In Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vCtEqyYkfk&feature=related Part Two – “For The Rich Part In Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gD9U-iXg0&feature=related Part Three – […]

Produced, filmed and edited by journalist Catherine Rabenstine, the nine-minute film features CPT’s Palestinian partners who nonviolently resist the Israeli military occupation in Hebron/Al Khalil and the South Hebron Hills. Rabenstine also interviews CPT Palestine members who describe their work and their partnership with Palestinians practicing “sumoud,” or steadfastness, in raising their families, going to […]

Juliano Mer-Khamis Palestinian-Israeli actor, activist and theatre director with a global reputation Juliano Mer-Khamis at the Freedom theatre in the Jenin refugee camp. Its productions have resonated around the world. Photograph: Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images The Palestinian-Israeli actor Juliano Mer-Khamis, who has been shot dead at the age of 52, was a successful stage and screen performer, […]

by Claudia Kawczynska Recent events in Northern Africa have turned the spotlight on Gene Sharp, PhD, a scholar and social scientist anointed by the Daily Beast as “the 83-year-old who toppled Egypt.” For decades, Sharp — through his manuals and books, including From Dictatorship to Democracy, The Politics of Nonviolent Action and 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action— has […]

Dave Andrews – On The Beatitudes And The Blessed Revolution – 7 min – 27 Jan 2011 – Uploaded by greenbeltfestival Dave and Ange Andrews have lived and worked with marginalised people in Asia and Australia for over forty years. They started Aashiana … www.youtube.com/watch?v=luGRdGB2T3s

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life — and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules. http://www.ted.com/talks/liza_donnelly_drawing_upon_humor_for_change.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-02 01&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

An inspiring short documentary about the peace activism of “Old Radicals “Art and Peggy Gish released by Phil Storer and the folks at Noonday Films http://erb.kingdomnow.org/multimedia-tuesday-old-radicals-or-rip-art-gish/

30 years ago Dorothy Day died peacefully in New York City leaving a legacy of 180 radical Catholic Worker communities practising the acts of mercy to the poor and nonviolent resistance to the war making state. 10 days later in New York City John Lennon, a voice of a generation was slain and silenced. 20 […]

Jesus embodies a lot of what we want to embody ourselves. by Ted Grimsrud Jesus is pretty amazing. He’s an ancient character in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire. He barely made it to his 30s and then joined countless other expendable people the Empire considered worth executing. Yet, in his afterlife, he became […]