by Gwladys Fouche and Terje Solsvik Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country’s president. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, shared the $1.5 million […]

By filmmaker Nadim Merrikh, a fifteen year old Baha’i from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His collaborative film, Be the Change You Want to See, by the “Dapper Rappers”, was inspired by the London riots and was aimed at motivate young people for good. The video has had over 10,000 hits on Youtube and the rap music video […]

‘Songs In The Key Of Be’, a concert featuring my music, played by some great local musicians, to celebrate my 60th year towards heaven, was broadcast at 9.05pm on The Rhythm Divine, Radio National, 792, Friday 2 September. You can download an inspirational set from the concert for free from  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rhythmdivine/ Hope you like it. […]

Great moments in “laughtivism” from Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the guys who duped the BBC, embarrassed Dow Chemical, and mocked Halliburton. by The Yes Men posted Jul 12, 2011 Some say that laughter helped bring down the Soviet Union, by making “­Brezhnev” rhyme with “ridiculous.” At the Yes Lab, we help activists […]

Picks from Catherine Claire Larson, author of ‘As We Forgive.’ Catherine Claire Larson | posted 5/18/2011 09:14AM   Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace Miroslav Volf (Zondervan) When it comes to contemplating forgiveness, Volf’s works stand head and shoulders above the crowd. Here he puts forgiveness into the larger context […]

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 […]