23 celebrated cartoonists, including Art Spiegelman and Roz Chast, unite to demand action against gun violence.
A a time when 33 people are murdered with guns every day in America and homicide rates in the United States exceed those of other high-income nations by 690%, it’s tragic how little progress we’ve made since 1944.
Also see Stephen King on gun control and violence.
Sign the petition to end gun violence here and consider sparing your daily coffee in donating to the cause.
If we all stood up to bigotry, we could change history.
Stirring PSA for the Anti-Defamation League imagines a world without hate through history’s fallen heroes.
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You want to slow the spread of AIDS? Educate a girl. You want to slow population growth? Educate a girl. You want to grow the global economy? Educate a girl. So, what exactly changes when the 600,000 girls in the developing world get a good education?
Everything.
Some stirring statistics in this trailer for Girl Rising, a moving documentary about the impact of educating girls worldwide.
At a time when even in the “developed” world the gender gap in academia gapes wide, what could be more important? Even Einstein knew that.
Help support the project with a donation – for the cost of an average New York City dinner, for instance, you can cover the school feels for one girl for an entire year.
100 years ago today, lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain mounted a white horse and rode astride as the first of four mounted heralds in the Women’s Suffrage Parade that changed modern history.
Her costume and the horse were intended to mirror the image on the cover of the parade program:
Three years after the parade, she collapsed and died at age thirty during a western suffrage lecture tour.
Fifty years after the parade, Betty Friedan took up the cause anew with The Feminine Mystique.
Debbie Millman interprets the Second Amendment in a new series of posters against gun violence. Complement with Stephen King on guns.
It’s Malala Day, an open call to bring education to every child and outlaw discrimination against girls.
Making of a Century – absolutely fantastic new iPad app that takes you on an interactive journey through 100 years of history’s revolutionaries and social movements around the world, inviting you to better understand the present by drawing connections to the past.
Anatomy of a hunger strike, from symptoms to stats about history’s most famous hunger strikes.
From Visualizing Palestine, an open collective seeking to illustrate graphically the injustices Palestinians are enduring under the current apartheid.
On the heels of Noam Chomsky’s buzzed-about Occupy pamphlet comes Music for Occupy, an epic 99-track compilation of tracks by 99 artists to raise awareness about the global social movement. The all-star roster includes Tom Morello, Yo La Tengo, Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco, Yoko Ono, Thievery Corporation, Willie Nelson, Girls Against Boys, and Debbie Harry.
Available on Amazon and iTunes. Proceeds go directly towards supporting the global Occupy movement.
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Important “trailer” for Half the Sky, a transmedia project aimed at reducing the oppression of women and girls worldwide, based on the book of the same title by Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
“…you may not labor under the delusion that we place State’s Rights above Human Rights.”
1916 petition from the president of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, passionately argued (and complete with an “it’s”/”its” typo).
