by Nada Khader | Mar 17, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Criminal Justice, Director's Blog, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
As many of you know, my spouse James teaches at Columbia University, which has again been much in the news. Things have been moving so fast that it’s hard to keep up with a situation that grows ever more dire. On Friday, March 7 when the Horsemen of the...
by Nada Khader | Feb 19, 2025 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
From UMass Office of the President: February 19th is a significant date for the Japanese American community. On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from the military...
by Nada Khader | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Environmental and Food Justice, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
The LHV Social Forum planning team is delighted to be working with the @boxcutter_collective to make large puppets for the social forum scheduled for Sunday, April 27th in White Plains! Boxcutter Collective is a New York City based puppet troupe made up of 6...
by Nada Khader | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Environmental and Food Justice, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Progressive News Network, Racial Justice
From Frank Brodhead: Hello All – In less than a month, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have grabbed power and created chaos. We call this a “coup,” meaning an unconstitutional overturn of our government. They must be stopped. But how? Tens of thousands of people have...
by Nada Khader | Feb 12, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
The 50+ member organizations of the NYS Community Equity Agenda, representing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers statewide, made the following statement responding to the Trump Administration’s assault on the Consumer and Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—and...
by Nada Khader | Feb 8, 2025 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
Filmmaker Alain Martin frames the forgotten history of his country’s brutal occupation at the hands of the United States as an epistolary that finds him penning a letter to his deceased grandfather about the subject. He confesses to Brunel Martin, the grandfather in...
