Patty Mills, Spurs and the Stolen Generations of Australian Children By Alan Gilbert, Ph.D, Professor of Democratic Theory at the University of Denver June 16, 2014, Denver – In the third quarter of the Spurs’ vanquishing of the Heat Sunday night, Patty Mills launched beautiful arching three point shots. Small, 5’11″, he outhustles others. After…
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High school students learned how to tackle the most troubling issues in the world today at the University of Denver Model UN Conference. But more importantly, they had the chance to experience the dynamic power relationships between countries and self-interests. Pressing issues such as Myanmar’s ethnic conflict and Venezuela’s drug trafficking occupied a a…
March 3, 2014, Denver, CO- Alejandra Tello Alejandra Tello tells the story of Israeli activist, Eran Efrati (part of the traveling group The Soldier and The Refusenik) following the group’s week-long visit to Colorado. Eran was born and raised in Jerusalem. He was a young man in his early twenties who joined the military…
Denver, CO, March 2, 2013 – John Davies-Schley (16 years old, Denver Center for International Studies)This is a reflection of John Davies-Schley following his interaction with former Israeli soldiers and his interview with Denver locals on the complexity of the Israeli/Palestinian issue. The dirty little secret about complexity is that it’s everywhere. Consider that…
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A few local, Denver artists decided to come together recently to talk about the importance and beauty of contemporary Middle Eastern hip-hop. In this portion of KGNU’s Sunday show “Eclipse” (airs on Sundays at 7-9pm, see below) Dave Ashton (KGNU Denver’s program manager and hip-hop artist) and I discuss some popular MidEast hip hop stars…
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College student Fadumo Adan, a Somali native and refugee living in Denver, CO, will be one of just a handful of refugees in this year’s United Nations Refugee Congress in Washington D.C. this week. Adan said she will be voicing her concerns of the refugee community at this year’s annual Congress. She was chosen by…
Journalist Manar Madane reports on the development of the largest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, al Zaatari. (Article and video by Manar Madane in Jordan, 31/12/2013. Translated from Arabic by Google) Try and to cope with reality – it is a picture full of movement and life and production of the camp Zaatari, depravity “Champs-Elysees” or…
The spread of hip-hop onto the global sphere can present somewhat of a paradox. On the one hand, hip-hop is a symbolic fight by the weak against oppressive forces; forces who have dominated social, economic, and political wealth throughout time. On the other hand, hip-hop has become such a global phenomenon that the “invisible hand”…
