Tali Raz, project coordinator for NISAN -- a feminist Arab/Jewish organization working for peace in Haifa, speaks about the struggles in getting Jews and Palestinians to come together for peace dialogues. Film Aug 2007. 5:10 min. TomVandebeek video production.
The power of empowering women reaches far. Empowering a woman helps the world. Women of the World - is a work in progress using clips from the one hour documentary "Microcredit: The Future of Poverty" and the song "Staralfur" by Sigur Ros. 5:49 min. June 2007.
Mary Robinson was the first woman president of Ireland 1990-1997 and former UN High Commisioner for Human Rights. As a member of "The Elders", Mary Robinson speaks about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, gender oppression and what we can do to help the world. For more info: http://www.theelders.org/elders/robinson.aspx
"The Mother is the first teacher of compassion," says H.H. the Dalai Lama. Storytellers and mythologists Dr. Marion Woodman, Alice Walker, and Angeles Arrien, link this unique Tibetan story to a much broader perspective of how Mother and The Great Mother Archetype touches all our lives and take us on an inspired hour-long journey into the universal power of mothering. A Frame of Mind Film production. Film excerpt 4:21 min. Feb. 8, 2008 www.womenoftibet.org
"The Raging Grannies" is a very special group of activists. These old women heroes take surprising risks to be part of political movements. The Raging Grannies (or just "Raging Grannies") are activist organizations that started in Victoria, British Columbia, over the winter of 1986/87. There are now groups in many cities and towns in different countries. Jan 2008. 1:40 min.
See and hear Violette's story from survivor of the Rwandan genocide to prosperous leader in her community and learn how her relationship with her sponsor Liz Hammer (US) inspired Violette as well as Liz . "She's my younger sister. I wish to see her someday," says Violette. Zainab Salbi did introduce these two "sisters" in person for the first time November 2007.
www.womenforwomen.org
MUYINGA, Burundi, 5 December 2007 -- Chantal Nizigiyimana has been back in her home country of Burundi for only a few months, having lived in Tanzania since she was a young child. In 1993, her family was among hundreds of thousands of Burundians who fled across the border in order to avoid conflict. Now, all Burundians are being asked to return home. Ms. Nizigiyimana is among approximately 9,000 people -- half of them youths -- who have been expelled from Tanzania just this year. Many women and children arr
In 1990, Lynne R. Patterson, an American schoolteacher, and Carmen Velasco, a Bolivian child psychologist, wanted to help the poorest women in Bolivia achieve economic and social wellbeing. A U.S. government grant helped Lynne and Carmen get started — they later met women in areas that span Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. They met them in their houses and courtyards and provided them with empowerment training, women's rights awareness, financial planning, and childhood education. Today the
Who are Beth's girls? They are girls who are now being educated as a program for Elizabeth Bowers, who died as she was a Peace Corps volunteer working in Zambia to help children. Today Elizabeth's parents are taking up the torch to continue their daughter's work in Zambia. Eucation for girls matters..... Film 5:54 min Aug 2007.
In 2005, Lisa Shannon saw a story on the Oprah Winfrey show about women in the eastern Congo and Women for Women International's unique program to help women survivors of war there. After learning of the 3,300,000 people who have died and the staggering number of human rights violations -- torture, mutilation and sexual violence that has occurred against tens of thousands of women and children, Lisa Shannon set out on her own mission to help women of the Congo. The Run for Congo Women is a true grassroots