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Change Everything: Naomi Klein and the People's Climate March

Deepali Srivastava

“How does it feel to see 200,000 people coming to New York for your book launch?” asked Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, when introducing journalist and author Naomi Klein at the New School before a talk about her new book on climate change, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. While that number may be an exaggeration, there is no doubt that Klein’s “change everything” mantra is energizing the 350-organized movement threatening to “Flood Wall Street” by Monday, September 22.

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Rwanda 1994: 100 Days

Juliane Okot Bitek Jason Huettner

In April of 2014, artist and sculptor Wangechi Mutu started a photography project on Instagram in memory of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.

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Brenda Fassie, Our Girl in the Mirror

Ts’eliso Monaheng

Bongani Madondo is a South African writer who, for the better part of his life, has been tip-toeing around words in search of the perfect phrase. His family, originally from the Kwa-Zulu Natal province of South Africa, migrated further north where they settled in an area called Hammanskraal on the outskirts of Pretoria. It’s this grounding which, in part, contributed to the writer he became. 

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