In 2008, a controversy erupted nationwide when California Musical Theatre's then artistic director resigned over the revelation of his personal donation of $1000 to a political campaign to support California proposition 8, which was an amendment to change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. After the amendment was passed, donor information became public. Shaiman and other Broadway artists who had previously worked with the director became critical and called for a boycott of the theatre by all gay artists and performers, ending in the director's resignation days later. To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical." The 3-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com, beginning on December 3, 2008.
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Marc Shaiman | Activism
To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, he wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical." To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical. Yes, Shaiman and other Broadway artists who had previously worked with the director became critical and called for a boycott of the theatre by all gay artists and performers, ending in the director's resignation days later. Yes
what is the new mary poppins movie rated
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 371 reviews, with an average rating of 7.28/10.
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when was this film released?
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2018
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who directed it?
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Rob Marshall
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what is the genre of this motion picture?
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Musical fantasy film
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what is this motion picture all about?
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Set in London during the Great Depression, some twenty-five years after the events of the original film, the film sees Mary Poppins, the former nanny of Jane and Michael Banks, return to them in the wake of the death of Michael's wife.
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which actress played the role of the protagonist?
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Emily Blunt
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how were the protagonist's nature and personality depicted in the film?
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where were the scenes filmed at?
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Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England
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is there someone who owns the above studios?
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Yes, the Pinewood Studios Group
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who composed that film's music score?
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Marc Shaiman
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from where did he study music?
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It was written and produced in just a few days. The cast includes Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, and Rashida Jones. Shaiman plays the piano and appears briefly in the video. It received 1.2 million internet hits in its first day. † = Emmy nominee
Marc Shaiman | Activism
Heiman has been active as a women’s right advocate for many years. In 2015, she founded the organization "Women in Academia" to protect and advance women's equality in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and in 2018, she founded the public-benefit corporation "An Academy of Her Own", which advocates for gender equality in various academic institutions.
Michal Heiman | Activism
In 2008, a controversy erupted nationwide when California Musical Theatre's then artistic director resigned over the revelation of his personal donation of $1000 to a political campaign to support California proposition 8, which was an amendment to change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. After the amendment was passed, donor information became public. Shaiman and other Broadway artists who had previously worked with the director became critical and called for a boycott of the theatre by all gay artists and performers, ending in the director's resignation days later. To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical." The 3-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com, beginning on December 3, 2008.
Marc Shaiman | Activism
Proceeds from Schultz's music and other creative projects go toward healthcare and education for orphans at home and abroad.
Mark Schultz (musician) | Activism
Marc-Boris St-Maurice (b. 1969) is an activist, politician and Canadian musician, who has campaigned for many years for the legalization of cannabis, and to facilitate access to the drug for health reasons. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Marc-Boris St-Maurice | Introduction
Mauri was born in 1977 in Badalona. As a teenager, he studied in the Escola Jungfrau and in the Institut La Llauna in Badalona. He has been involved in activism since then. First, as a member of the esplai, then, already in the university, as a member of the Bloc d’Estudiants Independentistes (BEI) and the Coordinadora d’Estudiants dels Països Catalans (CEPC).
Marcel Mauri | Biography
Ornan corrected himself later he meant only to threw the schools to the sea, not the people, as one might understand. Since the 1990s he has been active in the "I am Israeli" movement, which strives for equality among all Israelis, by dropping the nationality from the formal government registration of each citizen or revising the nationality to include "Israeli" as an option. To this end several appeals were submitted to Israeli courts.
Uzzi Ornan | Social activism
I don't believe in a political solution [...] because in 2022, this time, it will be the occupants, the invaders, [i.e. the immigrants] who will vote, who will be the masters of the elections, so anyway the solution is no longer political".""
Renaud Camus | Political activism (2012–present)
During high school, he created a volunteer group and started to help underprivileged people, especially during natural disasters common to the country like cyclones and floods.
Ehsan Hoque | Activism
Marc Estrin (born April 20, 1939) is an American writer and political activist.
Marc Estrin | Introduction
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Marc Kasky | External links
Marc was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. As a young adult, he formed the Subject To Change Theatre Troupe, which was active in political causes such as support for Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He studied at the University of Southern California where he earned two Master's degrees in directing theatre and writing for film and television.
Marc Handler | Early life
His parents were temporarily forced out of their home because of the threats.
Adam Shapiro (activist) | Activism
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Jerry Rubin | Social activism
They are activists and pioneers who struggle in their lives against forces of isolation, poverty, discrimination, bad legislation, and being misunderstood by the public," he wrote in his "Call to Action." His commitment to art as a social practice has led to his inclusion in several exhibits -- "Art From Detritus" in NYC and "All of Us or None." In 2002, he was featured in Wendy Weinberg's TV special "The Art of Activism," where he says, ""I'm willing to go to great lengths sometimes to make a point. When issues grab a hold of me personally— issues of taxes that artists have to pay that are prejudicial, issues of censorship— I get to be a troublemaker.
Philip Zuchman | Artwork
In 2017, along with influencer and activist, Adam Eli Werner, Faiella co-founded Voices4 with a focus on supporting the LGBTQ+ community worldwide. Faiella has also been outspoken concerning homophobia in the fashion industry. He is also an advocate for the protection of Pangolins.
Marc Sebastian | Activism
Naiman's writings and policy positions have received criticism from both supporters and opponents of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.
Robert Naiman (activist) | Introduction
During the summer of 2011, Silman joined the activities of Israeli social justice protests in the Haifa region. Silman advocated taking a more political and active approach, in contrast to those whom sought to focus the social justice protests only on a change of consciousness within the existing framework. He claimed that the protests must be political, and that this should be reflected in an establishment of a party which would manage to overthrow the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Silman called for active operations, such as occupying abandoned or unoccupied empty residential apartments as part of the struggle for public housing.
Moshe Silman | Social justice activities
He was inspired by his experiences trying to find homes for Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq and having trouble finding countries to offer asylum and resettlement.
Adam Shapiro (activist) | Documentaries
He is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Comedy Feature Film.
Marc Shaiman | Career
Levin was a representative of the World Zionist Organization and director of the Information Department of Keren Hayesod.
Shmaryahu Levin | Zionist activism
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and the Royal School of Church Music, and honorary Fellow of both The Guild of Musicians and The Guild of Church Musicians and Singers, and in 2005 he received the award of a Lambeth Doctorate from The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Alan Thurlow | Activism
Shulman and pray for him every day".
Frank Pavone | Activism
Rochman is a noted speaker and writer on Jewish rights. He frequently speaks on college campuses and to organizations that are pro-Israel. Rochman is also known for his work as a Jewish & Israel rights activist on social media. He has thousands of followers and subscribers on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. During his studies at Columbia University, Rochman founded the school's chapter for Students Supporting Israel and served as the president. In 2018, Rochman received the 36 Under 36 award as a recognition for his influence as a young leader. Rochman currently serves on the board of The Israel Innovation Fund, which is a philanthropic fund.
Rudy Rochman | Activism
Shenhav is a well-known figure in Israel as a public intellectual and as one of the founders of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition, a social movement founded in 1996 by descendants of Jewish refugees, Olim, from Arab countries, which defines itself as an extra-parliamentary movement seeking to challenge the ethnic structure in the Israeli society. One of the Rainbow Coalition's chief struggles was for lands, in which Shenhav and others petitioned to the Supreme Court of Israel against what he described as an unjust distribution of state owned lands, made worse by decisions of the Israel Land Administration, and won.
Yehouda Shenhav | Social activism
In 1971, after their first production, ""Rape In"". she became a member of the Advisory Board of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective - a NYC-based feminist theater group - and of the New York Feminist Art Institute. She was one of the planners of the first national demonstration of women's liberation, which catapulted the movement to national attention, the August 1968 Miss America protest in Atlantic City, a demonstration against oppressive beauty standards, which was a major theme of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen."
Alix Kates Shulman | Activism
Shaiman was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Claire (née Goldfein) and William Robert Shaiman. He grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, but got his GED and left school at age 16 to start working in New York's theaters. He lives in both Manhattan and upstate New York. He is openly gay. Shaiman married Lieutenant Commander Louis Mirabal on March 26, 2016.
Marc Shaiman | Personal life
A popular writing instructor, he has taught memoir at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, as well as the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, and The New York Open Center. Matousek is a member of PEN International and a core faculty member of Old Stone Farm, a wellness center in Staatsburg, New York.
Mark Matousek | Social activism and teaching
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Salvador Luria | Political activism
Miripolsky has advocated and donated his creative talent to a number of social and political causes. He has also been frequently commissioned to create artwork on behalf of various causes.
Andre Miripolsky | Activism
In addition to his activism, Mammadli has worked as a journalist, holding a variety of positions as newspaper reporter, commentator, editor and assistant to the editor in chief at “Merkez”("Center"), “Hurriyet” ("Freedom"), and “Bugün” ("Today"), from 1998-2002.
Anar Mammadli | Activism
Goodman then enrolled at Queens College, New York City, where he was a friend and classmate of Paul Simon. With Goodman's brief experience as an Off-Broadway actor, he originally planned to study drama but switched to anthropology. Goodman's growing interest in anthropology seemed to parallel his increasing political seriousness.
Andrew Goodman (activist) | Early life and education
Shmuli was one of the leaders of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests. In July 2015, following a stabbing incident at Jerusalem's gay pride parade, Shmuli wrote in an article to Yedioth Ahronoth that "when the knife is raised around the neck of an entire LGBT community, my community, it will not stop there"; in this article, he became the first Knesset Member who came out of the closet during his term.
Itzik Shmuli | Social activism
Anantawan was born without a right hand. He is an active member and spokesperson for the CHAMP (Child Amputee) Program of The War Amps and Bloorview Kids Rehab Center in Toronto. He recently completed a project involving the use of adaptive musical instruments in classical performance, culminating in the world-premiere of the Virtual Music Instrument with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra.
Adrian Anantawan | Disability activism
Haya Shalom has been a member of various organizations, e.g. the Women Center for Peace, a Chair of Board of Members of “Kol Haisha”, and a feminist cultural center.
Haya Shalom | Activism
JMWest LIVE!'s altruistic effort to provide up and coming artist (musicians, singers, songwriters, AND production team) with an affordable forum with which to introduce themselves to the industry has hosted events at venues throughout Los Angeles including the Roxy, VIP Lounge and The House of Blues, Foundation Room.
Jean-Michel Soupraya | Social Activism
He attended New York University School of Law, graduating in 1970. He was admitted to the California Bar, becoming inactive in 2013. He was journalist for six years after finishing school, but always felt he was a storyteller.
Marc Turtletaub | Early life and education
He was also a member of the public committee which advised on the selection of twelve individuals who participated in Israel's 2014 Independence Day Ceremony.
Zvi Hauser | Public activism
He has been an accredited representative for the Association of World Citizens (AWC) and for the Association for World Education (AWE) since 1997, and an accredited representative and main spokesman for the WUPJ again since 2001. He has made oral and written statements (some jointly) at the UN Commission on Human Rights for the WUPJ, IFOR, WFM, International Committee for European Security and Cooperation (ICESC), Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Simon Wiesenthal Center, International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), AWC, AWC, and other NGOs.
David Littman (activist) | Activism
Palabay became more involved in political activism when he was accepted into the Bachelor of Science degree program in Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He became a member of the Student Cultural Association of UP (SCAUP) and of activist theater group Panday Sining. He was particularly keen on activist drama - helping to organize and present street plays, leading in the singing of protest songs and the recitation of poetry in an effort to build awareness of the injustices inherent to Philippine society under the Marcos regime. After the political turbulence of 1970 and 1971 - which saw the FQS Protests, the Diliman Commune, the Plaza Miranda Bombing and the suspension of the writ - the Palabay Brothers decided to take a break from their studies and go back home to San Fernando.
Armando Palabay | College at UP Diliman and Community Work in La Union
Marcy was born in the Russian Empire to Jewish parents. During the Russian Civil War, his family was a target of anti-Jewish pogroms by the White movement and received protection from the Communist forces. They resettled in Brooklyn, where Marcy became an activist for the Communist Party USA. He studied law at St. Johns University and provided legal advice to labor unions in New York. Marcy grew discontented as a member of the Communist Party, viewing the Third International as increasingly detached from working class interests and instead a mouthpiece for Joseph Stalin, whose oppressive bureaucracy he despised. He joined the Trotskyist movement in the 1940s, building a branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Buffalo.
Sam Marcy | Biography
At the end of the 1990s, with Benny Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut, Lévy founded an Institute on Levinassian Studies at Jerusalem, in honor of Emmanuel Levinas.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Political activism and social involvement
Shadbolt became a founding student of Rutherford College, Auckland, and attended the University of Auckland from 1966 to 1970, taking a year off in 1967 to work on the Manapouri Power Project in Southland. He was a member of the Auckland University Students Association executive, and editor of "Craccum" in 1972. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became prominent in the "Progressive Youth Movement", a radical left-wing organisation, and was arrested 33 times during political protests, most famously for using the word "bullshit"; this incident influenced the title of his 1971 autobiography "Bullshit & Jellybeans". After 1970, he founded a commune and concrete cooperative at Huia.
Tim Shadbolt | Activist: 1960s and 1970s
Marc Shaiman (; born October 22, 1959) is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, best known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman. He wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical version of the John Waters film "Hairspray". He has won a Grammy, an Emmy and a Tony, and been nominated for seven Oscars.
Marc Shaiman | Introduction
Born in Tokyo on 30 October 1953 to a French diplomat father and a mother "Pupille de la Nation" who met while both graduating from the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA). Much of Froment-Meurice's youth and education occurred abroad, such as the USSR and Egypt. In 1965, he moved with his family from Cairo back to Paris, France, where he attended Lycée Pasteur. Then in 1967-68, he studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand. In May 1968, he participated in anarchist activism. In 1970 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.
Marc Froment-Meurice | Early life
Chehade is an advocate in the area of human rights and public policy regarding the Palestinian Israeli conflict, along with academic freedom. He is one of five committee members on the American Association of University Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom, and is the adviser for the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at both SAIC and Columbia College Chicago. He is also the advisory for Jewish Voice for Peace chapter at Columbia College Chicago
Iymen Chehade | Activism
She lived in Paris working as a painter.
Oksana Shachko | Activism
In mid-December 2013, following the defeat of IRFA, Mr. Morgan went on to write an Op-ed for the Huffington Post titled 'Art and Music Are Professions Worth Fighting For', which further galvanized the musician community. The idea for the next step in his artist advocacy–the campaign "I Respect Music"–was born in this very piece, which went viral and became Huffington Post’s most-read music article of 2013. It closed with a simple message: “My New Year’s resolution is to stand up more, and speak more. I respect my profession. I respect artists. I respect music.” A tweet from a young artist from the Philippines, named Joana Marie Lor, in response to Morgan's article, was the first to use the hashtag #IRespectMusic.
Blake Morgan | Activism
He was a volunteer medical advisor to Group Health in the 1950s.
Maurice Visscher | Activism
The author actively participates in citizen activism and it is common to see him supporting social causes related to civil rights movements. He does so by attending marches, presentations, spots and through social networks, supporting causes such as the gender equality movement and the pro-abortion in three grounds movements.
Jorge Baradit | Activism
His early career began when Marcus left for college in Washington State, he began to write. Later moving to Berkeley to continue his studies, he became active in the Disability Rights Movement. He started a street zine in the early 80's, Special Effects, as a form to express what he experienced and learned through his participation in the disabled and independent living movement. Special Effects was distributed in a street zine fashion, as well as by mailing list. Marcus curated interventions with a cut, copy and paste methodology which encompassed the art, culture, and humor into the political discourse of disability.
Neil Marcus | Career
During his studies in the U.S. he was a lecturer and public speaker on Israeli issues for the UJA and the Bonds. He wrote and published newspaper articles on Israel and the US in Jewish newspapers in New York. He was actively involved in promoting Israeli issues on US campuses and at Penn State he established and directed a non-religious, pro-Israeli student organization called Yachad which received support from the Israeli government. He also established and directed at Penn State a student exchange summer program of Penn State students at Tel-Aviv University.
Menahem Rabinovich | Zionist activism
Being of Jewish descent, in August 2015 he signed – as one of 98 members of the Los Angeles Jewish community – an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States "as being in the best interest of the United States and Israel."
Peter Landesman | Political activism
Yanklowitz is the founder of multiple nonprofit organizations that engage in activism: Yanklowitz has advocated for a regulated organ market, cadaveric organ donation, as well as for living kidney donation. Yanklowitz is a kidney donor. Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton appointed Yanklowitz to be a commissioner on the Phoenix Human Relations Commission. Yanklowitz has organized the Jewish community for the abolition of the death penalty Yanklowitz is a leading advocate for increased Jewish-Muslim dialogue.
Shmuly Yanklowitz | Activism
He taught at Université Laval and Cégep Limoilou. As an early supporter of the Quebec independence movement he became the vice-president of the pro-sovereignty group Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale in the Quebec City area in 1962.
Jean Garon | Political activism
The archive of Marjan Sax is being kept in Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (IAV).
Marjan Sax | Activism
Matsumoto founded the Association to Protect the Poor Students of Hosei University while a student at Hosei University. He spent about four months in jail for throwing paint on the president of his university and is now mainly active in Koenji, Tokyo. He was one of the main originators of the artistic and social activist collective Amateur Revolt, which started in 2005 but became especially well known in 2011 for its anti-nuclear activism following quickly upon the heels of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He states his goal as creating a space where people can have fun without money.
Hajime Matsumoto | Activism
Amal considers herself a communist and a feminist. The Islamic Movement in Israel demanded that her performances be cancelled during the Ramadan. She says "I refused to cancel. I knew that this was not the real reason, since singing during Ramadan is not forbidden. I suppose that the people from the Islamic Movement are bothered by my social agenda. I criticize not only the Zionists, but also what is happening in my own society. I call for the liberation and empowerment of women. I believe that women hold the key – if they do not progress, society will not progress.
Amal Murkus | Political activism
He was joined by other artists whose works were similarly rejected and who ultimately formed their own alternative exhibition, the Salon des Refuses, which has been held every year since 1991. (McQuiddy 2007, p. 43)
Jerry Ross (painter) | Arts Activism
In 2020 Rochman ran in the World Zionist Congress elections as part of the Vision slate.
Rudy Rochman | Activism
The leftist nationwide newspaper "taz" reported on the song. In November 2009, a group of left-wing extremists violently prevented a screening of Claude Lanzmann's documentary "Pourquoi Israël" in Hamburg, which caused international media attention. The occasion of the protest had been a pro-Israel statement of Egotronic.
Egotronic | Political activism
He participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.
Eric Lerner | Activism
In 1988 he moved to Berkeley, where he founded the environmental group Urban Habitat and Urban Justice Organization.
Cordell Reagon | Activism and music career
Since his 14 years old, he joined the national union of lycées in a clandestine activity. Regarding his political activism, he said, "At the time, in my milieu, one was necessarily republican and revolutionary. Or, it was necessary to accept to remain in withdrawal. ". During his academic year, while the country was in full conflict in the Sahara, and Hassan II, following the green march, confirmed his power and violently repressed his opponents, he was imprisoned for three years.
Fouad Abdelmoumni | Early human rights activism
In 2008, Jal also got involved in the musical movement of spreading awareness about current slavery and human trafficking by performing various songs for the rockumentary, Call+Response.
Emmanuel Jal | Activism
He later taught at the University of Maryland in the US, at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and at the University of Sfax in Tunisia.
Moncef Ben Salem | Political activism and career
Yang, a Tiananmen Square activist in 1989, came to the United States, earned two Ph.D.s (Ph.D., Political Economy, Harvard University and Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley), and then founded the "Foundation for China in the 21st Century". Given his political activism, he was blacklisted by the government of the People's Republic of China, which also refused to renew his passport.
Yang Jianli | Activism
Urmston was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the Boston Music Awards in 2008.
Chadwick Stokes Urmston | Activism
As an activist Christoff has been deeply involved in numerous grassroots organizing initiatives in Montreal. Specifically Christoff has been involved in various migrant justice campaigns in Montreal, organizing with communities, families and individuals struggling against deportation from Canada and for full citizenship rights for non-status people. Also Christoff has been active with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led movement of activists working to oppose the daily workings of the Israeli occupation in Palestinian lands. In 2003 Christoff traveled to Palestine to work with Palestinian civil society groups and the ISM but was detained and deported to Jordan.
Stefan Christoff | Activism
In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. He was jailed, as a member, for a sit-in protest on the floor of the US Senate. His numerous essays on "The Black Struggle," "The Crisis of the Universities," "American Foreign Policy," and "Gender and Sexuality" have been collected in two volumes of his essays: "The Uncompleted Past" and "Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion, 1964-1999". He came out as a gay man in an essay (December 10, 1972) in "The New York Times". A founder and keynote speaker of the Gay Academic Union (1973), he later founded and served as first director (1986-1996) of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School.
Martin Duberman | Activism
In 2001, Slim moved into film with the establishment of Umam Productions, which has produced several films, including Massaker co-directed by Slim and winner of the Fipresci Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005. In 2004, he co-founded Umam Documentation & Research (D&R), a non-profit organization based in the southern Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, where the organization is creating an open archive of materials concerning Lebanon's social and political history. The organization organizes and facilitates exhibits at its famous “Hangar” for artists to openly address the scars of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), which is considered taboo and taught neither at the elementary or high school levels.
Lokman Slim | Art as Political Activism
He was arrested during protests against the disengagement plan in 2005 and was held in jail for three weeks, but not charged. In 2006, he helped organize the "Beast Parade" as part of protests against a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, although he later admitted regret at the incident. He is co-founder of the NGO Regavim, which monitors and pursues legal action in the Israeli court system against constructions undertaken by Palestinians, Bedouins and other Arabs in Israel and the West Bank without Israeli permits.
Bezalel Smotrich | Activism
In 2005 he participated in anti-Japanese demonstrations.
Hu Jia (activist) | Activism
He was a free thinker, a humanist, an anti-vivisectionist, an animal rights activist, and a supporter of women's suffrage, as documented in "Life in a Booth and Something More". He was actively opposed to cruelty towards performing animals and was instrumental in bringing at least one such case, concerning performing elephants, before the courts.
Mark Melford | Political activism
Robert Naiman is a policy analyst, researcher, writer, and activist. He is formerly the policy director at Just Foreign Policy, and is a former member of the board of directors at progressive news organization Truthout. He has master's degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Illinois. Naiman writes on U.S. foreign policy at "HuffPost" and is a frequent commentator on the region's events. He has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. He has studied and worked in the Middle East, where he has participated in actions "for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" and "against injustice," such as the 2011 attempt to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Robert Naiman (activist) | Introduction
Sperry was the Dean of Art for the Free University of San Francisco from 2011 to 2015. The school was conceived by writer Alan Kaufman and its teachers have included San Francisco mayoral candidate and artist Matt Gonzalez, poet Diane Di Prima, and poet laureate Jack Hirschman. Sperry created a program of street art, and invited graffiti artist Blek le Rat, illustrator and performer Eric Drooker, punk collage artist Winston Smith, street artist and skate activist Jon Paul Bail, and rock poster artist Chris Shaw to be guest lecturers. In 2011, Sperry created a poster titled "This Is Our City and We Can Shut It Down" for Occupy Oakland.
Chuck Sperry | Political activism
He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization aiming to educate youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. In 2001, he started a literacy project that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high-school students. He also organizes and teaches adult literacy courses for high school dropouts in Philadelphia and Camden. Hill also works with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. Hill was named one of America's top 30 black leaders under the age of 30 by "Ebony" magazine. In addition, Hill works with African-American and Latino youth. Hill publicly argued for the release of Genarlow Wilson and Shaquanda Cotton.
Marc Lamont Hill | Activism
In a March 2015 interview conducted by French newspaper "Le Monde", Avidan stated: "I don't really feel Israeli. As Israelis, what unites us is the fear. We are always the persecuted, and that is why I am no longer interested in living in Israel, to not feel that fear". The singer's statement sparked controversy and received widespread commentary and media attention in Israel, prompting Avidan to respond by saying: "In every interview I gave from the first second I always said I am not an Israeli artist, but an artist from Israel. I am not coming to represent Israel. I am not a politician.
Asaf Avidan | Controversy
Kumets now lives and works in Poland and continues his political activities. In February 2012 he and his colleagues started the public initiative "We Demand Answers!" and he serves as a press secretary for "Revolution Through Social Networks.". The campaign regularly organizes protesters in the centers of Belarusian cities, and aims to unite political activists who've been coercively recruited by the KGB, "to fight for their constitutional rights and to urge those responsible to justice."
Vladimir Kumets | Continued activism
Cooper was born in and grew up in Los Angeles. His career in journalism began in 1966 when he founded and edited an underground newspaper at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, California. In 1971, he was expelled from the California State University system for his antiwar activism by order of Governor Ronald Reagan.
Marc Cooper | Early life
In 1906 he was arrested and deported to Narimski but escaped. Over the next ten years, he was repeatedly arrested, escaped several times and spent time abroad (mainly in France).
Mark Vishniak | Early activism
Baraka had spray-painted the word "decolonization" on a bulldozer during the protest. In an interview shortly afterward, Baraka said that he and Stein were "in discussions with our legal team about how we're going to deal with this" and described his action as an act of resistance against "corporate America and the colonial state."
Ajamu Baraka | Activism
A year later, he switched his major to political science. He minored in theology, exploring questions of international morality, liberation theology, poverty and the environment. Guilbeault became president of his faculty’s student association and also took part in activities organized by Equitas (known at the time as the Canadian Human Rights Foundation). He was also active in the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ), where he made the acquaintance of François Rebello and Nicolas Girard, who would later enter the world of politics. He also joined the "Groupe de recherche en intérêt public" (GRIP), created out of the protest movement spearheaded by Ralph Nader, the renowned American consumer advocate.
Steven Guilbeault | Early life and education
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Samson Raphael Hirsch | Works of activism
Solomon is a Trustee of the New York Public Library, a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum, and a member of the Board of Directors of the artists' retreat Yaddo. He is also a fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Andrew Solomon | Activism and philanthropy
Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is a board member of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and sat the boards of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem in Jerusalem. He is currently on the advisory boards of the Human Rights Project at Bard College in New York, as a jury member for architecture in the Akademie Schloss Solitude and of other academic and cultural institutions. In 2014 Weizman was featured in "The Architecture of Violence", a film produced for the series "Rebel Architecture" broadcast by "Al Jazeera English".
Eyal Weizman | Political activism
In the early 1960s Shulman was active in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She named the theater arts chapter, 7-Arts CORE, prior to the group's attending the 1963 March on Washington. She became opposed to the Vietnam War, counseling draftees on their rights at the Quaker Meeting House and the Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church, both in Manhattan. In 1967 Shulman first became involved in the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in New York City by participating in the weekly discussion group, New York Radical Women; she subsequently joined several small consciousness-raising women's groups (Redstockings, WITCH, New York Radical Feminists), and feminist political action groups (CARASA, No More Nice Girls, Feminist Futures, Take Back the Future).
Alix Kates Shulman | Activism
In 2000, he founded Ohavim, a non-profit organization with the goal of improving welfare and child care, and managing soup kitchens in the city.
Shlomo Lahiani | Public activism
He started his activism during his years as a student at Georgetown University. He participated on the 1967 March on the Pentagon. He is member of the international Steering committee of the Global Campaign on Military Spending and the Not to War no to Nato network.
Joseph Gerson | Activism
In addition, Professor Sharvit was active in the Morocco Descendant's Alliance organization as well as at the Dahan Center (Center for Society, Culture and Education of the Sephardic Jewry Legacy) affiliated with the Bar-Ilan University, and also headed its academic committee for a number of years. Professor Sharvit was also active as a member of the public administration of the National Library in Jerusalem from 2001 and was later nominated to serve as a member of its Board of Directors (until 2011).
Shimon Sharvit | Contribution to the Community and Society
That same year he was also picked as one of the 25 Top Immigrants to Canada by Canadian Immigrant. In 2018, he was a recipient of the 2018 Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies.
Ahmad Danny Ramadan | Activism
Puryear studied at Howard University, where he became a lead organizer with the anti-war ANSWER coalition and has helped organize large protests against the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Puryear and the ANSWER coalition were involved in the campaign to free the Jena 6. As a freshman at Howard in 2005, Puryear was interviewed by "The Washington Post" as an "activist-in-training" and cited his engagement with activism against gentrification, racism, the US occupation of Iraq and other issues. In November 2010, RT interviewed Puryear regarding socialism in the United States. He has also appeared on RT to discuss U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East.
Eugene Puryear | Activism
Its activities have resulted in Wi-Fi being installed in refugee camps in France and Greece, supported a search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, and provided food, clothing, shelter and other support to people on the move elsewhere in Europe and in the Middle East, including an arts project in Jordan.
Jaz O'Hara | Activism
Nalbandian has made critical comments from the bandstand regarding America's proposed cuts to funding for the arts and its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, never addressing the administration by name.
Armen Nalbandian | Activism
In the wake of the incident, Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett declared that the young women involved "should finish their lives in prison".
Bassem Tamimi | Activism 2013-present
Michael Freund is an American-born Israeli political activist and non-profit executive who advocates on behalf of individuals and groups who self-identify as Jews or would-be Jews, including self-described descendants of the Lost tribes of Israel, crypto-Jews, hidden Jews, and Jews forcibly assimilated under Communist rule, and converts to Judaism, attempting to regularize their legal status as Jews under Israeli law and secure permission for them to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return. He founded the organization Shavei Israel.
Michael Freund (activist) | Introduction
In 2011 Ecko started Unlimited Justice, a social activism campaign which opposed corporal punishment in U.S. schools.
Marc Ecko | Philanthropy
Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and brought up in a Jewish home, but he doesn't "identify as Jewish. I see it as a religion rather than an ethnicity and, as I have no religious feelings, I don't regard myself as Jewish." Shapiro received his B.A. in political science and history from Washington University in St. Louis in 1993. He subsequently spent a year studying Arabic in Yemen after receiving his M.A. in Arab studies at Georgetown University. He received his M.A. in politics from New York University. He was a doctoral candidate at American University in Washington.
Adam Shapiro (activist) | Early life and family
"Up until that day I was a normal kid, I went to art school, I was like everyone else ... Then I had this awful week when I had a huge allergic reaction, my tongue swelled up so big I could hardly breathe and I found myself in a hospital bed, dying."
Stuart Semple | Activism
But the Vietnam War and Bertold Brecht inspired him to become politically active. He helped found and was the first coordinator of the Burlington Peace and Justice Center, working on anti-war campaigns, and most recently has stood for seven years in all weather with a Monday-through-Friday peace vigil in Burlington. His current political work focuses on two arenas: a just settlement between Palestine and Israel and what he considers to be crucially unanswered questions of 9/11. These political issues are discussed in some of his writings. In 1985, he enrolled in the Starr King School for the Ministry and became an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister in 1988, and was active in the church, but found it conflicted with his political work.
Marc Estrin | Early life and education