Earlier this month, Robin Levi joined writer and activist Angela Davis in conversation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Watch a video of their conversation here. For more information on the talk, click here.
Robin Levi is co-editor of the newest title by Voice of Witness, Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons. For more information on Inside This Place or to purchase the book, click here.
Nowhere to Be Home assistant editor and U.S. Campaign for Burma Communications and Development Director, Thelma Young, will be featured discussing current developments in Burma on WBAI’s Asia Pacific Forum tonight. You can listen to Asia Pacific Forum at 9pm ET on WBAI 99.5 in New York City, or listen online here.
Last summer, Kristen Levine, a teacher at San Domenico High School in San Anselmo, CA, taught an oral history lesson at Uganda Rural Development Training Girls School in Uganda. Here, Levine shares her experience teaching with the Voice of Witness title Patriot Acts in Uganda.
URDT Girls School (URDT) is a boarding school for 240 girls in the Kibaale district of Uganda near the Rwandan border, devoted to addressing the problem of girls dropping out of school due to pregnancy, early marriage, and gender inequality and poverty. In 2008, my daughter Sydney raised nearly $14,000 for two huge greenhouses for the school and in the summer of 2011, she and I went to see the greenhouses in action.
Of course, I also intended to go to …
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This month, California Northern Magazine features the narrative of Victoria Sanchez, from our latest title Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons.
About Victoria: In 1995, Victoria was arrested for a murder she was involved in three years earlier, when she was sixteen years old. Although she was a minor at the time of the murder, she was tried as an adult, and was subsequently sentenced to life without parole. Victoria talks about her painful separation from her four-month old son Ethan upon her arrest, and how she tried to cope with this in prison by adopting several of the cottontail rabbits that roam the prison grounds. “I raised one for three years, potty trained and all. I became its mom.” Victoria also describes …
In light of Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Burma, we wanted to share the stories of three men and women from Burma—Ma Su Mon, Aye Maung and Hla Min. Their full stories can be found in Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime, the seventh book in the Voice of Witness series.
Click here to read these powerful excerpts from Nowhere to Be Home, an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”
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Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/
