You are here

Home ›

Feminism & Gender Justice

New Documentary Reveals the Remarkable Life of Black Like Me Author John Howard Griffin

John Howard Griffin is best known today as the author of Black Like Me, which tells of his 1959 journey through the American South disguised as a black man. But there is much more to Griffin than that extraordinary experiment in race relations. As a new documentary shows, John Howard Griffin possessed an uncommon vision of our shared humanity, and spent his life in a fearless search for truth.
Regions: 
United States
Movements & Struggles: 
Racial Justice
Feminism & Gender Justice

Uncommon Vision and Commonplace Projection

...Atkinson brings to life the poignant irony of a blind man returning to the land of vision to show how those like you and me with normal, take-it-for-granted vision can and do manipulate our vision to see what we want and are conditioned to see without seeing that that is what we are doing.  And that we do this regardless of our race, color, culture, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

No Wall Is Too Tall

The future of humans and Planet Earth depend on replacing the "greed-driven" economic system of Wall Street with the "life-serving" system of Main Street.

That was the message that David Korten, author Agenda for a New Economy, and co-founder of Yes! magazine, brought to the 58th annual conference of the Association of Cooperative Educators in Cleveland on Wednesday.

Sign up for anti-racism training at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives conference in Berkeley

Anti-Racism in the Workplace two-day training, August 9th & 10th, 2010, UC Berkeley.

The U.S. Federation for Worker Cooperatives has organized an intensive 2-day workshop as part of the conference.  Here's how conference co-organizer, kiran nigam, bills it:    

NASCO's Anti-oppression List: Action Camp Resources and Further Readings

Movements & Struggles: 
Racial Justice
Queer & Trans Liberation
Feminism & Gender Justice
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Strategies for Change
Economic Sectors: 
Education

Educating the Cooperative Movement about Anti-Oppression: NASCO taking a lead on organizational and grassroots levels

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/449

Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
Housing Cooperatives
Movements & Struggles: 
Racial Justice
Queer & Trans Liberation
Feminism & Gender Justice
Economic Sectors: 
Housing
Education

Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision

By Yvonne Poirier

Regions: 
Asia (Southeast)
Institutions & Structures: 
Consumer Cooperatives
Movements & Struggles: 
Environmental Justice
Feminism & Gender Justice
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Ethical Purchasing
Economic Sectors: 
Food
Storage & Distribution
Ecological Processes
Subscribe to RSS - Feminism & Gender Justice

User login

Subscribe to the GEO E-Newsletter

A low-volume email list connecting you with our latest issues, articles and special features.

Subscribe here!

Support GEO

GEO is excited to announce that we will be re-designing our website in order to create an even more accessible, useful and dynamic resource for the work of building more just, equitable and democratic economies. Please support this work by donating today.

GEO is almost entirely a volunteer effort. Our goal is to raise $5,000 - please contribute just $10 or $25 today!

Thank you for strengthening the movement!