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Detained immigrants often face harsh, unfair treatment in U.S. hands, study says
by Tyche Hendricks More than 400,000 people a year are detained by immigration officials in the United States – including undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants who run afoul of the law and asylum seekers who come fleeing persecution – but according to a report released today…
Author: The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
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Activists tackle defence lawyers in lesbian's murder
by NATASHA JOSEPH GENDER activists say they are to lodge complaints with the Law Society of South Africa against several lawyers representing nine men accused of beating a lesbian to death more than two years ago. On February 4, 2006, Zoliswa Nkonyana, 18, was kicked,…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Two Big Foundations Team Up to Assist Madoff Victims
Original Source Two big foundations have teamed up to assist civil-rights groups and legal-aid organizations that have lost donors due to the alleged financial scheme of Bernard Madoff. The Atlantic Philanthropies and Open Society Institute have pledged to match as much as $300,000 in donations…
Author: Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Appoints Gara LaMarche New Chief Executive Officer
For further information please contact:Kate Bullinger in New York at +212 916 7302Colin McCrea in Dublin at +353 1 799 5912 THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES APPOINTS GARA LAMARCHE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Philanthropy Executive Brings Record of Innovative Leadership to an Organisation Committed to Social Change…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Inez McCormack: Remembering One of Our Great Social Justice Campaigners
Inez – a Challenging Woman, a documentary produced and narrated by Susan McKay, will be available for UK viewers to watch online through February 20. Watch online in the UK > Featuring interviews with friends and colleagues like former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton and former…
Author: The Irish Times
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Grant Makers Urged to Take Activist Role
By Caroline Preston. Foundations are not institutions set apart from society and its problems, and grant makers can and should be involved in the fight for a more just and equitable world, Gara LaMarche, president of Atlantic Philanthropies, and Benjamin Jealous, head of the NAACP,…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Gay campaigners deserve huge praise as we step into the future
By Noel Whelan. Extraordinary patience has finally paid off and constitutional change will one day follow. The overwhelming parliamentary support witnessed again this week for the legalisation of same sex civil partnerships arises from the basic decency and generosity of the Irish people. Politicians across…
Author: The Irish Times
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Gara LaMarche '76's Job Is To Give Away $4 Billion
Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson ’74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche ’76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…
Author: Columbia College Today Alumni Magazine May/June 2008
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Keeping Memory Alive
It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project. Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…
Author: Gara LaMarche