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Waiting for Fahd: One Family’s Hope for Life Beyond Guantánamo
Source: Center for Constitutional Rights
This heartrending documentary tells the story of Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17. Fahd is now 30. Through moving interviews with his beloved family, “Waiting for Fahd” paints a vivid portrait of the life that awaits a man who,…
Resource type: Video
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Some Reflections on Philanthropy and Government
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, gives the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses in New York City. I appreciate the invitation to share some thoughts with the board and staff members of the settlement houses and other…
Resource type: Speech
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Using Litigation to Defend Human Rights
Since the September 11 terror attacks, US government policy and practice against the threat of terrorism has arguably violated a number of human rights laws and norms. The US currently detains more than 13,000 people around the world, from South Carolina to Pakistan to the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Too Close for Comfort? Obama and the Foundations
Source: Gara LaMarche
Foundations should take a stance of engaged and critical discomfort with government no matter who is in charge, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Hudson Institute-Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center. I am always glad to take…
Resource type: Speech
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Source: Gara LaMarche
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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