by | Jun 23, 2011 3:49 pm | Comments (9)
Live-bloggers Ewing, Bailey, Ramiah (L to R).
Does Facebook represent the triumph of global middle-class ingenuity? Is Yale fooling itself thinking it can promote freedom in Singapore? Will freedom accompany the rise in people’s incomes worldwide?
by | Jun 22, 2011 8:20 am | Comments (0)
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R. James Woolsey (right) at a reception at Kroon Hall.
Despite the troubling intelligence coming out of Pakistan, that nation and the U.S. nevertheless need to work together, the former head of the CIA said in a visit to town Tuesday night.
by | May 3, 2011 7:22 am | Comments (14)
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Alderwoman O’Sullivan-Best.
One day after U.S. commandos took out the most wanted man in the world, some New Haven lawmakers called for a national holiday. Others argued that assassination, even of a mass murderer, is no cause for celebration.
by | Apr 18, 2011 3:44 pm | Comments (0)
Courtesy of the Gillis family
Clare Gillis’ parents are still waiting for to hear information about their daughter, who was detained by government forces in Libya on April 5 and hasn’t been heard from since.
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‘City Parents Still Await
News Of Captured Daughter’
by | Apr 11, 2011 3:10 pm | Comments (2)
Courtesy of the Gillis family
Two New Haven parents are waiting for word from their daughter, a journalist who went missing in Libya last Tuesday and hasn’t been heard from since.
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‘Hopkins Grad Detained
In Libya; Mom Awaits News’
by | Feb 21, 2011 9:19 am | Comments (5)
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Four men stood in front of City Hall with signs calling for redirecting military spending to meet human needs at home. Why weren’t more people joining them?
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‘Protest Links Afghan
War, City Budget Cuts’
by | Feb 15, 2011 2:15 pm | Comments (2)
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Mohamed Ali was grilling up breakfast at his Lombard Street diner when he heard the news: Hosni Mubarak, the man who had ruled Ali’s homeland for three decades, had stepped down.
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‘Star Diner's "Mo" Rejoices
In Homeland's Freedom’
by | Feb 14, 2011 1:05 pm | Comments (15)
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When Mubarakah Ibrahim took her homegrown boundary-breaking fitness movement to the Saudi kingdom, she suddenly wondered if she would end up in jail.
Continue reading ‘City’s “Muslim Trainer” Brings Zumba To Mecca’
by | Feb 7, 2011 5:16 pm | Comments (2)
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More than 50 Yale students and New Haven residents gathered at Beinecke Plaza on the Yale Campus at noon on Monday to demand government action: They want President Obama to cut off all foreign aid to Egypt.
by | Jan 30, 2011 7:13 am | Comments (6)
January 30 marks the 63rd anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu himself, by a Hindu extremist in 1948. At the conclusion of a month when we recall the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. — who was deeply influenced by Gandhi and visited India in 1959 — let us also honor Mahatma Gandhi.
by | Jan 25, 2011 12:57 pm | Comments (3)
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ANNA ASCHENBACH — IN MEMORIAM
1922 – 2011
On Saturday, Jan. 22, while Anna Aschenbach received the Dr. Alice Hamilton Peace and Freedom Award, she suffered a stroke, and passed away on Jan. 23. She was 88.
For decades, Anna was an active member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), a war tax resister, a peace activist and a staunch advocate of civil rights and equality for people of color. New Haven County WILPF presented the award to Anna in recognition of her work for peace and for her many years of activism.
by | Nov 24, 2010 12:40 pm | Comments (0)
Allan Appel
Mayor Phan Trong Vinh of New Haven’s sister city of Hue, Vietnam, said he liked the local beer and, of course, Frank Pepe’s pizza. He also was curious about matters non-culinary: how the Elm City, for instance, balances the pressures of economic development with historic preservation.
by | Oct 13, 2010 7:59 am | Comments (7)
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DeLauro and Jepsen.
A law that has protected American women from rape should help women around the world, New Haven’s U.S. Congresswoman declared Tuesday.
by | Oct 12, 2010 7:33 am | Comments (5)
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The Soomro family.
Farhan and Shahida Soomro became American citizens on Friday. Originally from the Sindh Province in Pakistan, they have lived in the U.S. for ten years. Two days after becoming Americans, they held an event with their friends Ron Miller and his wife Cathie Miller to raise money and awareness about the floods which have ravaged their province in Pakistan. “It’s been a busy weekend!” said Shahida Soomro.
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‘Muslim-Jewish Event
Raises $$ For Pakistanis’
by | Jul 21, 2010 12:06 pm | Comments (1)
Gerda Genece’s Lombard Street home is filled with donated items meant for earthquake-ravaged Haiti — tents, food, a wheelchair, a thousand T‑shirts. She fears the donations won’t ever reach their destination.
by | Apr 6, 2010 1:59 pm | Comments (2)
Cecilia Salgado of the Peruvian cultural organization Somos Peru sent in this article and photo.
by | Mar 1, 2010 8:04 am | Comments (1)
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Brother and sister Ramin and Raheleh Sohrab joined a feast in New Haven with fellow members of the Baha’i faith — storing up in anticipation of an annual fast.
by | Feb 22, 2010 8:57 am | Comments (0)
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Claude Menelas was in Port-au-Prince when the Jan. 12 earthquake struck. For the 35 seconds of shaking, he thought Haiti would vanish from the face of the earth. Now that he’s home in New Haven, the vastness of the destruction and the aftermath have only strengthened his faith.
by | Feb 22, 2010 8:42 am | Comments (0)
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Gerda Genece and other volunteers had a short and simple message for shoppers outside C‑Town: “Haiti! Help Haiti! Dollars, pesos, medai-pesos!” But Genece had a longer story to tell, a painful, personal tale, that helped explain why she was there.
by | Feb 17, 2010 3:49 pm | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
The boxes only appear to have bananas in them. Troyana Hie was delighted to behold box upon box of clothing, shoes, tools, food, and medical supplies being readied for shipment to Haiti — part of an avalanche of giving that has occupied an entire storefront in Whalley’s Edge of the Woods plaza.
by | Feb 8, 2010 12:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Dominic Kabulu (pictured) arrived in New Haven from the Democratic Republic of Congo last fall, via five years in a refugee camp in Zambia. On Sunday, he was one of 500 who ran up and down East Rock in a 5 K race to support the agency that has supported him: Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services.
by | Jan 20, 2010 8:41 am | Comments (5)
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City employees will soon be able to send a portion of their pay directly to humanitarian relief for Haiti, thanks to a unanimous vote by the Board of Aldermen.
by | Jan 19, 2010 12:47 pm | Comments (6)
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There won’t be Haitian mangoes in the aisle of Edge of the Woods this year. There will be ample rice, beans, and medical supplies at two spots in Port-au-Prince, thanks to Edge owner Peter Dodge and his customers.
by | Jan 14, 2010 5:13 pm | Comments (4)
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Ralph Jean-Mary kept calling. Finally he got through to his parents in earthquake-shattered Haiti.
by | Dec 2, 2009 2:29 pm | Comments (17)
Washington, D.C. — At the dawn of a ramped-up war in Afghanistan, Joe Lieberman used a moment in the spotlight Wednesday to try to define the mission — as lasting well beyond mid-2011.