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Take Back the Land Panel at the Left Forum - June 2013

NESRI's Podcast - October 03, 2013 16:41 - 38 minutes
Take Back the Land organized a panel entitled "Social Movements and Left Transformative Organizing" at the Left Forum at Pace University in New York City in June, 2013. This podcast features highlights from the panel of organizers and activists discussing the challenges and successes t...

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Third Way Models: Community Land Trusts as radical transformation

NESRI's Podcast - February 17, 2012 20:00 - 51 minutes
Brittany Scott of NESRI's Human Right to Housing Program presents a short introduction to 3 Interim Proposals for how the housing movement might lock-in models of land transformation during the 2012 Spring Offensive (a co-production with Take Back the Land & Movement Catalyst). An int...

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Healthcare is a Human Right Audio PSA

NESRI's Podcast - April 21, 2011 18:06 - 1 minute
This podcast page will offer a glimpse at talks NESRI and it's partners and allies have given across the country.

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People’s Budget Report: Vermont falls short of protecting economic and social rights

NESRI's Podcast - March 02, 2011 17:54 - 26 minutes
Host Traven Leyshon, of Equal Time radio, features Anja Rudiger and Peg Franzen to discuss findings of the Vermont Workers’ Center's People's Budget Project.

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Episode 13: The Human Right to Health Care

NESRI's Podcast - April 30, 2010 04:17 - 1 hour
On March 29, 2010, the Opportunity Agenda organized a National Telebriefing on the Human Right to Health Care in collaboration with NESRI and Amnesty International. In the one hour briefing Anja Rudiger, Human Right to Health Program Director at NESRI, Rachel Ward of Amnesty Internationa...

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Episode 12: Dignity in Schools Campaign on Justice4Children Blog Talk Radio

NESRI's Podcast - December 09, 2009 21:31 - 2 hours - Video
Host Theresa Edwards featured the Dignity in Schools Campaign on the Justice4Children Radio Program to discuss the National Resolution for Ending School Pushout and concrete policy reforms to end pushout. Guest speakers included Benetta Standly from the ACLU of Florida, a high school stu...

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Episode 11: WRFG's Class Chronicles Discusses the Human Right to Housing

NESRI's Podcast - December 08, 2009 22:10 - 48 minutes
On November 18, 2009, WRFG's (Radio Free Georgia - http://wrfg.org) Class Chronicles hosted a live interview with Anita Beaty, the Executive Director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Chicago Coalition to Protect Public Housing and t...

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Episode 10: NESRI Interviews Christine Kaufmann on the Human Right to Health Care

NESRI's Podcast - September 18, 2009 04:57 - 1 hour
In August, NESRI’s Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, interviewed Christine Kaufmann, Montana State Senator and long-time Director of the Montana Human Rights Network, about her experience of developing Montana’s increasingly influential human right to health care campaign. In...

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Episode 9: NESRI Interviews Alan Peura on the Human Right to Health Care

NESRI's Podcast - August 28, 2009 18:29 - 7 minutes
This August, NESRI’s Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, visited our partner organization, the Montana Human Rights Network, which is based in Helena, Montana. Together, the Network and NESRI held a series of focus group discussions on community health needs in Lewis and Clark ...

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Episode 8: NESRI Interviews Sameer Dossani about Amnesty International's Health Care is a Human Right Work

NESRI's Podcast - July 02, 2009 14:54 - 1 minute
In an E-Alert released Friday, June 19, AI USA stated that current draft health care reform legislation falls far short of fulfilling a human rights vision. AI USA suggests that one reason for this is that single-payer advocates, a crucial human rights constituency, have been largely exc...

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Episode 7: Vermont Workers' Center's "Human Right to Healthcare" Rally - May 1, 2009

NESRI's Podcast - May 19, 2009 14:58 - 10 minutes
On Friday, May 1, an estimated over 1000 people from across Vermont, including nurses and other healthcare workers, descended on the State Capital building in Montpelier for a "Healthcare is a Human Right" rally. The historic rally, organized by NESRI ally the Vermont Workers' Center, wa...

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Episode 6: Bernie Sanders Addresses Vermont Workers' Center's Human Right to Health Care Rally - May 1, 2009

NESRI's Podcast - May 04, 2009 20:56 - 12 minutes
On Friday, May 1, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) addressed NESRI ally the Vermont Workers' Center's Human Right to Healthcare Rally at the State Capital in Montpelier, VT. Estimates are that over 1000 Vermonters turned out for the rally.

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Episode 4: Lucas Benitez of CIW at the United Nations - February 10, 2009

NESRI's Podcast - April 02, 2009 20:27 - 13 minutes
Lucas Benitez of NESRI partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) presented at the United Nations’ launch of World Social Justice Day.

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Episode 5: Cathy Albisa at Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting - March 28, 2009

NESRI's Podcast - April 02, 2009 20:14 - 9 minutes
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa presented on a panel entitled “Health Care is a Human Right: Realizing the Right to Health in the United States,” at Seizing the Moment, Building the Movement, the 2009 Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting.

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Episode 3: Cathy Albisa and Maisie Chin at USHRF Convening Plenary - January 12, 2009

NESRI's Podcast - April 02, 2009 15:02 - 15 minutes
Cathy Albisa and Maisie Chin address the Opening Plenary of the US Human Rights Fund Convening. The plenary was entitled "Strategy for Social Change: Success Stories, Challenges & Cautionary Tales." Photo taken by Jim Belfon.

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Episode 2: Human Right To Housing Program Speaks at Poverty Initiative Immersion Course - January 7, 2009

NESRI's Podcast - April 02, 2009 14:29 - 21 minutes
NESRI Human Right to Housing Director Tiffany M. Gardner and John Derek Norvell of Concerned Citizens of Greater Harlem presented on a panel entitled "Poverty Scholars and Religious Leaders Roundtable" at the January 2009 Immersion Course of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Se...

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Episode 1: “Economic and Social Rights Under a New Administration”

NESRI's Podcast - November 06, 2008 16:14 - 1 hour
A special evening with Dr. Paul Farmer, founding NESRI Board Member, Co-Founder of Partners In Health, MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner, human rights activist, and subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains. You will hear from Dr. Farmer and our s...

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