A Journal of Analysis and News
April M. Short is an editor, journalist, and documentary editor and producer. She is a co-founder of the Observatory, where she is the Local Peace Economy editor, and she is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute. Previously, she was a managing editor at AlterNet as well as an award-winning senior staff writer for Good Times, a weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz, California. Her work has been published with the San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, LA Yoga, Pressenza, the Conversation, Salon, and many other publications.
The media collective Untold Palestine gathers the stories mainstream media doesn’t tell about Palestinians—videos, photographs, and written accounts from Palestinian
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A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs
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New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our origins, and museums around the world are working to
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Amid genocidal violence and mass civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip, well-known writers, artists, healers, and activists shared practices of
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San Francisco’s third poet laureate, devorah major, speaks on Palestine and how poetry can help us connect as we navigate
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