Arcus Foundation CEO Annette Lanjouw and Nature Conservation Foundation Research Associate Sahil Nijhawan facilitated a session at the IUCN World Conservation Congress highlighting the importance of studying and understanding the learned behaviors of nonhuman animals—particularly those at risk of extinction, such as great and small apes—as a way to improve their chances of survival.
In this special broadcast, we talked with "State of the Apes" contributors and other conservation experts about the killing, capture, and trade of great apes and gibbons, and explored the ways that policymakers, government agencies, businesses, and communities can address these threats.
Where can the interests and actions of investors, policy makers, and conservationists converge to prevent and mitigate infrastructure-related harm to communities, biodiversity, and habitat? Join experts for a webinar to explore this monumental challenge and potential solutions for sustainable development.
On December 10, 2015, at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., The Atlantic hosted "Unfinished Business: The Atlantic LGBT Summit." The inaugural summit convened policymakers, activists, and leaders driving the news for wide-ranging conversations on queer identity in America, at the end of a monumental year from politics to pop culture. The Arcus-sponsored panel "What's on the Minds of LGBT People?" explored responses to Our Tomorrow, a campaign that engaged LGBT people across the United States in a conversation about their hopes, fears, and ideas for the future of a bolder movement that leaves no one behind.
With an ever-growing population, agribusiness has raced to keep pace with the demand for more goods. Large tracts of land have been cleared for intensive and large-scale farming that fuel and feed the world.
Ever since Hollywood’s inception, animals in entertainment such as Chippy the Chimp, Flipper, Kokomo Jr., Lassie, and Mister Ed, among others, have captivated the hearts and minds of millions. But what happens to these adored animal actors after the curtains are closed and the cameras stop rolling? Acting Against Their Wills was an Arcus Forum which brought together a panel of leading experts and advocates to explore the range of experiences animals may encounter while entertaining an audience.
View an archived live stream of the Trans Rights and Criminal Justice Wrongs event below. Trans Rights and Criminal Justice Wrongs, an Arcus Forum event taking place on Nov.
The Stonewall 45 panel event, held June 16, 2014, at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, examined how the police raid on the Stonewall Inn bar in 1969 -- along with the subsequent riots and protests -- ultimately changed the trajectory of the LGBT movement and sparked lasting change. The panel, which accompanied the Christopher Street exhibit “Stonewall 45: Windows into LGBT History,” explored how LGBT history affected the future of the movement.
“Say My Name: Stories of LGBTQ Youth from New Orleans,” performed March 25 at the New York Live Arts Center, was developed through an interactive theater workshop with BreakOUT! members in New Orleans in October 2013. It is part of an ongoing series of community-specific oral history theater works by Ping Chong + Company known as the Undesirable Elements series.
Catalyst University, a leadership program of Southwest Michigan First, held its inaugural event January 20, 2011, sponsored in part by the Arcus Foundation. Catalyst University, founded in 2010, is a coeducational graduate-level institution offering instruction in community visioning, global economics and executive management.
Empowerment and education emerged as major themes from The National Transgender Advocacy Convening, hosted by the Arcus Foundation on November 12, 2013. The day-long event gathered more than 40 transgender activists and allies to discuss challenges faced by the U.S.-based trans community, including employment, healthcare access, economic security, recognition, equality, advocacy, and the community’s future.
The Arcus Forum “Less Than Human,” held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Sept. 30, 2013, explored how humans often degrade each other in order to assert dominance and how we often exploit nature and other species for research, entertainment, and other purposes.
Speaking at September's Great Apes Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Annette Lanjouw, Vice President of Arcus' Great Apes Program, explains in this video why industry, government, and the general public have an important role to play in conservation of the world's endangered great apes. Learn more here..
NEW YORK, NY (22 July, 2013) – The Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues, dedicated its screening of the film Born This Way to Cameroonian activist Eric Ohena Lembembe, 34, who was found tortured and killed at his home in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé. The screening of Born This Way, a documentary about the lives and challenges of LGBT communities and activists in Cameroon, took place in New York on 31 July 2013 and brought together activist colleagues and friends of Mr.
GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, was proud to launch the Media Training Institute, funded by the Arcus Foundation and created specifically for people of color who are LGBT or LGBT allies. The Institute consisted of a two-day, advanced spokesperson training program in Los Angeles from May 20 – May 22, 2011 and in New York from July 22 - July 24 where GLAAD staff, leading journalists and commentators and key media trainers developed Institute participants in the areas of framing and messaging for on-camera and radio interviews.
The Arcus Foundation's Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity program hosted a workshop at the 2010 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, held in Washington, DC, September 17, 2010. Breaking Down Barriers: Creating a Progressive Black Agenda for the 21st Century, the interactive dialogue focused on building an African American progressive social justice agenda.
The Center for American Progress and Arcus Foundation’s Racial Justice, Social Orientation & Gender Identity program hosted a panel discussion about the most effective ways to frame the conversation about equality, both within and between the African American and LGBT communities. Watch a video of the discussion on the Center for American progress website.
Religion, politics, race and sex, and their intersections, were the chosen topics of a two-day conversation among progressive thought leaders in theology, ethics, African American studies, history, psychology, social thought, biblical studies and more, who came together at the Arcus Roundtable on the Sexual Politics of Black Churches. .
Arcus Foundation CEO Annette Lanjouw and Nature Conservation Foundation Research Associate Sahil Nijhawan facilitated a session at the IUCN World Conservation Congress highlighting the importance of studying and understanding the learned behaviors of nonhuman animals—particularly those at risk of extinction, such as great and small apes—as a way to improve their chances of survival.
In this special broadcast, we talked with "State of the Apes" contributors and other conservation experts about the killing, capture, and trade of great apes and gibbons, and explored the ways that policymakers, government agencies, businesses, and communities can address these threats.
Where can the interests and actions of investors, policy makers, and conservationists converge to prevent and mitigate infrastructure-related harm to communities, biodiversity, and habitat? Join experts for a webinar to explore this monumental challenge and potential solutions for sustainable development.
On December 10, 2015, at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., The Atlantic hosted "Unfinished Business: The Atlantic LGBT Summit." The inaugural summit convened policymakers, activists, and leaders driving the news for wide-ranging conversations on queer identity in America, at the end of a monumental year from politics to pop culture. The Arcus-sponsored panel "What's on the Minds of LGBT People?" explored responses to Our Tomorrow, a campaign that engaged LGBT people across the United States in a conversation about their hopes, fears, and ideas for the future of a bolder movement that leaves no one behind.
With an ever-growing population, agribusiness has raced to keep pace with the demand for more goods. Large tracts of land have been cleared for intensive and large-scale farming that fuel and feed the world.
Ever since Hollywood’s inception, animals in entertainment such as Chippy the Chimp, Flipper, Kokomo Jr., Lassie, and Mister Ed, among others, have captivated the hearts and minds of millions. But what happens to these adored animal actors after the curtains are closed and the cameras stop rolling? Acting Against Their Wills was an Arcus Forum which brought together a panel of leading experts and advocates to explore the range of experiences animals may encounter while entertaining an audience.
The Stonewall 45 panel event, held June 16, 2014, at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, examined how the police raid on the Stonewall Inn bar in 1969 -- along with the subsequent riots and protests -- ultimately changed the trajectory of the LGBT movement and sparked lasting change. The panel, which accompanied the Christopher Street exhibit “Stonewall 45: Windows into LGBT History,” explored how LGBT history affected the future of the movement.
“Say My Name: Stories of LGBTQ Youth from New Orleans,” performed March 25 at the New York Live Arts Center, was developed through an interactive theater workshop with BreakOUT! members in New Orleans in October 2013. It is part of an ongoing series of community-specific oral history theater works by Ping Chong + Company known as the Undesirable Elements series.
Catalyst University, a leadership program of Southwest Michigan First, held its inaugural event January 20, 2011, sponsored in part by the Arcus Foundation. Catalyst University, founded in 2010, is a coeducational graduate-level institution offering instruction in community visioning, global economics and executive management.
Empowerment and education emerged as major themes from The National Transgender Advocacy Convening, hosted by the Arcus Foundation on November 12, 2013. The day-long event gathered more than 40 transgender activists and allies to discuss challenges faced by the U.S.-based trans community, including employment, healthcare access, economic security, recognition, equality, advocacy, and the community’s future.
The Arcus Forum “Less Than Human,” held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Sept. 30, 2013, explored how humans often degrade each other in order to assert dominance and how we often exploit nature and other species for research, entertainment, and other purposes.
Speaking at September's Great Apes Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Annette Lanjouw, Vice President of Arcus' Great Apes Program, explains in this video why industry, government, and the general public have an important role to play in conservation of the world's endangered great apes. Learn more here..
NEW YORK, NY (22 July, 2013) – The Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues, dedicated its screening of the film Born This Way to Cameroonian activist Eric Ohena Lembembe, 34, who was found tortured and killed at his home in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé. The screening of Born This Way, a documentary about the lives and challenges of LGBT communities and activists in Cameroon, took place in New York on 31 July 2013 and brought together activist colleagues and friends of Mr.
GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, was proud to launch the Media Training Institute, funded by the Arcus Foundation and created specifically for people of color who are LGBT or LGBT allies. The Institute consisted of a two-day, advanced spokesperson training program in Los Angeles from May 20 – May 22, 2011 and in New York from July 22 - July 24 where GLAAD staff, leading journalists and commentators and key media trainers developed Institute participants in the areas of framing and messaging for on-camera and radio interviews.
The Arcus Foundation's Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity program hosted a workshop at the 2010 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, held in Washington, DC, September 17, 2010. Breaking Down Barriers: Creating a Progressive Black Agenda for the 21st Century, the interactive dialogue focused on building an African American progressive social justice agenda.
The Center for American Progress and Arcus Foundation’s Racial Justice, Social Orientation & Gender Identity program hosted a panel discussion about the most effective ways to frame the conversation about equality, both within and between the African American and LGBT communities. Watch a video of the discussion on the Center for American progress website.
Religion, politics, race and sex, and their intersections, were the chosen topics of a two-day conversation among progressive thought leaders in theology, ethics, African American studies, history, psychology, social thought, biblical studies and more, who came together at the Arcus Roundtable on the Sexual Politics of Black Churches. .
Arcus Foundation CEO Annette Lanjouw and Nature Conservation Foundation Research Associate Sahil Nijhawan facilitated a session at the IUCN World Conservation Congress highlighting the importance of studying and understanding the learned behaviors of nonhuman animals—particularly those at risk of extinction, such as great and small apes—as a way to improve their chances of survival.
In this special broadcast, we talked with "State of the Apes" contributors and other conservation experts about the killing, capture, and trade of great apes and gibbons, and explored the ways that policymakers, government agencies, businesses, and communities can address these threats.
Where can the interests and actions of investors, policy makers, and conservationists converge to prevent and mitigate infrastructure-related harm to communities, biodiversity, and habitat? Join experts for a webinar to explore this monumental challenge and potential solutions for sustainable development.
On December 10, 2015, at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., The Atlantic hosted "Unfinished Business: The Atlantic LGBT Summit." The inaugural summit convened policymakers, activists, and leaders driving the news for wide-ranging conversations on queer identity in America, at the end of a monumental year from politics to pop culture. The Arcus-sponsored panel "What's on the Minds of LGBT People?" explored responses to Our Tomorrow, a campaign that engaged LGBT people across the United States in a conversation about their hopes, fears, and ideas for the future of a bolder movement that leaves no one behind.
With an ever-growing population, agribusiness has raced to keep pace with the demand for more goods. Large tracts of land have been cleared for intensive and large-scale farming that fuel and feed the world.
Ever since Hollywood’s inception, animals in entertainment such as Chippy the Chimp, Flipper, Kokomo Jr., Lassie, and Mister Ed, among others, have captivated the hearts and minds of millions. But what happens to these adored animal actors after the curtains are closed and the cameras stop rolling? Acting Against Their Wills was an Arcus Forum which brought together a panel of leading experts and advocates to explore the range of experiences animals may encounter while entertaining an audience.
View an archived live stream of the Trans Rights and Criminal Justice Wrongs event below. Trans Rights and Criminal Justice Wrongs, an Arcus Forum event taking place on Nov.
The Stonewall 45 panel event, held June 16, 2014, at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, examined how the police raid on the Stonewall Inn bar in 1969 -- along with the subsequent riots and protests -- ultimately changed the trajectory of the LGBT movement and sparked lasting change. The panel, which accompanied the Christopher Street exhibit “Stonewall 45: Windows into LGBT History,” explored how LGBT history affected the future of the movement.
“Say My Name: Stories of LGBTQ Youth from New Orleans,” performed March 25 at the New York Live Arts Center, was developed through an interactive theater workshop with BreakOUT! members in New Orleans in October 2013. It is part of an ongoing series of community-specific oral history theater works by Ping Chong + Company known as the Undesirable Elements series.
Catalyst University, a leadership program of Southwest Michigan First, held its inaugural event January 20, 2011, sponsored in part by the Arcus Foundation. Catalyst University, founded in 2010, is a coeducational graduate-level institution offering instruction in community visioning, global economics and executive management.
Empowerment and education emerged as major themes from The National Transgender Advocacy Convening, hosted by the Arcus Foundation on November 12, 2013. The day-long event gathered more than 40 transgender activists and allies to discuss challenges faced by the U.S.-based trans community, including employment, healthcare access, economic security, recognition, equality, advocacy, and the community’s future.
The Arcus Forum “Less Than Human,” held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Sept. 30, 2013, explored how humans often degrade each other in order to assert dominance and how we often exploit nature and other species for research, entertainment, and other purposes.
Speaking at September's Great Apes Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Annette Lanjouw, Vice President of Arcus' Great Apes Program, explains in this video why industry, government, and the general public have an important role to play in conservation of the world's endangered great apes. Learn more here..
NEW YORK, NY (22 July, 2013) – The Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues, dedicated its screening of the film Born This Way to Cameroonian activist Eric Ohena Lembembe, 34, who was found tortured and killed at his home in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé. The screening of Born This Way, a documentary about the lives and challenges of LGBT communities and activists in Cameroon, took place in New York on 31 July 2013 and brought together activist colleagues and friends of Mr.
GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, was proud to launch the Media Training Institute, funded by the Arcus Foundation and created specifically for people of color who are LGBT or LGBT allies. The Institute consisted of a two-day, advanced spokesperson training program in Los Angeles from May 20 – May 22, 2011 and in New York from July 22 - July 24 where GLAAD staff, leading journalists and commentators and key media trainers developed Institute participants in the areas of framing and messaging for on-camera and radio interviews.
The Arcus Foundation's Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity program hosted a workshop at the 2010 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, held in Washington, DC, September 17, 2010. Breaking Down Barriers: Creating a Progressive Black Agenda for the 21st Century, the interactive dialogue focused on building an African American progressive social justice agenda.
The Center for American Progress and Arcus Foundation’s Racial Justice, Social Orientation & Gender Identity program hosted a panel discussion about the most effective ways to frame the conversation about equality, both within and between the African American and LGBT communities. Watch a video of the discussion on the Center for American progress website.
Religion, politics, race and sex, and their intersections, were the chosen topics of a two-day conversation among progressive thought leaders in theology, ethics, African American studies, history, psychology, social thought, biblical studies and more, who came together at the Arcus Roundtable on the Sexual Politics of Black Churches. .
A muxe woman, Peregrina Vera is a member of the Indigenous Zapotec community from the town of Juchitán in the southeast of Oaxaca state in Mexico. A skilled artisan of traditional woven clothing, Peregrina also prepares decorations for local festivals. But in addition to her artistic endeavors, she is one of the leaders of the Transformándome (“Transforming Myself”) project housed at Mexfam, a nationwide civil society organization promoting access to health, education, and advocacy of sexual and reproductive rights. The project helps educate the muxe about their rights and how they can live authentically as themselves, including acquiring identification documents that accurately portray their names and genders.
Peregrina’s activism includes documenting incidents of hate crimes against the muxe throughout the region. This is a subject she unfortunately knows all too well after she experienced a recent violent attack and robbery in which all of her work tools were stolen.
These incidents have increased as new people have moved into the region.
“Before they did nothing to us,” Peregrina explains. “Now if you’re at a party, just by seeing you, they want to attack you, they insult you, and on many occasions, the aggression changes from words to physical attacks.”
By documenting these incidents, Peregrina is helping to bring the issue of hate violence to the attention of authorities and the public. She is also working to connect members of her community through online meetings using computers acquired by the Transformándome project. All of her activism is aimed at increasing the acceptance and inclusion of her muxe community.
Mujer Muxe, Peregrina Vera es miembro de la comunidad indígena Zapoteca del pueblo de Juchitán, en el sureste del estado de Oaxaca. Hábil artesana de la ropa tejida tradicional, Peregrina también prepara adornos para las fiestas locales. Pero además de sus esfuerzos artísticos, es una de las líderes de Transformándome en Mexfam, la organización nacional de planificación familiar de México. El proyecto ayuda a educar a la comunidad Muxe sobre sus derechos y sobre cómo pueden vivir auténticamente sin esconderse, incluyendo cómo obtener documentos de identidad que reflejen con exactitud sus nombres y géneros.
El activismo de Peregrina incluye la documentación de incidentes de crímenes de odio contra la comunidad Muxe en toda la región. Se trata de un tema que, por desgracia, conoce demasiado bien tras haber sufrido recientemente un ataque violento y un robo en el que le sustrajeron todas sus herramientas de trabajo.
Estos incidentes han aumentado a medida que nuevas personas se han trasladado a la región.
“Antes no nos hacían nada”, explica. “Ahora, si estás en una fiesta, solo con verte quieren agredirte, te insultan y, en muchas ocasiones, la agresión pasa de las palabras a los ataques físicos”.
Con la documentación de estos incidentes, Peregrina está ayudando a llamar la atención de las autoridades y del público sobre el problema de la violencia motivada por el odio. También está trabajando para conectar a los miembros de su comunidad a través de reuniones en línea utilizando computadoras adquiridas gracias al proyecto Transformándome. Todo su activismo busca aumentar la aceptación y la inclusión de su comunidad Muxe.
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