If you didn’t hear – we just released our latest documentary in partnership with Rights Working Group, Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America, that shows powerful stories that illustrate just how devastating racial profiling is in communities across the country. To end racial profiling we must end how we treat each other and how [...]

September 29, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: ARC, b-listed, b-the change, breakthrough, Colorlines, Drop the I-Word, human rights, I am not an illegal, i-word, immigrant, immigration | Comments Off

Today, the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) is scheduled for mark-up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wed, Sept. 29. Violence against women and girls represents a global health, economic development, and human rights problem. At least one out of every three women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in [...]

September 29, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, b-the change, blisted, breakthrough, Domestic Violence, International Violence Against Women Act, IVAWA, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, violence against women | Comments Off

“I’ve seen a lot in my life but to be degraded…  not just stripped of my clothes, being stripped of my dignity, was what I had a problem with.” Kurdish American Karwan Abdul Kader was stopped and stripped by local law enforcement for no reason other than driving around in the wrong neighborhood. This is [...]

September 28, 2010 by ishita | Tags: 287g, African American, Asian American Justice Center, blog, breakthrough, Congress, Congressional briefing, Denver Police Department, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brultality, due process, End Racial Profiling Act, enforcement, ERPA, Face the Truth campaign, Face the Truth Week of Actions, Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America, Faces of Racial Profiling: A Report from Communities Across America, Fair Day in Court, family, fight racism, human rights, immigration, Juana Villegas, Karwan Abdul Kader, Kurdish American, Latino, Mallika Dutt, N.A.A.C.P, Race, racial profiling, Racism, Restore Fairness, Rights Working Group, Ronald Scott | Comments Off

We received the following email this morning and thought you should know about it: This Saturday, October 2, thousands of Latinos will gather at 10:00AM in front of the U.S. Capitol to march on Constitution Ave. towards the Lincoln Memorial to join the One Nation Working Together Movement. The march seeks good jobs, economic justice, [...]

September 27, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-the change, Immigrant Rights, immigration, One Nation Working Together | Comments Off

Don’t miss out! September 26th is the last night of I-VIEW Film Fest! Breakthrough is an Outreach and Promotional Sponsor. I-VIEW FILM provides a new lens to view human rights, through cinema’s ever changing landscape of desires, intimacies, gender & sexuality particularly at the intersection of culture & religion in South Asia. As North America’s [...]

September 24, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, breakthrough beat, Engendered, I-VIEW Film Fest | Comments Off

Norm Magnusson has a fascinating project called I-75 where he puts historical markers all along highway I-75 that look like your everyday signs that you see while driving.  Except his messages are political and thought provoking instead of historical. Magnusson’s blog reads: …unlike most artworks on social or political themes, these markers don’t merely speak [...]

September 24, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, because we found it, blog, breakthrough, historical markers, I-75, Norm Magnusson | Comments Off

Every year, from September 15-October 15, the U.S. observes National Hispanic Heritage Month during which we celebrate the histories, cultures and contributions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. This observation was initiated as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 by President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded [...]

September 23, 2010 by ishita | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, Caribbean, Central America, George Lopez, guide to, Hispanic Heritage Month, Latina, Latino, Library of Congress, Mexico, National Gallery of Art, National Hispanic Heritage Month, President Lyndon Johnson, President Ronald Reagan, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Magazine, South America, Spain | Comments Off

We’re have an amazing week! Yesterday, our President and CEO, Mallika Dutt, joined the stage with President Clinton to announce Breakthrough’s commitment to go global with Bell Bajao (Ring the Bell), at the Clinton Global Initiative Opening Plenary.   The campaign calls on men and boys from around the world to champion the cause by ringing the [...]

September 22, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: ABC News, b-listed, Bell Bajao, Bell Bajao Global, Bill Clinton, breakthrough, breakthrough beat, Domestic Violence, homepage, india, Mallika Dutt, President Clinton | Comments Off

We are very excited to announce that Breakthrough launched our global campaign against domestic violence at the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) this morning! Our very own Mallika Dutt, CEO and President of Breakthrough, announced the organization’s commitment to go global with Bell Bajao (Ring the Bell), a campaign that urges men and boys from [...]

September 21, 2010 by ishita | Tags: Ban ki-Moon, Bell Bajao, Bell Bajao Global, Bill Clinton, breakthrough, CGI, Clinton Global Initiative, Domestic Violence, interrupt domestic violence, Mallika Dutt, opening plenary, President Clinton, Ring the Bell, take the pledge, UN Secretary General, UNiTE to End Violence Against Women, United Nations | 1 Comment »

Aren’t you tired of all the extremist rhetoric that is so lightly thrown about nowadays? Here are some ways that you can do something about it. The controversy over the so called “ground zero mosque” is just one illustration of the extreme sentiments that often frame issues within today’s highly charged media landscape, especially with [...]

September 20, 2010 by ishita | Tags: 20000 dialogues, anti-discrimination, blisted, breakthrough, dialogue, freedom, Glen Beck, ground zero, Ground Zero mosque, Hitler, human rights, I have a dream, Islam, jon stewart, March to keep fear alive, Martin Luther King, Rally to Restore America, Rally to Restore Sanity, Sarah Palin, stephen colbert, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Unity Productions Foundations, Washington DC, week of dialogue | Comments Off