Human Rights
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Voices Needed for Decency – Don’t Stay Silent
by Joanie Schirm on December 19, 2016 PermalinkVoices Needed for Decency and Peace—Don’t Stay Silent I was moved today by this excellent Opinion Column in the Orlando Sentinel. Written by Pam Kancher, Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, her words share a timeless reminder that we each carry a voice that must speak up when we
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Celebrating Human Rights Day – December 10, 2016
by Joanie Schirm on December 8, 2016 PermalinkFor the past sixty-eight years, the world has celebrated the December 10th anniversary of the 1945 United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With the fresh recognition of what humans can do to one another following the horrific evidence of the Holocaust, the historic UN act promoted the publicizing of
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Students learn of differences and similarities with others through family history research to “recognize the origins of old-new dangers.”
by Joanie Schirm on November 29, 2016 Permalink“Hopefully, education and knowledge of history linked together with pure compassion and humanity will let us recognize the origins of old-new dangers and tie down the demons of hatred and evil before they grow to overcome us again.” Vaclav Havel, First President of the Czech Republic As important today as ever, students can learn similarities
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Freedom for Cuba
by Joanie Schirm on November 27, 2016 PermalinkWith the passing of Fidel Castro, I’m reminded of a time in the early 1960s when my parents offered to house a Cuban refugee family just after their escape from the tyranny of Castro’s regime. In our home in Indialantic came a small, very sad family who spoke little English and wished only to gain