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Listen to 2009 Petra Fellow John Thompson's story of exoneration after 14 years on death row—and seven scheduled execution dates—in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary (BBC World Service's Outlook programme).
Petra Fellow Carrie Dann: ACT NOW to save Western Shoshone sacred site
This is a critical moment in a 15-year fight. The Bureau of Land Management has never opposed a mine. Let's help to change that abysmal record!
Inauguration thrill for young violinists: They will perform for Obamas
By Meredith Kolodner
NY Daily News
December 3, 2008
Young violinists from three Harlem elementary schools will be fiddling for the new First Family at the Children's Inauguration Ball in the nation's capital next month.
71 million eyeballs on Petra Fellow Tyrone Parker's Alliance
Parade Magazine's article The Walking Wise Men of D.C. focuses on the Alliance for Concerned Men, co-founded in 1991 by Petra Fellow Tyrone Parker.
Defiance, Valkyrie, Major Remer, Mark Weber and the limits of Holocaust denial
By Leonard Zeskind
The Zeskind Fortnight No. 10
January 24, 2009
Two big budget films currently showing in theatres re-address resistance to Hitler and the industrial-style murder of European Jews during World War Two. Both are based on true stories. In Defiance, we watch a small band of Jews escape the Nazi killers and take to the forests of Byelorussia...
Valkyrie attempts to tell the story of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and the German military officers who attempted the assassination of Hitler in July 1944-a year and a half after the Soviet Army turned the Germans back at the Battle of Stalingrad and six weeks after the Allied landing at Normandy...