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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. So, we joined forces, he with his tea knowledge and myself.

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Ask Britt: How can I combine the creative arts with social impact?

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. You just have to keep planting and just got to hope that other people will come along after you to water those seeds and to know that the trees our for our children's children.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Can I just see?

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Our EveryAction Hero: Middle East Children's Alliance

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. There were guards stationed everywhere throughout the camp and when she came back she knew that she wanted to do something for the children there.

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

For every person who spent that spring self-soothing with Animal Crossing or struggling to manage small children , there was someone else out there thinking, “How can I take advantage of the chaos?” He knew how to navigate the sharks and the con artists. This is a story about one of those people. You see, freaking out was for normies.