“What makes people rebel against suffering is not really suffering itself but the senselessness of suffering.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic “Divisiveness affirms things in people.” Consuela Hendricks, People Matter 1919 Chicago Demographics were changing quickly in Chicago as blacks were streaming in from the South; 50,000 in a period of …
by Calvin Mouw 
That education and exposure to various ideas expand one’s view and teach them to think critically and independently is already well understood. Award-winning journalist and a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Amanda Coakley explains how a new approach to education in Romania affords students a better understanding of why …
by Roxana Cazan 
Alina Șerban performed “The Best Child in the World,” a one-woman play sponsored by ARCHER at the Romanian Community Center on June 21 in Chicago. Alina is Roma, she grew up poor in Bucharest, she is a woman, and yet, she is a successful actor, writer, and director. People watch her films and come to …
by Calvin Mouw 
This article was originally published by the The Wiener Holocaust Library, London (link to original here) on July 26th, 2021. We had the permission of the author to share it on ARCHER’s blog. Eugenics is based on the erroneous claim that most human activity, whether physical or mental, is determined by heredity. To control heredity, eugenicists …
by Marius Turda 
What parenthood can teach us about social justice On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, George Floyd’s murderer was found guilty by a jury of his peers on all three counts: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, while being arrested on the suspicion of having used a …
by Roxana Cazan 
The recent rise of the political far-right is just one symptom of the antisemitism and violence against women that plague Romanian society By Roxana Cazan On March 27, Romanian Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern and The Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest, Romania received a horrific email threatening with murder, arson, and defamation. Not only was the …
by Roxana Cazan 
What’s in an Ally? Engaged Philanthropy and Compassionate Partnership A Conversation with Cristiana Grigore at the Roma Peoples Project, Columbia University. Read the first part of this series on racism against Roma people here To further my understanding of what being an ally for the cause of the Roma people entails, I decided to interview Cristiana …
by Roxana Cazan 
We will weep in public. We will not wipe away our tears,Stifle our groans or quiet our anger.We will cause interruption and discomfortBecause that’s what grief demands. We will weep in public. We will create memorials together and alone,Whether side by side or across digital spaces.We will do it when it’s personal andWhen we never …
by Brit Cooper Robinson 
I’m a survivor of sexual assault. And I haven’t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. With these words, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez opened up such an important discussion on a critical topic. Trauma is all around us. Regardless of where you stand politically, trauma …
by Andreea Mile 
Part 1 6 Ways to Be a Better Ally for Roma People[1] I was born in Sibiu, Romania, in the 1980s, at a time when the socialist welfare state determined to provide “stable, if inadequate, jobs and social services to the Roma community” as Oana Oprean suggests. Part of the socialist solution was to integrate …
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