Month: April 2013
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Building Bridges with Pakistan
Tim Frakes Productions recorded stories documenting 20 leaders (approx. 10 US, 10 Pakistani) who met in Islamabad and Lahore, Pakistan April 22-27 2013 to cooperatively set an action agenda toward policy change on both sides, building bridges of understanding and respect between our two countries. Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International…
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Sarah Sayeed: The Courage of Young Women
Dr. Sarah Sayeed, a staff member with the Interfaith Center of New York visited Pakistan and met with a group of courageous young women who are dedicated to peace and justice. Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International Islamic University in Islamabad (IIU) and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the…
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289,754 ELCA YouTube Views
Recently I took a peak at the Youtube channel for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Back in the late 1990’s while I still worked for the ELCA Churchwide offices, our Department for Communication began uploading programs to what was then called, Google Video. After Google purchased Youtube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, Google Video…
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Sanctuary: Worker Justice
Meet three three dynamic women advocating for justice in the workplace and in immigrant communities. Kim Bobo is the Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, CJ Hawking is the Executive Director of Arise Chicago and Elena Segura works with the Office for Immigrant Affairs in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Sanctuary, is an in-depth documentary program that…