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By Leigh Durham, Field Organizer for One Million Bones

By Leigh Durham, Field Organizer for One Million Bones

Blog by Hannah Finnie, STAND's Student Director.

I was recently asked how STAND has changed my life. I was pretty taken aback at the question, but I think when you’re forced to not think and just speak, that’s often when you say how you really feel. I responded that through STAND, I’ve learned just how interconnected our world is, which makes me feel like we each have some degree of moral responsibility to do what we can.

Beginning this weekend, six of our STAND Managing Committee members will be graduating from college and, B.A.’s in hand, embarking on their non-student lives. These six individuals are some of the most hardworking, passionate, and intelligent leaders to have come through the STAND MC.

Mickey, DSol, Mac, Matt, Ryan, and Jess: You’ve shaped STAND’s past, present, and future, and we are all so lucky to know and be known by you! On behalf of all STAND students and the entire anti-genocide movement, we want to say thank you!

By Clay Kitchura, member of The White Rose Society at the University of Texas

This piece, written by Danny Hirschel-Burns, from Swarthmore College STAND, originally appeared on his blog The Widening Lens.

 Syria

This post was written by Natasha Bell, from George Washington University STAND. For more about cartel violence in the context of mass atrocities, check out our blog post from September 2012. 

This post was written by Christina Howerton from the Coalition for a Democratic Syria.

Today is World Press Freedom Day, and the situation for journalists in Syria is devestating.