Tomgram: Ann Jones, Changing the World One Shot at a Time

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Ann Jones spent several years as a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan focusing on the lives of women and wrote a moving book, Kabul in Winter, about her experience. More recently, she took Tomdispatch readers to West Africa. There, she laid out the chilling nightmare of women’s lives in strife-torn lands in which the war against women doesn’t end just because grim wars between men finally do. Read more

Travelling filmmaking project sets out to inspire native youth

A group of young filmmakers are packing into a mobile studio and heading out to visit First Nations communities in Quebec to give young aboriginals a taste of the moviemaking life. Read more