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...introduction to this album. South African passbooks Obligatory passbooks governed life in South Africa under Apartheid. Classifying races How races were classified after the introduction of the 1950 Population Registration Act. Held hostage to a passbook The impact of passbooks on the community. Humiliation of the red stamp The 'Vula-Vala' check-up that was undergone to...

...project, Mobilizing Millions: Engendering Protest Across the Globe. We want to understand why people participate in a march of this scale, at a critical historical juncture in our political landscape. Within weeks of discussion of the first march, there were already “sister” march pages national and internationally. While it is beyond the scope of this post to discuss...

...project I saw in action is called The Big Book Share, and involves prisoners reading and recording chapters of children's books. A CD of the reading is given to their families so that children (and, in the case of some of the women prisoners, grandchildren, nephews and nieces) can listen to a bedtime story from inside. A copy of the book being read is also supplied,...