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Henry SiegmanPresident Emeritus
Daniel LevyPresident
Thomas R. PickeringChairman
Amjad Bseisu
Amjad Bseisu founded Petrofac Resources International Limited in 1998, the operations and investment arm of Petrofac, where he was Chief Executive and a member of the board of Petrofac Limited. In April 2010, he formed EnQuest PLC and was appointed to the board. Amjad is also non-executive Chairman of Enviromena Power Systems, a private company and the leading developer of solar services in the Middle East and North Africa. From 1984 to 1998, he worked for the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), ultimately becoming the President of ARCO Petroleum Ventures and ARCO Crude Trading, Inc. Previously, he was a founding non-executive director of Serica Energy plc and Stratic Energy Corporation. He is a supporter of many charities and sits on a number of charity boards. The Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation has been focused on children's education, sports, and women's empowerment, principally in the Middle East region.
Anne Patterson
Ambassador Patterson was the Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and North African Affairs at the Department of State (2013-2017). She served as Ambassador to Egypt (2011-2013), to Pakistan (2007-2010), to Colombia (2000-2003) and to El Salvador (1997-2000). She recently retired with the rank of Career Ambassador after more than four decades in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Patterson also served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, among other assignments. She is currently a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale and a member of the Commission on National Defense Strategy.
Chuck Hagel
Secretary Chuck Hagel is currently on the Board of Trustees of RAND, and a Distinguished Executive in Residence at Georgetown University, as well as a Distinguished Statesman at the Atlantic Council. He was the 24th Secretary of Defense. He is the only Vietnam veteran and the first enlisted combat veteran to serve in that position. He also served two terms in the United States Senate (1997-2009) representing the state of Nebraska. He previously was a Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University, Co-Chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, Chairman of the Atlantic Council, Chairman of the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration Advisory Committee, and Co-Chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Corporate Council. He served on the Secretary of Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of Nuclear Power. He is the author of the book 'America: Our Next Chapter'.
Daniel Levy President
Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S. / Middle East Project. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that he was a senior Fellow and Director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Taskforce in Washington DC and a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation. Earlier he worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group's Middle East Programme.
Daniel Levy was a Senior Advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/ Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95), as well as being lead drafter of the model peace agreement ("Geneva Initiative").
Levy is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York, a Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the European Middle East Project. He was a founder of J Street and was a founding Board member of Molad – the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.
Levy was a founding editor of the Middle East Channel at foreignpolicy.com and is a regular Middle East commentator on TV and radio, including with BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera, and has been published in various outlets among them the NYT, FT and Guardian.
Contact email: dlevy@usmep.us
Efraim Halevy
Efraim Halevy is currently the Chairman of the Israel National Center for Jewish History. He until recently served as head of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as head of the National Security Council and National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on 2002-2003, as head of the Mossad on 1998-2002, as Israeli Ambassador to the European Union on 1996-1998. He was deputy Head of the Mossad on 1990-1995, and for for three five-year periods between 1980-1995, he commanded three divisions as division chief. He served in the Israel Embassy in Washington. D.C. (1970-1974) and in the Israel Embassy in Paris (1976-1979).
Enzo Viscusi
Enzo Viscusi is currently the Senior Vice President of Eni Group, as well as the Chairman of Eni's affiliates Eni Petroleum Company Inc. and Sonsub International Inc., and the Director of American Agip Co., Inc. He sits on the Board of several institutions: amongs others, Aspen Institute Italia - an institution whose founding he played a key role in -, Foreign Policy Association, Council of the US and Italy, Eurasia Group, Council on Foreign Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Brookings Institution.
Fouad M.T. Alghanim
Fouad M.T. Alghanim is Chairman of the Fouad Alghanim & Sons Group of Companies, a multi-operational body of companies consisting of a number of fully independent divisions as well as fully and partly owned subsidiary companies based in the U.S., Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Other positions he holds include: Member of the International Conference Board, Member of the Society for the Care of Arab Children, Member of the Advisory Board, Medis Technologies Ltd., Member of the World Economic Forum and Member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
George R. Salem
George R. Salem established the Law Offices of George R. Salem, PLLC in January 2005, and is a Strategic Advisor with DLA Piper. From 1990-2004, Mr. Salem was a partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and served as the Solicitor of Labor, the U.S. Department of Labor's chief legal officer from 1985 to 1989. He played key roles in the Reagan-Bush '84, Bush-Quayle '88, and Bush-Cheney '00 campaigns. In addition, he served as a member of the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and as chairman of the Tripartite Advisory Panel on International Labor Standards, the legal arm of the President's Committee on the International Labor Organization. He co-founded the Arab American Institute in 1985 and currently serves as its chairman, and has served as treasurer of United Palestinian Appeal, Inc. since 1982. He is a past president of the National Association of Arab Americans and has served on the board of directors of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 2003 he was named to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy's Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World. In 1992, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Giuliano Amato
Professor Amato is since 2013 a Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court. Before that, he was a part-time professor at the EUI in Florence and gave yearly seminars at the Law School at the Columbia University, New York. He was the Prime Minister of Italy on two occasions, Treasury Minister and Vice-President of the Convention on the Future of Europe. He is a former member of the Chamber of Deputies and former Minister of Interior in the Government of Italy. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the Italian Antitrust Authority. He also was a Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Rome from 1975 to 1997. He has written books and articles on the economy and public institutions, antitrust, personal liberties, federalism and comparative government. In 2002, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hanan Ashrawi
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi is a distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. Making history as the first woman to hold a seat in the highest executive body in Palestine, she was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009. As a civil society activist, she founded the Independent Commission for Human Rights (1994), MIFTAH, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (1998) and AMAN, the National Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (1999). She serves on the advisory and international boards of several global, regional and local organizations, and she is the recipient of numerous awards from all over the world and several academic accolades, including eleven honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Arab world.
Henry Siegman President Emeritus
Henry Siegman is a former research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He served as a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations for fourteen years. Prior to 1993, he served as Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress for 16 years, and as general secretary of the American Association of Middle East Studies and editor of its quarterly Middle East Studies. He was a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. He also served as a commissioned officer in the US Army during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star medal for service in Korea. In the more than 30 years of his involvement in the Middle East peace process, he has published extensively on the subject and has been consulted by governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations involved in the peace process. He has authored several hundred articles and op-ed pieces that have appeared in editorial pages in the United States and throughout the world. His areas of specialization include Arab-Israel relations, the Middle East peace process, U.S. Middle East policy, interreligious relations, and the American Jewish community.
James F. Dobbins
Ambassador James Dobbins is a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation. He has held State Department and White House posts including Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Special Assistant to the President, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for the Balkans, and Ambassador to the European Community. He has served on numerous crisis management and diplomatic troubleshooting assignments, including Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia for the administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. In 2013 he returned to the State Department to serve as the Obama administration's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the lead author of RAND's three volume History of Nation Building and Choices for America.
Jerry Hirsch
Jerry is the founder and Chairman of The Lodestar Foundation, whose mission is to expand philanthropy through two strategies: to encourage philanthropy, public service and volunteerism; and to increase nonprofit impact by encouraging nonprofits to collaborate and employ other business practices. Beyond his work with Lodestar, he has pursued promoting peace and/or stability in the world: he is on the advisory board of the Global Leadership Foundation, created by former South African President FW De Klerk, has served as an advisor to John Mroz, founder and former president of the EastWest Institute, and is involved in leadership of several organizations promoting peace in the Middle East. Prior to his career in philanthropy, Jerry practiced law and was an entrepreneur in the computer/aerospace industry and commercial real estate development.
Joseph Hotung
Sir Joseph is an international private investor and has been involved with many educational, cultural, governmental and charitable organizations in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Sir Joseph established the Sir Joseph Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East at SOAS, University of London. He has served on the governing bodies of SOAS, St. George's Hospital and as a trustee of the British Museum. He funded the Joseph E Hotung Gallery (Asia) at the British Museum and serves as a trustee, life fellow and member of the Metropolitan Museum of New York City and of the Visitors Committee of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Sir Joseph was a director of HSBC Holdings plc, as well as director of several Hong Kong companies. In Hong Kong, he also served as a member of the Judicial Services Commission and the Inland Revenue Board of Review. He was a founding member of the Business School of the University of Hong Kong. Sir Joseph was also the first Chairman of the Arts Development Council in Hong Kong. Sir Joseph was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 1993.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi is presently a distinguished senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and a a governing board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria. He is a member of "The Elders", a small group of Elder Statesmen and Public Figures created in 2007 at the initiative of President Nelson Mandela and Chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He is the former Algerian Foreign Minister, as well as Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Special Assignments in Support of the Secretary-General's Preventive and Peacemaking Efforts. He spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, NJ, USA. Ambassador Brahimi has done extensive work in the field of conflict resolution, peace-making, peace-keeping and worked more generally on peace and security issues. In 1988/1990, he mediated the end of the Lebanon civil war. He also took an active part in the struggle for liberation of his country (and served as Algeria's Ambassador to Egypt and the United Kingdom. He also was Under Secretary General of the League of Arab States. He chaired an independent panel established by Secretary-General Annan to review United Nations Peace Operations. The report was endorsed by the "Millennium Summit" held in September 2000 and became known as the "Brahimi Report".
Lee H. Hamilton
Congressman Lee H. Hamilton is director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. He is currently also a member of the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, the CIA External Advisory Board, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Task Force on Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect on American Soil. Before that, he served as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He served as Chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and as Chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He was Co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, Vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission and Co-chair of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project to monitor implementation of the Commission's recommendations.
Mark Sedwill
Mark Sedwill, Baron Sedwill of Sherborne KCMG FRGS, is Chairman of the Atlantic Futures Forum, Chairman of the G7 Panel on Global Economic Resilience, and a member of the UK Parliament's House of Lords. He is a senior adviser to Rothschild & Co. He was Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Civil Service (2018-20), National Security Adviser (2017-20), Permanent Secretary at the Home Office (2013-17), and HM Ambassador and NATO Representative in Afghanistan (2009-11). Before that he had a diplomatic and security career serving in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan. He was also CEO of UK visas (2005-08). Educated at St Andrews and Oxford Universities, Lord Sedwill is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Institute of Directors, and the recipient of several awards and honours for national and international public service. He is President of the Special Forces Club and has several charitable interests.
Monica Maggioni
Monica Maggioni is an Italian journalist, and is currently President of RAI—the Italian national public television. She is also Vice-President of EBU, the European Broadcasting Union. Ms. Maggioni is a former war correspondent, editor and editor-in-chief for the main news outlets in RAI. In 2003, she was the only Italian journalist embedded with the American ground forces in Iraq during the second Gulf War. Since then, she has traveled extensively in Iraq and covered all major developments, reporting from Baghdad and Mosul among other cities. In 2008, she relocated to the U.S. to cover the presidential campaign that led to the election of Barack Obama. She has served as both Editor for the Foreign News Team and Special Features Section, as well as Anchor for several programs at TG1.
Peter A. Joseph
Peter A. Joseph is the Chairman of the Trenton Biogas LLC (TBL), a company that is developing the first commercial-scale food waste recycling facility in the New York metropolitan area. Based in Trenton, New Jersey, TBL will provide a cost-effective, sustainable approach to address the pervasive problem of managing organic waste streams. It will represent an integrated recycling solution that harnesses the latent energy potential contained in the millions of tons of organic waste discarded in landfills each year.
Ramez F. Sousou
Ramez Sousou is Founder, Co-Chair and Co-CEO of TowerBrook Capital Partners, a purpose-driven investment firm headquartered in London and New York. TowerBrook invests in private equity and structured opportunities, with a value creation strategy that aims to transform the capabilities and prospects of its portfolio companies. TowerBrook is the first mainstream private equity firm in the world to attain B Corp Certification. B Corps are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social, environmental and governance performance.
Richard A. Debs
Richard A. Debs is an Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley and a member of its International Advisory Board. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1976 as the founding President of Morgan Stanley International to develop the investment bank's international business. More recently, he was a member of the Group of Eight, former senior managers of Morgan Stanley who worked to bring about corporate governance improvements in the Firm. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he also served as an Alternate Member of the Federal Open Market Committee. He was the Fed's principal contact with the OPEC countries with regard to petrodollar issues in the 70's. During his transition from the Fed to Morgan Stanley, at the request of David Rockefeller, he served as a pro-bono financial advisor to President Sadat of Egypt. Through his consulting firm, R.A. Debs & Co., formed after he retired as president, he has been involved in variety of business and philanthropic activities.
Robert Malley was appointed US Special Envoy for Iran on January 28, 2021.  Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of the International Crisis Group.
Under the President Barack Obama, he served as Special Assistant to the President, Senior Advisor to the President for the Counter-ISIL campaign, and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region in 2015-2016 and, before that, as Senior Director for the Gulf Region and Syria.
Before joining the National Security Council staff in February 2014, Mr. Malley founded and directed the International Crisis Group's Middle East and North Africa Program from January 2002.  Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Until January 2001, Mr. Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. Mr. Malley first joined the National Security Council staff in August 1994 as Director for Democracy. In July 1997, he became Executive Assistant to the National Security Advisor from July 1997 to September 1998, acting as an informal chief of staff for Samuel R. Berger.
Mr. Malley served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court in 1991-1992.
Mr. Malley is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of "The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam" and of articles published in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Le Monde, and several other publications.
* Currently not serving on the Board given new government commitments
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal is an acclaimed writer and journalist. She produced and hosted a TV show in Egypt for Egyptian television in 2009. In 2005, she received the International Ischia Award for Best Journalist of the Year, Europe's most prestigious broadcast journalism award. She has written three books, 'Miral', 'La promise d'Aswan', and 'Divieto di Soggiorno'. In 2006, she co-presented Anno Zero, the most important and controversial political television show in Italy. In 2004, she started her own daily talk show for Italian television, Ominibus, and worked with several television stations in Italy hosting her own political talk shows, including Rai 1, Rai 2 and Rai News 24, and created a special for Channel 7 in Italy about the international moratorium against the death penalty. She got her first job as an on-air reporter in 2000, and she quickly became the first foreign anchorwoman broadcasting the 8pm news in the history of Italian television.
Samer Khoury
Samer Said Khoury was named Director & President of his father's engineering and construction company – Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) –, in 1997, after having worked in the firm for many years and in various departments. CCC is one of the largest Arab international construction companies operating throughout the Middle East, Africa, CIS, Europe and America. He is highly involved in business, social and educational activities in the Middle East and Europe. He is also a Board and Committee Member of several Associations, such as the Lebanese American University, Peace Works Foundation, Tufts University, Aspen Middle East Strategy Group, Education for Employment Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Samuel A. Nunn
Senator Sam Nunn is Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. In addition, he has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and as chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He served as a United States Senator from Georgia for 24 years (1972-1996) and is retired from the law firm King & Spalding. He first entered politics as a Member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968. After active duty service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he served six years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nunn served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees.
Sawsan Asfari
Sawsan Asfari co-chairs the Executive Committee of the International Board of the U.S. / Middle East Project. Mrs Sawsan Asfari is a co-founder and Trustee of the Asfari Foundation, which aims to help young people make a valuable contribution to society by empowering them through education, research and the power of free thinking. She is the Executive Director of the Galilee Foundation, supporting the development of the Palestinian community in Israel through educational and cultural initiatives. She is also a board member of the leading Palestinian development organization, the Welfare Association, and is active in various charities across the Arab world. She is a partner in the production company Cactus World Films.
Shlomo Ben-Ami
Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami is currently the Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace, of which he is a co-founder, as well as George Mac Govern Professor of International and Public affairs at Columbia University. He was appointed Israel's Foreign Minister in 2000, and Minister of Public Security in 1999. He was a board member of International Crisis Group and an advisor to Colombia's government in peace deal with the guerrilla. He also was Israel's first Ambassador to Spain and was a member of Israel's delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference. He participated with Prime Minister Barak in the Camp David Summit and led the Israeli negotiating team in all the different phases of the negotiations with the Palestinians, including at Taba. In 1996, he was elected to the Knesset, where he served as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Professor Ben-Ami taught in the history department of Tel Aviv University, was a visiting fellow at Oxford University, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. He is the author of many books including Scars of War, Wounds of Peace. Throughout 2009, he served in the Advisory Board of The International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
Thomas R. Pickering Chairman
Thomas R. Pickering holds the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he was U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Pickering also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Tanzania. From 1997 to 2001, he was U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. From 1989 to 1992, he was Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York. He also served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger from 1973 to 1974. Prior to that, he was briefly the President of the Eurasia Foundation. Following his retirement from government, he served as Senior Vice President for the Boeing Company, and is currently Vice Chairman at Hills & Company, which provides advice and counsel to a number of major US enterprises. In 1983 and in 1986, Pickering won the Distinguished Presidential Award and, in 1996, the Department of State's highest award – the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1984, he was awarded an honorary doctor-in-laws degree from Bowdoin College, and has received similar honours from 12 other universities. Along with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, Ambassador Pickering led a State-Department-sponsored panel investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
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Advancing a dignified Israeli-Palestinian peace, an end to occupation and mutual security for both peoples. Presenting policymakers in the United States, MENA and the broader international community with analysis and policy options to promote de-escalation and prevent and resolve conflicts in the region. Guided by an eminent international board and senior advisors.
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Here and Now is Wild & Scenic
First off…. HAPPY 2016!!
Our film – Here and Now which tells the story of Native American tribes returning to ancestral Californian lands – will be highlighted at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Jan. 14-18, in Nevada City, CA.
Here and Now (TRAILER) from Bay Area Open Space Council on Vimeo.
"There is not one inch of land, in the United States, that was not indigenous land at one time," says Chairman Valentin Lopez, of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. "Being able to access our land is critical to all Native Americans. While being granted access doesn't erase the historical wrongs against our tribe, it's a major step forward, and we are grateful to be renewing this connection to our history and Mother Earth."
The film explores four partnerships between Native people and land conservation groups in Northern California. One such partnership features the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band's return to Mt. Umunhum, a land that's sacred because of its role in their creation story.
"This was the first time a tribal member had been back to their sacred mountain in 200 years," says filmmaker Andy Miller, of Plus M Productions. Now, the tribe is building a ceremony site on the location through a partnership with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
Here and Now was produced by the Bay Area Open Space Council, which along with encouraging conservation and connection through public lands, works to promote a larger diversity and equity vision.
Miller says he's thrilled the film was selected for Wild & Scenic, which boasts a highly competitive field of entries with an emphasis on the environment and the outdoors. While in the middle of shooting in a dense forest, it occurred to him that the film would be a great fit for the festival.
"The energy, the people that attend, the staff and the town of Nevada City all come together to create the perfect atmosphere to screen conservation films like Here and Now," Miller says. "You can actually feel the movement gaining real traction over the course of the weekend."
Through partnerships like the ones featured in the film, little by little, access and ownership are being restored to Native peoples. Audiences hear from local tribes, a working farm, a local land trust, an open space district, and a national land trust. Access to almost 1,000 acres of land in the Bay Area is being restored — and changing lives along the way.
"During the making of this film the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians finalized the purchase of 700 acres," says Annie Burke, the producer of the film and Deputy Director at the Bay Area Open Space Council. "It was inspiring to be a part of it, and to help tell this story of social justice and environmental conservation."
The organizations featured in the film include the Amah Mutsun Land Trust, Kashia Band of the Pomo Indians, Pie Ranch, Sempervirens Fund, Midpeninsula Open Space District and The Trust for Public Land. The content provides just a suggestion of the many possible partnerships.
"The partnerships we have with Trust for Public Land and other conservation organizations have so much potential to do more," says Chairman Reno Franklin of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians. "We are optimistic about what's possible by working together."
Here and Now will screen at Friday evening, Jan. 15, Vet's Hall, and Saturday afternoon, Jan. 16, Yuba River Charter School, at Wild & Scenic, Nevada City and Grass Valley, CA. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.
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Innocent Man Awarded $1 Million After Wrongful Conviction Sent Him to Prison For 31 Years
According to CBS News, 30 states offer compensation to people who have been wrongfully convicted, but less than half are ever paid.
Lawrence McKinney
Memphis, TN — After more than three decades behind bars, a 61-year old man has finally been exonerated of a crime he did not c0mmit. He was also awarded $1 million as compensation for wrongful conviction.
In 1978, Lawrence McKinney was imprisoned after being accused of rape and burglary. It was after 31 years, in 2009, that he was released.
Another 9 years of legal battle for exoneration and monetary compensation has passed, he was formally cleared of all the charges. A DNA evidence proved that he is innocent of the accused crime. Last week, the state granted him $1 million compensation.
The payment is divided into an upfront compensation and monthly payments. An amount of $353,000 was given to cover the attorney fees, debts, and vehicle costs. A $3,350 monthly payment will be given for a minimum of 10 years. If he should die before the award was paid in full, his wife or estate will be able to receive the money due.
The compensation is the maximum the state could provide and actually the highest that was given so far. However, many say that it is still not enough considering the length of time McKinney served.
"The board of claims at the hearing said that they thought it was an inadequate award," Nashiville Attorney David Raybin, who represented McKinney, said.
Despite that, McKinney considers the closure of this chapter in his life a blessing enough.
Watch his interview from last year on CBS News:


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The German Democratic Republic (GDR), often called East Germany, founded a separate National Olympic Committee for socialist East Germany on 22 April 1951 in the Rotes Rathaus of East Berlin. This was the last of three German Olympic committees of the time. It was not recognized by the IOC for over a decade.

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Medals by Winter Games

Medals by summer sport

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History

Division of Germany
After the division of Germany following World War II, three separate states had been founded under occupation. After the Allies denied attempts made in 1947 to continue the participation of Germany at the Olympics, no German team could participate in the 1948 games. Finally, in 1949, the National Olympic Committee for Germany was founded in the Western Federal Republic of Germany. This was later recognized by the IOC as representing both German states. The small French-occupied Saarland and its NOC (SAA) joined the Federal Republic of Germany after 1955, having not been allowed to join the German counterparts previously.

The East German Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Ostdeutschland authority refused to send their athletes to the 1952 games as participants of an all-German team, demanding a team of their own. This was denied by the IOC.

United German Team
They agreed to participate in 1956. German athletes from the two remaining states competed at the Olympic Games in 1956, 1960 and 1964 as the United Team of Germany. While this team was simply called 'Germany' at the time, it is currently designated by the IOC as EUA, 'Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne'.

Success of East Germans
The socialist GDR erected the Berlin wall in 1961, during the Cold War. They renamed their NOC to Nationales Olympisches Komitee der DDR in 1965. It was recognized as an independent NOC by the IOC in 1968. Following this, the GDR ceased participation in the United German team and sent a separate East German team from 1968 to 1988, other than absences in the summer of 1984 in being part of the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics.

While the GDR, a small state with a population of about 16 million, has a short history, and even a shorter history at the Olympics, it was extremely successful. From 1976 to 1988, it came second in all three of their summer Olympics, behind the Soviet Union, and well ahead of larger West Germany. This was improved upon at five winter games, with 4 second-place rankings and a first in the 1984 Winter Olympics.

It is widely believed that doping (predominantly anabolic steroids) allowed East Germany, with its small population, to become a world leader in the following two decades. It won a large number of Olympic and world gold medals and records. A number of athletes subsequently failed doping tests and others were suspected of taking performance-enhancing drugs. However, in many cases where suspicions existed, no proof of wrongdoing was uncovered. As a result, the majority of records and medals won by East German athletes still stand. Aside from an extensive doping programme, East Germany invested significantly in sport, particularly in Olympic sports, for reasons of prestige, propaganda and rivalry with West Germany. It had an extensive state bureaucracy to select and train promising athletes and world-class coaches.

An important figure in the GDR was Manfred Ewald (1926–2002), member of SED central committee from 1963. He was president of the "Staatliches Komitee für Körperkultur und Sport" (Stako) from 1952 to 1960. In 1961, he became president of the "Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund" (DTSB), governing all sport in the GDR, and in 1973 president of the NOC. He is considered to be the organiser of the "GDR sports miracle". His post-1990 autobiography was titled "I was the Sport". He fell from grace in 1988, having been removed from the office of DTSB. In 2001, he was found guilty of doping.

Germany reunited
The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist in 1990, joining the West into a reunified Germany in the process of German reunification. Accordingly, the "NOC of the GDR" joined the "NOC of Germany" on 17 November 1990. German athletes competed at the Olympic Games as a single team again from 1992 onwards. Athletes from the Eastern part of Germany contributed disproportionately to the medals won by Germany, particularly in the first decade after reunification. This is thought to indicate that doping was not the only reason East Germany was so successful (and more successful than West Germany in particular) in the Olympics, with professional training conditions also being significant. The medal tally of reunited Germany after 1990 was more comparable to that of East Germany before 1990 than of West Germany before 1990. For example, of the twenty nine medals Germany won in the 2006 Winter Olympics East German born (containing one-fifth of the population of Germany) athletes won fourteen (six gold). West German athletes won only nine medals (three gold), with six medals won in mixed teams. In recent years, some centres of German top-class sport have relocated to the West, for example winter sports to Bavaria. However, the East is still performing better than the West. Trainers from East Germany (e.g. Uwe Müßiggang) were important in producing sporting success for United Germany. Also, many top-class German athletes who today live in the western part of Germany started their professional sport careers in the East, and can be seen as part of the large-scale exodus of young people from the East to the West since reunification.

See also
List of flag bearers for East Germany at the Olympics
Olympic competitors for East Germany
East Germany at the Paralympics
East Germany national athletics team

References

External links

 GDR Sport System in German

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Giovanni Battista Tommasi, né le  à Crotone, en Calabre, Italie et mort à Catane en Sicile le , est le  grand maître de l'ordre souverain militaire jerosolymitain de Malte de 1803 à 1805, dit depuis 1961 ordre souverain militaire et hospitalier de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte.

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En 1798, , occupe l'île de Malte, le grand maître Ferdinand de Hompesch abdique. Les Hospitaliers contraints de quitter l'île se dispersent en Europe. Une partie importante de l'Ordre se regroupe en Russie et choisit comme grand maître le tsar Paul  de Russie. Le pape ne reconnait pas cette nomination, estimant qu'un chrétien orthodoxe, marié, n'ayant jamais appartenu à l'Ordre, ne peut en assurer la direction.

À la mort de Paul , son fils Alexandre  de Russie ne souhaite pas prolonger cette situation irrégulière et refuse la grande maîtrise. L'Ordre étant dispersé, il n'est pas possible de réunir un chapitre général, c'est Nikolaï Saltykov qui en prend la tête comme lieutenant du grand magistère. Chaque prieuré propose un candidat et, le , le pape choisit pour grand maître un de ces candidats, Giovanni Battista Tommasi.

Biographie
Giovanni Battista Tommasi naquit à Crotone, le .

Il est envoyé à Malte à l'âge de  comme page du grand maitre Manoel Pinto da Fonseca. À la fin de son service, il fait ses « caravanes sur mer » pour devenir chevalier de l'Ordre. Il est alors remarqué comme un des meilleurs marins de l'Ordre. Comme bailli et pilier de la langue d'Italie il accède au responsabilité de grand amiral de la marine de Malte. Il entre dans le Grand Conseil, et est progressivement chargé d'emplois importants dans l'administration de l'Ordre.

À la mort du bailli Mazei, en 1784, le grand-duc de Toscane Léopold, le nomme ministre auprès du grand maître de l'Ordre.

Une expédition aux ordres de Bonaparte s'étant emparée de Malte, l'empereur de Russie, Paul , comme protecteur de l'Ordre, s'empare du titre de grand maitre ; après la conquête de l'île de Malte par les Anglais et parce que le fils de Paul, Alexandre , beaucoup moins intéressé que son père par les ordres de chevalerie, ne souhaite pas prolonger une situation jugée par tous comme irrégulière, refuse la grande maîtrise et nomme un lieutenant ad interim Nikolaï Saltykov.

Dans ce contexte, la désignation du grand maitre est déférée pour cette unique fois au Saint-Siège, sur présentation des prieurés encore en activité de l'Ordre. Ainsi, le pape Pie VII nomme au mois de , le bailli Bartolomeo Ruspoli, prince romain, né en 1754, qui a été général des galères de l'Ordre pendant quatre ans. Le bailli Ruspoli qui se trouvait alors en Écosse, décline l'offre.

Une seconde fois le pape désigne le bailli Tommasi, le , sur recommandation du roi de Naples et de l'empereur de Russie.

Giovanni Battista Tommasi, envoya immédiatement un fondé de pouvoir, le commandeur de Bussy à Malte, pour réclamer l'évacuation de l'île par les Anglais, en fondant cette requête sur l'article 10 du traité d'Amiens.

Il demande en particulier la cession du palais magistral. Le premier commissaire civil (gouverneur) britannique, Alexander Ball, répondit de façon toute diplomatique le  (peu de temps avant la rupture du traité de paix, le , par le retour au pouvoir de William Pitt le Jeune), que le retard de quelques puissances à reconnaître l'indépendance de Malte autorisait l'Angleterre à garder cette île en dépôt. En outre, il précisa que le palais magistral, occupé par les dignitaires anglais, ne pouvait être libéré. Il reconnut que le grand maître de l'Ordre aurait pu s'installer au palais Verdala mais que dans la mesure où ce palais n'était pas meublé, il lui semblait utile de suggérer au nouveau grand maître de ne pas venir à Malte et de s'installer provisoirement en Sicile.

Giovanni Battista Tommasi, convoque un Sacré Conseil dans l'église de l'Ordre à Messine, le . Après lecture de la bulle pontificale traitant de son élection à la grande maîtrise, il engage les présents à la concorde en vue d'assurer à l'Ordre son existence et ses anciens statuts.

Le grand maitre installe sa résidence à Catane en Sicile où se forme la chancellerie de l'Ordre. Le couvent des Augustins est mis à leur disposition. Le grand maître Tommasi habite un palais voisin où il meurt le , à , après avoir désigné pour lieutenant le bailli  Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo. Celui-ci est confirmé par le pape et par le Sacré Conseil de l'Ordre dans ses fonctions de lieutenant du magistère, qu'il exercera jusqu'à sa mort le . Il ne sera pas désigné de nouveau grand maître avant 1879 où sera élu Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce.

Fra Giovanni Battista Tommasi est commémoré dans la cathédrale de Catane où il est inhumé ainsi que dans celle de Cortone, dans laquelle un cénotaphe à sa mémoire a été édifié. Le musée de Cortone regroupe divers objets lui ayant appartenu.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says President Donald Trump enjoyed hearing a crowd at his rally call for a US congresswoman to return to the country where she was born.
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He suggested they leave, though all are US citizens.
"We're going to stay right here, that's where we're going to go," Ms Ocasio-Cortez shared her response to President Trump's suggestion that American citizens "go back" with constituents at a Queens town hall on immigration issues.
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