Month: June 2020

Looking Back on Junior Seminar 2020

This year, so far, has been nothing but out of the ordinary. From live classes converting over to e-learning, meetings…

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Turkish Government Wastes $1.5 Million By Paying US Firm for Useless Lobbying

On January 15, 2020, the Turkish government renewed a major contract with the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. lobbying firm of Greenberg…

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A Trifecta of Female Parliamentarians

In honor of Mother’s Day, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern Region compiled a list of 36 Armenian…

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ANCA Senate Testimony Calls for Robust US Funding for Artsakh Demining, Reprogrammed COVID-19 Aid for Armenia

WASHINGTON, DC – Expanding U.S. assistance for Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) demining and re-purposing $25 million in already appropriated U.S. aid…

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Western Armenian Renaissance – Update 2.1

My colleague put it perfectly on the fourth episode of the Meet the Revolution podcast. “When it comes to language—the…

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No Justice, No Peace

No Justice, No Peace. Isn’t that what we, Armenians, have been saying, in one way or another for over a…

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Privilege on my ancestors’ backs

My privilege is on the backs of those who suffered who experienced massacres those who fled before the big one…

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ANCA Renews Call on US State Department to Reprogram $25 Million in Armenia Aid to Fight COVID-19

WASHINGTON, DC – The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) today renewed its call on the U.S. Department of State…

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Black Lives Should Matter to the Armenian Diaspora

Kostan Zarian, in his philosophical work, Countries and Gods (Yerkirner yev Astvatsner, 1936) first published as a trilogy in Hairenik,…

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In Solidarity With Djemaran: An Online Fundraising Initiative

The scholastic year 2019-2020 has been greatly disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic. School closures throughout the world have adversely affected…

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