Leif Nissen Foundation
The Leif Nissen Foundation is dedicated to social justice issues. It honors the memory of Leif Andrew Nissen (May 21, 1980 - Nov 19, 2008).
08/02/2023
29/03/2022
Register for the Leif Nissen Social Justice Lecture Series featuring Pulitzer-prize winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore. When: Apr 24 @ 4:30 PM. Free and open to the public. Lite supper to follow.
www.templebeth-el.com/leifnissen
Leif Nissen - Mark Fiore - April 24, 2022 - Form - Temple Beth-El Temple Beth-El St. Petersburg | (727) 347-6136 | [email protected] | 400 Pasadena Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33707
Re political cartoonist Mark Fiore program: If you didn't register by Mar 2nd, you'll need to PM me for the zoom link. - Karen
04/02/2021
Zoom program with Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore. Free and open to the public.
Register here: https://www.templebeth-el.com/form/leifnissen
29/12/2020
How the Pandemic Has Been Devastating for Children From Low-Income Families In communities struggling with poverty and gun violence, the virus has only inflamed the difficulties that many families already were enduring.
27/12/2020
I remember this time so well:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/health/covid-vaccine-polio.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR3riqvsyT4yVssJoTcXxTbnq-C_Gwrg8ZpuzCHc2p_Y-1jNX0UYJErctxI
Vaccine Memories of Another Time and Place Many older Americans, shut in during this year’s pandemic, share haunting recollections from the polio era of their childhood.
22/03/2020
LEIF NISSEN SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES - POSTPONED (not cancelled). Our lecturer, Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore will come at a later date to be determined. In the meantime, see his most recent animation below.
http://www.markfiore.com/january-march-2020/2020/3/19/keep-your-distance?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=5e758fa5cbdbd72dd2e1e501&ss_email_id=5e759d5daa896810b9c7c436&ss_campaign_name=New+Animations%3A+Save+the+World%2C+Stay+Home%21+%E2%80%98Camp+Corona%2C%E2%80%99+%26+more%E2%80%A6&ss_campaign_sent_date=2020-03-21T04%3A53%3A04Z
Keep Your Distance — Mark Fiore's Political Animation What a difference a week makes. I’m now cartooning while sheltering in place for who knows how long. As infection rates and deaths increase, people in the United States are finally taking the coronavirus pandemic a little more seriously. (Depending on which state you’re in.)
27/01/2020
Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Remarkable Story About Kindness And The Human Spirit In 1944 Francine Christophe and her mother were deported from France to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. This is her remarkable story.
Save the date for the next Leif Nissen Social Justice lecture:
Sunday, April 26, 2020 @ 5:00 PM at Temple Beth-El in St. Pete.
Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore.
Details and further info to follow in February.
03/01/2020
Michael Mann, the most recent lecturer for the Leif Nissen Social Justice lecture Series at Temple Beth-El in St Pete:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtAGTe9MjY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2xsw-TXVWTbAxa46oMPTpTj8xqlavTGYa5Rj_TDdpmXyT2Mb9B39aeHyM
‘A tipping point is playing out right now’ says climate scientist Michael Mann | ABC News Climatologist Michael Mann has been one of the leading voices over the past two decades in the effort by scientists to raise the alarm about climate change. ...
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mann
16/11/2019
Very full house for Michael Mann climate change lecture last night at Temple Beth-El in St Pete. Thank you to all of our supporters.
13/11/2019
For Florida, dangerous climate change has arrived | Column While it is too late to stop global warming, we can prevent it from getting worse, two scientists write.
SAVE THE DATE: Friday Nov 15th @ 7:30 PM. Leif Nissen Social Justice Lecture Series, speaker Michael Mann, PhD, award-winning climatologist, speaking on Sea Level Rise. The event is free and open to the public. Temple Beth-El, St Pete.
26/06/2019
Bank of America Will Stop Lending to Private-Prison Firms Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest U.S. bank, will stop lending to companies that run private prisons and detention centers.
25/05/2019
The Abramsky Report – A Voice of Social Justice So This Is How Democracy Dies For the past two and a half years, I have been obsessed with the question of what a truly extra-legal Trump presidency would look like. The man has, from the get-go shown nothing but contempt for the constitutional order. He has fumed against judges’ rulings, has deni...
21/05/2019
Missing Leif today and always.
(May 21, 1980 - Nov 19, 2008 z"l)
Thank you to everyone who came to our Leif Nissen Social Justice Lecture yesterday at Temple Beth-EL.
If you are more interested in our speaker, Sasha Abramsky, please look at his new website: theabramskyreport.com.
14/03/2019
Vandalism of Ruth Bader Ginsberg poster being investigated as hate crime "There is no room for hate in NYC," the police said. The graffiti is being investigated by New York City's transit and hate crime units.
SAVE THE DATE:
LEIF NISSEN SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE;
SUNDAY, MAY 19th, 4:30 PM @ TEMPLE BETH-EL
Sasha Abramsky speaking - topic: immigration
Details/FB event to follow
Cosponsors: USF St Pete, League of Women Voters St Pete, Fired-Up Pinellas, Allendale UMC, UU Clearwater, UU St Pete, Indivisible FL-13
with Bruce Nissen, Jared Nissen
05/02/2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/04/politics/sdny-subpoena-trump-inauguration-committee/index.html
Federal prosecutors subpoena Trump inaugural committee Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday subpoenaed President Donald Trump's inaugural committee for documents related to donors, vendors and finances, according to a copy of the subpoena reviewed by CNN, a step that appears to escalate that office's ongoing investigation of the committee's activit...
28/01/2019
Opinion | The Fleecing of Millennials Their incomes are flat. Their wealth is down. And Washington is aggravating future threats.
18/12/2018
Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Two reports commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee take a deeper look at the fake social media accounts used by Russia in the American election.
12/12/2018
Time Picks 'The Guardians' As Its Person Of The Year | Morning Joe | MSNBC Time Magazine chooses Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists as 2018 'Person of the Year'. Edward Felsenthal joins Morning Joe to discuss this year's selectio...
12/12/2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMqJgWKjgw&index=5&list=PLDIVi-vBsOEy6jMSt_r_SMj9F5tuqdtKe
Time Picks 'The Guardians' As Its Person Of The Year | Morning Joe | MSNBC Time Magazine chooses Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists as 2018 'Person of the Year'. Edward Felsenthal joins Morning Joe to discuss this year's selectio...
11/12/2018
James A. Fields Jr. sentenced to life in prison in Charlottesville car attack Fields slammed his car into counterprotesters at the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally.
11/12/2018
Opinion | How Local Prosecutors Can Reform Their Justice Systems For starters, make jail the exception and eliminate cash bail.
16/10/2018
I will be speaking about campaign finance reform at this (non-partisan) conference on Thursday -- https://ncoc.org/
The National Conference on Citizenship | National Conference on Citizenship
NOV 16th: Leif Nissen Social Justice Lecture Series
Author Ana Menendez
FB event to follow in October