Judy Somberg

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Judy Somberg and Two Colleagues, March 1987

Judy Somberg

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Women Who Dared

Judith Rosenbaum interviewed Judy Somberg on July 18, 2000, in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the Women Who Dared Oral History Project. Somberg recounts her activism through the years, reflecting on her involvement in anti-war movements, women's rights, and the Cambridge Sister City Project, advocating for human rights and supporting affected communities.

http://qa.jwa.org/oralhistories/somberg-judy
A Child Climbing a Fence at Mexico-US Border Cropped
September 18, 2014

Immigration is a Feminist Issue

Flavia Jimenez

Summer 2014 shook us out of our slumber. The immigration rhetoric of empty promises and Congressional inaction had become numbing until we saw the desperation in the women’s eyes and fear in the faces of the children at the U.S. Mexico border. The image of 8-year-old Alejandro, alone, gripping a water bottle and facing the border patrol officer with a clip board stopped many of us on our tracks. How could this be happening in the U.S.? Why now?

http://qa.jwa.org/blog/immigration-is-feminist-issue
Judy Somberg and Two Colleagues, March 1987

Judy Somberg

Judy Somberg’s work with the Sister Cities Project in El Salvador helped locals return to their villages after the military takeover in 1987 and freed eleven people who had been “disappeared.”
http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/somberg-judy

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