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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

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Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. Feeding America :: @ FeedingAmerica. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. Oxfam America :: @ OxfamAmerica. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence :: @ CSGV. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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I recently finished reading A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power. It was probably one of the best books I've read and definitely helped me to better understand the issue, and America's policies and history around it. What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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We're ignorant and don't understand the history of these oppressions and how they undermine our work as activists, and as allies, and undermines our solidarity with each other. And because for centuries and centuries and centuries, men have written history, we don't even know about all of the women changemakers out there.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Moving Forward in Iraq Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Senator Barack Obama Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Chicago, IL Good afternoon.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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I think mentorship and respecting the people who come before, and really seeing the history, that we're standing on the shoulders of so many great people who were faced with such huge obstacles. He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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