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Wangari Maathai, Dining for Women & LA

Have Fun - Do Good

In June 1975, during the the International Women's Year, governments and women from all over the world met in Mexico City for the United Nation's First International Wonmen's Conference. The Green Belt Movement was born. She started the evening by saying, "When I started this work, I wasn't starting a movement."

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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MCON13 Live Blog: The Millennial Movement (Jose Antonio Vargas, Define American)

NTEN

It wasn''t until that day that I found out the green card my grandparents had given me was fake. To me this question indicates there''s a lack of info about the process. Immigration is not a Latino issue; it''s not simply about border security; it''s not about US-Mexico border. So I wrote OUTLAW for the New York Times Magazine.