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Blog for Choice Day 2009

Connection Cafe

This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart. It's also expected that today might be the day that President Obama repeals the so-called "Mexico City Policy" or "global gag rule" - also excellent fodder for bloggers if or when it happens.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board. He came in the '70s when there was still the Bracero Program in Mexico. That's a good question.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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We have been seeing an increased attention that women's rights groups have been bringing to this whole question of globalization and migration, and how women workers are being affected by this. She made it almost impossible for me not to look at those questions. I didn't necessarily know what I was going to do about them then.

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