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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. It had been bombed.

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

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I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. April 10 Call President Bush at 1-800-GENOCIDE and ask the White House to keep its promise by implementing the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act (SADA).

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President's Update

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For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done!

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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I'll be posting the interview with Marsha later this month). On the other hand, more people are taking small actions to stop global warming, like buying compact fluorescent light bulbs, taking public transportation, and unplugging battery chargers when they aren't in use. But why aren't more people doing these things?

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. I've posted an edited transcript below. Yes, and they're very synergistic.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. For example, since 2005, the US has allocated over $4 billion in humanitarian and peacekeeping and development assistance to the people of Sudan and Eastern Chad. His campaign was successful.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty.