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Maria Jose Vasquez

b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 27th, is: Continue Reading »

Thanksgiving Quiz

Think you know who gave the first Thanksgiving?

Test what you know against Wikipedia’s LIST below: Continue Reading »

Laxmi Bohara

 Read what Heidi Li SAID about Hillary.

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Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 26th, is: Continue Reading »

Texas Two Step Meetings

Texas Dems, set your schedules to include:

Hearings In Dallas, Houston and San Antonio Set for Dec 17, 19, 20

November 25, 2008 by End the Texas Two Step  

The following dates for hearings in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been posted to the TDP website. The actual hearing locations have not yet been annnounced.

 

December 17, 2008

Dallas, TX

 

4 p.m.

December 19, 2008

Houston, TX

 

9 a.m.

December 20, 2008

San Antonio, TX

 

9 a.m

And don’t forget to ask if your neighbor wants a ride or needs a sitter. If they couldn’t make it to the caucuses, they really need to be heard.

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Melamine: USA – 081126

 

Since the trace amount of the discovered melamine was less than the designated risk factor, the name of the manufacturer was withheld. However, that same manufacturer had tested previously with no result. Continue Reading »

Sarah Grimké

Born this day a great American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist: Continue Reading »

Written Testimony of Precinct Chair Reuben Leslie

November 25, 2008 by End the Texas Two Step   Continue Reading »

I’m shaking my head, and trying not to waste perfectly good rage over this by howling and breaking things.

Michael Luo has been writing about Obama’s campaign donations, from the beginning. Mr Huo and I even had an email exchange over Obama’s reporting. I sent my concerns about donor counts in June, 2008.  So I wonder why we had to wait for the NYT to give us the truth after the election is over? If I can find this stuff over at the FEC, why can’t they? Continue Reading »

Stop the rape NOW!

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Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 25th, is:

featherIngrid El-Issa

The Fund for the Four Directions
, New York City, USA. 


Native American Women’s Rights Activist

Ingrid El-Issa (O’Peqtaw-Metamoh) was an outspoken Indigenous women’s human rights activist who was brutally murdered in February of 1999. Ingrid was Executive Director of the Fund for the Four Directions where she initiated a new effort to promote and revitalize Indigenous languages and cultures.

She was the Chair of the NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, which eventually created the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in 2002. Ingrid is acknowledged by many as one of the key figures in the establishment of the Forum.

Today, she is recognized as a pioneering women’s human rights defender who helped to integrate Indigenous Rights into the human rights framework and influenced governments and institutions to take action on a number of Indigenous rights concerns.

http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/kit08/exhibit/el-issa.html

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081126 – Wikipedia started a page for Rob Nabors. I’ve linked it to his name.

From Politico.com 

President-elect Obama announced announced Peter Orszag as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director and Rob Nabors as Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director. Orszag is the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Nabors is Clerk and Staff Director of the House Appropriations Committee.

http://www.politico.com

Orzag is connected with Joseph Stiglitz and There are quite a few things still available on the web for documents and article done by Orszag and the Sebago Associates, his first company. Do a search now and get what you want before they disappear.

Here a couple:

“Rethinking Pension Reform: Ten Myths About Social Security Systems”

“The Benefits of Flexible Funding: Implications for Pension Reform in an Uncertain World”

Wikipedia has not yet see fit to start a page on Rob Nabors, however he is listed on Obama’s transition team HERE. 

A Politico.com Bio on him is HERE.

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