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

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On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Someone should have done something.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

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The American Immigration Council, established in 1987, works to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration. Southern Poverty Law Center. Lakota People's Law Project. National Immigration Law Center. American Immigration Council.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

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He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is actually really understandable. And that costs money.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. Iraq has absorbed resources that could have gone into critical homeland security measures, or in improved coordination with our global allies and partners.

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