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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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I think mentorship and respecting the people who come before, and really seeing the history, that we're standing on the shoulders of so many great people who were faced with such huge obstacles. He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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