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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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He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger. It might be teaching. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. So I think that's been a challenge and some of it's the challenge of our own fears of smallness. So it might be researching. It might be writing.

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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. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? For others, I think it is thinking about making contributions.

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