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Support for Women's Rights from the State Department

John Boonstra at 12/2/2008 12:32PM

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards offers a reason to be happy about President-elect Obama's nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:The selection of Senator Clinton represen

Susan Rice on the Poverty-Conflict Nexus

Mark Leon Goldberg at 12/1/2008 1:01PM

Long before Susan Rice was Obama's pick for UN Ambassador, she contributed this piece to UN Dispatch. Originally published May 31, 2007.

Space Based Solar Power

Mark Leon Goldberg at 11/25/2008 11:20AM

This is a super cool video. I particularly like how it is framed as a "message to the next president of the United States." From GoGreenTube.

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Before Day One - Our Responsibility

Posted by Kevinki at 2/22/2008 3:27PM

We need to understand democracy is not a consumer construct where we just tell the person in charge to do/fix something and then we forget it or complain it it doesn't happen the way we want. We need to take responsibility for the change we want. That change begins with each one of us individually and will take a lot of hard work and time to accomplish. The question in democracy is not what we want individually, but what can we contribute to make our country/world a better place for all.

Read more at: http://www.ondayone.org/node/840

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