Barack Obama, Nov. 4th acceptance Speech:
[To] all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world - our stories are singular but our destiny is shared. A new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
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Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, congratulated Obama on his US election victory, saying it took the world into a "new era".
However, Karzai said Obama should aim to prevent civilians in Afghanistan from being killed and injured by the US military.
"Our demand is that there will be no civilian casualties in Afghanistan. We cannot win the fight against terrorism with air strikes," Karzai said.
"This is my first demand of the new
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The nation's leading experts on green-collar jobs just released an important new publication, .
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h1. Press Release - Leading Experts Publish Groundbreaking Guide:
"Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities"
Publication outlines strategies for developing
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Its long, but A MUST-WATCH:
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This community is about change, awareness, justice, and hope; so I had to blog about something that's really been affecting me lately-- and should be capturing ALL of our attention, our imaginations, and inspiring ACTION....
"Every war will lead to attacks on civilians. Crimes against humanity, destruction beyond the needs of military necessity, rape of civilians, plunder-- that always happens in wartime.... So my answer personally, after working for 60 years on this problem... is that you've got to stop using warfare as a means of settling your disputes." - Benjamin Ferencz, Nazi war crimes prosecutor.................
This weekend in Silver Springs, Maryland, dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans publicly testified about crimes and atrocities they committed during the course of
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WATCH video: "MAQUILAPOLIS: City of Factories "
The first time I heard the term "Maquiladora" was in my Third World Feminisms class at UCSC (which has since been re-named Feminisms of the Global South for its problematic phrasing and curriculum). Academia was the context in which I first learned about Maquilas en Mexico- a term that referred to the low-wage offshore factories in Mexican towns on the US-MX border, but it also refers to factories across Latin America.
I'm hoping that this, less formal form of education can clue people in to how deeply connected we ALL are to Maquila plants, and the women on whose labor they function.
Maquilas are factories that import material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly/ manufacturing, then they re-export the assembled
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