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Haitian Women Demand Role in Rebuilding Their Country
New America Media, News Report, Anthony Advincula, Apr 08, 2010
Almost three months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, women advocates and UN officials are increasingly worried that Haitian women are being sidelined in national relief and reconstruction efforts.
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Dan Choi: Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Now
New America Media, Q&A, Aaron Glantz, Apr 08, 2010
President Obama promised to end the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, which forbids gays and lesbians from serving openly in the Armed Forces, but for Lt. Dan Choi, an openly gay New York National Guardsman, that's not good enough.
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Why Michael Steele Won’t Go
New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Apr 07, 2010
Michael Steele, RNC Chairman, has bungled money and staff. He regularly mugs and grandstands on network talk shows, brags about being hip, a street guy. A handful of detractors is publicly calling for him to step down. That won't happen.
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SoCal Edison Bails Out of Coal Plant
New America Media, News Report , Ngoc Nguyen, Apr 07, 2010
Even as Pres. Obama touts coal as part of a clean energy future, one of the largest utilities in California is trying to distance itself from the fossil fuel.
Southern California Edison is divesting its share of the Four Corners Power Plant on Navajo land in New Mexico, a concession to state limits on polluting power sources and a sign that coal may be losing its profitability.
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School Matters: Parents Must Be Key to Education Reform
New America Media, Commentary, Jack Loveridge, Apr 07, 2010
Education reform is on the agenda of the Obama administration, but absent from proposals are serious strategies to increase parents' role in student and school success. But that can change.
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Obama Makes it Official: He’s African-American
New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Apr 06, 2010
By checking the box “African-American” on his census form President Obama unequivocally and unhesitatingly made it official: He’s African-American.
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Kandahar Residents Voice Concern Over Planned U.S. Offensive
Al Jazeera English,  , Apr 06, 2010
U.S. forces in Afghanistan are planning a major military offensive later this year on Kandahar, a Taliban-controlled province of more than 2 million people. Al Jazeera's David Chater travelled to Kandahar to hear what people there think.
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Obama Gets His FDR On
New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Mar 30, 2010
Many supporters of President Obama had hoped for an FDR-like figure in the White House. They had been disappointed - until now. The last couple of weeks have shown that Obama, if he wants it, can get into an FDR mode.
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End of the Column of the Americas
New America Media, Commentary, Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, Mar 30, 2010
In his last column, Roberto Rodriguez writes that he is disappointed that the Obama administration has embraced the reactionary policies of Bush’s post-9/11 nation. Column writing, he writes, is also reactive by its nature; and it is now time to create.
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