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Virginia’s Pro-choice Health Clinics Targeted by Legislature

LISTEN TO ROSEMARY CODDING: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “It’s time to speak out against a small group of zealots, just as Christ did,” said Rosemary Codding, founder of the Falls Church Healthcare Center, a pro-choice … Continue reading

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WHC Nurses: From Strike to Lockout

LISTEN TO STEPHEN FRUM: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 6:55 AM Saturday morning, when Stephen Frum began the interview, he was on strike. By the time it was completed, Frum was locked out. The 19-year veteran … Continue reading

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Councilmembers Evans, Brown and Thomas Call for Pope’s Return to Hardy

“I have been very supportive of chancellors, of school reform, and I’ve sat here for a year and a half waiting for this issue to get solved and as of last Friday it was worse than it has ever been,” … Continue reading

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Nurses at Washington Hospital Center to Strike Tomorrow

LISTEN TO LORI MARLOWE: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – author and historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who has written on women’s labor history “We’re fed up. The nurses are tired. We’re … Continue reading

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Charlie Ericksen and the Hispanic Link News Service: 30 Years and 5,000 Columns

LISTEN TO CHARLIE ERICKSEN [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Not one Hispanic journalist was nationally syndicated when Charlie Ericksen started the Hispanic Link News Service. There have been improvements regarding Latinos’ (under)representation in the media, at … Continue reading

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NAACP President Ben Jealous on Prisons, Organizing and More

LISTEN TO BEN JEALOUS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “We can’t be the country that we want to be so long as we keep using prisons to solve every social problem,” said NAACP President Ben Jealous … Continue reading

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Activist/Organizer Larry Bryant On AIDS 2012 Coming to D.C. and the Mayor’s Commission on HIV/AIDS

LISTEN TO LARRY BRYANT, PART 2 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Friday, as the city’s leading provider of clean needles closed its doors, Mayor Vincent Gray announced that the District of Columbia will host the 2012 … Continue reading

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Gray Welcomes World AIDS Community to D.C.; Does Nothing to Stop Leading Clean Needle Provider From Closing

LISTEN TO DAMI SMITH [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Friday at 11:00 AM at the John A. Wilson Building, Mayor Vincent Gray will take part in a press conference announcing that D.C. will host the 2012 … Continue reading

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Is HIV/AIDS a Top Priority for D.C.’s Leaders?

LISTEN TO LARRY BRYANT, PART 1 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 PreventionWorks is scheduled to close tomorrow and D.C.’s top elected officials – who have been uninformed or misinformed – have expressed little-to-no interest in having … Continue reading

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ICC: The Road To Hell Is Paved

LISTEN TO GREG SMITH [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 You can’t Save the Bay and Pave the Watershed at the same time. – Greg Smith “My greatest regret is that we didn’t raise our voices higher … Continue reading

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