New America Now: The Power of Women

New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 29, 2010

New America Now presents A Woman's Special featuring the only female Prime Minister of Peru, a rare example of a woman completing a Torah, and the reality of emerging roles for Muslim women today.


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Ohlone Nation Fights to Save Ancestral Homeland

New America Media, Video, R.M. Arrieta and Ann Bassette, Posted: Jan 21, 2010

San Francisco and much of the Bay Area is the ancestral homeland of the Ohlone nation. Remnants of their villages can be found deep beneath the soil. The blood runs deep. They have lived in the Bay Area for more than 10,000 years according to carbon-dated artifacts.


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Sunday Mass Was About the Dead

Haitiantimes.com, News Report, Garry Pierre-Pierre, Posted: Jan 18, 2010

On the first Sunday after an earthquake destroyed this city, survivors struggled to keep to their routine, including attending mass.


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Why Ugandans Embrace U.S. Christian Right’s Anti-Gay Agenda

New America Media, Commentary, Edwin Okong'o, Posted: Jan 14, 2010

The U.S. Christian right is to blame for a new bill in the Ugandan Parliament that would make some homosexual acts punishable by death.


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Manny Pacquiao: I Had a Talk with God

Inquirer.net, News Feature, Edwin Fernandez, Inquirer Mindanao, Posted: Jan 07, 2010

For the first time, the Philippines’ most famous athlete and the world’s pound-for-pound boxing king has revealed the secret of his success: he had a conversation with God who promised him “strength and power.”


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