Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Obama'
Nuclear Terror: Obama’s Quiet War on Prejudice
by Paula Humphrey -USA- The Obama administration has worked furiously in the past year to leverage new strategies against two primary threats: the illicit production of nuclear weapons, and their potential use by terrorists or “rogue” states. Arriving this week...
Violence Breeds Violence: “Afghanistan without bombs and burqas”
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - Today Afghanistan finds itself in a state of collapse and at the center of a powerful network of global terrorism. Kabul is a city filled with anxiety, insecurity, instability, trauma, and uncertainty; lost souls...
U.S. Stimulus Plan to Boost Geothermal Energy Prospects
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In an unmarked meadow by the side of the road at The Geysers, the 30-square-mile steam field about 70 miles north of San Francisco, California, the air smells like sulfur. Clouds of steam...
Grassroots Climate Justice Groups Work for Results in Copenhagen
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Copenhagen is an odd mix of frustrating inertia and vigilant protest as week two of the COP15 UN climate conference at the city’s Bella Center continues in tandem with Klimaforum09, the people’s summit, and...
The Story of Stuff’s Annie Leonard Says “It’s so solvable”: 2009 Bioneers Conference Focuses on Solutions
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA – Walking through any one of America’s big cities, the wind may brush a candy bar wrapper across the street and giant bags of trash might choke the sidewalk. Some people think nothing of...
Using Twitter: from Conversation to Community
by Charukesi Ramadurai - India - “First day in Parliament. From the sublime (the historic Central Hall for the Cong legislators meeting) to the bureacratic (8 forms to fill)!” - 12:17 AM May 19th from TwitterBerry One of India’s newest...
Women in Media: The Value of Women’s Stories and Perspectives
An Online Community Chat with Carol Jenkins
and Patricia DeGennaro
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - The WIP launched in 2007 on International Women’s Day, a commemorative day that marks the centuries-old struggle women have faced to participate in society on equal footing with men. The...
More Internet Equals More Jobs: Reviving the Economy with Broadband
by Megan Tady - USA - Connie Toops would be content photographing birds all day long. In fact, she’s made a business of it, working as a professional freelance nature photographer. Her office could be her backyard – she moved...
Will NATO Agree to Stabilize Afghanistan?
by Patricia DeGennaro - USA - This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 60th birthday. President Obama will take his first European trip since the presidential campaign to meet NATO’s twenty-six members. While there, he’ll have to pinch...
Closing The Gap: A Prep School Environment for All
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - It’s clear that school budgets are woefully inadequate and underfunded. But, will simply throwing money at a system that is flawed, broken, and unequal successfully nurture the academic achievement of...
Finally, a Glimmer of Light: More Women in Leadership Is Better for Business
by Linda Tarr-Whelan - USA - Here’s a news flash: in one week, two major economic articles in national newspapers raise the same point – we need more women in top leadership. Why? Because we need more balanced risk-taking, more...
Seeking Inclusion and Opportunity, the Disabled Confront Pakistan’s Myriad Challenges
by Zubeida Mustafa - Pakistan - In Pakistan, people with disabilities are generally missing from public places such as shopping malls, restaurants and even universities. But it’s not that the country doesn’t have its share of the disabled; on the...
The Granny Peace Brigade Campaigns to Close All US Military Bases - in Latin America and Around the World
by Nancy Van Ness - USA - Their hats adorned with artificial flowers identify them at many of the protests in which I participate. The Grannies also show up on New York City's Union Square to sing their signature anti-war...
To Vote Or Not To Vote?:
Why Obama May Be the Right Man at the Wrong Time
by Bia Assevero - USA / France - Youth is wasted on the young. How many times have we heard that before? In my case though, I’m beginning to wonder if the right to vote isn’t wasted on me as...
Little Hope for Change: Kashmiris Say US Anti-Muslim Policies Will Continue
by Afsaana Rashid - Indian-administered Kashmir - With the US presidential election just days away, people in the Kashmir valley are not much enthused with the changing of the guard. Although there is some hope that the new president will...
The Youth Vote: The Pulse of Young Women Voters Beats for Obama
by Emily Rose Herzlin - USA - “I'm voting because I care about the future of this country. It's my right as a U.S. citizen [to vote] and it'd be shameful not to; it'd be like a slight to the...
To the Next President of the United States: Please Think Strategically
by Elena Ilina - USA - My friends and colleagues cannot wait for election day - for many of them, a new administration gives hope that the newly elected leader will address many of the critical issues facing us in...
Why I Too Have Never Been Proud of a Presidential Candidate, Until Now
by Martín Granada - USA - One of the first times I ever saw my mother cry was the night Reagan was elected president. She cloistered herself in her bathroom and drank an uncustomary glass of wine. I found her...
A New Direction for Biofuels: Louisiana's Verenium Races to Get Cellulosic Ethanol to Market
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - The issue of corn-based ethanol is getting more complicated by the day, with increasing concern about rising food prices and questions about environmental impact. But researchers are developing ways of producing cellulosic ethanol,...
Barack Obama in Berlin: Germany Meets US Superstar
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Barack Obama cast a spell on Germany. Even weeks before his visit to Berlin on July 24th, he dominated the headlines and was the talk of the capital city. Then, after much anticipation,...
Former UFW Organizer Dolores Huerta Weighs in on Leadership, Immigration and Society
by Diane Solomon - USA - Like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. before them, when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez organized California’s exploited and marginalized farm workers into the United Farmworkers of America (UFW) in the 1960s...
US Leadership Expert Michael Maccoby Discusses Which Candidate Is Best Suited for the Presidency
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - What kind of leader does tomorrow’s America need? And who among the presidential candidates is best suited to meet the challenges that the next leader of the world’s superpower will face? These are some...
Old-fashioned Televised Debates a Thing of The Past: The WIP Participates in Online Presidential Forum
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP USA On Monday afternoon Managing Editor Patricia Vásquez and I changed gears and filmed seven questions The WIP wants answered by the next President of The United States. Reporting to you from behind...
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