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Blog Entries by Claudia Ricci from 01/2009

DC March for Immigration Reform: the Day After the Inauguration

| Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Read More: Immigration Reform; FIRM, Politics News

Once Tuesday's excitement comes to a close, there will be Wednesday, January 21st. And that's the day when our real task begins: changing the way this nation has governed for the past eight years.

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One Gigantic Shining Moment

| Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
Read More: Obama, Inauguration, Capitol Hill, Emotion, Obama's Inauguration, Inauguration Day 2009, Racial Equality, Obama Inauguration, Capitol, Washington DC, Barack Obama Inauguration, The Mall, Race, Obama Inauguration Day, Joy, Happiness, Emotions, Politics News

In the moments immediately after Obama was sworn in, I turned to an African American woman standing behind me and we just hugged, celebrating in that tight embrace the collapse of racial divide.

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Gillibrand, Sitting in my Den

| Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
Read More: Kirsten Gillibrand New York Senate, Governor David Paterson, Clinton Senate, David Paterson, New York State, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Upstate New York, Kirsten Gillibrand Senate Seat, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand Senate, Clinton Senate Seat, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics News

Less than three years ago, on a winter Sunday afternoon, Kirsten Gillibrand sat in the den of my 1850s farmhouse in upstate New York, contemplating her very first run for office.

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