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Marianne Williamson: Inspiring Women to Action

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 05.01.2012

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Elizabeth Debold

Spirituality should force us into a deeper confrontation with life, in its agony and ecstasy, rather than swaddle us against its sharp edges.

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WATCH: Nobel Laureate For Peace Stops By Occupy Denver

Posted 11.14.2011

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Jody Williams, author, professor and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1997, made a stop at Occupy Denver to voice her support of the movement. As Williams...

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Peace Laureates Take On The War On Women

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.14.2011

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Marianne Schnall

Certain topics have always been hard to talk about--rape and sexual abuse ranking high up on that list. And yet we must speak up more because of the many women affected.

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Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Corso

Consider creating an interior file in your soul called Pajama Day, and when things get crazed, out of nowhere, declare any blessed day you feel like stopping and hanging out in your own holy wholeness.

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The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Moyers

The United States is the third largest stockpiler of land mines in the world, behind China and Russia. Like those two countries, we have refused to sign an agreement banning the manufacture, stockpiling and use of land mines.

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Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Solomon

From President Obama, we hear that peace is the ultimate goal. But "peace" is a fixture on a strategic horizon that keeps moving as the military keeps marching.

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Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World

Sunil Chacko | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sunil Chacko

Compassion, forgiveness and interdependence were major themes at the dialogue. The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Film No Evil

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrea Chalupa

The self-funded Passion of the Christ brought in $611 million worldwide and counting, in part thanks to Christian groups such as Campus Crusade and Focus on the Family.

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Renowned Women Speak Out on Palin and the Election

Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Women, Melissa Etheridge, Amy Richards, Loung Ung, Gloria Steinem, Kathy Najimy, Jody Williams, Kim Gandy, Gloria Feldt, Deborah Siegel, Marie Wilson, Courtney Martin, Sabel Allende, Eleanor Smeal, Eve Ensler, Alice Walker, Elizabeth Lesser, Joan Blades, Politics News
Marianne Schnall

I decided to pose identical questions by email to dynamic women -- Melissa Etheridge, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler and more -- to just see what kind of responses would come in.

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