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Millionaires Demand Congress Raise Estate Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics
Read More: Robert Rubin, Video, Abigail Disney, Responsible Wealth, Estate Tax Increase, Warren Buffett, Jimmy Carter, Fiscal Cliff, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Barack Obama, Estate Tax, Politics News

WASHINGTON - A coalition of three dozen ultra-wealthy progressives, including billionaire Warren Buffett, former President Jimmy Carter, philanthropis...

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Sexy Baby Connects the Dots Between Pornography and Mainstream Society

Tribeca | Posted 12.22.2012 | Arts
Read More: Pornography, Girls, Women, Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Film, Abigail Disney, Women's Bodies, Documentary, Media, Sexy-Baby, Film, Jill-Bauer, Sexuality, Ronna-Gradus, NY Arts, Video, Arts News
Tribeca

Is the porn world truly seeping into mainstream life, and are everyday people idolizing adult film stars? Sexy Baby is a documentary that examines how our hyper-sexualized society is affecting girls and women of all ages.

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Anne Frank's Many Sisters

Abigail E. Disney | Posted 12.19.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Women Body Image, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Women News, Teenage Girls, Sexy-Baby, Porn, Indie Film, Parenting Teenagers, Adolescence, Malala Yousafzai, Abigail Disney, Body Image, Sexy-Baby Tribeca, Sex, Love and Sex, Entertainment News
Abigail E. Disney

Sexy Baby is a chance to begin, with neither prurience nor prudery, to figure out how to help our kids navigate sexual waters that are far rougher and more treacherous than ever, so that they can reach the other side of adolescence well-grounded.

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A Remarkably Apolitical Political Film

Abigail E. Disney | Posted 10.04.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Romney 47 Percent, Iran, Political Documentary, Political Films, Abigail Disney, The Iran Job Film, The Iran Job, La Arts, Independent Films, Indie Films, Los Angeles News
Abigail E. Disney

I object to the idea that the personal and the political have nothing to do with each other. I suspect it is precisely this divided consciousness that makes for a political culture as brutal, unkind and ineffective as the one we endure today.

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Hillary Clinton's Mother's Day Address at the New York Women's Foundation Breakfast

Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.10.2012 | Women
Read More: Merble Reagon, Hillary Clinton, New York Women?S Foundation, Abigail Disney, Ai-Jen Poo, Women News
Regina Weinreich

"Do you know what history does to women? You know the fabulous bookcase you see at IKEA? You know how when you buy it, you pick it up in a flat box? History casts women in two dimensions."

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Kickstarter Case Study: The Iran Job

Deborah Stambler | Posted 03.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Women's Rights, Till Schauder, Abigail Disney, Sara Nodjoumi, The Iran Job, Kickstarter, Kevin Sheppard, Iran Green Movement, Basketball, Facebook, Home News
Deborah Stambler

The Iran Job follows Kevin Sheppard, an American basketball player from St. Croix who is recruited to play for the Iranian Super League.

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The Women Behind 'Peace Unveiled'

Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 01.02.2012 | Women
Read More: Jirga, Peace Talks, Abigail Disney, Politics, Pbs, Brown vs. Board of Education, War, Eikenberry, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Peace by Practice, Karzai, Un Women, Awn, Ail, Women News
Kavita N. Ramdas

"Where after all do human rights begin?" asked Eleanor Roosevelt many years ago. "In small places, close to home, so small you cannot see them on a map."

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'Women, War & Peace' is a Must-See Series

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 12.13.2011 | Women
Read More: Women, Peter Bull, Oriana Zill De Granados, The Hague, Foca, Pbs, Sophia Loren, War, Jane Fonda, Klaus Barbie, Barbara Streisand, Matt Damon, Peace, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, I Came to Testify, Vittorio De Sica, Gini Reticker, Nuremberg Trials, Abigail Disney, Pamela Hogan, Marshal Tito, Claudia Rizzi, Nina Chaudry, Sarajevo, Geena Davis, Disney, Women News
Barbara Probst Solomon

This groundbreaking series must be seen.

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Women, War & Peace: Power Breakfast for PBS Premiere

Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.22.2011 | Home
Read More: Gini Reticker, Abigail Disney, Women War & Peace, Pamela Hogan, Pbs, Home News
Regina Weinreich

A new 5-part series focused on the critical role of women worldwide in war-stricken regions is to air on 5 consecutive Tuesdays starting October 11 on PBS, and the mood was fierce to say, without women at the table, there will be no peace.

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Brilliant Film Premiers Monday in NYC, Offering Solution to Global Child Exploitation

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Vietnamese Mafia, CUE Art Gallery, Juliet Supper Club, Film, Sexual Slavery, Adi Ezroni, Dr. Susan Bissell, Redlight Children Campaign, Ron Livingston, Madhu Dhas, Queen Silvia, Phnom Penh, Carolyn B. Maloney, Restore NYC, Guy Jacobson, Somaly Mam, Lexisnexis, Priority Films, Oiww, Interpol, Cambodian Mafia, Human Trafficking, Vietnam, Sexually Abused Children, Mu Sochua, Jim Luce, Abigail Disney, Susan Sarandon, Elkana Jacobson, Aids, Child Prostitution, Child Trafficking, Unicef, Lucy Liu, K11 Project, Nobel Peace Prize, Holly, Goodwill Ambassador, Swanee Hunt, New York City, Global Hero Award, Lauren Bush, Brothels, Cambodia, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Orphans International Worldwide, Chinese Mafia, Human Rights, RedLightChildren.Org, U.S. State Department, Sex Industry, Redlight, Andrew Prozes, Vital Voices, Mark Lagon, World Economic Forum, Richard Attias, Cecilia Attias, Davos, Alyse Nelson, New York News
Jim Luce

Not often does a filmmaker present both an untenable social problem - and its solution. Not often is its filmmaker an artist as well as a banker and ...

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Women in the Media: A Night of Recognition

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Salon.com, LGBT Issues, Women's Issues, Media New Media, Lynn Nottage, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Rebecca Traister, Gloria Steinem, Women in Journalism, Liberia, Women in Media and News, Women's Media Center, 2008 Election, Pam Spaulding, Ruined, Dr. George Tiller, Feminsim, Gina Reticker, Rachel Maddow, Abigail Disney, Judy Grahm, Christiane Amanpour, Candy Crowley, Bonnie Erbe, Hillary Clinton, Tina Fey, Bill O'Reilly, Helene Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Joan Walsh, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

The Women's Media Center was packed with women active in old and new media, advocacy, and culture.

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