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Health Care for America Now: A New Campaign to Win Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All in the U.S.
The public relations spin doctors for the U.S. health insurance industry, who are probably busy at work concocting the script for a TV commercial or Internet ad to sink comprehensive health care reform in 2009, ought to think again. You may remember the fictitious couple,…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Caring Majority Featured in Right to Care Documentary
Right to Care features Caring Across Generations co-director Ai-jen Poo. Watch the full 10-minute documentary above. About a year ago, in September 2016, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights into permanent law. The bill ensures overtime protections for domestic…
Author: Caring Across Generations
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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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The Defeat of Immigration Reform in the U.S. – Now What?
Some weeks after the U.S. Senate failed to muster the necessary votes to deal with America’s immigration challenges, a clearer picture is emerging of what happened and what needs to happen next. Atlantic has supported The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and a number of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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North's peace deal is now at a critical juncture, warns former ombudsman
Original Source by DAN KEENAN and AMEL BRAHMI THE NORTHERN Ireland peace is at a critical juncture, the former police ombudsman Dame Nuala O’Loan has warned. “We have peace, but it is still fragile, because there are those who still hold weapons, and seek to…
Author: The Irish Times
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A Swift and Simple Solution
Most Bermudians are grateful for the fact that we live in a pluralist, democratic society. We elect successive governments with the support of the majority of the people. We hold those governments to account every five years. We boast a whole chapter on fundamental rights…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Litigating for Social Change Conference
October 19 – 21, 2016 Belfast, Northern Ireland This international conference will bring together NGOs, community activists, litigators, academics and funders to reflect on how strategic litigation can transform lives and enable people and communities to realise their rights. Register Now A joint project of…
Author: Law Centre NI
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It’s Time for Ireland to Follow Obama on Gay Marriage. Here’s Why.
By Kieran Rose, Chair of GLEN, the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married” – these ten simple words spoken by US President Barack Obama last Wednesday have reverberated around the world and provided a watershed moment in…
Author: TheJournal.ie
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The Crisis in Zimbabwe: Atlantic’s Work with Refugees in the Limpopo Province
Gara LaMarche I recently travelled to Limpopo, a South African province on the border of Zimbabwe that is experiencing an influx of Zimbabweans who are escaping from that very troubled country, where human rights are disregarded, disease is running rampant, and the economy long…
Author: Gara LaMarche