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A Message from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

September 15th, 2009

RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women’s rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977. http://www.rawa.org/index.php

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June 22nd, 2009

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Dr. King ‘would be Ex-employee’ at Energy Czar’s EPA

February 25th, 2009

Mr. Leroy Warren, Chairman of the Federal Sector Task Force of the NAACP testifies in 2000 before the House Science Committee on then-Administrator Carol Browner’s history of discrimination and retaliation at EPA. Ms. Browner is now the Energy Czar, an appointment made by President, Barack Obama, bypassing Congressional oversight that would at least have proved [...]

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Hearing on Discrimination & Retaliation at Energy Czar’s EPA

February 25th, 2009

Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) questions EPA Administrator Carol Browner during a Congressional hearing looking into discrimination and retaliation against whistleblowers at the Environmental Protection Agency in 2000. Mr. Leroy Warren, Chairman of the Federal Sector Task Force of the NAACP testifies on then-Administrator Carol Browner’s lack of interest in the charges of discrimination and retaliation [...]

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Carol Browner EPA Discrimination Hearings

February 20th, 2009

Carol Browner’s History of Discrimination at EPA
In 2000, a jury found that the EPA, under then-administrator Carol Browner, was guilty of race, sex, and color-based discrimination, and that Ms. Browner tolerated a hostile work environment. During subsequent oversight hearings of the Congressional Science Committee, the Chairman instructed Browner to clean up the working conditions at [...]

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Early Show Coverage of Hearings on EPA Discrimination under Carol Browner’s Administration

February 19th, 2009

This is CBS’s coverage of the House Science Committee’s oversight hearing of the Environmental Protection Agency in 2001, after the Agency and then-Administrator, Carol M. Browner, were found guilty of racial, sexual, and color-based discrimination by a jury in the landmark case Coleman-Adebayo v Carol Browner. The case led to the unanimous passage in both [...]

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Federal Workers Call for Obama to Issue Executive Order

February 17th, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts: Kevin Berends (585)-520-1025
kbstreetlevel@mac.com
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo (301) 320-3021
nofearcoalition@aol.com
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Press Release Statement of Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Executive Director NoFEAR Coalition
(Washington, D.C.) The No FEAR Coalition has received hundreds of e-mails asking us to explain why Congress would strip out whistleblower, and by extension, civil rights protections from the $790 billion stimulus spending bill. [...]

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Whynotnews You Tube Channel

February 9th, 2009
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Saint William Thomas - January 23, 2009

February 9th, 2009

Thomas’s Obituary in the Washington Post

A LOCAL LIFE: WILLIAM ‘DOUBTING’ THOMAS
From Lafayette Square Lookout, He Made His War Protest Permanent
By Colman McCarthy
Special [...]

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EPA Whistleblower Illegally Fired While Carol Browner- Energy Czar Soars Through Transition

December 17th, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Kevin Berends
585.520.1025
kbstreetlevel@mac.com

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Time magazine reported that Carol M. Browner’s nomination Monday for the newly-created Energy Czar position, raises embarrassing questions in the Environmental Protection Agency’s employee relations history due to Ms. Browner’s loss in Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol Browner on charges of discriminating against employees based on sex and race, as well as retaliating [...]

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