Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Wendy Adams Mendenhall – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Salt Lake City, Utah, UNITED STATES AMERICAS: Many of us, men and women, are aware that our system isn’t working. The resignation to the idea of there being “two sides” permanently gridlocked has become the current persona of our system rather than “one nation under God.” The time [...]
Faya Suwardi - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/CGN) Jakarta, INDONESIA, SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA: “People in the United States often ask me about Islam because they’re curious,” said Salsabila Diar, an Indonesian exchange student who is studying in Virginia, when asked about her interactions with Americans. Diar shared her experience abroad through Skype in a discussion entitled “Islam in America: [...]
Jessica Buchleitner - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) San Fransisco, California, UNITED STATES: On February 14, 2013 millions of women worldwide participated in Eve Ensler’s One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women. Just two days earlier (Feb. 12, 2013), the United States Senate easily passed S.47, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill, officially transmitting [...]
Kaili Joy Gray - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES: Of all the astonishingly bad reasons conservatives oppose reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, concern for men is probably the worst. Make that definitely the worst. Sahil Kapur at TPM quotes both Heritage Action and FreedomWorks. [Both are well-financed right wing groups]: “Claiming that the [...]
Maryam Zar - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES: When Rand Paul told Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that if he were president he would have relieved her of her duties over the Benghazi attack, he must have just been crawling out of the yolk of a daydream right there on the Senate floor. [...]
