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  From the NY Times As Colombia’s war for control of the drug trade intensifies...with new combatants vying for smuggling routes and coca-growing areas where Indians eke out a meager existence, it is adding to the already grave toll on the nation’s indigenous Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:58 AM by Beth Patterson | 2 Comments Filed under: doing the right thing, indigenous, waking up

• The Archimedes Movement: A Message to President Obama and Health Secretary-designate Tom Daschle

  There's probably no more pressing issue at the heart of our country's crisis than that of health care.   Past Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, has founded the Archimedes Movement (think 'huge lever') to make a monumental effort to reform Read More... Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 1:44 AM by Beth Patterson | 1 Comments Filed under: doing the right thing, social reform