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• Cine Institute: Chana

  March 30, 2010

  Since the earthquake in Haiti in January, we've been bringing you updates from the Ciné Institute, a remarkable organization that has helped Haitians tell their own story of recovery and rebuilding. In this segment, we see the story of one young volunteer who spends her days helping her neighbors, providing care and lifting spirits.

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• Tea Party Conspiracies, Max Rameau, and Haiti

  March 29, 2010

  In order to respond, alas, we have to understand, and that means going through the looking glass. So wrote Richard Kim of the tea party movement's latest bogeyman--the Cloward-Piven strategy, which demagogues like Glenn Beck proclaim is the strategy for destroying America and putting in place totalitarian socialism. It sounds ridiculous, Richard notes, and that's precisely why it has such power.

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