They are former students, workers and deprived unemployed workers. They are all ages and from all walks of life. Many people have joined the Occupy movement to protest against the economic hardship they personally are experiencing. Some leave their family, their wife, their husband–some have already lost everything. Others are joining to lend support. I filmed Occupy activists on November 4, 2011 at a demonstration outside the D.C. Convention Center where the Defending the American Dream […]
From slavery to college educated and motivational speaker. She is originally from Cameroon. She is a survivor. She was a slave, a victim of human trafficking. She experienced slavery not in Cameroon, but in the United States, only 30 miles from our nation’s capitol. At age 9 as she says on CNN on June 23, 2011, she came to the United States. Evelyn Chumbow, […]
Is the Republican Party struggling to find a viable candidate for the 2012 presidential election? I do believe that this might be the case. According to Ross Douthat, a New York Times Op-Ed writer, “the Republican Party has been unable to find a candidate for the White House in 2012 who inspires anything but weary resignation […]
Improving Opportunities for Small Businesses in the United States. On January 11, 2012, small business owners met in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington DC. The forum, “Insourcing American Jobs” hosted by President Barack Obama, was to encourage entrepreneurs across the United States to bring […]
The Occupy Movement has been going on for several months. Thalia Doukas, one of the great supporter of the movement, talks about it. Thalia Doukas is a communications writer responsible for a daily intranet Website for the Federal Employee Program–a health care provider for government employees in Washington D.C. She is one of the many people who […]