Level: National/International—Peace Principle: Witness
This week’s featured story came in from Washington, DC, USA::
If you live in the US like me, your daily dose of news has been overtaken by stories of Swine Flu. Each morning I watch NBC’s Today show over a bowl of oatmeal. Well, you can imagine my surprise with Vice President Joe Biden mentioned that he had advised members of his family to avoid confined places, including public transportation. I think my chin just hit the floor! Here he was VP of the United …

Betty Makoni
Zimbabwe
In the first 100 days it looks clear Obama is a leader with a conscience, and a clear one for that matter.
He spoke about his grandmother and many other women struggling to bring food to the table. It is the first time a president in my lifetime has set up a Commission for Women in the statehouse (as we call them in Africa). So the deliverables for women are there. The US Representative to the UN is a woman. Obama sees the power women have to make development real.
I …

Nadra Mahdi
Sudan
When you love someone, you feel that you miss him
you feel that you need to be close to him
And when you come near him you you can find a fire in your body,
then solubility.
The last stage is swamped.
Then you will be nothing, you are finished completely.
From here your soul is created again.
The new soul you have is created from light
(God is light from skies and earth).
This light soul takes you to different places created from light.
Now you are a creature of light
Everything will change,
Everything will be incredible:
your steps …

Commentary by Molly Mayfield Barbee
I’m torn. I want to spend this post just gushing about all the cool stuff going on at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. Our fearless Membership Coordinator, Kay Robinson, is there to represent, absorb, schmooze, and connect with the thousands of good souls who are researching, testing, and using high-tech tools to make the world a better place. It is an exciting, empowering time to be in this field. . . But since other important women-led things are happening in the world this …