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Maternal/Child health in Venezuela – someone doing good

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Maternal/child health in Venezuela
What is it like to live in a country where abortion is illegal and families are large?  Our guest, Steve Bloomstein, went to Venezuela thirty years ago to grow exotic fruits and live a simple life.  However, the campesinos (or farm workers) he employed often asked him for pay raises because they had so many children – 15 children was not unheard of. 

One thing led to another, and Steve now finds himself President of the Turimiquire Foundation which provides maternal/child health services to thousands of women.  Steve is going to tell us how this all came about, the cultural and logistical challenges faced by him and the organization, and what lessons he has learned along the way.

To listen to Sam’s interview with Steve, click here to listen (it may be faster to right-click and download the file):

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Turimiquire – Part 1
Turimiquire – Part 2

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Turimiquire – single file

Media reform

Media Minutes:  July 20, 2007

A key House subcommittee debates phone companies’ grip on wireless devices and applications. Bipartisan support builds for unlocking devices and opening them up to innovation. Also, Verizon FIOS service pulls the plug on copper — removing customers’ other broadband, phone or television options.

Related Links

• Cutting the Copper Means Less Competition for Verizon, Fewer Choices for Consumers
• Open Access Is the Real ‘Revolution.’ The iPhone Is Nothing Without It.
• Spectrum for Sale: Disconnect Phone, Provider

Conservatives vs. neo-cons
‘Conservatives’ are furious with the ‘neo-cons’ about a host of issues – here are the top 10 thank you notes Nancy Pelosi should have written after the last election according to Richard Viguerie, author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books, 2006), beginning with:

• 10.  To Vice President Cheney, Bill Kristol, and their cell of “neo-conservatives,” for turning the Republicans into a Trotskyite party—just what Americans have always wanted.
• 9.  To Rush Limbaugh, for his display of “compassionate conservatism” toward Michael J. Fox a week before the election.

War News Radio
from Swarthmore College

Reporting Under Fire

Photo of Sahar Hussein al-Haideri courtesy of IWPR

This week on War News Radio, we hear about the survival tactics of journalist interpreters in Iraq, and how they escape from the war zone. Listen now to Eric Chiang’s report.               We also hear about the Iraqi reporters who stay, and the challenges that one of them faced. Listen now to Meredith Firetog’s report. These stories, plus the week’s war news, from War News Radio.