Liz Claiborne Radio Row: Anne-Renee Testa

Dr. Anne-Renee Testa, America's Psychologist and Relationship Coach, talks about her childhood abuse with other child and how that shaped her into the woman she is today. She also talks about her recent books that have been published about child abuse in families. (13:00)
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Liz Claiborne Radio Row: Karen Cheeks-Lomax

Karen Cheeks-Lomax, My Sisters Place, speaks about the effects domestic violence has on teenagers. My sisters place is a domestic abuse shelter that takes single women and teenage girls in and helps them cope with their abuse. (14:00)
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Podesta calls DC government officials "robber barons"

In an exclusive interview with the former Chief of Staff John Podesta, Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner discusses Podesta's book "The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country". Podesta discusses what he calls "robber barons in Washington", as well as ways to transform America's economy. He concludes by citing important factors that he believes would help our nation's housing crisis. (7:33)
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Ellen Ratner Interviews Congressman Peter DeFazio

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oreg.) talks about the upcoming elections and the critical issues Americans currently face with Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner. DeFazio talks about the need for reform of energy laws and the improvement of America's technological and educational infrastructure. He criticizes the Republican energy and fiscal policy as well.
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Ellen Ratner Interviews Congressman Chet Edwards

Former Vice- Presidential hopeful Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas) discusses Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) choice of Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) as his running mate with Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner. He also discusses his congressional district and issues facing Americans. Edwards answers questions about the current energy crisis as well as the American health care system and claims that it is not impossible for Sen. Obama to win Texas in the November election (5:17).
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Harold Sirkin: Competition key to U.S. Globality

Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner interviews Harold Sirkin on his new book “Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything.” Ratner asks how the United States can compete in the current global market. Sirkin explains that the real issue for the country is making sure that it is competitive within the business sector, within the infrastructure, and within the education system. Sirkin also says that the most important thing the U.S. can do to increase its competitiveness is to recognize what is going on in the world today. (5:58)
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War in the South Sudan may be inevitable, Ellen Ratner says

Ellen Ratner, calling in from Dubai after leaving Southern Darfur, says the whole issue is slavery. The government of Sudan refuses to call it slavery, and instead calls the "abductees." Slavery is illegal in Sudan, Ellen says, as there is a law passed by the British. However, there is no punishment for slavery and no mechanism to punish slave-holders. There's been a group that brings back these "abductees," she says, but they are being sent back with nothing- no food, supplies, or financial support. They just rely on the kindness of villagers, and the government of Khartoum has done nothing, Ellen says, to make sure that the people from the south can recovery from slavery. This may make war in the south inevitable when the vote comes in 2011 or after for independence. (1:19)
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A slave's children are considered children of the master, Ellen says

Ellen Ratner, calling in from Dubai after leaving Southern Darfur, says they met with refugees and some slaves on Monday. The slaves, she says, left Northern Sudan and were returning to their homes. One refugee who had been a slave, she says, was recognized by another former slave who had the same tribal markings. This slave had been converted to Islam and had children, and the slave's master was very upset that the children were going. Apparently the Islamic way, Ellen says, is that the woman is still held in slavery but her children are considered children of the master. The master was very upset, she says, that the government of Sudan was allowing his children to go with their mother. (1:18)
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Villagers in Darfur told Ellen Ratner the needs they hoped Americans would give

On location in the South Sudan, in a very isolated place called Majom Kor, Ellen Ratner says she is is a village where people from Darfur and other areas have come back to their villages, courtesy of the United Nations. They were told stories of how the people were able to escape to the north or were taken as slaves, although there has been little international recognition that there was slavery at all. One man told them, she says, that the slaves were kept in a pen for seven days without food and water. At this point after all these years away, she says that man told her, the village needs food, clean water, and a health facility. As they were meeting with the villagers today, Ellen said, an unclothed woman came through. The villagers quickly surrounded her, Ellen said, and told her that the woman had been traumatized by rape and that she had seen so many of her relatives killed, that this was her way of coping. The villagers told her the needs that they hoped Americans would give: they had no school, no clinics, no books, no pencils, no paper, and no clean water. That is the need, Ellen says, that is so strong in Southern Sudan.
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Refugees in Darfur told Ellen Ratner they had their houses burned and their cattle taken

On location in the South Sudan, in a very isolated place called Majom Kor, Ellen Ratner says it is an amazing scene. The people that left their villages and went to Darfur, Ellen says, are being dropped off to their home villages without food or much at all. They talked about their needs, she says, and how their houses were burned down, and their cattle were taken, and how they had no food and had to leave. They are being repatriated in their home communities. They talked to refugees that were coming back from Darfur, she said, and when she asked them how many of them had a relative that had been killed or had been enslaved, every one of them raised their hand. (1:24)
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Ellen Ratner Sits Down with Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) at the Annual Families USA 2008 Conference

Ellen Ratner Sits Down with Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) at the Annual Families USA 2008 Conference

Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses top issues concerning health care as well as possibility of the next President being a Republican.
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President William J. Clinton Discusses Senator Hillary R. Clinton (D-NY) in the New Hampshire Primary

President William J. Clinton Discusses Senator Hillary R. Clinton (D-NY) in the New Hampshire Primary

Ellen Ratner interviews President Clinton at the Radio Row in Manchester, NH about his wife Senator Clinton (D-NY) and her campaign as New Hampshire votes in the first presidential primary election.
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