Cora Weiss

Cora Weiss is President of the Hague Appeal for Peace and has spent her life as an activist in the movement for civil rights, human rights, women's rights and peace.

From 1959-63 she was the Executive Director of the African American Students Foundation which awarded tuition, book and maintenance grants to Barack Hussein Obama while he was a student at the University of Hawaii.

Currently

  • Vision for a New Foreign Policy

    January 6, 2009

    As a new president takes charge, it is time to talk together, to walk together and to work together. It is the only time we have.

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» The Beat

House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
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» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
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» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
170 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
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» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman