Natalia Thompson

Natalia Thompson, 17, is a student at West High School in Madison, Wisconsin, by day and a feminist writer and community activist by night. Her writing has appeared in New Moon, Stone Soup, NewsHour Extra, GirlSpeak, Shameless, off our backs and other print and online publications. She is also the founder of Madison SOS (Speak Out, Sister!), a forum uniting high school young women in leadership and action on the issues that most matter to them. The initiative has received national recognition for its efforts to engage youth in the struggle for social change.

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  • The Importance of Perspective

    December 16, 2008

    This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the most important prerequisite for being a good president cannot be found in the marble hallways of the nation's elite institutions.

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Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
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Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
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» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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