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Submit news Find information about submitting your own widow story or to contribute to WidowSpeak in other ways. Press Releases Read the latest releases from WidowSpeak Skip to For Widows, There's Life Beyond Sept. 11 Widow trying to stay in U.S. after husband was killed in Iraq |
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The Billionaire With a Heart Raj Loomba, founder of the Pushpawati Loomba Trust, is profiled through the many valuable events and charities his organization continues to tirelessly promote for widows and their children. More > |
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For Widows, There's Life Beyond Sept. 11 Susan Retik and Patti Quigley of the organization Beyond the 11th are the subject of a new documentary titled Beyond Belief directed by Beth Murphy. More > See Beyond the 11th |
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Widow Trying to Stay in U.S. After Husband Was Killed in Iraq Diana Engstrom, native to Kosovo, fights the controversial "widow penalty" clause to remain a U.S. citizen after her American born husband is killed in Iraq. More > |
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Sonoma
West News – Giving Widows a Voice WidowSpeak and AnnMarie Ginella are profiled by Sonoma West Times & News. More > |
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Angelina
Jolie to play Marianne Pearl NEW YORK -- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, whose relationship was spawned on a film set, will again work together — this time on a movie based on the life of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan. More > |
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Director, Deepa Mehta, Earns Acclaim for Water, a film about "widow wastage", set in 1938 in an ashram in India. |
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Jazeera Widow, Dima Tahboub, Files Lawsuit Against Bush Dima Tahboub, the widow of Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayyoub is bringing a lawsuit against the Bush administration for her husband's death. He was killed in April 2003 when the US military bombed the Al Jazeera offices in Baghdad. We speak with Dima Tahboub and her attorney. More > |
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Coulter Criticizes 9/11 Widows New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused commentator Ann Coulter of making a “vicious, mean-spirited attack” on outspoken 9/11 widows whom the television pundit described as “self-obsessed” and enjoying their husbands' deaths. More > |
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Widow, Patsy Spier, Seeks Justice from Congress Rick and Patsy Spier, American workers in Indonesia, were returning from a picnic in an orchid field last August when the life of one was ended and the life of the other was changed forever. More > |
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Making
a Community of Widows A column in the July 2006 Press Democrat profiles AnnMarie Ginella and the Widow Speak support Web site project. Columnist Susan Swartz contrasts the "sleazy" remarks Ann Coulter concocts against 9/11 widows with the reality of celebrity and everyday widows who cope daily with pain and loss. More > |
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'Black
Widow' Fears Surround a Russian Verdict Female Chechen suicide bombers have committed atrocious violence and roused fear in Russia and one Chechen woman was convicted recently of terrorism. Her lawyers, however, argue that she was framed by authorities eager to catch a "black widow." More > |
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India's
Outcast Widows Have New Havens Widows in India still undergo ritual humiliations and extreme ostracism; conditions that several new programs are seeking to redress. More > |
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Parry Boyce: Champion of Australian War Widows Una Boyce's first major challenge in life came in her mid-30s, at the end of World War II. Her husband, Norman, died of his wounds in 1946, and her parents died the following year. Her only sibling, her older brother, Raoul, had died in an accident before the war, so she was alone in the world with three children under six. More >
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