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AIPAC

Last Modified on March 21, 2016

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web site, which details how members of Congress voted on AIPAC's key issues, and the AIPAC Insider, a glossy periodical that handicaps close political races, are scrutinized by thousands of potential donors. Pro-Israel interests have contributed $56.8 mil[...]

Posted: Family & Community, Social Issues & Advocacy, World News & Media

Tags: israel, israel news, jewish federation, pro israel

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International Women S Day

Last Modified on March 7, 2016

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International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.[...]

Posted: Community Service & Social Organizations, Family & Community, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: international women’s day, women, women’s day, womens day

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Black Panther Party

Last Modified on February 9, 2016

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In May 1967, the Panthers invaded the State Assembly Chamber in Sacramento, guns in hand, in what appears to have been a publicity stunt. Still, they scared a lot of important people that day. At the time, the Panthers had almost no following. Now, (a yea[...]

Posted: Family & Community, Law & Government, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: black panthers, panther, the black panther, the black panthers

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Gloria Steinem

Last Modified on February 6, 2016

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What will exist is a variety of alternative life-styles. Since the population explosion dictates that childbearing be kept to a minimum, parents-and-children will be only one of many "families": couples, age groups, working groups, mixed communes, blood-r[...]

Posted: Community Service & Social Organizations, Family & Community, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: gloria, gloria gloria, gloria steinem quotes, them gloria

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Last Modified on January 17, 2016

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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who p[...]

Posted: Family & Community, Law & Government, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: dr martin luther king jr, martin luther king jr i have a dream speech, martin luther king jr quotes, martin luther king jr. day

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Martin Luther King Jr

Last Modified on January 11, 2016

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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who p[...]

Posted: Family & Community, Law & Government, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: dr martin luther king jr, martin luther king jr quotes, martin luther king jr. day, mlk jr

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Alice Paul

Last Modified on January 11, 2016

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Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex[...]

Posted: Family & Community, Reference Materials & Resources, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: empower women, history of women, rights of women, women empowerment

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In the Heart of the Sea

Last Modified on December 11, 2015

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won the 2000 National [...]

Posted: Books & Literature, Family & Community, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: heart of the sea, in the heart of the sea movie, in the heart of the sea trailer, the heart of the sea

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Rosa Parks

Last Modified on December 1, 2015

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I'd see the bus pass every day ... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.[10][...]

Posted: Family & Community, News, Media & Publications, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: emmett till, jackie robinson, martin luther king, slavery

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Justice

Last Modified on November 26, 2015

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Justice is the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered. As with most philosophically-driven disciplines, the concept of justice differs in every culture. An early theory of justice was set out by the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato[...]

Posted: Community Service & Social Organizations, Family & Community, Social Issues & Advocacy

Tags: clothing stores, crime, kids clothes, police, school uniforms

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