32 Beautiful Moments When Humans Chose Compassion Over Violence. Despite our differences, we're all human beings.
These powerful images have restored all my faith in the world. reddit.com Earlier this December, Ukrainians participated in their largest popular protest since 2004. The 2013 protests were shrouded with violence from both sides, including 200 protesters who commandeered a digger and attacked the presidential palace. The protests and riots followed the Government’s decision to side with Russia rather than the European Union. theguardian.com reddit.com In Bulgaria, students and other protesters converged on parliament in November due to poverty and corruption.
Bbc.co.uk/news msnbcmedia.msn.com In the midst of the Arab Spring, weeks of protests and violence began in an attempt to overthrow the Mubarak Government. Wikipedia.org twitter.yfrog.com In 2011, hockey fans took to the streets of Vancouver after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals. Wikipedia.org msnbcmedia.msn.com bbc.co.uk/news. Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) Sources: All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W.
Loewen, both of which uses primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus himself. A very important note about Bartolomé de las Casas and the African slave trade This issue keeps coming up and, despite my footnotes, I keep seeing commentary about it so I'm going to address it here. Initially, Bartolomé de las Casas advocated the use of African slaves instead of native labor. I soon repented and judged myself guilty of ignorance. I know that the discovery of the New World means a lot of different things to a lot of different cultures. But please, oh please do not call it Columbus Day. Less than a year after the publication of this comic, Columbus Day was renamed to Indigenous People's Day in Seattle. I'm currently running for Mayor of Miami Beach against a near billionaire and a career politician and I'm making a documentary about the dirty political process, and the election is in 9 days. : IAmA.
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"The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations," he once wrote. The Obama administration just granted his wish -- at least as it pertains to research funded by taxpayers. The White House directed federal agencies on Friday to make the results of federally-funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication. The new policy came after more than 65,000 people signed a petition asking for expanded public access to the results of studies paid for by taxpayers. "Americans should have easy access to the results of research they help support," John P.
Making such data freely available will lead to new innovations, according to Holdren. What are your true colors? SOPA initiative/Learn more. Advanced Alternative Cancer Treatment.