OccupyStream - Live Revolution Teacher Guide - George Washington: A National Treasure This Teacher Resource Guide is designed for incorporation into history and social studies curricula. It will introduce your students to some of the events and issues that shaped George Washington’s life. The activities should enhance your students’ knowledge of Washington and expand their horizons about this complex and interesting man. Each activity includes suggested objectives, procedures, related standards in historical thinking, worksheets, and other supplemental materials. The FREE education kit, which included the 19 1/4" x 31" full-color museum quality poster reproduction of the “Lansdowne” portrait is no longer available.
Annual Ann Arbor Hash Bash Rally To Feature Legalization Campaign Tribute to Drug War Victims Press Release Committee for a Safer Michigan:Matthew Abel, Campaign Director 313-567-4724Charmie Gholson, Media Director 734-620-7277www.repealtoday.org University of Michigan Students for Sensible Drug Policy:Nick Zettell, President 231-286- Ream, coordinator, Safer Michigan Coalition 734-395-0811 ROJS News Needs Your Vote to Attend Netroots Nation in 2012! Call Your Mayor: Complete List of Numbers for Occupied Cities On October 13, I started calling Mayor Bloomberg’s office to protest his threatened attack on Zuccotti Park, and urged others to do the same. Apparently they did, mostly without any urging from me, because the high volume of calls from around the country was credited, by the New York Times, with making the mayor back off. The next day, prompted by reports from occupiers, I used Facebook to tell people to call the mayor of San Diego. When a movement has no leaders and no staff, the only way to get something done is to do it yourself – or, in my case, to get some friends and relatives to do it for me. We can’t all sleep outdoors in tents, but we CAN all provide a sturdy “second line” of support. ALABAMA (Gov. AuburnAlabamaGary Fuller(334) 705-5150gfuller@ci.opelika.al.us BirminghamAlabamaWilliam A. HuntsvilleAlabamaTommy Battle(256) 427-5000contact@hsvcity.com MobileAlabamaSamuel L. TuscaloosaAlabamaWalter Maddox205-248-5001mayor@tuscaloosa.com ALASKA (Gov. ARIZONA (Gov. PhoenixArizonaW.J.
1945 to 21st Century home | 6th-15th centuries | 16-17th centuries | 18-19th centuries | 1901 to World War II Victors, Independence Movements and Cold War The United Nations – the founding, Roosevelt's hopes denied and the veto Victors against the Defeated – retributions, expropriations, occupations The Media and Tokyo Rose – aroused passions against a fictitious enemy Empire headed for Extinction – colonialism in Asia and Africa Cold War: 1945-49 – Stalin, Europe, the U.S. and revolution in China The Korean War – occupation, China intervenes, negotiations Cold War: 1953-60 – communism and the Eisenhower years Cold War: the Kennedy Years – from the Bay of Pigs to assassination Vietnam, 1964-75 – to the war's end, participant opinions and lessons End of the Cold War and the Soviet Union – from Brezhnev to Yeltsin Latin America Latin America Economic Overview, to the 1960s – population growth and underdeveloped resources Brazil from 1945 to the Overthrow of Goulart in 1964 – another military coup but a thriving economy
10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free Below is today’s column in the Sunday Washington Post. The column addresses how the continued rollbacks on civil liberties in the United States conflicts with the view of the country as the land of the free. If we are going to adopt Chinese legal principles, we should at least have the integrity to adopt one Chinese proverb: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” We seem as a country to be in denial as to the implications of these laws and policies. Whether we are viewed as a free country with authoritarian inclinations or an authoritarian nation with free aspirations (or some other hybrid definition), we are clearly not what we once were. Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. Indefinite detention
Arrests Outside Goldman Sachs in New York | The People Occupy Posted on 03 November 2011 by The People Occupy This morning a march and trial on Goldman Sachs resulted in arrests after a small group of protesters blockaded the entrance to the Goldman Sachs building. Footage below was rebroadcast from the TheOther99 channel on Ustream . Watch this footage on Livestream.com Salem Witchcraft: the Events and Causes of the Salem Witch Trials By Tim Sutter © 2000-2003 What caused the Salem witch trials of 1692? This question has been asked for over 300 years. Although it is a simple question, it does not have an easy answer. The answer is difficult because there are numerous factors and events that helped create and influence the trials. Salem Politics Salem Village had a very colorful history before the famous witch trials. Many of the Salem Village farming families believed that Salem Town’s thriving economy made it too individualistic. The Putnams were the leaders of the separatist group primarily because they owned the most farmland in Salem Village. Contracts for ministers during this period often provided them with a modest salary, use of a house, and free firewood. In October of 1691 a new Salem Village Committee was elected that was comprised mostly of Parris’ opponents. Cold Winter Days The Rev. After chores were done, there was little entertainment for Betty and Abigail. Salem Witchcraft Aftermath The Rev.
Inequity That Must Be Changed Often it takes a couple years for enough statistical data to be collected to get a clear picture of the effects of Republican class warfare in the US. The truth about Republican economics is that trickle down never has trickled down and never will. It always gushes up. This has led to inequity so severe, that it must be changed. NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that sometimes seems inured to income inequality, these takeaways are truly stunning. Inserted from <NY Times> The Republican response to such inequity is simple.