People United Means Action
From the monthly archives:
The Overwhelming Maleness of Mass Homicide By Erika Christakis, TIME.com (TIME.com) — There’s a predictable cycle of mourning and finger-pointing that follows a massacre like the shootings last week in Aurora, Colorado. First come the calls for unity and flags flown at half-staff. Then the national fissures appear: The gun lobby stiffens its spine as [...]
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Sally Ride, A Complete Heroine BY GLORIA STEINEM – 24 JULY 2012 No one on earth — or in space — could have created a more complete heroine than Sally Ride. She came from a family of strong and barrier-breaking women — a mother who devoted her life to working with women in prison and [...]
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Scientists say first half of 2012 warmest on record WASHINGTON – It won’t be a news flash for the 250 million sweltering Americans east of the Rockies, but the first half of the year has been the USA’s warmest on record, federal climate scientists announced Monday. Twenty-eight states and more than 100 cities have posted [...]
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JULY 4 – A Women’s Independence Day by Diane Marie Amann It will come as no surprise that suffragists in the United States claimed this date — the anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence– as their own. It’s well known that in the months before that declaration issued, Abigail Adams pressed drafters to “Remember [...]
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