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Famous Aborigines

These are eight Australian and Tasmanian Aboriginals that have made a lasting impression on me with their determination to pursue reconciliation of Aborigines and whites through government, first contact interactions, sports, music, fine arts, writing, and acting.

18 comments    education music sports
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Human Exploitation - How The Dionne Quintuplets Were Abused

The rights of individuals or groups of human beings have been denied through exploitation by others throughout time, but it is incredible the extent to which some abusers will go. The Dionne Quintuplets suffered from several...

16 comments    family celebrity celebrities
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Top 10 Global Concerns

I believe that the following Top 10 List of Global Concerns are vital in the 21st century...I choose this as NUMBER ONE, because it hits millions of individuals directly, every day of their lives. ...

30 comments    technology food politics
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Emotional Abuse

Any behavior designed to undermine and control someone else through fear, humiliation, manipulation or intimidation is emotional abuse. This can present itself in the form of verbal abuse, constant criticism...

24 comments    abuse human rights verbal abuse
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Asian Women's Sorrows - The Joy Luck Club

In San Francisco's Chinatown -- The stories of this book cluster around first Chinese American Jing-mei (June) Woo's journey of discovery to China to meet her half-sisters left by a roadside: the twins Chwun Yu and Chwun...

16 comments    firewife woman warrior
Desert, northern Chinese continent.88

Christmas Lights From Hell

Many people of the 21st century create their own Christmas traditions and one of mine is to no longer purchase Christmas Lights made by Christian Slaves. It is simply too disturbing...

25 comments    christmas hubmob diversity
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Homeless Eviction and Prevention Fund

HEP Fund no longer deals in basic "Damage Deposit" or first/last month benefits in emergency situations for most clients who approach HEP these days. (I learned this, May 2009) I know you are thinking,...

8 comments    job government human rights
Matthew Shepherd85

The Price of Hate: Violence Against LGBT People Around the World

On October 7, 1998, a young man named Matthew Shepherd met two men in a Laramie, Wyoming bar. They offered him a ride in their truck and he accepted. Instead, they robbed, beat, and tortured Matthew and left...

18 comments    hubmob human rights lgbt
Enoch Powell - rights must be defended85

Freedom of Speech - Absolute or Relative?

"I'll say what I like. It's a free country". This has rather fallen out of fashion, to be replaced, in UK, with "I'm entitled to state my opinion", and in US, with "I'm only exercising my (Constitutional) right to free speech"

122 comments    politics america freedom
Text & Graphic by Richard W. Posner84

SERVANTS OF DEATH

Text & Graphic by Richard W. Posner You, your children, your parents, their parents, your friends, relatives, acquaintances, and I and mine are all slaves living in the service of a power that that thrives on...

66 comments    life money politics
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