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70Unity makes Strength
Be silent don’t speak a word That’s what they want You watch and listen helplessly as you don’t have the courage to speak up You fear that if you protest you may have to pay a heavy price your blood boils but you keep calm You...
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85Escondido Checkpoints: Why We Protest
Escondido's checkpoints are run much differently than other city's checkpoints. Start times are earlier, locations are in Hispanic neighborhoods, and the city is making about a million dollars a year.
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77Occupy Providence Leads Success In Occupy Wall Street Movement: People Are Not Sleeping Overnight in Rhode Island
This article highlights the agreement between Occupy Providence protesters and the City of Providence, RI to open a Homeless Shelter in exchange for no overnight sleep-ins. The Occupy Wall Street Movement is also discussed.
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88Facts on the Tower of London (with Photos)
The Tower of London is at the center of nearly all the dramatic history of the city of London. Many facts about old London's people, executions, tragedies, and tyrannies, seemingly unconnected to each other, have intertwined themselves in this old...
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86My Sister's Crazy Catholic Convent School Experiences with the Mad Nuns that Ran it.
During the 1970's my older Sister attended a Catholic Convent School that literally made her life hell on earth. The Nuns were completely crazy, and anything but religious. As promised on another Hub I have spoken to my Sister and asked her for some of the stories, both funny and serious, of the kind of things that happened at this school during her years there.
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80The Vietnam War
The kingdoms of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were ruled by China for 1,000 years. In the 1860s, France ejected the Chinese and began to rule the kingdoms under the name French Indochina. In 1942, Japan conquered Vietnam and imprisoned the...
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90Domestic Violence and Fundamentalist Christianity
Domestic violence is the hidden tragedy: those tears and terrors are silenced, even more effectively by the Fundamentalist Christian philosphy of male domination in the households.
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75Gibe III Dam threatens Omo River Valley tribes
Work has already begun on a dam in Ethiopia that will bring destruction to the Omo River Valley and the lives of its thousands of tribal people. The Ethiopian government have approved the creation of the Gilgel Gibe II Dam, or Gibe III Dam, as it is...
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71The Movie "THE HELP", Sobers You Up a Bit, Doesn't it" Discrimination in America [73]
Discrimination and bigotry is a terrible thing and "The Help" does a masterful job of bringing the heartbreak of bigotry back into our minds, where it belongs. This movie made me reflect and I hope this hub will make you do the same as I explore how racism is a core value of all humanity which can be controlled.
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80The Five Cent War
A foreign friend once asked me why Canadians seemed so apathetic ... Why do so few of us care that our country is sliding down a steep slope past mediocrity and into a realm of pity reserved for third world countries? Perhaps it all started in 1947 with the 5 cent war that led to our nations children being betrayed by the people they trusted most.
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