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1 day ago · Tom Steyer's new book is 'Cheaper, Better Faster.'. In 1981, years before I founded an investment fund that grew to have billions of dollars under management and decades before I walked away from ...
Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy makes three important observations; 1) it demonstrates that exchanges with Vietnamese women influenced the development of feminist thought in the US; 2) it shows how anti-war activists created space for political action, undercutting the authority of government while successfully performing citizen diplomacy; and 3) in ...
3 days ago · In addition to social media activism, the early era of the Me Too movement was defined by investigative journalism that documented the searing accounts of women who had long endured sexual harassment.
- Amy Brittain
5 days ago · Gender history developed in the 1980s out of women’s history, when historians familiar with studying women increasingly began to discuss the ways in which systems of sexual differentiation affected both women and men. Historians interested in this new perspective asserted that gender was an appropriate category of analysis when looking at all ...
3 days ago · Reimagining the pier. A different world. For more than a century, the Santa Monica Pier has weathered through storms, private development and a lack of funds. It was built in 1909 to run sewage ...
3 days ago · November. During a ‘Smash The Acts campaign’ dozens of Aboriginal people march in Sydney to protest against protectionist acts which regulate many aspects of their lives. 1972. January. Aboriginal activists pitch an Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra, demonstrating for land rights. 14 July.
5 days ago · Harvey Milk, American politician and gay-rights activist. His election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 made him one of the first openly gay elected officials in U.S. history. In 1978 Milk and San Francisco mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Dan White, a conservative former city supervisor.
