Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star–a person who is both a fiery activist lit with the passion of his convictions and a dramatic storyteller who naturally occupies a place in the public eye. When this person enters a room, he doesn’t…
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid & women’s unemployment 1944
To combat high unemployment, a report issued in 1944 under the direction of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, looked at way in which women could be kept out of the workforce and replaced by men. The Guides chose to disregard the recommendations in the report and with the assistance of their chaplain Fr. Michael Clarke, started an employment…
Lisa Hake ~ logging songs
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No Democracy! Flash Timeline of American Policy Towards Haiti in the 20th Century
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Ryan & Paddy
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it says on twitter
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Lisa Hannigan Covers Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” [Video]
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b r i a n g r e e n e
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social media and revolution
“Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques.” wikipedia Revolutionaries in the past have used new media technologies to gain advantage in their struggles, in 1916 in Dublin, Morse code was used to communicate prior to and during the easter rising. In France in 1968…