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  Background information for Orwell's 1984 - Charles' George Orwell Links
Winston lives a squalid existence in a one-room apartment in "Victory Mansions", and eats fl bread, synthetic meals served at his workplace, and drinks industrial-grade "Victory Gin." He is discontent with his lifestyle, and keeps an ill-advised journal of his negative thoughts and opinions about the Party.
Living standards for the population are generally very low — everything is in short supply and those goods that are available are of very poor quality.
O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party, lives in a relatively clean and comfortable apartment, and has access to a variety of quality foodstuffs such as wine, coffee, and sugar, none of which is available to the rest of the population.
www.netcharles.com /orwell/articles/1984-background-info.htm   (7673 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Comintern - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Leopold Trepper recalled these days: In house, where the party activists of all the countries were living, no-one slept until 3 o'clock in the morning.[..] Exactly 3 o'clock the car lights began to be seen [...].
Usually, it is asserted that he wanted his World War II Allies (particularly Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill) to believe that the USSR was no longer pursuing a policy of trying to foment revolution.
List of delegates of the 2nd Comintern congress
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Comintern   (3020 words)

  
 DEATH SQUADS
CIA compiled lists of persons who would have to be arrested and a roster of civilian and government installations that would need protection in case of military coup against government.
Those on computer list had an excellent chance of being "disappeared." It was "an archive and computer file on journalists, students, leaders, leftists, politicians and so on." Computer system making up death lists.
The lists were a detailed who's who of the leadership of the PKI that included names of provincial, city and other local PKI members and leaders of mass organizations.
www.newsmakingnews.com /death_squads.htm   (16835 words)

  
 Farmer-Labor Movement History
The Farmer-Labor Movement was nourished by diverse social traditions: the radicalism of the Iron Range Finns, the reform tradition of the Norwegians; the moral fervor of the social gospel; the crusading spirit of the temperance and suffrage movements; the populism of the Red River Valley wheat farmers; the democratic dream of the Jeffersonian tradition itself.
Prominent leaders of the Minneapolis financial community close to the streetcar company contributed heavily to Van Lear's opponent's campaign kitty.
But there are other stories to tell, as well: farmers driven off their land; thousands of hungry people crowded into the Gateway district, out of work, and money for the rent; the growth of great social movements; and the private, quiet courage that got people through those years of the Great Depression.
justcomm.org /fla-hist.htm   (19129 words)

  
 NPR : Christopher Hitchens, Literary Agent Provocateur
Perhaps it is to British writer and intellectual Christopher Hitchens' disadvantage that he lives in the information age.
Prominent among those intellectuals is British writer Christopher Hitchens.
The pantheon of the living and dead left-intellectuals -- Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Edward Said and others -- found itself in strident disagreement with a former ally.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5498172   (1508 words)

  
 Pacifists and Anti-American Protests
Pacifists versus peace: One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality.
When pacifists hold-up their "Global peace and unity" signs, remember that their version of "peace" means standing in a circle singing "kum ba yah" while terrorists murder your loved ones.
Pacifists of the 20th century had a lot of blood on their hands for weakening the Western democracies in the face of rising belligerence and military might in aggressor nations like Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.
www.akdart.com /warpage3.html   (11336 words)

  
 BPL - Summer Reading Lists Beaver Country Day School
In 1915, Vahan Kenderian, the youngest son of a prominent Armenian family in Turkey, sees his world shatter as his father disappears and his two older brothers are shot in front of his eyes.
Living on Cape Cod, two young adults, despite almost overwhelming odds, continue to fight for the environment and themselves.
Ender Wiggin is a boy genius living in the future, where he is being trained to save the world in a war against alien invaders.
www.bpl.org /kids/summerlists/2003/beaver6.htm   (4067 words)

  
 List of political epithets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of pejorative political epithets; meaning, words or phrases used to mock or insult certain political views and their supporters.
The list is not comprehensive, and perhaps never will be, due to the multitude of political epithets that have been and continue to be created.
Ted Kennedy is a prominent example of the type of liberal who attracts this epithet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_pejorative_political_slogans   (8087 words)

  
 ANARCHISM.net: The New Libertarian Manifesto, by Samuel Edward Konkin III
Even if all are living free, one “bite of the apple,” one throwback, reading old history or rediscovering evil on his own, will “unfree” the perfect society.
They can live anywhere, though they will tend to associate with their fellow agorists not only for social reinforcement but for ease and profitability of trade.
Again, for those who wish only to live their lives as free as possible and associate with others like-minded, counter-economic libertarianism is sufficient.
www.anarchism.net /newlibertarianmanifesto.htm   (13612 words)

  
 Legal Fiction
De Lara pointed out that Hood was not in office when the list was designed and that she has called for an audit of what led to the Hispanic flaw.
Although Hood took office after the list was designed, many of her employees worked on the current list and the one used in 2000.
Just days before the initial list was to be completed by Accenture (the company hired to help), Roberts stopped it and instructed them to create a more strict matching process that included race.
lawandpolitics.blogspot.com /2004_09_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html   (16824 words)

  
 CAI - Overlooked Millions- Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
In Table 1, when the figure for the Ukrainian lives lost appears to be equal to or great than the Jewish lives lost, it must be noted the majority of Jewish lives lost were in street executions, roundups, and the concentration camps.
The three most prominent ways Yugoslavians were killed were the genocidal massacres by the Nazi-sponsored Ustash regime in Croatia, the veritable civil war between various ethnic groups and political movements in Yugoslavia unleashed by the German dismemberment of the country, and the occupation policies of the German military itself aimed at crushing partisan resistance.
Socialists, communists, pacifists, anti-Nazi refugees from Germany and Austria, members of the International Brigade, and Spanish Republican exiles were considered political enemies of the Nazi regime.
www.catholicintl.com /noncatholicissues/overlooked.htm   (5034 words)

  
 HUD Prefers Gun Purchases from Companies Adhering to Code of Con= duct, Calls on Mayors To Unite in Preference for the ...
Police discover that he lives in a crack house with his criminal uncle with outstanding warrants for arrest.
All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution.
The Vinsends list is maintained by Alan Wendt in Colorado, who may be reached directly at alan@ezlink.com.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/roc.200003   (14912 words)

  
 Living My Life: Chapter 45
I was living again in the little room behind the Mother Earth office in One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street, while Sasha and Fitzi had moved the Blast to the room on the upper floor, formerly occupied by our friend Stewart Kerr.
Among the "alien enemies" in the hall and on the platform were men and women prominent in the field of education, art, and letters.
The awed silence of the pacifist and anti-military organizations which followed the passing of the registration bill made it doubly imperative for us to continue the work.
dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/goldman/living/living2_45.html   (12285 words)

  
 Guide Introduction: Papers of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
Although there were precursors to this vision, such as the philosophies of labor leader A. Philip Randolph and the pacifists organized under the Fellowship of Reconciliation, nonviolent direct action only became a major force in American politics for the first time under the leadership of King and the SCLC.
Many local groups and individuals who were prominent in addressing issues of segregation and discrimination were eager to employ the tactics of nonviolent direct action.
These were living refutations of the segregationist belief in fl inferiority.
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/sclc/sclc1.asp   (2492 words)

  
 The Change Mariner: October 2003 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Teens living on cul-de-sacs and in small towns are increasingly taking fashion cues from rap music videos.
Caenorhabditis elegans say that they have now got the worms to live three months or longer as compared to their normal lifespan of 18 to 20 days.
Listed individuals also can appeal their case to an administrative judge.
www.ruggedelegantliving.com /change/a/2003_10.html   (10723 words)

  
 The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals
If no list wins an absolute majority on the first ballot, there is a second one.
Though she is a conservative, Veil said she would abstain from voting in Dreux because of the presence of the National Front candidates on the conservatives' list.
Montand was the man I heard shouting that morning, and he spoke in the same vein on TV shortly afterward, adding, among other gems: "Why didn't the intellectuals, the pacifists stage demos when the Russians were deploying their SS-20s?" Apparently, he just couldn't omit any songs from his repertory.
www.thenation.com /doc/19831112/singer   (3359 words)

  
 All The Way - February, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
After the live feed, on a later segment, Brewer read the statement but rephrased it that Hood was "acting in behalf of," at which point she gulped and proceeded, "his constituents." The Nationalists, again, demanded a correction, to which Brewer replied that "we don't mention that word [colored]." "How about 'minority'?" they rejoined.
He is not a pacifist and joined the military to be a combatant.
JACKSON - A prominent alumnus is leading the charge to prevent what he terms the "sell-out" at his Alma Mater from befalling his one-time rival.
www.nationalist.org /ATW/2005/feb.html   (5069 words)

  
 Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- List of Oral Histories
She lives in a lovely brownstone with a garden in Prospect Heights, which is now a gentrifying neighborhood.
When she was living in the Ashram in Detroit -which included Bayard Rustin- she was courted by the Rev. Lovell.
One tape, in her living room, in a suburban ranch house (within the city limits?) Tape made on batteries, due to electricity failure.
www.crmvet.org /nars/orallist.htm   (11910 words)

  
 Footnote
The American revolutionaries were steeped in the creed of libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor the invasions of their rights and liberties committed by the imperial British government.
One of the ways that the new statist intellectuals did their work was to change the meaning of old labels, and therefore to manipulate in the minds of the public the emotional connotations attached to such labels.
We live in houses; it is man who has dug the stone from the quarry, who has hewn it, who has planed the woods; it is the thought of man which has arranged the materials properly and made a building of what was before rock and wood.
www.mises.org /rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp   (15858 words)

  
 Brethren Bibliography
Older listings may currently be out of print, but thankfully, a few are in second and third reprinting.
Listed are several of Mack's beliefs and practices that are correlated with other Pietists of his day.
Lively reading which traces the gradual acculturation of the mostly rural, plain Brethren from the late 19th century to the increasingly urban religious Protestant mainstream of the present day, including a gradual move from the free ministry to salaried professionals.
www.cob-net.org /bibliography.htm   (5264 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version-Amistad: Seeking Freedom in Connecticut - A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
It was the foundation for European mercantilism and industry in the 17th and 18th centuries, the labor force for colonial agriculture, and a prime force in the growth of the shipbuilding industry.
Farmington abolitionists were prominent members of the congregation, and their minister, the Reverend Noah Porter, supported their cause.
Horace Cowles, an early advocate of abolition, was a prominent member of the Missionary and Anti-Slavery Societies formed in Farmington in the 1830s, and purportedly an Underground Railroad stationmaster.
www.cr.nps.gov /nR/travel/amistad/text.htm   (12158 words)

  
 Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
Our professors and administrators sacrifice controversy to public relations; their curriculums change more slowly than the living events of the world; their skills and silence are purchased by investors in the arms race; passion is called unscholastic.
We live amidst a national celebration of economic prosperity while poverty and deprivation remain an unbreakable way of life for millions in the "affluent society", including many of our own generation.
The white lives almost completely within his immediate, close-up world where things are tolerable, there are no Negroes except on the bus corner going to and from work, and where it is important that daughter marry right.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~hst306/documents/huron.html   (18697 words)

  
 List of concentration and internment camps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Internment and Concentration camps, organised by country.
The first three listed were all in a mountainous area so physically isolated that fences and guards were not required as the only egress from that region was by rail or water only.
Alaska Natives living in the Aleutian Islands were also interned during the war; Funter Bay was one such camp.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps   (6464 words)

  
 THEY FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
The enemies of the Anglophiles – Colonel McCormick and the Chicago Tribune prominent among them – were an essential part of the antiwar alliance: not only the Germans but the Irish immigrants were the mass base of the organized isolationist movement.
Prominent among Johnson's California supporters were members of the Asian Exclusion League, which advocated legislation keeping Japanese out of the state and forbidding them to own property.
Anti-Japanese racism was undoubtedly a major factor in the America Firsters' lack of response to the President's war moves in Asia – and this ultimately proved their undoing.
www.antiwar.com /justin/j082302.html   (3888 words)

  
 Gustafson/Women and the Republican Party 1854-1924. Chapter 5
At the same time, her prominent position in the central ritual of the Progressive party—the national convention—strengthened and magnified the representation of women as symbols of political virtue and principles.
Because of her prominence and commitment to women's participation in public and political life, Addams dedicated much of her work on behalf of the party to explaining why individuals should support the Progressive party.
Included in that list was "women's support for the families of the convict whose labor is adding to the profits of a prison contractor." A major issue for the NAACP as well as other southern and national African-American organizations in 1912 was the convict-leasing system.
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/gustafson/ch5.html   (13151 words)

  
 Friends (Quakers) and Peace, by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com
As late as 1659, prominent Friend Isaac Penington wrote a paper To the Parliament, the Army, and all the Well-affected in the Nation, who have been faithful to the Good Old Cause, in which he said the army had been "glorious Instruments in the hand of God."
Although the peace testimony was not a clear testimony of the movement as a whole at first, it does seem to have been clear early on to George Fox, generally called the founder of Quakerism.
If you control spam by having an approved list of addresses from which you receive email, be sure to put webservant@quakerinfo.com on your approved list.
www.quakerinfo.com /quak_pce.shtml   (1278 words)

  
 "It is time we stopped suffering like animals and learned to suffer like Men"-H.G.Wells
Other Russians were prominent in developments of early television using electronic means, whose compact size and inherent versatility would assure its eventual triumph over the ungainly 'mechanical' disk scanning system, as developed by John Baird and Charles Jenkins from the late 1920's to early 1930's.
Although showing live events continues as a prominent and occasionally informative use of TV, most uses of the ability to provide mass shared experiences is squandered on sporting events, carefully censored and selectively highlighted news, and appeals to any human instinct which can be stimulated to sell myriads of products.
We have the luxury of living in a time deemed more enlightened than the world of the early 1940s, yet the prevailing ideas of the time of their invention should be accounted for while discussing their origin.
www.donaldedavis.com /PARTS/CENTURY.html   (6475 words)

  
 Concentration camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
See also: List of German Concentration camps Buchenwald Concentration camp Concentration Camps (''Konzentrationslager'' or KZ) rose to notoriety during their use in by Nazi Germany.
An extensive List of Gulag camps is being compiled based on some official sources.
While 125 Red prisoners were convicted of treason and executed, an estimated 12,000 died of disease and Starvation and an Unknown number lost their lives after release, some of them shot after return to their home villages.
concentration-camp.iqnaut.net   (3406 words)

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