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Stonewall Facts
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June 28 1969
-Stonewall Inn, raided by police, sparked riots of hundreds of people -Inspired Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activists Alliance -Christopher Street Liberation Day first pride marches -Social, Political, Moral, Religious, Internal - 'It was clear that things were changing. People who had felt oppressed now felt enpowered' lilli vincez |
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Asylum Seekers in Australia
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'Stop the boats'-Tony Abbott
Children Overboard Affair 7/October /2001 -in the lead up to an election -Howard government -asylum seekers (223) threw their kids overboard in a plot to gain asylum -senate inquiry found it to be a lie (2002) 'Go back to where you came from' Royal Children's Hospital refusing to send children back to Nauru |
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Civil rights facts
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US (50/60)
-Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks -Selma to Montgomery marches -'the only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in' - 'We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools' -Ferguson- August 2014, shooting of Mike Brown 'Blacks are more apt to riot because they are one of the populations here who still need to' (Time magazine) South Africa (40/90) -Nelson Mandela -National Party's Apartheid -Rivonia Trial-I am prepared to die speech - 'To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity' -Social, Political, Cultural, Moral |
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State of Nature
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-humans before society
-Came from Thomas Hobbes(17th) HOBBES -no natural morality ('solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short') -need government for order, to prevent war, can't overthrow LOCKE -natural=chaotic, not good or bad -government needed to secure rights, can overthrow -born with natural rights but give up some freedom to protect these rights -'no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions' ROUSSEAU -natural=free and equal( noble savages) -government bring people together, if formed of free will for people, can overthrow -'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' |
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Women's Rights
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Mary Wollstonecraft
-A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) -believed in women's education and equal treatment -daughter was Mary Shelley - 'I do not wish them(woman) to have power over men: but over themselves' - 'No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks' Alice Paul -Suffragette -Progressive Era (1890-1920) -rattify 19th amendment, let women vote -created National Women's Party - 'There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it' Malala Yousafzai -wrote about Taliban for BBC -shot three times point blank 2012 -Nobel peace Prize 2014 -#strongerthanfear - 'For me peace is not only the absence of war, but the absence of fear' |
