admin | June 12, 2020
This Friday (June 12), Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County is encouraging you to take the day off, if you can, to familiarize yourself with elected officials and to educate yourself on systemic racism in America. Whether that means participating in the Silent March at Judkins Park or taking action from home by donating to antiracist causes, there's tons of ways to show up for your local black and brown communities. Read on for this weekend's BLM-focused protests and demonstrations, virtual events amplifying black voices, and other happenings (like the Seattle International Dance Festival and a Pride Flag-Raising Ceremony in White Center).
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admin | June 12, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trapped in a labyrinth of his own making. He still sees a historic opportunity that cant be missed to go ahead with his plan to do something that no previous premier has dared: To annex territories in the West Bank. The opportunity being the fact that US President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan allows him to annex major chunks of Palestinian land, including the Jordan Valley.
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admin | June 10, 2020
A newly launched nonprofit is calling on worldwide Jewish donors, young and old, to allocate at least half of their charitable dollars transferred at death to Jewish and Israel-related causes. Philanthropist and entrepreneur Michael Leven and longtime Jewish executive AmyHoltz launched the Jewish Future Pledge (JFP) initiative in May, during Jewish Heritage Month, with the aim of securing a vibrant Jewish future and inspiring the next generation of Jews to help support it.
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admin | June 10, 2020
I shed many tears during my year of saying Kaddish.
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admin | June 8, 2020
One Facebook post falsely claimed the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month was a staged event, meant to rile up opposition to President Donald Trump. Another showed a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. next to a banana an established racist trope
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admin | June 6, 2020
NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 24 2015: More than one thousand activists marched on behalf of the families ...
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admin | June 1, 2020
Photo Credit: US Air Force Over two months after Americas entry into the war, American troops began arriving at France on June 26 1917. On October 21, the first Americans were in combat. For the next year, over two million American troops fighting alongside the Entente would help change the course of the war.
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admin | June 1, 2020
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.Sign up here. Republicans are highlighting Joe Biden's past head-turning comments concerning Asian Americans after the former vice presidentco-authored an op-edthis week accusing President Trump of"needlessly" and "cruelly" scapegoating foreigners during the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this year, the former vice presidenthit Trump for "xenophobia" within hours of his January ban on most travel from China -- a policy that Biden and outside observers have since acknowledged was the right call
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admin | June 1, 2020
On a rainy evening in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis delivered a special blessing, asking God for help against the coronavirus. The square in Vatican City would normally be packed with onlookers, but no one was standing on the glistening cobblestones in March as Francis implored God to "not leave us at the mercy of the storm." But the pope was not praying alone
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admin | May 28, 2020
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