Mixed Race Day

June 27, is a reference in Brazil to the twenty-seven mixed race ("mestiço", in Portuguese) representatives elected during the 1st Conference for the Promotion of Racial Equality which occurred in the city of Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil, from April 7 to 9, 2005, and also to the month of June, in which a mixed race woman, after systematic opposition from anti-multiracial groups, was registered as the only mixed race representative in the 1st National Conference for the Promotion of Racial Equality, which occurred in Brasília, from June 30 to July 2, 2005, promoted by the Government of Brazil.
Mixed Race Day ("Dia do Mestiço", in Portuguese) was made an official day of the city of Manaus on January 6, 2006. On March 21, 2006, during the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Mixed Race Day became an official day of the State of Amazon; and on October 6, 2006, of the City of Boa Vista, in the State of Roraima and, on October 9, 2007, it became an official day for this entire State.
Mixed Race Day honors all those who possess multiracial or multi-ethnic origins. It occurs three days after the Day of the Caboclo, the first mixed race Brazilian group (European and Indian).

Types of mixed-race people

'Hybrid populations with multiple lines of descent are to be characterized in just those terms: as of multiple descent. Thus, American Negroids are individuals most of whose ancestors from 15 to 5000 generations ago were sub-Saharan African. Specifying 'most' more precisely in a way that captures ordinary usage may not be possible.'> 50%' seems too low a threshold; my sense is that ordinary attributions of race begin to stabilize at 75%. An individual, half of whose ancestors are East Asian and half Caucasian, is to be categorized as just that, of half northeast Asian and half Caucasian ancestry. Nothing in continental cladistics precludes mixed ancestry, any more than the concept of a breed of dog excludes mixtures.'

A definition of multiracial by Michael Levin

TYPES OF MIXED PEOPLE

African-origin
Afro-Asian
Afro-European
Basters
Griqua

American-origin
Atlantic Creole
Black Indians
Caboclo
Cholo
Chestnut Ridge people
Hapa
Louisiana Creole people
Lumbee
Marabou
Melungeon
Mestee
Pardo
Redbone
We-Sorts
Zambo

Asian-origin
Eurasian
Hapa
Burgher people
Sri Lankan Moors
Afro-Asian
Hafu

European-origin
Black Dutch (non-African diasporic)
British Mixed
Castizo
Coloured Southern Africa
Eurasian
Isleños
Réunion Creoles
Rhineland Bastards

Other types
Creole peoples
Creoles of color
Half-breed
Mixed-Bloods
Race of the Future

ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL

The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the excerpts from a diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, the diary was retrieved by Anne's father, Otto Frank.
First published under the title Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (The Annex: diary notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in 1947, it received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (United States) and Vallentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in 1952. Its popularity inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which they subsequently adapted for the screen for the 1959 movie version. In 2005, a full-length choral work based on the diary called Annelies was produced. The book is now considered one of the key texts of the twentieth century.

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BARACK OBAMA THE WINNER OF 2008

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old Stat Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The choice of the announcement site was symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "House Divided" speech in 1858. Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence and providing universal health care.
Obama stands on stage with his wife and two daughters just before announcing his presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois Feb. 10, 2007.
A large number of candidates initially entered the Democratic Party presidential primaries. The field narrowed to a contest between Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton after initial contests, with the race remaining close throughout the primary process. On May 31, the Democratic National Committee agreed to seat all of the disputed Michigan and Florida delegates at the national convention, each with a half-vote, narrowing Obama's delegate lead On June 3, with all states counted, Obama was named the presumptive nominee] and delivered a victory speech in St. Paul, Minnesota. Clinton suspended her campaign and endorsed him on June 7 Obama now campaigned in the general election against Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee. On August 23, 2008, Obama announced that he had selected Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate]
Obama delivers his presidential election victory speech in Grant Park
At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in support of Obama's candidacy and called for him to be nominated by acclamation as the Democratic candidate. Obama delivered his acceptance speech to over 75,000 supporters and presented his policy goals; the speech was viewed by over 38 million people worldwide.
During both the primary process and the general election, Obama's campaign set numerous fundraising records, particularly in the quantity of small donations. On June 19, 2008, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down public financing in the general election since the system was created in 1976
Obama meets with then-President George W. Bush in the Oval Office on November 10, 2008.
After McCain was nominated as the Republican candidate, three presidential debates were held between the contenders spanning September and October 2008.In November, Obama won the presidency with 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain's 45.7% and 365 electoral votes to 173.to become the first African American president In his victory speech, delivered before thousands of his supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama proclaimed that "change has come to America". Thus began the transition period from the Bush to Obama administration.

BARACK OBAMA IS AN EXEMPLE TO FOLLOW!!!!!!!!

Sex Slave

Sexual slavery refers to the organized coercion of unwilling people into different sexual practices. Sexual slavery may include single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery sometimes associated with traditional religious practices, slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common, or forced prostitution.

In general, the nature of slavery means that the slave is de facto available for sex, and ordinary social conventions and legal protections that would otherwise constrain an owner's actions are not effective. For example, extramarital sex between a married man and a slave was not considered adultery in most societies that accepted slavery.

STRANGE CULTURE

Directed by
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Starring
Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote and Josh Kornbluth
Music by
The Residents
Running time
75 min.
Language
English

Strange Culture is a 2007 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. It stars Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan.
It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.
As Kurtz could not legally talk about the case, the film uses actors to interpret the story, as well as interviews with Kurtz and other figures involved in the case. Through a combination of dramatic reenactment, news footage, animation, and testimonials, the film scrutinizes post-9/11 paranoia and suggests that Kurtz was targeted because his work questions government policies. At the film's close, Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.
As of late May 2008, the Buffalo Prosecutor has declined to reopen the case within the 30 day window in which he was allowed to do so. So, Steve Kurtz is free.

Mother Teresa

Born: August 26, 1910(1910-08-26), Ottoman Empire (today's Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)

Died: 5 September 1997 (aged 87)
Calcutta, India

Nationality: Albanian

Occupation: Roman Catholic

Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.

She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however, she has also faced a diverse range of criticism. These include objections by various individuals, including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva Hindu Parishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work; this included baptisms of the dying, a strong anti-abortion stance, and a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty. Several medical journals also criticised the standard of medical care in her hospices and concerns were raised about the opaque nature in which donated money was spent.

Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.