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On November 6, 2011, ACS CAN premiered its second-ever national television ad on Meet the Press to ask Congress to remember the lives lost to cancer and the 12 million cancer survivors living in America at the time. ACS CAN produced the ad to push to Congress to make cancer a national priority when addressing the country’s budget deficit.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation.
White opposition to black voter registration was so intense in Mississippi that Freedom Movement activists concluded that all of the state's civil rights organizations had to unite in a coordinated effort to have any chance of success. In February 1962, representatives of SNCC, CORE, and the NAACP formed the Council of Federated Organizations ...
Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values. Six years later, the court struck down a federal ban restricting travel by communists in Aptheker v. Secretary of State, 378 U.S. 500 (1964). But the court struggled to find a way to protect national interests (such as national security) in light of these decisions.
The National Peace Council was founded after the 17th Universal Peace Congress in London in July and August 1908. [13] In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the novelist Baroness Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) after 1889 became a leading figure in the peace movement with the publication of her pacifist novel, Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms ...
Jeremy Gilley (born 1969) – as a result of Gilley's efforts, a General Assembly resolution was unanimously adopted by UN member states, establishing 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace – Peace Day. Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) – American anti-war protester, writer, poet
2009 United States: civil rights activist Frankie Muse Freeman: 1916 2018 United States: civil rights attorney, first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil Rights: Fannie Lou Hamer: 1917 1977 United States: leader in the American Civil Rights Movement; co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic Party
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency.