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Amy Siskind (born December 16, 1965) is an American activist and writer. She is the author of The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year (2018) and organizer of the We the People March .
[1] Siskind, who is well known for publishing The Weekly List, an online chronicle of what she calls the "not normal" events happening under the Trump administration, came up with the idea for the march over the summer after realizing that there was "a broad sense of frustration" among voters following the midterm elections in November 2018 ...
Siskind is a German-Jewish surname meaning "sweet child", thought to have originated during the early nineteenth century period when German officials assigned surnames to Jews. [1] People having this surname include: Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), a renowned American photographer; Amy Siskind (born 1965), an American activist and writer
The academic study of new religious movements has been noted to be unusually hostile, with scholars holding strong opinions as to the influence of cults on society. [1] [2] A 1998 article in the magazine Lingua Franca reported on the acrimony of the scholarly debate on the topic; in the "cult-anticult debate", [3] scholars have been described as exhibiting a "toxic level" of suspicion toward ...
Gavin Miles McInnes [16] was born on 17 July 1970 [17] in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, [18] the son of Scottish parents James McInnes, who later became the Vice-President of Operations at Gallium Visual Systems Inc. – a Canadian defence company – and Loraine McInnes, a retired business teacher. [19]
Some versions of the map include the Canadian province of Alberta, known for its conservative politics, in Jesusland. The Jesusland map is an Internet meme created shortly after the 2004 U.S. presidential election that satirizes the red/blue states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland". [1]
The success of 10,000 Maniacs, Tracy Chapman, and Suzanne Vega encouraged Epic Records to enlist other folk-based female singer-songwriters; Epic signed the duo in 1988. . Their first major-label release, also named Indigo Girls, which scored No. 22 on the album chart, included a new version of "Land of Canaan", which was also on their 1985 EP album and on Strange Fir
Jong-Fast is the daughter of novelist Erica Jong [2] and author Jonathan Fast, and the granddaughter of writer Howard Fast. [3] She was raised in a Jewish family, though she has mentioned that her nanny "raised [her] Catholic," despite not partaking in the sacraments. [4]