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The Silence=Death Project was a consciousness-raising group during the AIDS crisis. It was best known for its iconic political poster and was the work of a six-person collective in New York City: Avram Finkelstein , Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione, and Jorge Socárras.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
Griffith fled the attackers onto a nearby highway, where he was fatally struck by a passing car. [2] In 2014, civil-rights activist Al Sharpton recounted: "In the midst of the protest, someone yelled the slogan, 'No justice, no peace'. Others began doing the same, and from then on I adopted it as a rallying cry each and every time a grave ...
Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...
Many mottos and slogans around the world and throughout history have contrasted freedom and death. Some examples: The phrase "Vivre Libre ou Mourir" ("live free or die") was used in the French Revolution. [11] It was the subtitle of the journal by Camille Desmoulins, titled Le Vieux Cordelier, written during the winter of 1793–1794.
Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, said the slogan "sounds like the next Batman movie", [9] while journalist Jack Shafer called the slogan "heavy-handed". [10] Capitol Hill Citizen 's motto "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight" is intended as a jab at what Politico 's Ian Ward described as the Washington Post 's "self-important ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
10 December, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration, is celebrated annually as World Human Rights Day or International Human Rights Day. The commemoration is observed by individuals, community and religious groups, human rights organizations, parliaments, governments, and the United Nations .