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Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People left homeless by the earthquake queue at the ICRC office to collect relief supplies.
© ICRC / M. Kokic / v-p-ht-e-00414h / www.icrc.org
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 4, 2023) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Airman Trion Hamilton lands a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 362 (Reinforced), 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), June 4, 2023, off the coast of Camp Pendleton, Calif. The heavy-lift helicopter can carry a 26,000-pound Light Armored Vehicle, 16 tons of cargo 50 miles and back, or enough combat-loaded Marines to lead an assault or humanitarian operation. The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, comprised of amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) and amphibious transport docks USS Anchorage (LPD 23) and John P. Murtha, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet with the embarked 13th MEU. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Samoluk)
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
BLM Idaho NPLD volunteers clean-up the Menan Butte Sand Mountain Recreation Area.
Photo by BLM Idaho
Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Haitian National Red Cross Society volunteer provides first aid following a road accident.
© ICRC / M. Kokic / v-p-ht-e-00549h / www.icrc.org
Osh, Kyrgyzstan. An employee of the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan hands out food parcels.
© ICRC / M. Kokic / v-p-kg-e-00041h / www.icrc.org
The 2022 BBC Make A Difference Awards Presentation dinner at the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Brayford Pool Lincoln. A lovely evening, great to meet other nominees and some BBC editors and presenters.
BLM Idaho NPLD volunteers clean-up the Menan Butte Sand Mountain Recreation Area.
Photo by BLM Idaho
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Youth volunteers from USU Eastern SUN Center and BLM Price Field Office employees gave the popular Price Canyon Recreation Area a face lift. Volunteers repainted tables in the large group sites, picked up garbage and learned about outdoor ethics while enjoying Utah's beautiful fall colors and weather.
Photo by BLM Utah.
The children return to the orphanage at noon where they'll stay until 2. All help in some way with preparing, serving, or cleaning up. Today's mid-day meal is typical: boiled potato and red beans.
Gisimba Memorial Center
Nyamirambo, Kigali. Rwanda. Afrika.
June 29, 2006.
BLM Idaho NPLD volunteers clean-up the Menan Butte Sand Mountain Recreation Area.
Photo by BLM Idaho
Outside Democratic Debates: Charleston, S.C. - July 2007
03 NOV. 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>
You don't live in Ohio. You don't live in Florida. The chance is pretty small that New York will decide the presidential election. So: Why vote?
Here's why. This list is important—so please read it, and then pass it along. And remember: To find out where to vote, what you need to bring, or when the polls close, click here: www.voteforchange.com.
The Top 6 Reasons To Vote In New York
Or: Why It Still Means A Thing Even If It Ain't Got That Swing
Big margin = big mandate. The popular vote doesn't put anyone in the White House, but it affects what presidents can do when they get there. Want Obama to be able to actually do the stuff he's been talking about? Pass universal health care? End the war? Then we need a landslide.
The other things on the ballot matter! For example: Congress. Without more support in the House and Senate, Obama will have a hard time getting progressive laws passed. Plus, there are other important local races and ballot questions in some places.
If you don't vote, everyone can find out. Voting records are public. (Not who you voted for, just whether you voted.) Pretty soon, finding out whether you voted could be as easy as Googling you.
Help make history. You could cast one of the votes that elect the first African-American president. If we win, we'll tell our grandchildren about this election, and they'll tell their grandchildren. Do you really want to have to explain to your great-great-grandchildren that you were just too busy to vote in the most important election in your lifetime?
In New York, you can vote Obama on the Working Families line (Row E). Barack Obama will appear on your ballot twice in New York—first under the Democratic Party, and then again on Row E, the ballot line of New York's growing progressive third party. Voting for Barack Obama on the Working Families Party line counts exactly the same for the presidential race—and it also strengthens one of the most important efforts in the country to push Democrats to be more bold and progressive.
People died so you'd have the right to vote. Self-government—voting to choose our own leaders—is the original American dream. We are heir to a centuries-long struggle for freedom: the American Revolution, and the battles to extend the franchise to those without property, to women, to people of color, and to young people. This year, many will still be denied their right to vote. For those of us who have that right, it's precious. If we waste it, we dishonor those who fought for it and those who fight still.
Live your values. Love your country. Vote.
Click here for information about where to vote, what to bring, and when polls close:
Thanks for all that you do.
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November 2, 2008
Tomgram: The End of a Subprime Administration
[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As Election 2008 approaches, this seems like an appropriate time to look back, but also to say goodbye to all that. Yes, we have almost three months of the Bush administration to go; yes, so much that George W. did will be with us for an eternity. Still, the moment needs to be marked. I've done my best below. For new TomDispatch readers, in particular, let me suggest another way to mark this boundary moment: pick up a copy of The World According to TomDispatch: America in a New Age of Empire. It will bring you up to speed on this site, remind you of just what we've gone through since September 11, 2001, and offer you a sense of the ways in which our world has been changed that no new administration will be capable of ignoring. Tom]
Foreclosed
The George W. Bush Story
By Tom Engelhardt
They may have been the most disastrous dreamers, the most reckless gamblers, and the most vigorous imperial hucksters and grifters in our history. Selling was their passion. And they were classic American salesmen -- if you're talking about underwater land in Florida, or the Brooklyn Bridge, or three-card monte, or bizarre visions of Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicles armed with chemical and biological weaponry let loose over the U.S., or Saddam Hussein's mushroom clouds rising over American cities, or a full-scale reordering of the Middle East to our taste, or simply eternal global dominance.
When historians look back, it will be far clearer that the "commander-in-chief" of a "wartime" country and his top officials were focused, first and foremost, not on the shifting "central theaters" of the Global War on Terror, but on the theater that mattered most to them -- the "home front" where they spent inordinate amounts of time selling the American people a bill of goods. Of his timing in ramping up a campaign to invade Iraq in September 2002, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card infamously explained: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
Indeed.
From a White House where "victory strategies" meant purely for domestic consumption poured out, to the Pentagon where bevies of generals, admirals, and other high officers were constantly being mustered, not to lead armies but to lead public opinion, their selling focus was total. They were always releasing "new product."
And don't forget their own set of soaring inside-the-Beltway fantasies. After all, if a salesman is going to sell you some defective product, it always helps if he can sell himself on it first. And on this score, they were world champs.
The Richfield Field Office partnered with the Rocky Mountain ATV Jamboree to pick up trash off of public lands surrounding the Paiute Trail. A total of 212 participants collected 183 bags of trash from September 21st to September 25th.
Photo by BLM Utah.
Youth volunteers from USU Eastern SUN Center and BLM Price Field Office employees gave the popular Price Canyon Recreation Area a face lift. Volunteers repainted tables in the large group sites, picked up garbage and learned about outdoor ethics while enjoying Utah's beautiful fall colors and weather.
Photo by BLM Utah.
The BLM Price and Moab field offices joined forces with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, the John Wesley Powell Museum, the Grand County Historical Preservation Commission and talented volunteers to document a historic stone cabin. This cabin, located in Green River, is scheduled to be nominated to the National Historic Register of Historic Places!
Photo by BLM Utah.
Peace sings all to gospel songs on her transistor radio.
Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 15, 2006.
Resurfacing the BLM Eagle Trail leading to a Gunston Elementary School outdoor classroom near Lorton, Virginia.
Photo by BLM Eastern States.
At the end of the day, everyone gathered for the famous dutch oven cook off feast. It was a great way to end a day of hard work.
Photo by Richie Bednarski, Friends of Nevada Wilderness.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Christina Noble OBE is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Her passion for children’s rights is rooted in her own upbringing of homelessness and desperation.
In 1989 she set up the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since then, the foundation and its projects have grown significantly in both Vietnam and Mongolia, it protects children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation and provides education and basic care for children in need. This event was an inspiring evening with a woman who has dedicated her life to making a difference.
For more information, please visit: Christina Noble Children’s Foundation www.cncf.org.au/
Event held Wednesday 3 August 2011, 6.30 pm
For information about Deakin University or the Master of International Studies please visit www.deakin.edu.au
The 2022 BBC Make A Difference Awards Presentation dinner at the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Brayford Pool Lincoln. A lovely evening, great to meet other nominees and some BBC editors and presenters.
Red is the colour of passion, passion that I believe is within all of us. The walls and halls of the home should not be splattered in red.
The men and women subjected to sexual violence and domestic violence should not see the colour red and less the intent is love.
Far too many homes around...
There are thousands of street children in Butare. Everyday they scavenge for food. Some make their home in trash heaps boardering the streets. At night, these children burrow beneath blankets of rotted refuse, heads at odd angles to the highway.
Some of these children are orphans, others come from broken or abusive homes, a sobering fact which can turn street life into near sanctuary.
Butare, Rwanda.
Afrika.
July 8, 2006.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Speaking out against sexual violence and victim blaming is something we can all do!
It's not only up to the people that are directly affected by sexual violence to speak out, it's up to all of us as community to take a stance and speak out.
Sexual violence in our community touches more lives and...
Christina Noble OBE is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Her passion for children’s rights is rooted in her own upbringing of homelessness and desperation.
In 1989 she set up the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since then, the foundation and its projects have grown significantly in both Vietnam and Mongolia, it protects children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation and provides education and basic care for children in need. This event was an inspiring evening with a woman who has dedicated her life to making a difference.
For more information, please visit: Christina Noble Children’s Foundation www.cncf.org.au/
Event held Wednesday 3 August 2011, 6.30 pm
For information about Deakin University or the Master of International Studies please visit www.deakin.edu.au
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
On International Women’s Day, Convent of Mercy, ‘Alpha’, hosted Career Day for 250 eager-minded grade-nine students. The Jamaica Productivity Centre […]
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I know I am not easy...
but I am worth it.
I accept you, just as you are,
I love you, no matter what,
and I will never let go of your hand.
My quirks and insecurities are small
in comparison to my love for you.
You are my safe place.
I can only hope I am yours, as well.
Your love brings calm to my chaos
and gives me the foundation to
continually strive to be a better person.
She's a Gorgeous Mess of Chaos
made entirely of #loveandcontradictions
#shareyourstory
#MakeADifference
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. - Nelson Mandela
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Original photo credit: Carola68
NPLD volunteers improve Gunston Elementary School courtyard habitat near Lorton, Virgina.
Photo by BLM Eastern States.
Kevin vists his sisters. He's just arrived from the University.
Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 15, 2006.
Applications for our annual Zoe Loren Foundation scholarships are now open. Let us help you achieve your goals, or someone you know to achieve their goals! Click on this link to apply www.zoelorenmakeadifference.org/applications #MakeADifference
Christina Noble OBE is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Her passion for children’s rights is rooted in her own upbringing of homelessness and desperation.
In 1989 she set up the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since then, the foundation and its projects have grown significantly in both Vietnam and Mongolia, it protects children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation and provides education and basic care for children in need. This event was an inspiring evening with a woman who has dedicated her life to making a difference.
For more information, please visit: Christina Noble Children’s Foundation www.cncf.org.au/
Event held Wednesday 3 August 2011, 6.30 pm
For information about Deakin University or the Master of International Studies please visit www.deakin.edu.au