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For many years I have taken the many opportunities that I have had to support a number of people and organisations who work tirelessly to create a better world for people and animals. They devote large amounts of time and energy towards each of the causes they work on and when ever possible I share links to their web pages so that other likeminded people can learn and support them in any way possible.Because is a word I chose to use as I felt it could describe in two ways what I wanted to convey.Firstly - Be the Cause that you support. Do what you can and contribute to the success of something...

Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex". But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary women began using the law to get justice on the job - and some took their fights all the way to the Supreme Court.

When Jewher Ilham's father, Ilham Tohti, an internationally known advocate for peaceful dialogue between his Uyghur people and Han Chinese, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of "separatism," and later sentenced to life in prison, Jewher was forced to begin a new life apart from her family in a new country. There, she found her voice as an advocate for her father, and for Uyghur people being forced into concentration camps by the Chinese government.

In 1991, Anita Hill told the world that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Thirty years later, we’re still feeling the ripple effects of that testimony—in our politics and our lives. This four-part podcast explores the enduring impact of that moment, with new insights and on-the-ground stories from guests like Tarana Burke, Kerry Washington and Professor Hill herself, in her first-ever public conversation with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified 27 years after her.

If someone asked you to name a queer icon, who would you say? Cher? Britney? Whitney? Mariah? What about…Bruce Springsteen? In Because the Boss Belongs to Us, Jesse Lawson and Holly Casio try to get Bruce Springsteen recognised as the queer icon they know that he is. Over 7 episodes, they’ll be addressing important questions, like: Who wore it best? Bruce Springsteen or K D Lang?What is the best Bruce song for your sex playlist? Is Bruce Springsteen… the Ultimate Emo? And what the hell are they—trans / activist / abolitionist / DIY punk / drag king / working class / weirdos—doing,...

This podcast is dedicated to teaching you the history that you didn't know you didn't know. Here you will learn about the brave men and women that shaped this nation into what it is today presented to you. In short, easy to listen to episodes that are suitable for all ages.

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Exploring Genealogy and Family History. Family Historian Genealogist Brian Nash speaks to guests about their family or local history stories. As a genealogist, Brian focuses on the people, places, and events that make up people's family stories. Brian is a genealogist who started working on his own family tree over 30 years ago and has been able to trace one family line back to as early as 950 AD. Brian traces his own family from Scotland and Ireland to the New World where they wound up in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th centuries. In some cases, they fled their homela

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