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1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
Tim Wise
Timothy Jacob Wise (born October 4, 1968) is an American anti-racism activist and writer. Since 1995, he has given speeches at over 600 college campuses across the U.S. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for addressing and di... | 17,700 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
Wise attended public schools in Nashville, graduating from Hillsboro High School in 1986. In high school he was student body vice-president and a member of one of the top high school debate teams in the United States. Wise attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans and received his B.A. there, with a... | 17,701 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
turn down an offer of an honorary degree from Tulane after Wise's group informed him of the school's ongoing investments there.
# Career.
## 1990s.
After graduating in 1990, Wise started working as an anti-racism activist after receiving training from the New Orleans-based People's Institute for Survival an... | 17,702 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
of community-based organizations and political groups in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, including the Louisiana Coalition for Tax Justice, the Louisiana Injured Worker's Union and Agenda for Children, where he worked as a policy analyst and community organizer in New Orleans public housing.
In 1995, Wise began ... | 17,703 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
Relations Institute. Wise received the 2002 National Youth Advocacy Coalition's Social Justice Impact Award. He has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts, including "The Montel Williams Show", "Donahue", "Paula Zahn NOW", "MSNBC Live", and ABC's "20/20", arguing the case for affirmative action a... | 17,704 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
to foster and perpetuate white privilege, and that subtle, impersonal, and even ostensibly race-neutral policies contribute to racism and racial inequality today.
## 2010s.
In multi-racial societies such as the U.S., Wise argues that all people (white or people of color) will have internalized various elemen... | 17,705 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
his Facebook page describing the hate mail and death threats he receives, and addressing the people who troll his site. Many commenters criticized the commentary as reflecting white privilege, and questioned his role in the discussion of race in the United States. One commenter found Wise's remarks demeaning t... | 17,706 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
gotten me angry in the first place. I shouldn't have. I will strive to do better."
Wise starred in a 2013 documentary entitled "White Like Me", based on the book by Wise of the same name.
# Personal life.
After living in New Orleans for ten years, Wise relocated to his native Nashville in 1996. In 1998, he ... | 17,707 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
From an Angry White Male" (Soft Skull Press, 2008)
- "Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama" (City Lights Publishers, 2009) .
- "Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity" (City Lights Publishers, 2010) .
- "Dear White America: Let... | 17,708 |
1402534 | Tim Wise | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Wise | Tim Wise
ty Lights Publishers, 2010) .
- "Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority" (City Lights Publishers, 2012) .
- "Culture of Cruelty" (City Lights Publishers, 2013) .
- "Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America" (City Lights Publishers, 2015) .
- "Whit... | 17,709 |
1402539 | Mike Grady (actor) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike%20Grady%20(actor) | Mike Grady (actor)
Mike Grady (actor)
Michael Grady (born 6 February 1946) is an English character actor. He is probably best known for his comedy roles in films and TV.
# Early life.
Grady was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
# Career.
After a classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, his care... | 17,710 |
1402539 | Mike Grady (actor) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike%20Grady%20(actor) | Mike Grady (actor)
Read", "Dr Ballantyne", "Sweet Sixteen", 161 episodes of "Last of the Summer Wine" playing Barry Wilkinson, husband of Glenda, "Colin's Sandwich", "Up the Garden Path" and "Not with a Bang". His film credits include "Carry On Loving" (1970), "Up the Front" (1972), "Symptoms" (1974), "The Return of th... | 17,711 |
1402539 | Mike Grady (actor) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike%20Grady%20(actor) | Mike Grady (actor)
(1976), "Britannia Hospital" (1982), "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool" (1989) and "" (2011).
A regular performer on radio, Grady played Rob Pengelly in "Waggoner's Walk", a BBC Radio 2 soap opera. he has been involved in award-winning productions such as "Christianity at Glacier" for BBC Radio 3 and comed... | 17,712 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
Thomas Gabriel Fischer
Thomas Gabriel Fischer (born 19 July 1963), also known by his stage names of Tom G. Warrior and Satanic Slaughter, is a Swiss metal musician. He led the groups Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, and today is the frontman of the band Triptykon.
# Career.
Together with Bruce Day... | 17,713 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
metal trio, in June 1984.
In 1985, Fischer was asked to co-produce and sing on the first demo, titled "Death Cult", by fellow Swiss group Coroner. Fischer also wrote the lyrics for the recorded songs. Two of the members of Coroner formed part of Celtic Frost's road crew until 1986.
In 1987, man... | 17,714 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
too distracted with a personal relationship and let the other band members do what they wanted. Celtic Frost eventually disbanded in 1993.
A year after Celtic Frost was laid to rest, Fischer formed the EBM/industrial rock project Apollyon Sun.
In 2000, Fischer's book "Are You Morbid?: Into the ... | 17,715 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
the Pandemonium". The album, entitled "Monotheist", eventually was released in 2006.
Fischer also performed in Probot, Dave Grohl's collaborative project with various metal artists, on the song "Big Sky" in 2003.
In 2005, Tom produced vocal (performed by Martin Eric Ain) and guitar tracks (Erol... | 17,716 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
of the Sun" from the 1349 (a Norwegian black metal band) album "Revelations of the Black Flame" and also co-mixed the album. In 2009 he co-produced their album "Demonoir". In 2010, he was awarded in the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards for Inspiration. He currently plays an Ibanez H. R. Giger seri... | 17,717 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
to be active for the Giger estate and as the co-director of the Museum HR Giger.
# Discography.
## Hellhammer.
- "Death Fiend" (demo, 1983)
- "Triumph of Death" (demo, 1983)
- "Satanic Rites" (demo, 1983)
- "Apocalyptic Raids" (EP, 1984)
- "Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A.D." (compilation, 1990)
... | 17,718 |
1402578 | Thomas Gabriel Fischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Gabriel%20Fischer | Thomas Gabriel Fischer
on't Dance" (EP, 1987)
- "Cold Lake" (album, 1988)
- "Vanity/Nemesis" (album, 1990)
- "Wine in My Hand" (EP, 1990)
- "Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying" (compilation, 1992)
- "Monotheist" (album, 2006)
## Coroner.
- "Death Cult" (demo, 1985)
## Apollyon Sun.
- "God Leaves" (EP, 1998)
-... | 17,719 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
Dexter Blackstock
Dexter Anthony Titus Blackstock (born 20 May 1986) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played most notably for Queens Park Rangers and Nottingham Forest.
Having represented England at youth international level, Blackstock went on to play for the Antigua ... | 17,720 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
against Colchester United in the League Cup in 2004. He then scored in the local derby against Portsmouth in Southampton's 2–1 win, thus establishing himself in the squad.
He was sent out on loan twice; to Plymouth Argyle in February 2005 for twelve weeks, scoring 4 goals in 14 appearances, and to De... | 17,721 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
had to take over.
Although Blackstock had featured regularly under Burley, Southampton's purchase of Bradley Wright-Phillips meant that Blackstock had more competition for a role in Southampton's first team. As a result, Blackstock moved to Queens Park Rangers on 10 August 2006 for a fee believed to ... | 17,722 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
most regular partner as they struck up a good understanding with a combination of pace and power.
As the season progressed so did Blackstock, and it was in the final stages of the season that his performances started to blossom. Throughout the campaign his work effort was fantastic, but he had displa... | 17,723 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
scorer on 14 goals, one short of his personal target of 15. He came second in the player of the season awards, and his goal against Preston won goal of the season.
After scoring just six in 2007–08, Blackstock returned to form in 2008–09, and by the end of January had scored 12 goals in all competiti... | 17,724 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
at the City Ground on 11 April 2009.
On 22 July 2009, Blackstock signed a 4-year contract with Nottingham Forest for a seven figure fee. He scored his first goal of the season when he notched in a first round Football League Cup win over Bradford City on 12 August 2009. He scored his first goal of th... | 17,725 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
August 2011, there was reported interest from Blackpool in Blackstock.
He scored both goals, his first ones back after being injured, in a 2–1 win against Birmingham City on 25 February 2012. Blackstock signed a new four and a half-year contract with Forest on 24 January 2013.
### Leeds United loan.... | 17,726 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
from loan.
Blackstock missed the remainder of the 2013–14 season and the beginning of the 2014–15 season with the knee injury. He made his first return to action since suffering the injury on 2 September 2014, playing 45 minutes in a game for Forest's under-21 side. Blackstock eventually made his ret... | 17,727 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
a 3-1 loss against Norwich City on 15 October 2016.
On 12 July 2017 he agreed to leave Rotherham United by mutual consent.
# International career.
On 16 August 2007, Blackstock was called up to Stuart Pearce's first England under-21 squad as full-time manager. In the match against Montenegro on 7 S... | 17,728 |
1402521 | Dexter Blackstock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dexter%20Blackstock | Dexter Blackstock
r Antigua and Barbuda in a 4–0 friendly defeat to Trinidad & Tobago on 29 February 2012. He scored his first goal on 12 October 2012 in a 2014 World Cup qualifier against United States.
# Outside interests.
In 2009, Blackstock opened a football school for children aged from six to fourteen. Blacksto... | 17,729 |
1402553 | Simon Grynaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Grynaeus | Simon Grynaeus
Simon Grynaeus
Simon Grynaeus (born Simon Griner; 1493 – 1 August 1541) was a German scholar and theologian of the Protestant Reformation.
# Biography.
Grynaeus was the son of Jacob Gryner, a Swabian peasant, and was born at Veringendorf, in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. He adopted the name "Grynaeus" fro... | 17,730 |
1402553 | Simon Grynaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Grynaeus | Simon Grynaeus
visited Melanchthon at Wittenberg, and in 1524 became professor of Greek at the University of Heidelberg, being in addition professor of Latin from 1526. His Zwinglian view of the Eucharist disturbed his relations with his Catholic colleagues. From 1526, he had corresponded with John Oecolampadius, who i... | 17,731 |
1402553 | Simon Grynaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Grynaeus | Simon Grynaeus
and was present at the death of Oecolampadius (24 November 1531). He now, while holding the chair of Greek, was appointed extraordinary professor of theology, and gave exegetical lectures on the New Testament.
In 1534, Duke Ulrich called him to Württemberg in aid of the Reformation there, as well as for... | 17,732 |
1402553 | Simon Grynaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Grynaeus | Simon Grynaeus
and Protestants, he was the sole representative of the Swiss churches, being deputed by the authorities of Basel. He was carried off suddenly in his prime by the plague at Basel on 1 August 1541. A brilliant scholar, a mediating theologian, and personally of lovable temperament, his influence was great a... | 17,733 |
1402553 | Simon Grynaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Grynaeus | Simon Grynaeus
lid's Elements in ancient Greek.
# Family.
His son Samuel (1539–1599) was professor of jurisprudence at Basel. His nephew Thomas (1512–1564) was professor at Basel and minister in Rötteln, and left four distinguished sons of whom Johann Jakob was a leader in the religious affairs of Basel. The last of ... | 17,734 |
1402609 | Charles Julien Brianchon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20Julien%20Brianchon | Charles Julien Brianchon
Charles Julien Brianchon
Charles Julien Brianchon (19 December 1783 – 29 April 1864) was a French mathematician and chemist.
# Life.
He entered into the École Polytechnique in 1804 at the age of eighteen, and studied under Monge, graduating first in his class in 1808, after which he took up ... | 17,735 |
1402643 | 17 Days | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=17%20Days | 17 Days
17 Days
17 Days may refer to:
- "Seventeen Days", a 2005 album by rock band 3 Doors Down
- "17 Days" (song), a 1984 song by Prince | 17,736 |
1402629 | Petrov (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petrov%20(crater) | Petrov (crater)
Petrov (crater)
Petrov is an impact crater along the southeastern limb of the Moon. The crater is difficult to observe in this location, and visibility of this feature is affected by libration. The nearest crater of note is Chamberlin, just on the far side to the northeast. Somewhat farther to the west... | 17,737 |
1402629 | Petrov (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petrov%20(crater) | Petrov (crater)
by impacts, leaving an irregular ring of ridges and incisions along the inner wall. The smaller crater Petrov A intrudes slightly into the southern rim. Along the southeast, Petrov B is attached to the southeastern exterior and the two are joined by a narrow valley.
The interior floor of Petrov has bee... | 17,738 |
1402657 | Simpelius (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simpelius%20(crater) | Simpelius (crater)
Simpelius (crater)
Simpelius is an impact crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon. It lies to the north-northwest of the somewhat larger crater Schomberger, and east-southeast of the prominent Moretus.
The most distinctive aspect of this crater is the asymmetry of the inner wall, with the... | 17,739 |
1402657 | Simpelius (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simpelius%20(crater) | Simpelius (crater)
is the asymmetry of the inner wall, with the side being nearly twice as wide at the southern end as it is to the north. As a result, the level interior floor is offset to the north of the crater interior. The rim and inner wall are less sharply defined than those of Schomberger or Moretus, having bee... | 17,740 |
1402655 | Saafi Brothers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saafi%20Brothers | Saafi Brothers
Saafi Brothers
The Saafi Brothers are a downtempo music project from Germany, consisting of Gabriel Le Mar and Michael Kohlbecker. They also produce psychedelic trance, dub and ambient music.
The band has seen some success in the chill out spaces at large festivals. The name Saafi is derived from a San... | 17,741 |
1402655 | Saafi Brothers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saafi%20Brothers | Saafi Brothers
meaning "travelling musician". Alex Azary was once a member of the band.
They have released five albums since 1997. "Supernatural" with strong world music influences was released in 2007. Their fifth album Live "Live on the Roadblog" as a live recorded album.
# Discography.
- (1997) "Internal Code Err... | 17,742 |
1402615 | Binley Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binley%20Woods | Binley Woods
Binley Woods
Binley Woods is a suburban village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. The village lies on the eastern outskirts of Coventry, outside the formal city boundaries. Binley Woods is within the Borough of Rugby, although the town of Rugby is around seven miles (11 km) to the east. In the 20... | 17,743 |
1402615 | Binley Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binley%20Woods | Binley Woods
to settle and build homes in the area, which was then known as Binley Common. In the early years, the village lacked modern amenities such as paved roads, street lighting, piped water or mains drainage, though these were gradually provided from the 1930s onwards, some of the side roads however were not pav... | 17,744 |
1402615 | Binley Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binley%20Woods | Binley Woods
Binley Woods is close to some woods: Brandon Wood, next to the village, (see below)
A village church was established in Binley Woods in 1987, which doubles as the village hall.
# Facilities.
The village boasts one public house, The Roseycombe.
There is a village hall on Rugby Road.
There is also a pos... | 17,745 |
1402615 | Binley Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binley%20Woods | Binley Woods
, it is a designated ancient woodland having been mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was once run by the Forestry Commission, but since 1981 it has been managed by a local group, the "Friends of Brandon Wood", who in 2000 purchased the wood from the Forestry Commission, it is now run as a community... | 17,746 |
1402615 | Binley Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binley%20Woods | Binley Woods
ood", who in 2000 purchased the wood from the Forestry Commission, it is now run as a community wood and is open to the public.
# Appearances in media.
One of Binley Woods' claims to fame is that it was used as one of the locations for the filming of the 1990s BBC sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances"; exterio... | 17,747 |
1402612 | Howard Wolpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard%20Wolpe | Howard Wolpe
Howard Wolpe
Howard Eliot Wolpe (November 3, 1939 – October 25, 2011) was a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aim... | 17,748 |
1402612 | Howard Wolpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard%20Wolpe | Howard Wolpe
post-conflict leadership training programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia.
A specialist in African politics for ten of his fourteen years in the Congress, Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. As chair of the House Africa Subcommitte... | 17,749 |
1402612 | Howard Wolpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard%20Wolpe | Howard Wolpe
approach to development assistance in Africa that included the creation of the "African Development Fund".
In 1992, Wolpe's Kalamazoo-based district was eliminated, and most of its territory, including his home, was merged with the district of three-term Republican Fred Upton. The reconfigured district wa... | 17,750 |
1402612 | Howard Wolpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard%20Wolpe | Howard Wolpe
his offer. Wolpe then selected one of his former rivals in the Democratic primary, State Senator Debbie Stabenow (now a US Senator), as his nominee for lieutenant governor. The Wolpe-Stabenow ticket lost the general election to incumbent Governor John Engler and Lieutenant Governor Connie Binsfeld.
Wolpe ... | 17,751 |
1402612 | Howard Wolpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard%20Wolpe | Howard Wolpe
to the World Bank and to the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department.
Wolpe received his B.A. degree from Reed College, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a member of the boards of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Africare, Pathfinde... | 17,752 |
1402612 | Howard Wolpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard%20Wolpe | Howard Wolpe
and the management of ethnic and racial conflict.
Howard Wolpe was married to Judy Wolpe until her death in 2006. He died on October 25, 2011 at his home in Saugatuck, Michigan. Memorial services were held in Kalamazoo, Michigan in December 2011 and in Washington, D.C. in January 2012.
# See also.
- Lis... | 17,753 |
1402658 | Strategies Against Architecture III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strategies%20Against%20Architecture%20III | Strategies Against Architecture III
Strategies Against Architecture III
Strategies Against Architecture III (Strategien gegen Architekturen III) (1991-2001, double CD) is an album by Einstürzende Neubauten and was released in 2001.
This album featured a retrospective overview of the previous decade of the band's musi... | 17,754 |
1402658 | Strategies Against Architecture III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strategies%20Against%20Architecture%20III | Strategies Against Architecture III
"Implosion" (1:32)
- 9. "Scampi Alla Carlina" (2:45)
- 10. "Snake" (3:35)
- 11. "Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt" (8:08)
- 12. "The Garden" (5:13)
- 13. "Anrufe In Abwesenheit" (4:18)
- 14. "Querulanten" (0:58)
## Disc two.
- 1. "Architektur Ist Geiselnahme" (5:04)
- 2. "Helium" (... | 17,755 |
1402658 | Strategies Against Architecture III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strategies%20Against%20Architecture%20III | Strategies Against Architecture III
3. "Wüste" (3:49)
- 4. "Der Leere Raum" (1:59)
- 5. "Was Ist Ist" (4:17)
- 6. "I Wish This Would Be Your Colour" (8:11)
- 7. "Bili Rubin" (3:00)
- 8. "Die Interimsliebenden" (7:16)
- 9. "Installation Nr. 1 (John Is Mixing)" (3:46)
- 10. "Montblanc" (0:29)
- 11. "Open Fire" (4... | 17,756 |
1402645 | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezeiza,%20Buenos%20Aires | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires
Ezeiza, Buenos Aires
Ezeiza () is the capital city of the Ezeiza Partido within the Greater Buenos Aires area in Argentina. The city had a population of 160,219 in 2010. Ezeiza is one of the fastest-growing cities in Argentina; the city and its surroundings are known for the many gated communities... | 17,757 |
1402645 | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezeiza,%20Buenos%20Aires | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires
great-grandsons was Manuel Belgrano, one of the most notable leaders of the Argentine War of Independence. Gerónimo Ezeiza bought land nearby in 1767, and by the late 19th century his descendant José María Ezeiza became the largest landowner in the area. Following his death, Ezeiza's son-in-law don... | 17,758 |
1402645 | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezeiza,%20Buenos%20Aires | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires
Uno", was built just north of the airport that year to house its employees, and the Ricchieri Freeway was opened in 1952 to connect the new airport to the city of Buenos Aires. The National Atomic Energy Commission established the Ezeiza Atomic Center, a leading producer of radioisotopes for medica... | 17,759 |
1402645 | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezeiza,%20Buenos%20Aires | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires
in or near Canning, south of the city) from the 1990s onward. The "Bosques de Ezeiza" ('Ezeiza Woods') are likewise an important tourist attraction for the area.
Other important institutions include the Dr. Alberto Eurnekian Hospital (2008), and the Provincial University of Ezeiza - which opened i... | 17,760 |
1402645 | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezeiza,%20Buenos%20Aires | Ezeiza, Buenos Aires
oods') are likewise an important tourist attraction for the area.
Other important institutions include the Dr. Alberto Eurnekian Hospital (2008), and the Provincial University of Ezeiza - which opened its doors in 2012 as the first university dedicated to aeronautics in Latin America; a proposal w... | 17,761 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch
Leo Victor Panitch (born May 3, 1945) is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University. Since 1985, he has served as co-editor of the "Socialist Register", which describes itself as "an annual survey of move... | 17,762 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
research and writing on the spread of global capitalism. He argues that this process of globalization is being led by the American state through agencies such as the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Panitch sees globalization as a form of imperialism, but argues that the American Emp... | 17,763 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
In 2013, the book was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in the United Kingdom for best and most creative work in or about the Marxist tradition and in 2014 it won the Rik Davidson/SPE Book Prize for the best book in political economy by a Canadian.
Panitch is the author of more than 100 scholarly articl... | 17,764 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
Canada. He grew up in Winnipeg's North End, a working-class neighbourhood that, as he noted decades later, produced "many people of a radical left political disposition." His Jewish father, Max Panitch, was born in the southern Ukraine town of Uscihtsa, but remained behind in Bucharest, Romania with a ferve... | 17,765 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
from Rivne in the central Ukraine who had come to Winnipeg in 1921 at the age of 13 accompanied only by her older sister, Rose. Max and Sarah married in 1930. Panitch's older brother Hersh was born in 1934.
Panitch attended a secular Jewish school named after the radical Polish-Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz. ... | 17,766 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
Circle is freedom of thought and endeavour towards solidarity of the workers, faithfulness to the interests of its class in the struggle against oppression and exploitation." He added: "As such institutions multiplied and spread through the Jewish community, for a great many people and for a considerable nu... | 17,767 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
and its relation to the state. One of his teachers, Cy Gonick, introduced him to ideas about industrial democracy in which workers would control and manage their own workplaces. The 1960s generation of the New Left, Panitch writes, was impelled towards socialism by "our experience with and observation of th... | 17,768 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
Militancy" in 1976 by Cambridge University Press.
# Academic work, writing and activism.
Panitch taught at Carleton University between 1972 and 1984, and has been a Professor of Political Science at York University since 1984, serving as the Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1988-1994. In ... | 17,769 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
University of Toronto Press, Panitch became the General Co-editor of its "State and Economic Life" book series in 1979 serving in that role until 1995. In 1979, he was also co-founder of the Canadian academic journal, "Studies in Political Economy" (on whose advisory board he still sits).
He was also polit... | 17,770 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
circles, in particular the "Socialist Project" in Toronto (www.socialistproject.ca). He was inducted as an Academic Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995, and has also been a member of the Marxist Institute and the Committee on Socialist Studies as well as the Canadian Political Science Association.... | 17,771 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance"; and "In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives".
At the "Globalization, Justice and Democracy" symposium (Delhi University, November 11, 2010), Panitch, drawing on his book "In and Out of Crisis" (with Greg Albo and Sam Gi... | 17,772 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
free health care, education and public transit as a way of escaping capitalism's drive to turn public needs into marketable, profit-generating commodities.
# Making of global capitalism.
In 2012, Leo Panitch, with his friend and colleague Sam Gindin, published "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Politic... | 17,773 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
the idea that globalization was driven by multinational corporations that have become more powerful than nation states. For them, this claim ignores the intricate relationships between states and capitalism; states maintain property rights, oversee contracts and sign free trade agreements, for example, whil... | 17,774 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
outsourced others to cheaper and more specialized suppliers and relocated to the U.S. south — all as part of an accelerated general reallocation of capital within the American economy." They write that although it is always highly volatile, the robust and globally dominant U.S. financial system facilitated ... | 17,775 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
the Great Depression of the 1930s when the Roosevelt administration strengthened the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury while establishing a wide range of economic and financial regulatory agencies. U.S. entry into World War II led, moreover, to the growth of a permanent American military-industrial... | 17,776 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
Panitch and Gindin write that the American-financed post-war rebuilding of Europe and Japan, "through low-interest loans, direct grants, technological assistance, and favourable trading relations," created the conditions for investment by U.S. multi-national corporations and eventually for substantial forei... | 17,777 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
aiming for territorial expansion along the lines of the old empires, U.S. military interventions were primarily aimed at preventing the closure of particular places or whole regions of the globe to capital accumulation. This was part of a larger remit of creating openings for or removing barriers to capital... | 17,778 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
this informal, imperial system, Panitch and Gindin argue that other advanced capitalist states maintain their sovereignty, but must defer to American wishes when it comes to military interventions abroad. "The American state arrogated to itself," they argue, "the sole right to intervene against other sovere... | 17,779 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
and the higher wages that labour unions fought for and won. But, as the authors point out, capitalism is prone to crisis, and the 1970s produced "stagflation", simultaneously high rates of inflation and unemployment, stagnant economies and declining profits.
In 1979, Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal R... | 17,780 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
demanding greater "flexibity" in hours and working conditions and by holding down wages. Neoliberalism also led to an array of free trade agreements that promoted worldwide corporate investment and production.
According to Panitch and Gindin, the neoliberal era ushered in a second, highly-profitable "golde... | 17,781 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
fell. Panitch and Gindin write that the crisis was preceded by decades of growth in volatile financial markets that had become crucial to underwriting capitalist expansion. They argue that the U.S. encouraged the growth in financial markets with its accompanying risk-taking even though it was periodically r... | 17,782 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
of workers into U.S. capitalism. Since the 1980s, wages had stagnated and social programs had been eroded, reinforcing workers' dependence on the rising value of their homes as a source of economic security. The decisive role of American state agencies in encouraging the development of mortgage-backed secur... | 17,783 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
that the collapse of housing prices led to a sharp decline in U.S. consumer spending because housing represented a main source of workers' wealth. "The bursting of the housing bubble," they write, "thus had much greater effects than had the earlier bursting of the stock-market bubble at the turn of the cent... | 17,784 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
and the neoliberal state in the 21st century, Panitch notes the persistence of what he calls a "debilitating pessimism" about the possibility of realizing a better world. He writes that while some on the left, such as Tony Blair, chose what they called the politics of the third way—an attempt to reconcile s... | 17,785 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
their capacities for freedom and equality through social co-operation. He writes that "capitalism is unjust and undemocratic not because of this or that imperfection in relation to equality and freedom, but because at its core it involves the control by some of the use and development of the potential of ot... | 17,786 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
beginning with socialist parties, unions, movements, NGOs and universities; and alternative, communal ways of living that could extend the bonds of the nuclear family to "a broader supportive community."
Panitch argues a rekindling of the socialist imagination requires the recognition of the basic utopian ... | 17,787 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
activist and human rights advocate who teaches in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto. In 2006, Melanie Panitch earned a doctorate in social welfare from the City University of New York. Her thesis, on the history of the Canadian Association for Community Living, focused on mot... | 17,788 |
1402598 | Leo Panitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo%20Panitch | Leo Panitch
ublished as "Disability, Mothers and Organization: Accidental Activists".
The Panitches have two children. Maxim is a photographer, writer and Scrabble champion while Vida is a philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
Panitch speaks three languages, English, French and Yiddish. He a... | 17,789 |
1402670 | Stoney (lunar crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoney%20(lunar%20crater) | Stoney (lunar crater)
Stoney (lunar crater)
Stoney is an impact crater on the Moon, located in the southern part of its far side, approximately 47.5 kilometers in diameter. In 1970, it was named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature after Anglo-Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911). It... | 17,790 |
1402670 | Stoney (lunar crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoney%20(lunar%20crater) | Stoney (lunar crater)
tely 47.5 kilometers in diameter. In 1970, it was named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature after Anglo-Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911). It lies to the southeast of the crater Baldet and to the east of Bhabha.
The rim of this crater is sharp-edged but with... | 17,791 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is a secessionist movement in Nigeria, associated with Igbo nationalism, which supports the recreation of an indep... | 17,792 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
Uwazuruike, was arrested in 2005 and detained on treason charges; he was released in 2007. MASSOB also championed the release of oil militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who faced similar charges at the time. In 2009, MASSOB launched "the Biafran International P... | 17,793 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
MASSOB concentrated on organizing rallies and peaceful protests which culminated in hoisting Biafran flags at different locations in the South East. In recent years, this practice has been reserved mainly for celebrating key dates and events or in commemor... | 17,794 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
re-introduced the old Biafran currency into circulation. This sparked a lot of excitement at the time especially as one Biafran pound was said to exchange for two hundred and seventy naira at the border communities of Togo and the Republic of Benin. In his... | 17,795 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
in diaspora.
# Nigerian government response.
Since its inception, MASSOB has continually alleged mass arrests and killings of its members by government forces. According to the group's sanitation grassroot information spokesperson, Kelechi A Chukwu, the ... | 17,796 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
Few days later, President Goodluck Jonathan ordered Uwazuruike's release as well as all other MASSOB members in detention.
In June 2012, the Human Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria condemned the alleged killing of 16 members of MASSOB by security age... | 17,797 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
was shot. At St Charles Lwanga Catholic Church Okpoko,18 members were arrested and one shot and at Iba Pope Catholic Church, while at Awada, 11 members of MASSOB were arrested. At Awka, two MASSOB were arrested by the police according to the MASSOB former ... | 17,798 |
1402669 | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement%20for%20the%20Actualization%20of%20the%20Sovereign%20State%20of%20Biafra | Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
ecurity challenges posed by extremist groups like Boko Haram in the North; the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra in the South-East; and the Oodua People’s Congress in the South-West."
# See also.
- Movement for the Emancipat... | 17,799 |
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