1980 Los Angeles, California, USA: Ric Ocasek of The Cars.
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October 29, 2019, Tel Tamir, Syria: IDPs, Internally Displaced Persons, that fled the conflict with Turkey in Syria and also local village residents receive food, water and blankets from Free Burma Rangers on October 29, 2019 in a neighborhood near the front line. Dave Eubank from Free Burma Rangers stated Call it Turkish zone of invasion, zone of genocide, ethnic cleansing anything but a safe zone. From an FBR tweet: This zone is one of ethnic cleansing with 300,000 people displaced. Many have been killed and wounded. Homes are destroyed. The Kurds are calling this area the genocide zone The safe zone is not safe by any definition. It is the zone of the Turkish invasion. We have seen their tanks and been fired upon by those tanks and their aircraft. There has been no ceasefire this whole time.
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Brazil’s Indigenous lands and protected areas have experienced a massive surge in fires this year. Environmental campaigners claim ongoing fires in both the Amazon and Cerrado regions of Brazil are being lit deliberately to clear land for raising animals and growing crops. Many blame the current Brazilian administration, which monitors indigenous populations, the 306,000 Amazonian indigenous people, whose 422 demarcated territories make up 23 percent of the Brazilian Amazon, according to the Instituto Socioambiental. The problem centers on deforestation through the systematic chopping down of trees, which are either logged or burned, mostly to convert the land for raising cattle and growing crops. Sometimes forest land is cleared by landowners, however with the current Amazonian fires, two-thirds were on private lands, and in August 2018 there were 3,500 fires in 148 indigenous territories. The Brazilian constitution offers protections to both the environment and indigenous peoples, but local agencies often fail to safeguard either. About 300 different indigenous groups exist in Brazil, and for decades many of them have fought for the demarcation of their lands. The Brazilian constitution describes indigenous territories as areas where indigenous people can live permanently, that is, where they can practice their cultures and traditions. The Amazon still generates the rain that sustains it, but the removal of trees prompts precipitation to decline and, combined with warmer temperatures that make the ground dryer, may trigger parts of the forest to start dying off. Scientists have warned that the world’s largest rainforest – whose ability to absorb more than 20% of earth’s carbon dioxide and release oxygen is a critical element of the fight against climate change – may be approaching a tipping point in which much of it turns to savanna. At that stage, it could start contributing to global warming by emitting instead of removing greenhouse gases.
President MAURICIO MACRI, vice president candidate MIGUEL ANGEL PICHETTO by his side, concedes defeat on the general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. Opposition leader ALBERTO FERNANDEZ from Frente de Todos party came ahead with 48% against MACRI’s Juntos por el Cambio’s 40%, marking the return of peronism to Office after four years of conservatism.
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October 20, 2019, Hong Kong, CHINA: Masked protester displays German National Flag as he parades through Nathan Road with thousands of protesters on Sundays march for freedom and democracy for Hong Kong.
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American Supreme Court 1999 Olmstead ruling changed the landscape for millions of disabled Americans – but some still wait. Promises Kept, Promises Unfulfilled by award winning ZUMA Press photojournalist Robin Rayne is an in-depth case study on how 20 years later this important law has helped many but due to bureaucracy many more are still without help the law promises and should ensure. Maurice Smith, 37, has been locked up in the forensic unit of East Central Regional Hospital in Augusta, Ga for more than a decade, but was never charged with a crime. Smith asks to asks anyone who will listen the question uppermost in his mind for the last 11 years: ”When am I getting out of here? Teresia Blackshear comforts her son Mikaiah Epps, 20, who lives in a temporary crisis home because of his intellectual disability and mental illness. ‘He can’t live at home because my husband fights with him,’ she said during a visit. Mikaiah spent one year in a county jail because no other facility was available, she said. He awaits a Medicaid waiver that would provide better supports, but there are more than 6,000 other Georgia residents also in the waiting list. Whenever family was at stake, Nafeesah Shaheed was a fierce and tireless fighter. Until a medical accident catastrophically starved her brain of oxygen, leaving her bedridden and no longer able to speak, the social worker with advanced degrees from Columbia University and Hunter College in New York devoted her life to rescuing and reuniting troubled families. She was wherever families were at risk. Her husband and her eight children resolved to bring her home. They succeeded with the help of lawyers at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Legal Aid originated. October 2020 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Olmstead case, this epic U.S. Supreme Court decision solidified the rights established in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that individuals with disabilities have the right to live their lives in the community and in the most integrated setting possible.
September 7, 2016 – Hollywood, CA, USA – Felicity Huffman stars in TV series American Crime.
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