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A Solidarity Movement for Gender Equality Put yourself on the map! UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson [ @EmWatson ], delivers her remarks during the HeForShe Special Event at United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 20, 2014. http://youtu.be/Q0Dg226G2Z8    

Book - Limits of Growth

[Source: Club of Rome] I was a school student when this first Club of Rome Report was widely heralded. I was in University studying Geography, History, Literature and Politics when I looked closely at its research and findings. I was teaching when the "20 year old" report was critiqued as flawed and plain wrong. As Limits to Growth concluded in 1972:…

Boy watching TV for the first time in an appliance store window, 1948 pic.twitter.com/2FfMXwnM2T — Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) June 21, 2014 and Today...  

The growing "two-tier" approach in public policy is no more evident than in the debate around Net Neutrality. John Oliver once again. http://youtu.be/fpbOEoRrHyU

The Broadford ANZAC Day Commemoration was once again a solemn and moving ceremony. The Broadford Branch of the RSL [Returned and Services League] is to be commended. To see so many hundreds of people attend, demonstrates both the high regard for the Broadford RSL and the importance with which this commemoration is held in the community. This particular event held…

Professor Richard Dawkins answers a question from the audience at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on Friday 15th February 2013. http://youtu.be/VmJ-j61tXvk

Vale Nelson Mandela. A giant of the 20th Century. "A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” "I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom"  http://www.nelsonmandela.org

The National Film and Sound Archive have released some gems! For those of us who can remember! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvVdaP6FvFQ&feature=share&list=PLCAD05A7F696C34B9 Link: National Film and Sound Archive

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