Steve Sack is an American cartoonist who won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
With Chris Foote he draws the cartoon activity panel Doodles and he is editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he started in 1981.
The tradition began with the first National Women’s Day in 1909 and its roots are in campaigning for better pay and voting rights.
What is this year’s theme?
The theme this year is #PressforProgress.
The website says:
“We can’t be complacent. Now, more than ever, there’s a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity.
“A strong call to #PressforProgress. A strong call to motivate and unite friends, colleagues and whole communities to think, act and be gender inclusive.”
March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women
The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
International Women’s Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900’s – a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.
International Women’s Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women’s network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women’s Day.
Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.
“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights,” says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem.
Thus International Women’s Day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action – whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women’s Day has been occurring for well over a century – and continues to grow from strength to strength.
The gall … yet, I wasn’t surprised. This sorry excuse of a sub-human, so called president will say anything and do anything.
There’s no redeeming value in the empty shell of a ‘man’. He’s empty and incapable of compassion, empathy and honor.
You can mess with the USA but you don’t mess with my country, Puerto Rico.
I will call you on it every time I see how you lie and how you have treated the 3.4+ millions of American citizens who live in ‘your colony’ just because they are ‘brown people’.
I don’t have to be a genius to see it.
My intelligence quotient is much higher than yours!!
White House correspondent Jenna Johnson dissects the holes in Drumpf’s Puerto Rico relief video.
~Washington Post~
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~~Lin-Manuel Miranda talks new song for Puerto Rico relief, Trump tweets~~
~~Published on Oct 6, 2017~~
The man behind the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton” is using his talents to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria.
Lin-Manuel Miranda joins “CBS This Morning” to share the collaborative new song, “Almost Like Praying” and discuss the inspiration that brought it to life.
He also addresses why he tweeted the president is “going straight to hell.”
The undying spirit against adversity. My heart and soul have been aching since Hurricane María battered my country. The days after have been sadder as images come out of the utter devastation of a beautiful Caribbean Island.
The Puerto Rican spirit is battered but not broken after Maria.
“I would much rather be writing a song than jumping up and down and making noise.” Miranda said. He continued,
“And if the government’s response were commensurate with the people’s spirit and compassion we’d be on the road to recovery and ending this crisis so much faster.”
CLARE PALO
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the genius behind the musical “Hamilton,” has teamed up with Latin singers to create a touching song for Hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.
The Tony Award winner, 37, created “Almost Like Praying” in response to the severe need to relief in Puerto Rico, after islanders were left without running water, generators, food or electricity.
Miranda assembled an all-star cast of artists, including Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Camila Cabello, Gloria Estefan, Rita Moreno, among others.
Proceeds of the track titled, “Almost Like Praying,” will go to the Hispanic Federation’s Hurricane Relief Fund, which is also working with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to help bring supplies to Puerto Rico.
The municipalities of Puerto Rico number seventy-eight incorporated towns and cities. Each municipality is led by a mayor and divided into barrios, though the latter are not vested with any political authority.
Every municipality is governed by the Autonomous Municipalities Act of 1991 which establishes that every municipality must have a strong mayor with a municipal legislature.
~Wikipedia~
Every town in Puerto Rico is mentioned in this song.
The mastery of combining these names with the undertone of West Side Story’s María isn’t lost on any Puerto Rican.
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~~Almost Like Praying featuring Artists for Puerto Rico~~
Lin-Manuel Miranda
~~Published on Oct 6, 2017~~
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Almost Like Praying” was written and recorded to benefit hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico with proceeds benefiting The Hispanic Federation’s Unidos Disaster Relief Fund
Drumpf said Tuesday, September 5, he has a “great heart” and a “great love” for those who are protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, hours after his administration announced it was being rescinded.
The Drumpf administration announced Tuesday morning it will roll back DACA by March 5, giving Congress six months to come up with a permanent, legislative solution for young illegal immigrants currently shielded from the threat of deportation, called Dreamers, under the program.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the administration’s decision to rescind DACA, and the president’s remarks before the meeting on tax reform are his first public comments on the move.
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Johns Creek nine-year-old Angelica Hale surprised the audience on night two with a super mature voice for her age
Angelica Hale was the “girl on fire” when she performed Tuesday night, July 18, on America’s Got Talent.
The nine-year-old, who hails from Atlanta, Georgia, blew away the judges with her powerful performance of “Girl on Fire,” Alicia Keys’ hit from 2012.
Having delivered a flawless rendition of Andra Day’s “Rise Up” earlier in the season, Hale admitted she was nervous but excited. Though it didn’t show as her rousing performance had the crowd on its feet.
Her back story: when she was four years old, she lost her kidney function after double pneumonia. Fortunately, her mom provided her daughter a kidney and she has thrived.
Kidney Transplant Survivor
As Angelica covered Alicia Keys’ “This Girl Is On Fire”.
I’ve been re-discovering the history of my country, Puerto Rico. As I’m going through that process, I’ve thought about other countries which could have experienced similar events as a result of the endless desire of the United States to be a global empire.
My gut was correct!
One of the countries whose history I want to review and research is Hawaii. I found this interesting video that explains concisely some of the information that I’ve been searching for.
Always remember, there’s truth in yest!
I worked on the Puerto Rico video; here’s the Hawaii one mentioned by the creators.
~Hola amigos, here is our latest Honest Government Ad~
After the Visit Hawai’ i video, SO many Boricuas asked us to make one about the current situation in Puerto Rico; I’ve never received so many requests for a video – so we just had to do it!
I was fortunate to be able to chat and consult with a dozen of them over the past month, men and women of various ages … and whilst they had different views on statehood vs independence, they all agreed on one thing:
that Puerto Rico is a US colony.
That’s why I decided to focus on this (rather than weigh in on the subject of political status, which is for Boricuas to decide).
It Is What It Is 