Republicans seem to be itching for another war …. wonder why!
BERNIE SANDERS
(I-Vermont)
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms.
Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.
This file photo taken from video by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network on May 12, 2014, shows the missing girls alleged to be abducted on April 14 from the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria.
Today is the 84th day since 273 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped. We ask that all of you, from whatever city/country you live, to continue to march and hold rallies. Continue to call your government leaders and tell your friends. We will not be silenced.
Every day the family at the Bring Back Our Girls headquarters in Abuja march and rally by the hundreds.
MAIDUGURI (July 7, 2014 (AFP) – More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday, but more than 200 schoolgirls are still being held by the Islamists.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday.
A high-level security source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the escape.
#BringBackOurGirls
Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno who are working closely with security officials, told journalists the women escaped when their captors went out to fight.
“They took the bold step when their abductors moved out to carry out an operation,” he said.
Clashes took place between the Islamists and the army late Friday after an attack by the insurgents in the town of Damboa, where 53 of them and six soldiers were killed, the army had said. The rebels attacked barracks and a police station while most of the troops were out on patrol in surrounding villages.
Spokesmen for the armed forces or the government could not be reached Sunday for comment on the latest developments in the kidnapping cases.
ZUMA Press.com: Alfa Cheung, Xinhua
Protesters hold a rally on May 13, 2014, to demand the return of about 200 missing school girls abducted by Boko Haram in the state of Lagos, Nigeria.
~~More than 200 still missing~~
Activists of the Bring Back Our Girls movement meanwhile tried to march on the presidential palace in Abuja Sunday to pressure the government over the fate of more than 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, in Borno, on April 14, but were asked by security forces to turn back.
“It’s 84 days today that the girls have been abducted,” activist Aisha Yesufu told the press. “We have been coming out for 68 days and nobody has really listened to us,” Yesufu told reporters after the march.
That is why the group “decided that we should just take the protest back to the president so that he will know that we are still out there after the 68 days that we have been coming out daily”.
Of the 276 girls seized in April, 57 have escaped while 219 are still missing.
Villagers from the town where Boko Haram abducted the girls appealed to the United Nations on Friday to intervene because of the worsening violence in their region.
The community claimed militants were running amok in their area, seemingly with impunity. A state of emergency imposed in Borno and neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa in May last year forced its fighters out of urban centres.
But that has come at the expense of protecting people in the countryside, where attacks have increased dramatically, almost on a daily basis, analysts say.
Amnesty International claimed in May that military commanders in Borno had advance warning of the Chibok abduction but could not muster enough troops to send.
The insurgents’ kidnap of the schoolgirls in April provoked international outrage and drew unprecedented global attention to the Islamist uprising.
Security experts say the overstretched and under-resourced military is incapable of waging an effective counterinsurgency against the Boko Haram militants, who have killed thousands in their five-year campaign for an independent Islamic state in the north.
Reason for the kidnapping and immediate inaction of the government
“sabotage, poor governance, lack of leadership and pervasive corruption”
~”Bring Back Our Girls”~
Music Video
~~Published on May 14, 2014~~
Song Written and Produced by Andrew Lane
Sung and Performed by Stephanie Ferrett
Video Shot & Directed by The Dream Team Directors, Bayou Bennett & Daniel Lir (http://www.dreamteamdirectors.com)
Edited by Mike Dusenka
Andrew Lane for Drew Right Music and Berry/Lane Film/Music
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Isn’t it a general rule that the longer it takes to investigate, to defuse a situation, to find a missing person, the lower the probability of reaching a favorable outcome?
Today is the 56th day since 273 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped. We ask that all of you, from whatever city/country you live, to continue to march and hold rallies. Continue to call your government leaders and tell your friends. We will not be silenced.
Every day the family at the Bring Back Our Girls headquarters in Abuja march and rally by the hundreds.
The girls are still missing. World Citizens need to step forward and take further action. There are three simple things that we can do to help the girls. Will you take the pledge to help?
1. Write/Call you government leaders. Even if you’ve written them previously, we need your help NOW – do this again and again. Every day. Set an alarm for yourself in the morning and then call them/write them every day of the week. We need to tell our world leaders that we want them to do more to help Nigeria.
2. Organize a rally/march/vigil. You can do this. It only takes one person to raise awareness. Choose location/time/date and we will help you. We need to have events around the world through out the week reminding our community that the girls are still missing If everyone of you held an event on June 16th the world would have to pay attention.
3. Tell all your friends and family to change their profile pic on social media to raise awareness. Ask your friends to write/call their govt leaders and organize/attend rallies
“sabotage, poor governance, lack of leadership and pervasive corruption”
~~Bring Back Our Girls~~
~~Published on May 1, 2014~~
On April 14, over 230 school girls were kidnapped from their dorm rooms by terrorists in Nigeria. The world has done nothing to rescue them.
This video was made by Louis Adeyemi, a young Nigerian Director (@thelouisking). The voice you hear is of a father of one of our kidnapped girl’s. The images are not of the actual girls that were kidnapped.
They are are Nigerian girls and used symbolically.
Join us on twitter/rescueourgirls and facebook.com/bringbackourgirls and let uss march on social media to raise awareness.
Write and call your leaders. Now. #bringbackourgirls
It’s about the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world. It’s about getting girls on to the global development stage and driving massive resources to them.
The girl effect launched in 2008 accompanied by a film that caught the imagination of people the world over. The message of these films remains the same.
Watch them and get the simple case for supporting girls here.
Girleffect.org exists to help development practitioners and the wider girl effect community continue to make a powerful case for supporting girls, and to equip them to do the best work with and for girls. Explore the site and you’ll find a whole range of tools and resources ready for you to use.
GIRLS CAN PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN SOLVING THE MOST PERSISTENT DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS WE FACE IN THE WORLD TODAY.
When we include girls in education, health and economic investment we have a better chance of preventing issues such as child marriage, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and breaking the inter-generational cycle of poverty.
But girls can’t do it alone; they need the world to listen to them and invest in their potential.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GIRL EFFECT?
The girl effect is a movement. It’s about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves, their families, their communities, their countries and the world. It’s about making girls visible and changing their social and economic dynamics by providing them with specific, powerful and relevant resources.
Created by the Nike Foundation in collaboration with the NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Coalition for Adolescent Girls, the girl effect is fuelled by hundreds of thousands of girl champions who recognise the untapped potential of adolescent girls living in poverty.
HOW DOES THE GIRL EFFECT ADDRESS POVERTY?
In India, adolescent pregnancy results in nearly $10billion in lost potential income per year. In Uganda, 85 per cent of girls leave school early, resulting in $10billion in lost potential earnings. By delaying child marriage and early birth for one million girls in Bangladesh, the country could potentially add $69billion to the national income over these girls’ lifetimes.
It’s an investment we cannot afford to overlook.
SOUNDS GREAT – WHAT CAN I DO?
Make the case for girls. We need more people to get the word out, and we need more advocates for change in government, business, healthcare, education and at grassroots level. This is where you come in.
THIS IS YOUR SITE
THIS IS HOW YOU CAN USE IT
Here on girleffect.org you’ll find the information and tools you need to unleash the girl effect. You’ll discover case studies that show the girl effect in action, plus toolkits, images, videos and insights documents to download and use in your own work. And this is just the start. Take our content. Use it. Share it. Join the movement. Change the world.
~~The girl effect: I dare you to see I am the answer~~
~~Uploaded on May 22, 2008~~
The most powerful force of change on the planet is a girl.
The girl effect is about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves, their families, their communities, their countries and the world … http://www.girleffect.org/
We ALL are connected through HUMANITY!!
This all ties together. The girls have the power. Let’s help them.
This started because the girls wanted to be educated!!
“sabotage, poor governance, lack of leadership and pervasive corruption”
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