Keep America Beautiful – Crying American Indian (PSA)

On Earth Day, 1971, nonprofit organization Keep America Beautiful launched what the Ad Council would later call one of the “50 greatest commercials of all time.” Dubbed “The Crying Indian,” the one-minute PSA features a Native American man paddling down a junk-infested river, surrounded by smog, pollution, and trash; as he hauls his canoe onto the plastic-infested […]

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“Is There Anybody Out There?”  ….  Watch “While You Were Distracted…”

PEOPLE WOULD BE MORE ALERT TO CORRUPTION, GOVERNMENT FAILURES AND LAWLESSNESS, IF THEY WERE NOT SO ABSORBED INTO CYBERSPACE. Fill-teer n coffee An Adrian Donoghue image …A note from Steven Spielberg   Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts […]

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“Ku Klux Klan – A Secret History” 

Featured omage: http://www.bluejersey.com/tag/5876/ The Ku Klux Klan /ˈkuː ˈklʌks ˈklæn, ˈkjuː/,[7] commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is the name of three distinct movements in the United Statesthat have advocated extremistreactionary positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration and—especially in later iterations—Nordicism,[8][9] anti-Catholicism[10][11] and antisemitism.[11]Historically, the KKK used terrorism—both physical assault and […]

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“1960s Race Riots in America” 

Demonstrators push against a police car on Aug. 12, 1965, after rioting erupted in the Watts district of Los Angeles. | AP A look at Los Angeles’ Watts riots 50 years later BY BRIAN MELLEY (AP) LOS ANGELES – It began with a routine traffic stop, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor and escalated […]

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“Native American Indians:  Stolen Lands and Broken Treaties” 

Featured image:  http://wizzyschool.com TREATIES MADE, TREATIES BROKEN By HELEN OLIFF |  Kelly wrote that colonization created the condition of poverty on many American Indian reservations today.  Many Americans have misperceptions that poverty should not exist on reservations because Native people’s basic needs are taken care of under treaties. Over 500 treaties were made with American Indian tribes, […]

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