Een eerbetoon aan Howard Zinn

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This is the place where WOII never ended.

The Britisch armed the minorities in Myanmar to fight against the Japanese. The Japanese armed the Burmese nationalists who took over the goverment of this country after independence (the leader of the Burmese independent army Aung San is the father of Aung San Suu Kyi). The civil war led tot he emergence of a strong Burmese army that took over in 1962 (the militairy coup). Much of Burmese history of the last 70 years was shaped by the battle fields that were created in WOII.

Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army BBC full documentary 2013

Burma: The forgotten war.

The Bridge On The River Kwai (NG)

Burmese Campaign in World War II - The Stilwell Road (1945)

Myanmar in Transition

Counting the Cost - Myanmar: A land of opportunity?

Myanmar & Oil-Gas Pipeline - China moves in (6 June 2013)

China's Myanmar problem

Rediscovering Myanmar (How India is embracing its long lost brother)

Mercedes-Benz Showroom Grand Opening in Yangon, Myanmar

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Burma's history and the current political situation in the country, focusing on China's involvement in Burma's politics and economy.

China, Burma, and the Kokang War of August 2009

Who Is The Drug King of the Golden Triangle?

Who really killed Aung San? Vol 1

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Slavery and the Making of America

Slavery and the Making of America is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.

(Indentured servant)

Slavery And The Making Of America

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Slavery by another name

“Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II” is a book by American writer Douglas A. Blackmon, that explores the forced labor of imprisoned black men and women through the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the American Civil War until World War II in the southern United States.

Slavery by Another Name PBS Documentary 2012)

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Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.

Freedom Riders (A Documentary on NonViolent Civil Right Movement in the US)

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Eyes on the Prize

A total of 14 episodes of Eyes on the Prize were produced over two seasons.

The first season, Eyes on the Prize I: America's Civil Rights Years 19541964, consists of six episodes, which premiered on January 21, 1987 and concluded on February 25, 1987.

The second season, Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965-1985, consists of eight episodes, which aired on January 15, 1990 and ended on March 5, 1990.

Since its debut, the series has been lauded for its depiction of the Civil Rights Movement. The documentary is used extensively in primary and secondary schools, as well as, other educational settings as a way to convey the experiences and struggle for civil rights in the United States.

Eyes on the Prize - 01- Awakenings, 1954-1956

Eyes on the Prize - 02 - Fighting Back, 1957-1962

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Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago.

Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow" - 2013 George E. Kent Lecture

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2014 03:32 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Hoe kan iemand die zoveel onzin verkondigd zoveel goede informatie verzamelen?

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Cynthia McLeod studied the life of Elisabeth Samson for over five years. Samson was a free Negress whose name occurs prominently in historical works on Suriname because she wanted to marry a white man (which was forbidden in the colony Suriname during the first half of the 18th century). The results of this research were first published as a study by the Faculty of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Utrecht. For eight years subsequently McLeod studied the social structure and life of that period, which allowed her to position Elisabeth as a rich free black person in this society dominated by prejudices and white supremacy. She then wrote the highly captivating novel: The Free Negress Elisabeth.

Lecture: UC Regents Professor Cynthia McLeod about Elisabeth Samson and the Surinamese Slave Society

100 jaar afschaffing slavernij Suriname (Documentaire uit 1963)

Uit de erfenis van slavernij: Plantageleven Curaçao 6/19

Uit de erfenis van slavernij: Plantageleven Suriname 7/19

Wij slaven van Suriname: Anton de Kom (1 van 6)

Suriname 1973-1982 Deel 1

The Battle for Suriname's Rainforest

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One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Swartz died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based on the belief that the articles should be freely available online. At the time he committed suicide, Swartz was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters called excessively harsh.

The Internet's Own Boy - Film on Aaron Swartz Captures Late Activist's Struggle for Online Freedom

Aaron Swartz: How We Stopped SOPA

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Prior to the demographic transition, fertility in northwestern Europe was controlled by limiting marriage. Marriage was regulated by landowners and the churches, and was not allowed unless a man had accumulated the resources necessary to support a family. Long periods of being landless, a servant, or an apprentice, precluded marriage. Once married, there was no control of fertility. But, only about half of adults were married at any given time, so fertility was about half of what it might have been.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Fertility Control in Europe
13:41 - Chapter 2. Human Sexuality and Birth Control in Victorian Europe
27:14 - Chapter 3. Individual Empowerment in the Fertility Transition
43:44 - Chapter 4. Explanations for Fertility Transition
58:54 - Chapter 5. Conclusion of Fertility Transition

9. Demographic Transition in Europe

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Op maandag 24 februari 2014 10:26 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Long periods of being landless, a servant, or an apprentice, precluded marriage.

The Unknown History of England's Domestic Servants (Full Documentary)

Secrets from the Workhouse Ep 1 HD

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 12:46 schreef waht het volgende:

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Heeft ook een leuk boek geschreven genaamd Marketing Rebellion (vrij te verkrijgen), over de manier waarop organisaties die voor hulpbehoevenden opkomen strijden voor de beperkte middelen die via overheid of liefdadigheid worden aangeboden. Zoals altijd klopt de rooskleurige publieke perceptie niet, in de basis is het strijd, het al dan niet nobele doeleinde verandert daar niets aan.

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Heraclitus' gedachte dat alles altijd verandert formuleerde Plato met de woorden "panta rhei" (alles stroomt). Later voegde men er "kai ouden menei" (en niets blijft) aan toe. Men illustreert dit door te stellen dat je nooit twee keer in dezelfde rivier kunt stappen, omdat de tweede keer dat je erin stapt, je, door de stroming, in ander water gestapt zult zijn dan de eerste keer. Zijn leerling Kratylos trok deze consequentie nog verder door en stelde dat je nooit één keer in dezelfde rivier kon stappen. Een ander voorbeeld is de cyclus van het lichaam: wanneer het lichaam sterft, verteert het en daaruit ontstaat nieuw leven, aldus Heraclitus.

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Nog belangrijker dan de leer van de verandering was voor hem echter de leer van de eenheid der tegendelen. Tegenovergestelde spanningen zijn toch op elkaar afgestemd. Zo heb je zonder dag geen nacht. Een pad omhoog is ook hetzelfde pad als het pad omlaag. Als er geen tegenspraak was, had je volgens Heraclitus geen werkelijkheid.

Wellicht was Heraclitus daarom een voorstander van oorlog, omdat in de strijd tegendelen samenwerken om een beweging te scheppen die harmonie is. "Du choc des opinions jaillit la lumière", zeggen de Fransen. Uit de botsing der meningen ontspringt de waarheid. Dit is om te zetten naar "twist en tegenspraak zijn onvermijdelijk".

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We speak to Yale University History Professor Timothy Snyder. His latest article for The New York Review of Books is "Ukraine: The Haze of Propaganda."

We also speak to retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern. He focused on Russian foreign policy for the first decade of his 27-year career with the Agency. He recently wrote an article titled, "Ukraine: One 'Regime Change' Too Many?"

Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, U.S. in Regional Crisis (1/2)

Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, U.S. in Regional Crisis (2/2)