Tag: Inspiring
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, March 25 2011
One hundred years ago today, on March 25, 1911, 146 people—125 of them young women ages 13-23—died in the now-infamous fire at Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City. This video is about the brave women who died that day, and it actually made me cry. It took a couple of tries, but I made it through—and I’m so glad I did.
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Economic Fairness | Global | Inspiring | New York City | Shocking | Unions | videos | war on women
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 24 2011
Alexandra Wallace was just another undergraduate student at UCLA studying political science—until she posted a three-minute-long, scathingly racist vlog about Asian students.
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Adorable | Education | Hilarious | Inspiring | Jimmy Wong | Sexy | Touching | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 23 2011
How fast do protests spread globally? Faster than you think.
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Global | Inspiring | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, March 22 2011
Does “mad as hell” describe how you feel today, and everyday? Would you yell it from the windows and the rooftops?
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Beautiful | Inspiring | Shocking | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, March 22 2011
It’s been eight years and five assassination attempts since women’s rights activist and former Afghan Parliament member Malalai Joya’s courageous speech against the Taliban’s unfair treatment of women and the corruption of warlords and the Karzai government.
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Afghanistan | Global | Inspiring | Malalai Joya | videos | war on women
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, March 21 2011
Fifth grader Jocelyn Lam was sick of seeing her teachers getting let go. One day after school, she went home and cracked open her pig-shaped piggy bank.
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Education | Inspiring | Text
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, March 18 2011
John F. Kennedy Jr.’s short, powerful speech before the UN General Assembly in 1961 still rings true today.
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Democrats | Inspiring | JFK | Politics | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 17 2011
We were hoping someone would write a nice Rachel Maddow love song one of these days—but we never in our wildest dreams imagined it’d be anything like this. Check it out:
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Adorable | Hilarious | Inspiring | Mark Black | Rachel Maddow | Sexy | Touching | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 17 2011
The guy who asked teacher Taylor Mali, “What do you make?” at a dinner party certainly never thought he’d get this answer.
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Economic Fairness | Education | Hilarious | Inspiring | Shocking | Taylor Mali | teachers | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 17 2011
According to the ladies of Second City Chicago, people who oppose basic funding for women’s health care will be left with one option.
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Hilarious | Inspiring | Planned Parenthood | Second City Chicago | Sexy | videos | war on women