Clara Zetkin (5 July 1857 - 20 June 1933) was an influential socialist German politician and a fighter for women's rights.
Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League.
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2012-09-03
Posted in Profiles & Bios
Simone Weil, was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.
Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.
She grew up in comfortable circumstances, as her father was a doctor.
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2012-09-03
Posted in Profiles & Bios
María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva".
She was born out of wedlock in the village of Los Toldos in rural Argentina in 1919, the fourth of five children. In 1934, at the age of 15, she went to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires, where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress.
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2012-09-03
Posted in Profiles & Bios
Rape is by no means a laughing matter.
But using humour to get a message across in a way that makes it easy for people to understand, share and support makes infinite sense.
Here are four superbly funny and tragically tongue-in-cheek takes on the legitimate rape issue:
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2012-08-25
Posted in Amazing Susan's Blog