noted. 11/19/2011

• Police Chief Mike Reese said response to rape call delayed, but the call wasn't an emergency and came in Nov. 6 | OregonLive.com

  • A call involving a three-hour Portland police response to an alleged rape victim that Portland Police Chief Mike Reese brought up on live TV Thursday when asked how Occupy Portland events were distracting officers from other crimes was not considered a top priority emergency call, and it was made nearly two weeks ago.
    

• Marilyn Waring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  • Marilyn Waring, CNZM (born on 7 October 1952 in Ngaruawahia) is a New Zealand feminist, a politician, an activist for female human rights and environmental issues, an author and an academic, known for her contributions to feminist economics.

     

    A member of the conservative New Zealand National Party, she became at 23 the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament in 1975, for Raglan. In 1978 she became the MP for Waipa, and remained in the House of Representatives until 1984. As a member of Parliament, she served as Chair of the Public Expenditure Committee, Senior Government Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and member of the Disarmament and Arms Control Committee. Waring precipitated the New Zealand general election, 1984 by threatening to vote for the opposition-sponsored nuclear-free New Zealand legislation, leading Prime Minister Robert Muldoon to call a snap election, stating that Waring's "feminist anti-nuclear stance" threatened his ability to govern.^[1]

     

• Frantz Fanon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  • Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Martiniquo-Algerian^[1] psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. Fanon is known as a radical existential humanist^[2] thinker on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization.^[3]

     

    Fanon supported the Algerian struggle for independence and became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. His life and works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.^[4]

• Four Pillars of the Green Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  • The Four Pillars of the Green Party are a foundational statement of Green politics and form the basis of many worldwide Green parties. The Four Pillars are:

     
    • Ecological wisdom
    • Social justice
    • Grassroots democracy
    • Nonviolence
     

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