Marching on Memphis Telethon

An annual Portland, Oregon-based telethon to raise awareness and support for the many great causes that unite us.

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"If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson." (Matt Groening)

#psychology #savethechildren #justdoit

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Power of attorney is everything it implies to be (especially, when in the hand of an attorney). This one made good on the promise of his motherland.

#marchFOR #six2uniteFOR (freedom, justice, peace, health, security, prosperity)

LIFE Photo Archive

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Living it up by example: In 2010 Bill Gates und Warren Buffett began to speak with fellow billionaires about giving back to humanity. Thus far, 193 of them 'promised' to invest at least half of their wealth into good causes (in a nutshell) ... 40 are said to have already done so.

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The only way to end the darkness is to turn on the light: sometimes with the click of a shutter, as in a timely Leica video-ad (not ‘officially sanctioned’ of course, nor was the Leica Freedom Train). A video about the video here: https://t.co/SD2SwBCKn5

#resurrection

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A peaceful march for freedom in 1989: mission accomplished long since. And it shows in their happy 2019 tourism campaign (which I helped field-produce last summer) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (formerly a part of Communist East Germany). Here’s a glimpse: https://t.co/n0sDyOXCxN

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Come to think of it. If Tolstoy’s interpretation of Christianity (stripped of the mystical doctrine...see previous post) helped Hindus and Muslims regain their freedom from a Christian nation, we see that truth survives both, religion and politics. Priceless.

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Many know that MLK adopted Gandhi’s peaceful approach to “fighting” for freedom. Few know that Gandhi asked Russian author Leo Tolstoy for guidance on the way, long before his Salt March.

#marchforchange #justdoit

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Only good signs in life if I understand what they all mean (often more confusing than in this case though).

#climatechange #savethechildren

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I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer If you want to make the world a better place. (Glen Ballard / Siedah Garrett) … saw myself in a mirror 40 years ago today.

#marchforchange #peace

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There have been many symbols for the cause of peace throughout the ages. The logo we know best today (designed by Gerald Holtom) emerged in 1958, when the Nuclear Disarmament Campaign began its march in London.
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#marchforchange #peace

Photo by Matthew T. Rader

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"Forward, out of error, Leave behind the night, Forward through the darkness, Forward into light!" Marching for her right to vote in 1913, Inez Milholland Boissevain didn’t live to see June 4, 1919.

What will be the new normal a hundred years from now?

US Library of Congress

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Contagious smiles and colors: The March for Science (formerly Scientists' March on Washington) is a recurring non-partisan event that raises awareness of the misrepresentation and exclusion of scientific knowledge in politics.

#marchforscience #SaveTheChildren

Vlad Tchompalov

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My hometown’s own industrialist hero: Ernst Leitz II defied the Nazis with a camera. From 1933 to early 1939 his “Leica Freedom Train” smuggled Jewish associates and their families to safety in the US and elsewhere.

#leica

Photo by Oskar Barnack 1913, Wetzlar, Germany

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Wrestler and agronomist Norman Borlaug introduced high-yielding grain varieties to developing nations. Providing better food security since 1965, he’s said to have saved over a billion people from starvation.

#philanthropy #savethechildren

Photo by University of Minnesota

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Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, organist. Musically inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach, he and his wife held fundraising concerts to open a hospital in Gabon, Africa, in 1913.

#philanthropy #savethechildren

Photo By Bundesarchiv, Germany

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@JosephNSanberg To me it means that now is forever the moment to embrace and enhance the ideals of freedom, peace and justice for all. Add health, security and prosperity and we have #six2unitefor or #six2uniteUS. What's the better hashtag for it?

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The road less traveled is the one yet to be seen.

Photo by Sho Hatakeyama

#savethechildren #savetheworld

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Breakout @VerveRecords star @jsondara just announced his Tales of America Fall Tour!

On sale this Friday 4/5 !

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To believe that my waste does not poison the fish I eat is one thing. To stop contaminating the pond (just in case I’m wrong) would be...intelligent?

#factsaresigns #marchforkids

Photo by Malcolm Lightbody