In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
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Brave woman. A far better person than you will ever be.
you have no idea.
And the world changed forever.
the best Sci i writers and producers in the whole world followed thanks to the man in the blue box.
And the cheapo wobbly sets, Auntie Beeb would not spend much, not even build a space age rocket or use an existing one. "What have we got?", "a Police Telephone box!" , "OK we will use that" , "Ok, idea, it is a special circuit to disguise itself, a chameleon circuit, to cunningly disguise itself, ho it got stuck, it is faulty". Iconic - he better not ever fix it, that would spoil it.
"How does a Dalek move?" , "Like this!" picks up vinegar bottle and slides it across the table, I had one of those glass vinegar bottles with bumps on them, that`s how the Dalakes got their bumps - Iconic.
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in two hamlets of Son My village, in what became known as the My Lai massacre.
Terry Nation used to pretend he invented Daleks.
In fact, he came up with the name.
The machine was designed and built by Raymond Cusick, a BBC designer.
He was given a £100 award for it.
EXPLOITED MATE ! EXPLOITED MATE ! EXPLOITED MATE !
In 1971, Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. (Initially sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor, Calley’s sentence would ultimately be commuted by President Richard Nixon to three years of house arrest.)
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That is 23 of the 500, who killed the other 477 and why no charges?
23 11 63 the Greatest Date in Television History - The Man in the Blue Box
Can we eagerly await the socond one and then can he pardon himself.
F--- Face Von Clownstick as the Europeans like to call him.
What a gut! A legend in his own mind!
Well that sounds Very American of them (When I say American I mean USA not Canada and South America - It would not be fair to group them alongside the most uncivilised country on earth)Shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984, about 40 tons of deadly gas leaked out of a pesticide factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal. The highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) – used as an intermediary chemical for making pesticides – drifted across the city, exposing nearly half a million residents.
npr.org
No one knows exactly how many thousands of people died. Union Carbide put the number at 3,800. Municipal workers who collected bodies, loading them on to lorries to be buried in mass graves or burned on funeral pyres, say they handled at least 15,000 corpses. Based on numbers of burial shrouds sold in the city, survivors make the conservative claim that about 8,000 people died in the first week alone. But the dying has never stopped.
The Guardian.com
'Many more people would've lost their lives that night but for the valour and courage of The Railwaymen'
Union Carbide shut down the site and left it to rust. It has never been cleaned up and so the poisoning continues. In 1999, testing of groundwater and well-water near the site revealed mercury levels up to 6m times greater than what is accepted as safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2001, the Michigan-based Dow Chemical Company bought Union Carbide, acquiring its assets and liabilities. Dow, however, has steadfastly refused to clean up the Bhopal site. Nor has it provided safe drinking water, compensated the victims or shared with the Indian medical community any information it holds on the toxic effects of MIC.
