"The Luvvers The Luvvers was a Scottish rock group. They are best known as the backing group to Lulu on her debut chart single, ""Shout"" (1964). They subsequently had a low-key career of their own before disbanding in March 1966. Before they changed their name to the Luvvers (or the Luvers as credited on early UK singles pressings) for the release of ""Shout"", which became a UK hit single when it peaked at number seven in the early summer of 1964, the band were called the Gleneagles, with Lulu as one of the vocalists. Until their chart breakthrough they played"
"pro-Red Chinese Progressive Labor Party in 1965. Before his break with the PLP, Luce had organized trips with Jerry Rubin to meet with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Luce's speech was controversial. During his speech, he advocated the ""demise of tax-supported education,"" and that taxation could be considered legal theft. The ""uproar in facility circles was extensive,"" since the speech was fund by the university. Two other organizations co-sponsored the event, CSUF Economic Association, which provided the funding, and the California Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). Another controversial speech sponsored by SLL was the appearance of Elizabeth Keathley, a 21-year-old UCLA"
"(as Linville attested to the AFT in 1935). When Joseph Stalin ousted Jay Lovestone as head of the CPUSA, Lovestone's followers in the TU formed a ""Progressive Group"" against a ""Rank and File Group"" that remained loyal to the CPUSA. Progressive Group members included Mandel, Davidson, and Wolfe. With the Great Depression, however, CPUSA membership grew, reflected in TU membership by 1932. Another split occurred when leadership strove to keep TU membership limited to full-time public school teachers, while other members began advocating to open membership to substitute teachers, private school teachers, and (after 1929) teachers in the New Deal"
"Wolfe, along with a number of pamphlets. Lovestone had, while within the Communist Party, played an active role in the Party's labor activities, primarily within the United Mine Workers, where the party supported the revolt led by John Brophy against John L. Lewis's leadership. His allies within the party, particularly Charles S. Zimmerman, had a great deal of power within the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union prior to the debacle of 1926. After his expulsion, Lovestone formed a base within ILGWU Dressmakers Local 22, to which Zimmerman had returned after his expulsion from the CPUSA. Lovestone and Zimmerman worked their"
"to the Cat and Mouse Act, the WSPU instituted a secret society of women known as the ""Bodyguard"" whose role was to physically protect Emmeline Pankhurst and other prominent suffragettes from arrest and assault. Known members included Katherine Willoughby Marshall, Leonora Cohen and Gertrude Harding; Edith Margaret Garrud was their jujitsu trainer. The origin of the ""Bodyguard"" can be traced to a WSPU meeting at which Garrud spoke. As suffragettes speaking in public increasingly found themselves the target of violence and attempted assaults, learning jujitsu was a way for women to defend themselves against angry hecklers. Inciting incidents included Black"
"for use on metal, to give his calligraphy a sheen. He wrote four characters that meant “Down with Deng, Support Fang,” and then the group’s name: ""The Hunan Student Movement Support Group, Liuyang Branch. Yu Dongyue and his friends made speeches at the Changsha railway station and solicited donations for their trip. Yu Dongyue, Yu Zhijian, Lu Decheng and Li Hongwu were on board a train that arrived in Beijing on May 18. Later that night, the four recognized the determined voice of Wuer Kaixi. After the four had a discussion with Wuer Kaixi about Mao, Zhijian was brimming with"
"to fifty-five Black men were arrested, nine of which were under eighteen. The charges ranged from conspiracy to murder, to carrying a concealed weapon, to assault. With many of the CFWU organizers in jail and relations deteriorating, on August 6, 1931, the last remnants of the CFWU regrouped as the Share Croppers Union (SCU). Harry Hirsch, using the pseudonym “Harry Simms,” played a liaison role between the Party leadership and the SCU. As the SCU grew in 1931 to 591 members, Tommy Gray’s daughter Eula Gray played a leading role in both the Young Communist League (YCL) as well as"
"Liberty Defense Union,"" was provided by Roger Baldwin's National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the ACLU. National Civil Liberties Bureau funding ran out midway through January 1919 and thereafter the WDU was left to its own devices to cover its operating expenses. Additional funds were provided by various progressive trade unions, including the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and the Furriers' Union. Its efforts were additionally endorsed by the Socialist Party. Although Flynn and Biedenkapp was the individuals maintaining day-to-day operations of the WDU, the group was nominally controlled by a National Committee, which"
"Lucy Burns Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party. Burns was born in New York to an Irish Catholic family. She was described by fellow National Woman's Party member Inez Haynes Irwin as ""blue-eyed and fresh-complexioned; dimpled; and her head is burdened, even as Alice Paul's, with an enormous weight of hair."" She was extremely beautiful, and lewd men"
"the WCTU (Zhonghua Funü Jiezhihui; lit. ""Chinese Women's Anti-Drug Association"") (1926–1950s). She was one of the few female members of the People’s Political Consultative Conference, a government group which promoted public support for the war effort. She successfully managed to get a guarantee written into the Double Fifth Constitution that women would have at least ten percent of the seats in the National Assembly. However, her strong critique of the Nationalist war strategy resulted in her being expelled from the PPC in 1943. Liu-Wang joined the Chinese Democratic League, which favoured democracy and socialism. She organized the League for the"
"Front (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN). Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 Bleecker Street. At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York organizations like Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and Foster Gunnison of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the national homophile organizations"
"police to arrest those who had disrupted the meeting. Dubinsky ultimately left the ALP in 1944 after a dispute with Hillman over whether labor leaders in New York, such as Mike Quill, who either were members of the Communist Party or were seen as sympathetic to it, should be given any role in the ALP. When Hillman prevailed, Dubinsky and his allies left to form the Liberal Party of New York. The ALP went on to endorse Henry Wallace in the 1948 presidential election, while the ILGWU campaigned energetically for Harry S. Truman, nearly bringing New York State into his"
"lives to awaken the whole nation, people felt their responsibilities, and they rose up too. Lü began marching with the students soon after. On May 26, Lü offered her services to the recently founded Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation, initially collecting funds and aid from her friends at the dress shop. Lü was one of the only women to join the BWAF. After the students refused workers access to the central loudspeakers in the square, a broadcast station was set up in the BWAF headquarters near the western reviewing stand outside of Tiananmen. According to sociologists Andrew G. Walder and Gong"
"black power movement. However, Fuller quickly regained public support by ""… excoriat[ing] Stith for befriending Abe Greenberg, a Durham landlord who refused to bring rental properties up to code. A personal friend of Greenberg, Stith tried to arbitrate the dispute between lessor and tenants. Instead, Stith was taken to be Greenberg's vested ally"". As a result, George Stith was discredited, and local GOP leaders had no choice but to recommend FCD, and therefore Howard Fuller, as the recipient of the OEO grant. MXLU's primary investor after the initial funding from the FCD was the Federation of Pan-African Institutions, ""a consortium"
"Junli left to play bass in Cui Jian's band. Liu briefly played in a group called Shixiao (), a band set up to advertise a local travel agency of the same name. Shixiao featured future Tang Dynasty members Gu Zhong and Zhao Nian at various points. Soon after arriving in Beijing, Liu befriended future Tang Dynasty frontman Ding Wu. Having heard that Ding played guitar, Liu searched all over Beijing on a borrowed bicycle until he tracked down the latter teaching basic art at Beijing's No. 132 Secondary School. This meeting would prove pivotal; after the Tiananmen Square protests forced"
"District Organizer for the Chicago Railway Carmen. Other prominent members were Jack Johnstone, Joe Manley, J. A. Jones and Ed W. Rice. Within the CFL the ITUEL made an ""informal united front"" with the John Fitzpatrick, Edward Nockels faction that had gained control of the federation from an allegedly gangster controlled buildings trade faction a few years earlier. ITUEL supported Fitzpatrick in support of the newly created independent Amalgamated Clothing Workers against the Gompers-backed United Garment Workers. They also worked with Fitzpatrick to secure CFL support for the creation of a Chicago Railroad Council, to be made up of all"
"group of ex-adherents of Tim Wohlforth that had been expelled from the Workers League of the United States in the mid-1970s. The SL(DC), shrinking since its formation, led by Steve Zelter, and had its main base in San Francisco. By 1982 the RWL was credited with about 40 members. The RWL supported anti-administration forces within the United Auto Workers. They backed the United Front Caucus in the November 1982 elections in Local 600 at River Rouge, Michigan, which secured 10% of the vote. It was unclear how many members the RWL had within Local 600, if it had any at"
"They rallied at Yanbian University in August 1966 and formed a rebel group called ""8. 27 rebels."" This rebel group was a far-leftist group that consists of Korean students emphasizing Maoist theory. The other students who did not agree with the ""8. 27 rebels"" organized another rebel group, """"Hongqi Zhandou Lianjun"" (The United Army of the Red Flag; Simplified Chinese: 红旗战斗联军)."" By the end of 1966, these two rebel groups struggled to win the support of the public. According to the biography, Zhu asked them to return to school, but rebel students defied Zhu's proposal. The rebels said that they"
"The Lovestoneites organized their own faction within the Teachers Union, called the ""Progressive Group,"" and working in coalition with the Communist-led ""Rank and File"" faction succeeded in ousting the union leadership in 1935. The ousted union leaders subsequently bolted to establish a new union called the Teachers Guild. The Communists soon solidified their control over the TU, while Lovestoneites found themselves in another opposition coalition called the ""Independents."" Shortly before the dissolution of the ILLA, the Progressive group left the Teachers Union and obtained a separate charter from the American Federation of Teachers. The TU itself would have its charter"
"the Montoneros, a leftist guerilla group, responded violently to the junta and its actions as they enlisted other Argentines to join their campaign against the regime. Those enlisted included young, left-wing, politically active students from the organization named the ""Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios"" (Union of High School Students) of La Plata. The UES was committed to achieving school reforms and other political reforms, through demonstrations and protests that irked the ruling regime. The circumstances of the kidnappings, in conjunction with the testimony of one of the survivors, Pablo Díaz, are the reason many hold the view that the kidnappings were"
"before the establishment of the PRC in 1949, and her mother was a neighbourhood activist during the Cultural Revolution. Lü attended Yucai Middle School, where most of her classmates were the sons and daughters of People's Liberation Army officers. She attended art school for a year and then held a number of jobs, none of them lasting for long: in a trading company in Guangzhou, on a chicken farm in the countryside near Beijing, and, in 1986, as manager of a privately owned dress shop, also called a ""getihu"". On her way to her dress shop located on Chang'an Avenue,"
"Kitty Wu Kitty Wu is a Danish alternative rock band, named after a character in Paul Auster's novel Moon Palace. Kitty Wu was founded in 1998 in Copenhagen. Their debut album, ""Privacy"", released in 2001 to positive reviews. The following releases ""The Rules of Transportation"" (2003) and Knives and Daggers (2005) further cemented the band's uncompromising reputation. These albums also marked the beginning of a series of artistic relationships with some musical profiles who helped shape Kitty Wu, among them Guy Fixsen (Pixies, My Bloody Valentine) and, most importantly, the band's mentor Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Marianne Faithfull, Anna Calvi)."
"range of Hong Kong populace. The elections saw with a liberal landslide victory, she became the first woman elected in direct elections along with other pro-democracy politicians of the United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK), largely due to the fear of Hong Kong populace towards Beijing after the Tiananmen massacre in early June 1989. In this period, Lau became a household name in Hong Kong and the legislator came to be both a champion of her constituents and a perceived thorn in the side of the Hong Kong administration. She was equally a critic of Britain and Beijing. The last"
"to talk with them, aid them in hospital or police visits, and support them in all aspects of their process. Blazing Star was a lesbian group that was part of the CWLU; they produced a newsletter also called ""Blazing Star"". The CWLU worked on many different projects and movements in the short eight years that they were active. Some of these movements included the University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) women's studies program, which is still active today. The CWLU worked with a student and faculty group called the Circle Women's Liberation Union to form the Women's Studies program in"
"professionals, housewives, college students, rural women and poor women living in cities. KWAU was also connected to the ""minjung"" movement and the national democratic movement. Initially, there were 21 organizations who came together to create KWAU. Some of the original organizations of KWAU included the Women's Society for Democracy, the Korea Women's Hot Line, the ""Women's Newspaper"" (now the ""Women's News""), Korean Women Workers Association, Korean Catholic Farmers, Women's Committee and others. KWAU was significant in that it, unlike other women's groups in Korea at the time, took an ""oppositional stance toward the repressive state"" run by Chun Doo-hwan. KWAU"
"as a prominent feminist advocate in Taiwan, which included writing of ""New Feminism"" or ""Xin Nüxing Zhuyi"" (). She renounced her KMT membership, joined the Tangwai movement, and worked on the staff of ""Formosa Magazine"". Lu then became increasingly active in the tang-wai, the opposition movement calling for democracy and an end to authoritarian rule. In 1979 she delivered a 20-minute speech criticizing the government at an International Human Rights Day rally that later became known as the Kaohsiung Incident. Following this rally, virtually the entire leadership of Taiwan's democracy movement, including Lu, was imprisoned. She was tried, found guilty"
"and Foster Gunnison of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the national homophile organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his position as treasurer for that organization. Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and Brenda Howard of GLF. Believing that more people would turn out for the march on a Sunday, and so as to mark the"
"Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN). Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 Bleecker Street. At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York organizations like Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and Foster Gunnison of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations"
"Work Projects Administration. In the 1930s during the Great Depression, the CPUSA began to make headway in its control as its members struggled internally with less leftist, more liberal fellow members of the Teachers Union. On October 27, 1932, the TU administration choose a Committee of Five to deliberate on five members of the ""Rank and File"" group (Joseph Leboit, Clara Reiber, Alice Citron, Abraham Zitron, and Isidore Begun) and one member of the ""Progressive"" group (Bertram Wolfe). In a counter-attack, the two communist factions made their own minority report (written by Begun, Davidson, Florence Gitlin, and David M. Wittes)"
"and right stances, and thus this group is also known as ""28 and a half Bolsheviks"". With support from their mentor Pavel Mif, president of Sun Yat-sen University and envoy of Comintern at that time, they returned to China after graduating. This provoked a struggle with Li Lisan and his allies, who controlled the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Dissidents against Li inside the Party also objected to their return, but, in the 4th Plenary Meeting of the Communist Party's 6th National Congress, and with the presence and direct support of Pavel Mif, Wang Ming and his group won a landslide"
"the revolution, Li relented and gave Wu the permission to raise an all-female unit. Wu then posted notices for her unit in Hanyang, while like-minded women produced propaganda for her militia. For example, Liu Wangli likened Wu to the legendary woman warrior Hua Mulan in order to inspire other women to enlist. The recruitment drive was a success, and hundreds women tried to join Wu's unit. Most of these potential recruits were students with a middle-class background, some of them with bound feet. Historians differ on how many Wu's unit, the so-called ""Women's Revolutionary Army"", eventually numbered; according to Louise"
"strict adherence to nonviolence. SCLC also reported receiving major financial support for the march from middle-class whites. The Steering Committee Against Repression (SCAR)—which included members from SNCC as well as from a variety of other groups—also gave a partial endorsement, urging the SCLC to focus the campaign on state repression, surveillance, persecution, and political prisoners. The campaign had support from within the organized labor movement, including endorsements by The Daily Worker, United Steelworkers, and Walter Reuther. However, the official leadership of the AFL–CIO—particularly President George Meany—would not endorse the campaign because of disagreement over the Vietnam War. The prospect of"
"overseas to save money, some of them initiated to create entertainment to overcome their homesickness. Heng Yun association then became popular across Malaya. When Second Sino-Japanese War broke in 1937, Heng Yun participated in Fund Relief for China program initiated by Tan Kah Kee, but because Malaya is a neutral British colony, support to China was halted. Finally the group was disbanded. Some ex-member created new group called Yun Lu. The group's life was momentary. Some of the Yun Lu ex-member established new group in 1941 called Siong Leng Musical Association. However, when Japan occupied Singapore in 1942, all the"