The Context for Transition Studies

The Context for Transition Studies
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The UN at 70: A Year for Bold Action – UNA-USA Members Day at the UN

Ban Ki moon, The UN at 70: A Year for Bold Action – UNA-USA Members Day at the UN
20 Feb 2015 – Keynote address by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the 7th Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA).

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(Part 1) The UN at 70: A Year for Bold Action – UNA-USA Members Day at the UN
Organized by the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) and its Mid-Atlantic Region.

A day of dynamic and informative discussion on the most pressing issues facing the United Nations. Briefings from experts on topics like climate change and human rights, and network with community leaders, academics and students, and representatives from think tanks and like-minded organizations.

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(Part 2) The UN at 70: A Year for Bold Action – UNA-USA Members Day at the UN
Organized by the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) and its Mid-Atlantic Region.

A day of dynamic and informative discussion on the most pressing issues facing the United Nations. Briefings from experts on topics like climate change and human rights, and network with community leaders, academics and students, and representatives from think tanks and like-minded organizations.

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See also:

• The UN, the UNA and Climate: Looking Ahead to Paris COP 21 in December 2015 February 21, 2015

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Nobel Peace prize Winning Pres Ask for Endless War Authorization

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Published on Feb 21, 2015

Abby interviews journalist Sam Sacks on Obama’s recent request for Congressional approval to use force against ISIS 6 months after US began bombing Iraq and Syria.

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Clashes in France: Riot police battle environmentalists with tear gas and water cannons

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Published on Feb 21, 2015

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What do new nutrition recommendations mean for consumers?

PBS NewsHour

Published on Feb 21, 2015

A government advisory committee made a series of recommendations this past week about what Americans should and shouldn’t eat and drink, which will help shape the official guidelines being drawn by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. For more about this, Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University joins Hari Sreenivasan.

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Low-income families struggle to cope with cool temperatures

PBS NewsHour

Published on Feb 21, 2015

As the brutal winter drags on for parts of the country, many low-income families are struggling to pay their energy bills. In North Carolina, local governments are increasingly partnering with private nonprofit organizations to try to find new ways to help poor families stay warm in the winter. NewsHour’s Stephen Fee reports.

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Papantonio: Dirty Energy Judge Saves Industry Billions

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Published on Feb 21, 2015

There are few industries that have as much power over our government as the oil industry. Its not just politicians – oil companies have been actively buying off judges for decades. And the ones that can’t be bought are the ones that actually came out of the industry.

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#NoamChomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator and anarcho-syndicalist activist. Sometimes described as the “father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy. He has spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently Professor Emeritus, and has authored over 100 books. He has been described as a prominent cultural figure, and was voted the “world’s top public intellectual” in a 2005 poll.

Born to a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from relatives in New York City. He later undertook studies in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his BA, MA, and PhD, while from 1951 to 1955 he was appointed to Harvard University’s Society of Fellows. In 1955 he began work at MIT,

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