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A civil society campaign is one that is intended to mobilize public support and use democratic tools such as lobbying in order to instigate social change. Civil society campaigns can seek local, national or international objectives. They can be run by dedicated single-issue groups such as Baby Milk Action, or by professional non-governmental organisations (NGOs), such as the World Development Movement, who may have several campaigns running at any one time. Larger coalition campaigns such as 2005's Make Poverty History may involve a combination of NGOs.
Effective campaigning can sometimes achieve much more than good works or giving to charity. For example, the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign persuaded G7 governments to cancel $100 billion of debt owned by poor countries, releasing more money for development than 1,000 years of Christian Aid weeks. In the UK, ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)’s campaign for a ban on smoking in public places in 2006 saved over 2,000 lives and billions of pounds a year. The Empty Homes Agency is working with UK local authorities to bring thousands of properties into use as a result of a successful amendment to the UK Housing Act 2004.
Neil Percival Young,OC,OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature alto or high tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and clawhammer acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: acoustic (folk and country rock) and electric (amplified hard rock, very often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó (in Standard Lakota Orthography), literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited"; ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.
After surrendering to U.S. troops under General Crook in 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American tribal members and has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
Sources differ on the precise year of Crazy Horse's birth, but they agree he was born between 1840 and 1845. According to a close friend, he and Crazy Horse "were both born in the same year at the same season of the year", which census records and other interviews place at about 1845.Encouraging Bear, an Oglala medicine man and spiritual adviser to the Oglala war leader, reported that Crazy Horse was born "in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglala, stole One Hundred Horses, and in the fall of the year", a reference to the annual Lakota calendar or winter count. Among the Oglala winter counts, the stealing of 100 horses is noted by Cloud Shield, and possibly by American Horse and Red Horse owner, as equivalent to the year 1840-41. Oral history accounts from relatives on the Cheyenne River Reservation place his birth in the spring of 1840. On the evening of his son's death, the elder Crazy Horse told Lieutenant H. R. Lemly that his son "would soon have been thirty-seven, having been born on the South Cheyenne river in the fall of 1840".
Actors: Jim Dobson (miscellaneous crew), Samrat Chakrabarti (actor), Alexis Marsh (composer), Lyman Ward (actor), Samuel Jones (composer), Scott McKinley (actor), Kandis Erickson (actress), Jerry White Jr. (actor), Devorah Lynne Dishington (actress), Sean McBride (actor), Shawn Lockie (actress), Mark Stolaroff (miscellaneous crew), Marc Chicoine (actor), Kate French (actress), Kate Hickey (editor),
Genres: ,Actors: John Rothman (actor), Jamey Sheridan (actor), Peter MacNicol (actor), Ron Livingston (actor), Austin Pendleton (actor), Barack Obama (actor), Matthew James Gulbranson (actor), Alex Hyde-White (actor), Bruce Altman (actor), Ed Harris (actor), Anderson Cooper (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Philip Stamper (actor), Philip Stamper (actor),
Plot: Summer, 2008: John McCain secures the nomination, but polls behind Barack Obama. Strategist Steve Schmidt suggests a game changer: picking a conservative female with media savvy, unknown Alaska governor Sarah Palin, as vice president. She's an immediate hit and a quick study - the gap closes. Then, Tina Fey's impersonation, a raft of criticism, and missing her family send Palin into a near-catatonic state: she doesn't prepare for her Katie Couric interview and bombs. Schmidt searches for an answer: don't expect her to learn the issues, but give her a script. Palin does well in the debate with Biden; she finds her voice, goes off script, and goes rogue. A mistake?
Keywords: 2008-presidential-election, acceptance-speech, alaska, american-soldier, argument, arizona, breaking-telephone, bus, campaign, campaign-managerActors: Conor Slattery (miscellaneous crew), Eamonn Hunt (actor), Michael Swan (miscellaneous crew), Roger Goula Sarda (composer), Rachel Lysaght (producer), Anna-Maria Ní Chathasaigh (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Gifford (actress), Shane Casey (actor), Charlotte Munch Bengtsen (editor), Duncan Meadows (actor), Oonagh Kearney (director), Tommy Fitzgerald (actor), Oonagh Kearney (writer), Sue Maund (actress), Martin Wady (producer),
Genres: Drama, Drama, Family, Short, Short,Actors: Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Joy Haynes (actress), Dave Coyne (actor), Patrick Bradley (actor), Pierre Walters (actor), Ryan Mulkay (actor), Neil McCay (editor), Neil McCay (actor), Neil McCay (writer), Neil McCay (director), Aaron Marcus (actor), Taylor Coffman (actress), Benjamin Humphries (composer), Karen Carbone (actress), Fernando Beltran y Puga (producer),
Plot: This is the story behind Lucifer Cicero, "the worst movie ever made." A documentarian interviews a once prominent screenwriter about a failed film's transformation in to a cult phenomenon. A complex tale unfolds, involving a dying woman and a man seeking closure. The two walk parallel paths in life, ultimately shaping events that forever alter the small town of Lake Ridge.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Michael Rudder (actor), Sheena Larkin (actress), Dash Mihok (actor), Leo Rossi (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Michel Perron (actor), Thomas Michael (actor), Larry Day (actor), Chazz Palminteri (actor), William Baldwin (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Alan Fawcett (actor), Jim Breuer (actor), Damian Lee (producer), Carl Colpaert (producer),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Branscombe Richmond (actor), Paul Reubens (actor), Henry Kingi (actor), Danny DeVito (actor), Michael Keaton (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Steven Brill (actor), Anthony De Longis (actor), Michael Keaton (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Pat Hingle (actor), Danny DeVito (actor), Christopher Walken (actor), Doug Jones (actor),
Plot: Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max's secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.
Keywords: 1990s, action-hero, action-heroine, ambush, answering-machine, answering-machine-message, applause, attempted-mugging, attempted-murder, badgeActors: Joey Travolta (actor), Charles W. Fries (producer), Jackie Cooper (director), Rosemary Clooney (writer), Alan Sacks (producer), Norman S. Powell (miscellaneous crew), Katherine Helmond (actress), John Karlen (actor), Jackie Cooper (producer), Robert Ridgely (actor), Kevin McCarthy (actor), Tony Orlando (actor), Jessica Rains (actress), Jean-Pierre Dorléac (costume designer), Richard Balin (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,I am a lonely visitor.
I came to late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life
towards that goal.
I hardly slept the night you wept
Our secret's safe and still well kept
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got
Soul.
Traffic cops are all color blind.
People steal from their own kind.
Evening comes to early for a stroll.
Down neon streets the streaker streaks.
The speaker speaks,
but the truth still leaks,
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got it,
Soul.
The podium rocks in the crowded waves.
The speaker talks of the beautiful saves
That went down long before
he played this role
For the hotel queens and the magazines,
Test tube genes and slot machines
Where even Richard Nixon got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got it,
Soul.
Hospitals have made him cry,
But there's always a free way in his eye,
Though his beach just got
too crowded for his stroll.
Roads stretch out like healthy veins,
And wild gift horses strain the reins,
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got
Soul.
I am a lonely visitor.
I came to late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life