Word: progression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Camp Grant massacre faded from American history: For many other Anglos, who preferred to view their history as a story of Euro-American progress, the Indian wars had become something of an embarrassment. ... the image of white men [and massacre instigators]married to Mexican women and only able to avenge themselves against the Apache through an alliance with the territory's Mexicans and [Tohono O'odham] fit poorly with the narrative of white mastery. ... The tendency to see Anglos as the primary actors in the region's historical drama not only bleached the polyglot character of the early U.S. borderlands...
...racism lurking in the shadows of our communities was not extinguished in a flash. Just as contented complacency amongst Obama supporters could derail his tenure in office, the belief that Obama’s election signals the final triumph over discrimination will be detrimental to future progress...
...summit, which included elected members of the parliament-in-exile, regional leaders of the Tibetan diaspora and independence activists. They recommended that after three decades of following the so-called "Middle Way" of seeking autonomy within China, the movement should consider some new options if there is no progress in negotiations: stop sending envoys from the Dalai Lama to China, for example, or simply pursue full independence: "The Middle Way Approach, independence or self-determination, whatever is pursued in the Tibetan struggle, we shall not deviate from the path of non-violence to achieve our aims," the report said...
...deep pocket donors responsible for CAP's success are not bragging, at least in public anyway. The group was formed with significant seed money by the families of three wealthy liberals, financier George Soros, Progressive insurance magnate Peter Lewis, and Herb and Marion Sandler, who once owned Golden West Savings and Loan. All three benefactors are represented directly or indirectly on the CAP board. Since 2005, the larger group of wealthy liberals, known as the Democracy Alliance, has also begun to contribute significant sums to the effort. Rob McKay, the heir to a Taco Bell fortune and chairman...
...When Democrats first started dreaming up a powerful think tank like CAP, they studied carefully how conservative organizations like Heritage had been so successful. That would explain the fact that in January Podesta's organization plans to publish a 600-page manuscript called Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint For The 44th President that is consciously modeled on a very similar conservative document produced at the dawn of the Reagan era. That 1,000-page book written by the Heritage Foundation in 1981, Mandate For Leadership, became the blueprint for the incoming administration of Ronald Reagan. The book was placed...