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An unedited demo of the song, then thought to be titled "Girls (Who Run the World)", was leaked on the internet on April 18, 2011. "Run the World" premiered on US radio on April 21, 2011, and was digitally released the same day. "Run the World" is an electropop and R&B song that heavily samples "Pon de Floor" by Major Lazer.
1910. Cicely Hamilton. "The March of the Women". With words by Cicely Hamilton and music by Ethel Smyth, the song was the official anthem of British women fighting for voting rights, and was also sung worldwide. 1963. Lesley Gore. "You Don't Own Me". Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. 1967.
Women's March becomes largest single day protest in Modern U.S. history. The Women's March[ 13][ 14][ 15][ a] was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president. It was prompted by Trump's policy positions and rhetoric, which were considered misogynistic and threatening to the rights of ...
Just Stop Oil is a British environmental activist group primarily focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.The group aims to convince the British government to commit to ending new fossil fuel licensing and production using civil resistance, nonviolent direct action, traffic obstruction, and vandalism. [3]
Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. [ 1 ][ 2 ] She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) [ 3 ] and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, Corrie was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, where the ...
2008 (): Political protest group FEMEN is started by Anna Hutsol, Ukraine. [49] July 11, 2009 (): American Association for Nude Recreation coordinates a skinny dipping event at 3:00 pm throughout North America. The event is recorded by The Guinness Book of World Records as the "largest number of people simultaneously skinny-dipping".
July 23, 2024 at 5:00 AM. Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders perform before a game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in September 2022. (John McCoy / Getty Images) In December 2022, Delilah Loya took to the ...
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of ...