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Hadley!

Hadley! was a short lived Australian talk show which aired on the Australian subscription television news channel Sky News Australia and was hosted by commentator Ray Hadley who discussed current political and social issues with guests.


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Art of the Arab–Israeli conflict

The casualty toll in the 1969-70 “War of Attrition” along the Suez Canal and the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought protests from both the Left and Right and inspired artists with the need to tackle social issues and political reality.

Aspen Ideas Festival

The Aspen Institute, under the leadership of Walter Isaacson, developed the Aspen Ideas Festival to gather individuals from various backgrounds and fields of expertise for discussions about global and social issues and innovative ideas.

Bala Ghimire

Bala Ghimire is social worker and philanthropist who received a prestigious award from Barack Obama for his work in social issues in the United States.

Bezerra da Silva

His music often deals with political and social issues, touching on gang violence, the drug trade, and the law.

Blum-Viollette proposal

The proposal suggested that a minority of Algerians obtain full French citizenship while still allowing them to be subject to Muslim law on some social issues (such as marriage/divorce, custody, inheritance).

Camille Lefèvre

Throughout his career, Lefevre remained concerned with social issues, participating in charitable works and maintaining relations with the middle left-liberal among artists as Eugène Carrière and journalist Jules Lermina.

Caroline Anstey

Caroline also served as Secretariat member of the InterAction Council, a group of former Heads of Government, chaired by Helmut Schmidt, that develops recommendations on political, economic, and social issues.

Cinema of Burma

Parrot Film Company produced films that addressed social issues such as gambling and police corruption, although the films were censored by the British colonial government.

Computer ethics

At a later time during the same year Abbe Mowshowitz, a professor of Computer Science at the City College of New York, published an article titled "On approaches to the study of social issues in computing".

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military

In 1994, Clinton Fein's ApolloMedia, with the blessing of Shilts, purchased the electronic rights from St. Martin's Press, and in January 1995 released Conduct Unbecoming, the first ever CD-ROM to tackle social issues by providing technological tools.

Downset.

The album, which explored various social issues such as the death of lead singer Rey Oropeza's father at the hands of the LAPD, was praised by critics.

Fist City

Nathan Rabin at The A.V. Club writes that “Fist City” is the "single greatest song title of all time", justifying the designation by stating, Lynn grappled with the most important social issues facing our nation, but she did not hesitate to beat a bitch down when the situation called for it.

Hiroko Sato

She is an avid reader with a taste for heavyweight Japanese women authors of the calibre of Hiromi Kawakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Eimi Yamada, Fuyumi Ono and other similar authors who address diverse matters like unpopular social issues, human sexuality, inter-racial marriages and the issues facing young people in modern Japan.

Ivar Matlaus

The café is named after a Norwegian anarchist named Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, who among other things, lectured the Norwegian people about politics, religion and social issues.

Jed Riffe

For over 25 years his documentary films have focused on social issues including: Native American histories and struggles (Ishi, the Last Yahi, California's "Lost" Tribes, Who Owns the Past?,) and agriculture, food and sustainability issues (Ripe for Change, Germ Wars).

Joseph Zobel

Joseph Zobel (April 26, 1915, in Martinique – June 18, 2006 in Alès, France) is the author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront.

Kiss 102

Kiss 102 station won awards for its coverage of social issues and is acknowledged by writers like Dave Haslam and commentators such as Tony Wilson as helping to prolong and grow dance music in Manchester.

Latin American art

Colombian figurative artist Fernando Botero, whose work features unique "puffy" figures in various situations addressing themes of power, war, and social issues, has used this technique to draw parallels between current governing bodies and the Spanish monarchy.

Le Sillon

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII called for the Church to adopt a more open involvement in social issues in his encyclical Rerum Novarum.

Mas alla de los Gritos

These bands that emerged during the early 90’s were politically resistant to border brutality, Chican@/Latin@ identity in the barrio, transborder struggles, Pete Wilson and the passing of Prop 187, NAFTA, the uprising of the Zapatista army in Mexico, Xenophobia, the Berkeley Pro-Affirmative Action Rally, police brutality, discrimination and racism amongst other social issues.

Mrs. Munger's Class

Yvonne (voiced by Cree Summer): The feminist whose lines are all about suffrage, oppression, or other social issues.

No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act

He writes that Democrats such as Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, already are and will continue to be pointing out that the party made its top priority redefining rape, and otherwise focusing on social issues, rather than creating jobs.

Political ideologies in the United States

Milton Friedman, for example, was left-of-center on social issues but right-of-center on fiscal matters.

Raymond Unwin

Unwin had become interested in social issues at an early age and was inspired by the lectures and ideals of John Ruskin and William Morris.

Robert Stacy McCain

He also calls himself "profoundly skeptical of radical notions of moral and political progress" in social issues, citing Edmund Burke as an influence.

Social Democratic Party in the GDR

On 12 April, Christian Democrat Lothar de Maizière formed a cabinet including six Social Democrats, among them Markus Meckel (foreign affairs), Regine Hildebrandt (social issues) and Walter Romberg (finance).

Student Christian Movement of Canada

Since its founding, SCM Canada has taken stands on pressing social issues of its time, including support for the ordination of women, opposing internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II; anti-war activities since the 1960s; and facing controversy for its solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified Christians.

Teresa De Sio

In the albums Africana (1985) and Sindarella suite (1988) she had the collaboration of Brian Eno and in the 1990s she started writing texts regarding social issues.

Unitas Foundation

The Unitas Foundation is an Estonian-based apolitical and supranational foundation that focuses its activities on engaging youth, supporting researchers and public awareness of mainly historical and social issues.

What's the Matter with Kansas?

Conservative columnist John Leo argues that despite Frank's belief that conservative politics is just a game of "bait-and-switch", rural conservative voters have made their voices heard on a vast array of social issues.

Yellow Asphalt

Shot before the Second Intifada, the movie steers clear of political themes, focusing instead on social issues.

Young Foundation

Together with collaborators including Peter Willmott, Peter Townsend and many others, he wrote a series of bestsellers which changed attitudes to a host of social issues, including urban planning (leading the movement away from tower blocks), education (leading thinking about how to radically widen access) and poverty.