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Arizona and our small rural school district can't afford art programs. Our PTA is stepping up to try and raise enough money to cover the art teacher for the spring semester. Shop here or donate to our non-profit PTA directly. We are $1600 short! http://charlestonwrapstore.com/studentaffiliate.php?code=424909

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Some good views while I put in the mileage for the 1/2 marathon in Las Vegas.

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Tulum Mayan ruins

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Weekend in Flagstaff

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Katniss better watch out, there is some competition rising.

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Some amazing women making their mark on history.

The bad ass historical women we need to remember this month.

It’s officially Women’s History Month, which means it’s time to celebrate the many accomplishments that are so often looked over throughout the rest of the year.

Nellie Bly - Nellie Bly entered the journalism scene in an unabashedly feminist way, by submitting a letter to The Pittsburgh Dispatch that rebutted one writer’s diatribe about how women belonged in the home. An editor saw Bly’s potential and hired her in 1885. Just two years later, Bly famously posed as a mental patient on Blackwell’s Island for a New York World expose; a few years after, she that took a record-setting, 72-day trip around the world, writing about it for the same paper.

Agent 355 - Long before 007, there was 355. History books would do well to liven their account of the American Revolution by mentioning this member of the Culper Spy Ring, America’s first elite spy network. One of George Washington’s most valuable spies, the woman known only as “Agent 355” was likely the only one who could rock an evening gown while gathering information critical to the colonies’ achieving independence. 

Murasaki Shikibu - Little is known about the Japanese author credited with writing the world’s first modern novel, The Tale of Genji, other than that she certainly overcame plenty of obstacles to do so. Even her name is an invention, drawn from one of the novel’s characters and the author’s father’s job, according to Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Not only was Shikibu educated — a rarity for women at any point for most of history, but especially around the year 1010 — but she also became literate in both Japanese and Chinese.

Maria W. Stewart - Though her name is (unfortunately) not one often included in history books, Stewart can claim plenty of impressive firsts. She was the first American woman to speak to an audience of mixed genders and races, as well as one of the first African American woman to deliver any public speech at all.

Pauli Murray - Pauli Murray wore many hats, and each one was equally impressive. Murray became a civil rights lawyer in the late 1940s, a particularly impressive feat given that women in general, let alone black women, had been prohibited from becoming lawyers only decades before.

Read more about these women and 5 others we must never forget.

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STOP destroying our National Parks

Deny permits for drilling and mining in our National Parks. Do you have no conscience? Fight this bullshit

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Arizona - ranked 45th amongst States, a D+. SAD

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Arizona Education at its worst

Arizona ranks 45th amongst the States and it gets a grade of D+. Sorry Governor and AZ legislature, you are NOT doing what's right for the children of tomorrow. Fund education like it deserves. There will be no science and technology leaders when schools can barely fund basic technology and many have poor or no science labs. Forget about art, that's an afterthought. Instead, take our tax dollars and continue to pander to the big money in the Capitol. BTW what's the point of every 4th grader to a National Park if you are just going to hand out permits for uranium mining in our National treasure, the Grand Canyon. Signed, NOT a happy citizen.

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Love the Roosevelts

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From “Why Trump Will Lose His War on Science: http://ti.me/2kEmgOw

Take Action: climatetruth.org/standupforscience

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Keep taking action ladies and gents

WOMEN’S MARCH 1-21-2017 | A GLOBAL MOVEMENT

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WOMEN’S MARCH 1-21-2017 | A GLOBAL MOVEMENT

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Block Scott Pruitt from the EPA

Speak out to your senator by calling 1-202-750-2411 and connecting to your Senator. Tell them to vote NO on Pruitt.

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March on...for justice, equality, environmental protection, climate action, women's reproductive rights, and much more.

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Dirt bags coming out in the dark.

Someone twisted this Jewish family’s menorah into the shape of a swastika

Naomi Ellis and her her husband Seth spent Friday morning — the morning after the sixth night of Hanukkah — trying to explain to their three young sons why someone had vandalized the menorah the family had put out on their yard by twisting the metal pieces into the shape of a swastika.

The Ellis family had only built the 7-foot-tall menorah on the front lawn of their home in Chandler, Arizona, because their sons, ages 5, 7 and 9, had asked their parents if the family could decorate their home like the neighbors did for Christmas, the Washington Post reported. Read more.