In December 2008, he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. He died on 21 October 2017 in Warsaw from pneumonia complicated by a stroke at the age of 88.
People's Summit
The People's Summit is an annual conference in Chicago held by a group of progressive political organizations in the United States. It is held at the McCormick Place every year around in June. The organizers of the Summit stated that they wanted to get the energy of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.
Held in June 2016, the first People's Summit was set against the backdrop of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016. The conference was led by National Nurses United and The People for Bernie Sanders. People's Action,
Over 3,000 people attended the 2016 People's Summit to hear speakers including Rosario Dawson, Tulsi Gabbard, Gaby Hoffmann, Naomi Klein, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, and Frances Fox Piven
The second Peoples Summit was held June 9–11, 2017 at McCormick Place. The conference was sponsored by People for Bernie, National Nurses United, Our Revolution, and others. The theme for the 2017 summit was "Beyond Resistance: A People’s Movement for a Just World".
Bernie Sanders headlined the conference, along with RoseAnn DeMoro, Naomi Klein, Nina Turner, Michael Moore, Linda Sarsour, Christine Pellegrino, Larry Krasner, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and others. The conference was attended by over 4,000 people.
Bernie Sanders delivered the keynote speech calling for an agenda "that can enhance and expand issue campaigns and hold all elected officials accountable to popular demands for justice, equality, and freedom."
Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution is a 2017 bestselling political book authored by former U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, published by Henry Holt and Co. It is aimed at teenage readers.
The book is a YA version of 2016's . Sanders created the book to help young people "to fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment, and provides healthcare for all."
The book features many graphics and illustrations in the hopes of breaking down complex issues like income inequality, climate change, healthcare, law enforcement reform, prison system reform and student loan debt.
Francis W. Nye
Francis Walter Nye (June 29, 1918 – January 13, 2019) was an American military personnel. He served as a United States Air Force major general who was a B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress combat pilot. He was commander, Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, N.M. During his career, he was awarded the Legion of Merit two times and the Distinguished Flying Cross also two times.
In November 1968, he was appointed chairman of the U.S. delegation of the Inter-American Defense Board, the Joint Brazil-U.S. Defense Commission, and the U.S. section, Joint Mexican-U.S. Defense Commission.
Nye was born in Barton, Vermont. He studied at the University of Vermont. His wife, Nina, died in 2017. Nye died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 13, 2019 at the age of 100.
Jeanne Manet
Jeanne Manet (born Gilberte Marcelle Lachmann; 27 November 1917 – 15 January 2012) was a French movie actress. After appearing in some French movies, Manet moved to Hollywood. Originally called there as a rising starlet, her roles were generally supporting ones. She was born in Houilles, France.
Manet's career began in 1937. Her best known roles are in "Long Live Liberty" (1946), "Slightly French" (1949), "Operation Mad Ball" (1957), "The Flying Fontaines" (1959) and in "Pepe" (1960). She retired in 1961.
Doris Grumbach
Doris Isaac Grumbach (born July 12, 1918) is an American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. In 1979, Grumbach published the novel "Chamber Music", which was critically well received and helped establish her reputation as a novelist. In six years, three more books followed: "The Missing Person" (1981), "The Ladies" (1984), and "The Magician's Girl" (1987).
Grumbach taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and American University in Washington, DC, and was literary editor of "The New Republic" for several years. For two decades, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, managed a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine, until 2009 when they moved to a retirement home in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Indumati Bhattacharya
Indumati Bhattacharya (born 2 July 1918) is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Hooghly, West Bengal in 1984 as a member of the Indian National Congress.
Bhattacharya was born in Hooghly district, Bengal Presidency, British India. She married Umanath Bhattacharyya. They have one son.
Saint Xavier University
Saint Xavier University (SXU) is a four-year, coeducational institution of higher learning located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The current president is Laurie M. Joyner.
Saint Xavier's main campus is located in City of Chicago in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the corner of 103rd Street and Central Park Avenue. The university's main campus is made up of several buildings.
It was founded in 1846.
Saint Xavier also has a campus located in Orland Park. In September 2015, Saint Xavier University opened their third campus with technology that allows its students improved educational capabilities. It had a full simulation center for advanced nursing careers as well as numerous huddle spaces and an auditorium.
Saint Xavier University has one of the most diverse undergraduate student bodies in Chicago, and qualified as a Hispanic-serving institution in 2015.
Judith McGrath
Judith McGrath (21 April 1947 – 21 October 2017) was an Australian actress. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She was best known for her television soap roles as Colleen Powell in "Prisoner" (1979–1984) on Network Ten, Bernice Hudson in A Country Practice on Network Seven between 1992 and 1993 and Von Ryan in the medical drama "All Saints" (1998–2009) on Network Seven.
McGrath died on 21 October 2017 at a hospice in Sydney of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 70.
Emilio D'Amore
Emilio D'Amore (26 November 1915 – 21 October 2017) was an Italian writer, journalist, and politician. He was born in Montefalcione, Italy. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948 as a representative of the Monarchist National Party. D'Amore joined the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (PDIUM) and won reelection in 1953. He served a final term in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1968, again as a member of the PDIUM.
D'Amore died in Avellino, Italy on 21 October 2017 of congestive heart failure at the age of 101.
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, formerly Bellevue Hospital Center and Bellevue Hospital, is the oldest public hospital in the United States. It was founded on March 31, 1736. It is on First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is also home to FDNY EMS Station 08, formerly NYC*EMS Station 13.
The hospital handles nearly 460,000 non-emergency outpatient clinic visits, nearly 106,000 emergency visits and some 30,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. The hospital currently occupies a 25-story patient care facility with an ICU, digital radiology communication and an outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and an in-house staff of about 5,500.
Bellevue was renamed in November 2015 as a reflection of its parent organization's rebranding.
In 2014 Bellevue was ranked 40th overall in the New York metro area and 29th in New York City by "US News and World Report".
Maidstone West railway station