An Anti-Emergency Statement by Americans in 1976 Did Not Break India. Nor Will a Couple of Tweets.
When 80 eminent Americans signed a scathing public statement on the repression of human rights during the Emergency, they gave the opposition parties a vital morale boost, but the sovereignty of the country remained intact.
Signatories of the 1976 statement included (clockwise from top left) Arthur Ashe, Joan Baez, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Milton Singer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr and Allen Ginsberg.
Politics05/Feb/2021
Two tweets from two foreigners â a teenage Swedish climate activist and a Barbadian-American singer â have posed such a serious threat to Indiaâs sovereignty that the entire government, the BJPâs troll factory workers, suave ministers, the media and motley celebrities have all been busy defending the nation through copy-paste tweets.
Sidney Hertzberg, a 13-year-old girl near Detroit, won a Petco essay contest that came with a $50,000 grand prize. And she's going to donate all of it to her
Teen Wins Essay Contest Writing About Her Cat, Donates $50,000 Winnings to Cat Shelter
Julie Hertzberg
Sydney spends her time volunteering with the Ferndale Cat Shelter, and added her experiences working with the cats to her essay.
“I figured OK, let’s write a story maybe by some miraculous reason we’ll get in the top something,” she said.
She wrote about some things she was personally going through, and how Mr. Mittens has helped her push through.
“I have an illness called POTS and so with some of the symptoms that come with the illness are dizziness, fatigue and muscle aches, Sydney told WXYZ. My cat Mr. Mittens, I got him when he was 4 ounces and he was about a week old, so he was very, very small and he had to be bottle-fed. And I really thought I was going to help save his life, but I did not even know he would actually help save mine.
Michigan Teen Wins $50,000 And Donates It To An Animal Shelter
This 13-year-old just changed 2021 for a small animal shelter in Ferndale, Michigan.
Meet Sidney Hertzberg. She loves cats. In fact, she volunteers at the Ferndale Cat Shelter. She recently enter a Petco contest by writing an essay about her cat. Her survey paid off to the tune of $50,000. You can see the moment she finds out that she won in the video below from ABC 7 at about the :15 second mark.
Sidney told WXYZ,
I have an illness called POTS and so with some of the symptoms that come with the illness are dizziness, fatigue and muscle aches. My cat Mr. Mittens, I got him when he was 4 ounces and he was about a week old, so he was very, very small and he had to be bottle-fed. And I really thought I was going to help save his life, but I did not even know he would actually help save mine.
By AJ
Jan 8, 2021
13-year-old Sidney Hertzberg entered an essay contest and wrote about the kitten she adopted. Sidney has an illness called POTS, which causes dizziness, fatigue and muscle aches. She said, My cat Mr. Mittens, I got him when he was 4 ounces and he had to be bottle-fed. And I really thought I was going to help save his life but I did not even know he would actually help save mine.
Sidney won the contest and was awarded $50,000! She donated it all to her local cat shelter. She also started a program called Sidney s Seniors where senior cats are placed with seniors citizens and all the food and vet bills are paid for.