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Linda is the name of Blu's owner from the 2011 animated movie Rio.
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Linda Waimarie Nikora, FRSNZ, is a New Zealand psychology academic. She is Māori, of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāi Tūhoe descent. She is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies and co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga at the University of Auckland, having moved in 2017 from the University of Waikato where she had been a Professor of Psychology and the founding Director of the Maori & Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology.
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The word "socialism" is interesting. It is often used as a slur by conservative activists and policymakers, though increasingly it has been adopted and championed, by younger voters in particular.
For however much the word gets used (and, frankly, misused) in mainstream American politics, there are actually real political parties that espouse not the Nordic-style democratic socialism of a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), but a purer, genuine socialism. There are several extant and historical parties of varying sizes that have ran on socialism as a political philosophy.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is just one of these. Originally a part of the Communist Party USA, the Socialist Workers Party supported Leon Trotsky versus Joseph Stalin; there are myriad nuances, but Troskyism tends to focus on the Trotsky theory of permanent revolution, versus Stalinism's theory of socialism in one country; Trotskyism also took personal aim at Stalin's leadership, noting the bureaucracy under Stalin as well as his repressive government. (There is more political theory here to get into.) The SWP has run presidential candidates since 1948.
The strongest showing from the SWP in presidential elections came in 1972. The party ran two tickets, and combined the two tickets won some 97,000 votes. Both presidential candidates were women; the main candidate, though, was a 31-year-old woman named Linda Jenness.
When asked in 1972 what distinguished the SWP from other leftist third parties, Jenness declared, "“We’re the people who believe in democracy. [...] We don’t think there can be a democracy as long as the country is controlled by a handful of wealthy people. We think socialism and democracy go hand in hand. They are inseparable."
Jenness was not constitutionally eligible for the presidency; this did not bother her. Her vice-presidential nominee, Andrew Pulley was also constitutionally ineligible, at just 21 years old.
Jenness was born in 1941. She graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1962 with a degree in history, and became active in the antiwar movement in 1965. She earned her living as a secretary. She became involved with the SWP in 1966, and married Doug Jenness in 1969; Doug Jenness was the editor of the SWP's main publication, "The Militant".
She made her debut in electoral politics in her home state of Georgia. She ran as as the SWP candidate for the mayoralty of Atlanta in 1969, and the governorship of Georgia in 1970. She was unable to get on the ballot; in order to qualify, she needed to collect 88,175 signatures, more than the SWP had on their membership rolls nationally. Jenness brought a lawsuit regarding ballot access, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
Jenness was outspoken in her support of Cuba and Cuba’s Fidel Castro; the two are listed as co-authors of a 1970 book titled “Woman and the Cuban Revolution”.
Jenness was serious about her presidential campaign. A week before the election, a journalist noted that she had campaigned for 14 months, visited 46 states, spoke at 800 meetings and events, and had earned some 70 hours of free media coverage. Her budget was between $300,000 and $400,000.
Most impressive, the SWP ended up on 21 state ballots. Four states and Washington, D.C. declined to put her on the ballot due to her age; in those states, another party woman named Evelyn Reed ran in Jenness' stead. The process involved 17 lawsuits, 10 of which the party won.
The platform of the SWP's 1972 presidential campaign included the immediate withdrawal of all US forces from Vietnam; the repeal of all anti-abortion laws; free childcare centers; equal pay; job opportunities for women.
Together, Jenness and Reed earned around 97,000 votes across the United States; Jenness alone earned about 83,000 of those.
As of at least 2010, Jenness remains an active in the SWP. In 1972, she told a journalist, "I don’t necessarily see myself running for office all my life." It appears she has remained true to that, keeping a low profile.
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For however much the word gets used (and, frankly, misused) in mainstream American politics, there are actually real political parties that espouse not the Nordic-style democratic socialism of a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), but a purer, genuine socialism. There are several extant and historical parties of varying sizes that have ran on socialism as a political philosophy.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is just one of these. Originally a part of the Communist Party USA, the Socialist Workers Party supported Leon Trotsky versus Joseph Stalin; there are myriad nuances, but Troskyism tends to focus on the Trotsky theory of permanent revolution, versus Stalinism's theory of socialism in one country; Trotskyism also took personal aim at Stalin's leadership, noting the bureaucracy under Stalin as well as his repressive government. (There is more political theory here to get into.) The SWP has run presidential candidates since 1948.
The strongest showing from the SWP in presidential elections came in 1972. The party ran two tickets, and combined the two tickets won some 97,000 votes. Both presidential candidates were women; the main candidate, though, was a 31-year-old woman named Linda Jenness.
When asked in 1972 what distinguished the SWP from other leftist third parties, Jenness declared, "“We’re the people who believe in democracy. [...] We don’t think there can be a democracy as long as the country is controlled by a handful of wealthy people. We think socialism and democracy go hand in hand. They are inseparable."
Jenness was not constitutionally eligible for the presidency; this did not bother her. Her vice-presidential nominee, Andrew Pulley was also constitutionally ineligible, at just 21 years old.
Jenness was born in 1941. She graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1962 with a degree in history, and became active in the antiwar movement in 1965. She earned her living as a secretary. She became involved with the SWP in 1966, and married Doug Jenness in 1969; Doug Jenness was the editor of the SWP's main publication, "The Militant".
She made her debut in electoral politics in her home state of Georgia. She ran as as the SWP candidate for the mayoralty of Atlanta in 1969, and the governorship of Georgia in 1970. She was unable to get on the ballot; in order to qualify, she needed to collect 88,175 signatures, more than the SWP had on their membership rolls nationally. Jenness brought a lawsuit regarding ballot access, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
Jenness was outspoken in her support of Cuba and Cuba’s Fidel Castro; the two are listed as co-authors of a 1970 book titled “Woman and the Cuban Revolution”.
Jenness was serious about her presidential campaign. A week before the election, a journalist noted that she had campaigned for 14 months, visited 46 states, spoke at 800 meetings and events, and had earned some 70 hours of free media coverage. Her budget was between $300,000 and $400,000.
Most impressive, the SWP ended up on 21 state ballots. Four states and Washington, D.C. declined to put her on the ballot due to her age; in those states, another party woman named Evelyn Reed ran in Jenness' stead. The process involved 17 lawsuits, 10 of which the party won.
The platform of the SWP's 1972 presidential campaign included the immediate withdrawal of all US forces from Vietnam; the repeal of all anti-abortion laws; free childcare centers; equal pay; job opportunities for women.
Together, Jenness and Reed earned around 97,000 votes across the United States; Jenness alone earned about 83,000 of those.
As of at least 2010, Jenness remains an active in the SWP. In 1972, she told a journalist, "I don’t necessarily see myself running for office all my life." It appears she has remained true to that, keeping a low profile.
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Admiral Linda L. Fagan is the 27th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard.
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Linda McCartney (née Eastman, and no relation to the Eastman-Kodak company), event/documentary/celebrity photographer (famous in her own right) and then wife of former Beatles member (James) Paul McCartney, also an avid environmental and animal rights activist, pro-vegetarian and green health supporter, and mother of Heather McCartney (child from first marriage, but Paul adopted her) who is a pottery artist, Mary McCartney (first child with Paul) who is a photographer like her mother, Stella McCartney who is a fashion designer, and James McCartney who is a musician and singer/songwriter.
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Linda Fairstein- Author and former New York City Prosecutor who gained notoriety for vindictively assisting in the incarceration of the Central Park Five (four black teens and one Hispanic) for an alleged assault and rape on a female jogger back in 1989. After serving thirteen years the teens, by then adults, were released upon new evidence locating the real perpetrator (Matias Reyes) of the crime by DNA testing that was submitted from the aforementioned person who was serving three life sentences for murder. The Central Park Five were all released and cleared of all charges brought against them by 2003.
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Linda Reid is a character in the game Trauma Center. Derek Stiles saves her from GUILT.
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Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher, best known as the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee. She was born in Everett, Washington, the daughter of Vivian R. And Everett Emery. Her family was Baptist and of Swedish, Irish, and English descent. She met Bruce Lee while she was attending Garfield High School, where Bruce came to give a Kung Fu demonstration; he was attending the University of Washington at the time. Eventually, she became one of his Kung Fu students when she was attending the University of Washington, studying to become a teacher.
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Linda Le is an American cosplayer, costumer, model, artist and Internet personality of Vietnamese descent. She is also known as Vampy Bit Me, or just Vampy or Vamp; "Vampy" is also a name she has given to her own fictional character persona.
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Linda Sembrant is a Swedish footballer. She plays as a defender for Montpellier of the French Division 1 Féminine, as well as for the Sweden women's national football team.
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Linda Pétursdóttir is an Icelandic business woman and beauty queen who won Miss World 1988. Her website is http://www.lindap.is Linda was born in Húsavík and raised there and in Vopnafjörður. She won Miss Iceland on 23 May 1988 and Miss World that November.
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Linda Ejiofor (born Linda Ihuoma Ejiofor) is a Nigerian actress and model known for her role as Bimpe Adekoya in M-Net's TV series Tinsel. She was nominated in the category Best Actress in a Supporting role for her first feature film, The Meeting (2012), at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
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Linda is the name of a character in Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tale The Bee and the Orange Tree. She is a princess who tries to take the orange tree into her garden, not knowing that it's really an enchanted prince.
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Notable people:
Linda Barker, British television presenter
Linda L. M. Bennett, administrator and professor of political science at University of Southern Indiana
Linda Blair, American actress
Linda Bove, American actress
Linda Chung, Chinese-Canadian actress
Linda Clement, Scottish field hockey player
Linda Coffee, American lawyer famous for representing Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade
Linda Consolante, Canadian football (soccer) defender
Linda Darnell, American actress
Linda de Mol, Dutch entertainer
Linda Evans, American actress
Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
Linda Fiorentino, Italian-American actress
Linda Grant (born 1951), British journalist and author, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and nominee for the Booker Prize
Linda Gray, American actress
Linda Haglund, Swedish short-distance runner
Linda Hamilton, American actress
Linda Hogan (born 1947), Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist, and writer of short stories
Linda Hogan (TV personality), wife of Hulk Hogan
Linda Knowles, British high jumper
Linda Lampenius, Finnish violinist
Linda Lavin, American actress
Linda Liao, Taiwanese celebrity
Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii
Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress, later an anti-pornography activist
Linda Lusardi (born 1958), British actress, television presenter and former glamour model
Linda McCartney, first wife of Paul McCartney
Linda Olofsson, Swedish freestyle swimmer
Linda Papadopoulos, English-Greek psychologist
Linda Perry, an American singer, songwriter and record producer
Linda Pétursdóttir, Miss World from Iceland and businesswoman
Linda Ronstadt, American singer
Linda Schrenko, American politician from the state of Georgia
Linda Seppänen, Swedish singer and one of the contestants in Swedish Idol 2006
Linda Sheskey, American middle distance runner
Linda Smith (disambiguation), several people
Linda Staudt, Canadian long-distance runner
Linda Thompson (disambiguation), several people
Linda Tripp, a Pentagon employee involved in the Lewinsky scandal of U.S. President Bill Clinton
Linda Voortman, Dutch politician
Linda Wagenmakers (born 1975), Dutch singer
Linda Winikow (1940–2008), New York state senator
Linda Züblin, Swiss heptathlete.
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Linda Barker, British television presenter
Linda L. M. Bennett, administrator and professor of political science at University of Southern Indiana
Linda Blair, American actress
Linda Bove, American actress
Linda Chung, Chinese-Canadian actress
Linda Clement, Scottish field hockey player
Linda Coffee, American lawyer famous for representing Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade
Linda Consolante, Canadian football (soccer) defender
Linda Darnell, American actress
Linda de Mol, Dutch entertainer
Linda Evans, American actress
Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
Linda Fiorentino, Italian-American actress
Linda Grant (born 1951), British journalist and author, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and nominee for the Booker Prize
Linda Gray, American actress
Linda Haglund, Swedish short-distance runner
Linda Hamilton, American actress
Linda Hogan (born 1947), Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist, and writer of short stories
Linda Hogan (TV personality), wife of Hulk Hogan
Linda Knowles, British high jumper
Linda Lampenius, Finnish violinist
Linda Lavin, American actress
Linda Liao, Taiwanese celebrity
Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii
Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress, later an anti-pornography activist
Linda Lusardi (born 1958), British actress, television presenter and former glamour model
Linda McCartney, first wife of Paul McCartney
Linda Olofsson, Swedish freestyle swimmer
Linda Papadopoulos, English-Greek psychologist
Linda Perry, an American singer, songwriter and record producer
Linda Pétursdóttir, Miss World from Iceland and businesswoman
Linda Ronstadt, American singer
Linda Schrenko, American politician from the state of Georgia
Linda Seppänen, Swedish singer and one of the contestants in Swedish Idol 2006
Linda Sheskey, American middle distance runner
Linda Smith (disambiguation), several people
Linda Staudt, Canadian long-distance runner
Linda Thompson (disambiguation), several people
Linda Tripp, a Pentagon employee involved in the Lewinsky scandal of U.S. President Bill Clinton
Linda Voortman, Dutch politician
Linda Wagenmakers (born 1975), Dutch singer
Linda Winikow (1940–2008), New York state senator
Linda Züblin, Swiss heptathlete.
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Linda Belcher is a character on the animated sitcom "Bob's Burgers."
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American Broadway singer, Linda Eder (born February 3, 1961) is a famous bearer.
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Lynda Carter (correct spelling) was Wonder Woman in the 70's. Lynda Johnson was one of former U.S. President, Lyndon Johnson. Extremely popular (Linda being the more common spelling) in the 1940's and 50's in the US.
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A famous bearer is American actress Linda Kozlowski (born 7 January 1958). She's best known for her female lead role in "Crocodile Dundee" in 1986.
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Linda Balgord is an American stage actress, best known for performing as Norma Desmond in touring productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard", earning rave reviews. She also performed as Grizabella in the closing Broadway cast of "Cats", Mme. Dindon in "Le Cage aux Folles", and Queen Elizabeth in "The Pirate Queen". She also covered for Donna Murphy's Fosca in the 1994 production of "Passion", and for Patti LuPone's Rose in the 2008 revival of "Gypsy".
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Linda Brent was the pen name of Harriet Jacobs in her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She uses the name Linda all throughout the book. This is my mother's first name, spelled Lynda, though she has always gone by her middle name, Michelle.
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Polish-American actress and opera singer Linda Kozlowska, 7th January 1958, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
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A famous bearer is DJ LaDiDa, a real name is Linda Štìpnièková. Web: http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Ladida?anv=Ladida
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Linda Downey is a character in the Heir Series, currently containing the Warrior Heir and the Wizard Heir. The Dragon Heir will be released August 12, 2008.
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Linda Chen is a golf tournament director and is included in the book In Their Shoes by the author Deborah Reber.
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There are authors named Linda Fairstein, Linda Howard, Linda L Richards, and Linda Ladd.
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Two other actresses with the name "Linda" are Linda Fiorentino, who played Dr. Laurel Weaver in "Men in Black," and Linda Gray, known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the '80's show "Dallas."
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The singer Linda Ronstadt. One of her hits is the rumba song "Quereme Mucho"!
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A famous bearer is Linda Darnell, a beautiful Hollywood actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Linda Cardellini ("Lindsay Weir" on Freaks & Geeks, "Nurse Samantha Taggart" on ER, and Velma in the Scooby-Doo movies) is a famous bearer, born Linda Edna Cardellini in 1975.
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Linda McCartney (wife of Paul) was a famous bearer.
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Linda Carter is an actress famous for her role as Wonder Woman in the show of the same name.
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