Awareness of Political and Cultural Issues
- In Islamic culture it is the sign of children of Mohammad the prophet that named Sayyids.
- Following the July 2005 London bombings, British police in Nottinghamshire distributed green ribbons as part of a Good Faith campaign to show support for Muslim communities.
- In Canada, the green ribbon is used to show support of legalized forms of pornography (not exploitation), sexual content, nudity and free unsuppressed expression of the human body.
- In Colombia, the green ribbon has been used to support peace for the country.
- The green ribbon is used to support cannabis legalization.
- The green ribbon is also used to support the Troops in Pakistan
- The green ribbon also raises awareness of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
- The green ribbon is used to support Irish Freedom from Britain .
- The green ribbon was used to protest the events surrounding the Jena Six.
- A slightly modified green ribbon also symbolises solidarity with Chechnya.
- The green ribbon was used to raise awareness of the earthquake in China in May 2008
- A light green ribbon is used to support a foundation for impoverished orphans and street kids of former communist countries.
- A green ribbon is used to support the residents in a rural area of Tennessee, named Greenhaw, in Franklin County, where their agriculturally zoned agraian lifestyle is under threat from companies attempting to build a rock quarry and deface nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of Cumberland Mountains area lands against the will of the residents.
- A green ribbon draped around the symbol for the game Quake was used to raise awareness of sexual discrimination against female players.
- In Iran the green ribbon was used as a sign of support for Mir-Hossein Mousavi in 2009 Iranian presidential election, a color which has since become pervasive in Iran.
- In Greenland the NGO Meeqqat Inuunerissut/Bedre Børneliv uses the green ribbon to increase awareness of the campaign for better lives for children in Greenland
- In Douglas County, Colorado the green ribbon is used by pro-union supporters to support the campaign for "Support our Public School Students and Teachers"
Read more about this topic: Green Ribbon
Famous quotes containing the words awareness of, awareness, political, cultural and/or issues:
“Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values—whether presented on television or in “real life.” The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some “high” to feel worthwhile.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“... by and large, wife-changing and high office are not compatible. This inequity accounts for the many dull women in Washington and is the cause of much smug complacency on the distaff side of political marriages.”
—Barbara Howar (b. 1934)
“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“The “universal moments” of child rearing are in fact nothing less than a confrontation with the most basic problems of living in society: a facing through one’s children of all the conflicts inherent in human relationships, a clarification of issues that were unresolved in one’s own growing up. The experience of child rearing not only can strengthen one as an individual but also presents the opportunity to shape human relationships of the future.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)