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The American Medical Association Women Physicians Congress was formed in 1997 “to provide physicians and medical students with a forum to discuss the health and professional concerns of female physicians and medical students”. Some of the WPCs goals are to encourage and mentor female medical students, increase the number of women physicians in leadership roles, and to highlight and advance women’s health agenda. Membership is free and open to all AMA members interested in and working in women’s health.

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The Ohio State Medical Association was established in 1846 to ensure physicians held degrees from recognized medical schools. Their mission is to bring together physicians across the state of Ohio. The OSMA helps empower physicians, residents, and medical students to advocate for their patients, communities, and profession. They uphold the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship and are concerned with access to high-quality, affordable health care. The organization is interested in innovations that revolutionize health care and improve the health of patients and their experience. The OSMA also works with the state department on health and legislative issues. The goals of the Ohio State Medical Association are medical liability reform, political advocacy, education, and physician leadership.

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In 1938, The Union Commerce Bank, originally known as the Union Bank of Commerce, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio. Post-World War II, the bank changed its name, added more services, and expanded its reach to serve the newly created suburbs, eventually numbering over 40 branches. In 1949, the bank moved into the Union Trust Building located in downtown Cleveland. The bank endured financial troubles in the 1960s-1970s and ultimately was acquired by a larger Columbus-based company, Huntington Bancshares, in 1983.

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"I give a damn; I'm registered" used in this way is a phrase that conveys the importance of voting and being registered to vote. Voting is considered a civic duty and a privilege of democracy that many have fought for in the United States. The act of voting is used to determine the public's interest and preference for leaders at local, state, and federal levels. Voting also helps to decide what projects and regulations the public would like to see for the future, meaning the responses can dictate where the government's money is spent or who can be legally married in the state. Voter turnout also determines which political party affiliations will receive money for campaigning; which is given to parties with 5% or more of the vote.

As voting is optional in the United States and not mandatory, there are many campaigns including "Rock the Vote" and "Motor Voter Registration" to encourage citizens to register and turn up to elections. Wearable slogans may also be seen as a passive act to encourage others to vote.

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The slogan “Cancer Sucks” was created by Lucy Sherak in 1995 after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a mastectomy, she chose to wear a button stating “Cancer Sucks” that she designed after her diagnosis. In 1992, Estée Lauder cosmetics distributed pink ribbons with their products to raise breast cancer awareness. A small ribbon worn on the lapel became a way to show support for a cause depending on the color of the ribbon. The burgundy ribbon combined with the text symbolizes support for those with multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that gathers in the bone marrow and crowds out healthy blood cells.

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A Goomba Shoe is worn by the Goomba mushroom shaped creature in Mario, a Nintendo video game franchise. The shoe has a wind-up metal handle. If knocked off the Goomba from below, the shoe can be worn and becomes a power up. The Goomba Shoe first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3 during world 5 area 3, Sky World. While wearing the shoe, Mario is protected from spiny turtles and other obstacles. The power-up is lost after the level is completed or the player dies. It was first known as Kuribo’s shoe. Goombas are known as Kuribo in the original Japanese, but the name was later changed to the English Goomba. 

After its first appearance in Super Mario Bros. 3, this special power up was not seen for twenty-two years until the release of the Super Mario Maker series. The Super Mario Makers series was released in the United States on September 11, 2015. The green boot with a wind-up key was the same, but there was also a stiletto shoe version. If you add wings to the shoes in this game, you will be able to hover in the air when jumping. You hear a sound similar to a high-pitched woman's laugh when you hover in the winged stiletto shoe.

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Organ and tissue donation is a critical process for prolonging life. At the time of writing, there are nearly 118,000 individuals waiting for an organ transplant to live healthier, more productive lives. For some people with end-stage organ failure, it is a matter of life and death. Add to these numbers the thousands more whose lives will be improved through tissue and cornea donation and transplants that can help them move better, see better, and live better and the figure for organ and tissue donation will continue to rise.

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In 1930, Communist ideology was gaining popularity: membership in the Communist Party rose from 6,822 in 1930 to 66,000 in 1939. This decade shift was sandwiched between the first red scare from 1917 to 1920, and the second red scare which took place from 1947 through the 1950s. During this epoch of the Great Depression, in March of 1930, the Communist Party organized a mass unemployment protest in Union Square of New York City. Around 35,000 people attended the demonstration, which turned from peaceful to violent. 

The group of protestors went to City Hall to “demand a hearing from Mayor Walker.” Around 1,000 police officers used batons to break up the crowd. A number of arrests were made, including four main leaders: William Z. Foster, Israel Amter, Robert Minor, and Harry Raymond. These four individuals, along with one other man, Joseph Lester, were arrested on the charge of unlawful assembly and inciting a riot. While the men were kept in the detention pen at the police station, violence broke out, leading the four to also be charged with felonious assault. 

Grover Whalen served as the New York City Police Commissioner during this time. Whalen claimed “police spies” had infiltrated the Communist organization in New York City. The International Labor Defense, which was the legal defense organization for the communist party in the United States, declared they would unearth Whalen’s spy system. The defense for Foster, Amter, Minor, and Raymond claimed that Whalen’s secret police hid among the protestors and were the ones to incite a riot. On August 8, 1930, the parole board set the terms for the four arrested men. Foster, Amter, and Minor served six months, while Raymond served ten due to a past criminal history which included “grand larceny and robbery while armed.”

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Tom Mooney and Warren Billings were two men framed as being the perpetrators in a deadly bombing in San Francisco in 1916. At the time, tension was high between labor unions and businesses. The United States was preparing for the possibility of joining World War I, and so they had a large “Preparedness Day” event with a parade through San Francisco’s streets. A suitcase bomb went off during the parade, killing ten and gravely injuring forty others. Detectives and the district attorney’s office were on the side of the chamber of commerce, and used a list of leftists “trouble-makers” who were in town to determine who to arrest for the bombing. Tom Mooney and Warren Billings were labor activists in town that day, and they were arrested. Tom Mooney was sentenced to death which was later commuted to life in prison, while Warren Billings was also sentenced to life in prison. 

In 1920, the confession of Detective Draper Hand, involved in the Mooney case, changed everything. He confessed the entire case framed Tom Mooney. He either bribed or intimidated all the witnesses so that they would lie on the stand, and he coached them on exactly what to say. Detective Hand even took the key witness, Mr. Oxman, to the police station and showed him a car so that he could testify to seeing the car driven on the day. Mooney and Billings asked for a retrial after this new evidence came to light. The evidence sparked protests and outrage, and probes into the trial lasted for over twenty years while Mooney and Billings were kept in prison. In 1939, both men were released with Mooney being pardoned and Billings being paroled. Billings was eventually pardoned in the 1960s. It was determined that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to convict either man, and it is still unknown who was responsible for the suitcase bomb in 1916.