The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) is proud to announce the official launch of its NextGen Leadership Academy fellowship following a kick-off event last month that welcomed and celebrated the inaugural cohort of fellows, referred to as NextGen Co-founding Ambassadors. All Co-founding Ambassadors – twenty-eight in total – were recruited by […]
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PALCUS: NextGen Leadership Academy fellowship – Community
Posted on 17 February 2021.
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Memoir (I) : How I got my name and learned about Portugal – By Diogo Teixeira
Posted on 14 February 2021.
This is a story about how I got my Portuguese name and learned about Portugal as a child. It begins with my parents, who met in New York City, in 1943, during World War II. He basically picked her up one hot August day on a returning beach train. Each thought the other was attractive. […]
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Portugal: What are the prospects for tourism in 2021? – By Len Port
Posted on 14 February 2021.
There is so much uncertainty about Covid-19 that it’s impossible to predict how tourism will pan out in Portugal or anywhere else this year, but there are pieces of positive information that give rise for some optimism. All sections of the Portuguese tourist industry, which is of huge economic importance to the country, have been […]
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Honor: Senator Marc R. Pacheco assigned leadership roles – Massachusetts
Posted on 13 February 2021.
Senator Marc R. Pacheco (D-Taunton), Massachusetts, announced that he will serve as chair of the newly created State Legislative Climate Alliance established by the Eastern Region of The Council of State Governments (CSG East). The goal of the State Legislative Climate Alliance is to provide nonpartisan education, best practices, and innovative state policy solutions to […]
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COVID’19: Vaccinations coming but have been slow to start – Portugal
Posted on 07 February 2021.
By Len Port In contrast to the recent record high Covid infection and death rates in Portugal, vaccinations have been slow to start, but are now expected to accelerate. Amid a scandal over “queue jumping” by people who were not officially prioritised, a new head of the vaccination task force has started work to ramp […]
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Book: ‘Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa’ by Ana P. Ferreira – Editor’s Note
Posted on 05 February 2021.
This book represents the first attempt to query the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent between the turn of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In contrast to the longstanding scholarship on the subject as regards […]
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