Sacred Study Saturdays on Parashat Re’eh, and debt laws

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

The common good, or the general welfare, and on-going legal & financial pro-bono education (aka Adulting Education), must become more fully inclusive for all of us.

Dr. King said that,

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. ”

The question is how does such “restructuring” happen?

Following up on my earlier post regarding debt as a problem of financial self-defense, particularly in the case of apartment renters who are forced to live in a lemon or face Breach of Lease, Biblical Law may have something to say about the long term consequences of artificially pushing people into debt (talking about otherwise frugal folks who do not spend profligately).

I respectfully submit that we have had one possible tool in our hands for several thousand years, and it may need to be examined…

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Street Art in Köln-Ehrenfeld

Street art is really life affirming and wonderful…

Senioren um die Welt

Street Art ist eine äusserst facettenreiche Kunstform, die sich stets weiterentwickelt und gewissermassen neu erfindet. Ebenso rasch wie die Kunstwerke entstehen, verschwinden sie wieder, werden entfernt, übermalt oder zugebaut, andernorts entstehen neue Werke. Es ist eine Ausdrucksform, die das Leben der Betrachter sehr bereichert. Street Art spielt sich auf der Strasse ab, der öffentliche Raum ist das Medium. Wichtige Aspekte dieser Kunstform sind, dass sie nicht nur für jeden leicht verständlich ist, sondern auch dass sie für jeden zugänglich ist.


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And Speaking of Voting Rights …

Filosofa's Word

I had considered doing a Saturday Surprise post today, but … frankly, my heart wasn’t in it and my mind kept going back to an editorial I read yesterday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  Perhaps there might be a Sunday Surprise tomorrow, but for today, please read AG Garland’s words, think about them, put them into the context of the post I wrote yesterday about Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964.  Then ask yourself … WHERE are we headed?  WHY should a person’s right to vote be infringed upon because of the colour of their skin?  And WHAT, if anything, can We the People do to stop this runaway train that will disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens, rob them of their voice in our country’s government?


Merrick Garland: It is time for Congress to act again to protect the right to vote

Opinion by Merrick B…

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Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Barbara Crane Navarro

Barbara Crane Navarro es una artista, autora y activista francesa que actualmente vive cerca de París. Durante 12 años, pasó los meses de invierno con el pueblo Yanomami en Venezuela y Brasil, una experiencia que inspiró su práctica artística y sus esfuerzos de décadas para llamar la atención sobre la devastación de la selva amazónica. […]

Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

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The Counterpunch: The easy consumer solutions that fight animal extinction and deforestation — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Although the world is highly complex, every person can make a difference. That previous sentence almost sounds like a cliche right? Really it’s not. If every person on the planet made a few simple lifestyle changes, it would result in less demand on land and resources and soften the impact of deforestation on endangered species.[…]

The Counterpunch: The easy consumer solutions that fight animal extinction and deforestation — Palm Oil Detectives

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No Time or Forest to Lose — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Barbara Crane Navarro

Human Wrongs Watch By Gaby Flores |Greenpeace International* Illegal deforestation in the Gran Chaco forest region continues. A Greenpeace Argentina team conducted an overflight last week and discovered unlawful deforestation in the Chaco province ofArgentina. Flyover deforested land in Chaco region of Argentina. © Alejandro Espeche / Greenpeace The deforestation of 10,329 hectares was detected[…]

No Time or Forest to Lose — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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The Vaccine Divide

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

I had interesting conversations with two people on Friday, among several with whom I spoke. The two represented polar opposites on vaccines:

  • Person one is a vaccine skeptic. Has never been vaccinated, will never be, and is sending a son off to college totally unprotected. You can do that in the South. Maybe she’ll get lucky, maybe not. Will she accept responsibility if she loses this game of Russian roulette?
  • Person two had a husband who caught Covid before the vaccines were available. He had to be intubated and suffered permanent brain damage and disability. I’m sure she wishes the vaccine had been available before her husband became ill.

Real stories, real people. The first explains why we can’t stop the virus in the US. The second explains the harm that it does and why so much of my time involves damage control.

And no, you’ll never see either story…

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