Perspectives

De malinha pronta

Il me souffle des mots tendres à l’oreille
Mais ses gestes sont maladroits et toujours pareils
Son esprit est plein de douceur
Mais son corps refuse le bonheur
Il resiste
Il insiste
Il obéit
Il sourit
Il repousse
Il fremousse
Il gomme
Il fredonne
Il déborde d’audace
Mais le moindre effort l’agace
La melancolie prend le dessus
Hélas, la passion est décousue.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz

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Bolsonaro’s shame

Bolsonaro, once again, presented the Brazilian with a worldwide shame. Without being vaccinated, the president travels to New York. His first appearance, with his entourage, was a subject in all newspapers and media in the world, for being photographed eating pizza, outside the restaurant. All the participants in this memorable photo show an air of subservience to their boss, in the caption of the photo it can be read, “a boss and everyone obeys”, unfortunate.

I can say that Bolsonaro’s participation in the UN was a terror for Brazil. His speech was considered by all political analysts to be narrow-minded. Journalist Otavio Guedes, from Globo News, defined the president’s speech: “Bolsonaro has just used the UN gallery to make a live, for his little fenced”. Unfortunately, Bolsonaro missed the chance to present Brazil to the world, in a positive way and, in the view of many experts, his presence was expendable.

The reflexes of his journey, until today, are being felt. Minister serving quarantine in New York; quarantined president here in Brazil; son of the president testing positive for covid; in addition to the vaccination of the first lady, held in the United States, an event that left our doctors confused and generated discomfort with ANVISA .

Source: Bolsonaro’s shame

COVID-19 crisis in Jamaican prisons: a call for the most vulnerable to be released

Petchary's Blog

In my last news update, I wrote:

It was disturbing to learn recently that only 10 per cent of the prison population has been vaccinated (was a truly concerted effort to get them vaccinated ever undertaken?) Now even more worryingly, we learn that 58 prisoners and 38 staff membershave tested positive.

In his State of the Nation presentation in the Upper House of Parliament today (September 24), Senator Matthew Samuda, under whose portfolio the prison system falls, reported that currently there are 58 positive cases of COVID-19, seven of whom are hospitalized. 38 members of staff have tested positive and are in isolation. He reported that two inmates and three staff members have died since the pandemic began, all during the first wave. Senator Samuda shared his full presentation on Twitter – the link is here. Details of the COVID situation in prisons can be found…

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LandBack Round Robin: Ethnic studies so history will not be erased

Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

It is a paradox that education is crucial for healing, in this case healing from the intergenerational traumas suffered by Indigenous peoples in the lands called the United States and Canada. And yet, who will teach these subjects? Care must be taken to avoid triggering that might occur for Indigenous educators. The following quote references […]

Ethnic studies so history will not be erased

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Half of unvaccinated workers say they’d rather quit than get a shot – but real-world data suggest few are following through

And based on a sample of companies that already have vaccine mandates in place, the actual number who do resign rather than get the vaccine is much smaller than the survey data suggest.

Houston Methodist Hospital, for example, required its 25,000 workers to get a vaccine by June 7. Before the mandate, about 15% of its employees were unvaccinated. By mid-June, that percentage had dropped to 3% and hit 2% by late July. A total of 153 workers were fired or resigned, while another 285 were granted medical or religious exemptions and 332 were allowed to defer it.

At Jewish Home Family in Rockleigh, New Jersey, only five of its 527 workers quit following its vaccine mandate. Two out of 250 workers left Westminster Village in Bloomington, Illinois, and even in deeply conservative rural Alabama, a state with one of the lowest vaccine uptake rates, Hanceville Nursing & Rehab Center lost only six of its 260 employees.

Delta Airlines didn’t mandate a shot, but in August it did subject unvaccinated workers to a US$200 per month health insurance surcharge. Yet the airline said fewer than 2% of employees have quit over the policy.

And at Indiana University Health, the 125 workers who quit are out of 35,800 total employees, or 0.3%.

Source: Half of unvaccinated workers say they’d rather quit than get a shot – but real-world data suggest few are following through

Memories, like the corners of my mind, misty……………

The BUTHIDARS

Many people who know mw are aware that my first love (apart from Katie Hepburn) is Motown. The Four Tops are probably my most favourite group from the Motown era I grew to adulthood (I wish) with. But there is another group who’s singer could melt my kneecaps and send me to the floor. Allow me to present Gladys Knight and her pips with a great track from 1971.

Gladys Knight. Help me make it through the night 1971

Back in the 1960’s we had a few singing outfits that called themselves Brothers. I’ve already played a record by the Walker Brothers- who were not, and now here is another one who aren’t. From 1965 I bring you the Righteous Brothers. William (Bill )Medley and Bobby Hatfield. Though actually this was sung by Bobby alone.

Righteous Bothers. Unchained Melody 1965.

From 1993 a track from a very popular group named…

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Gratidão

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Gratidão é um estado de êxito da alma. Ninguém explica, define ou conceitua de forma clara e precisa. A verdade que se acrescenta a respeito da palavra gratidão, é que a sensação boa que sentimos, representam o ápice emocional da realização dos nossos desejos íntimos.

Eu sou grata a tudo na vida, até quando considero o que foi perdido. Creio que as coisas que tomam novas rotas, elas com o tempo, servem para você expressar de forma compensadora a sua admiração pelo boicote da vida. Tudo é um acréscimo pelas coisas que administramos, mas que não levamos daqui, digo desse plano terreno. Tudo é um empréstimo, até mesmo, a vida.

Ora, o ser humano vem a esse mundo sem nada, briga por mal-entendidos, por coisas que não lhe pertencem. Mas, no fundo, apesar de não levar o que considera “precioso”, morre grato por ter cumprido o mínimo ou o que…

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