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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Time to “Fall Back”

“The heart’s words  fall back unheard  from Wisdom’s throne.”  ~ Sri Aurobindo

Time to “Fall Back”

The Arizona Daily Star’s endorsements for 2024

President: The Arizona Daily Star endorses Kamala Harris.There has never been a clearer choice than the one voters have in this year’s Presidential election.

This time around, Donald Trump is not an unknown quantity, as he was in 2016. His four-year term in office, the chaotic insurrection and ugly transfer of power at its end, and his behavior over the four years following his presidency are all available for American citizens to evaluate.

We cannot excuse or normalize January 6. The very fact that Trump now describes what happened as a “day of love” and its violent perpetrators “hostages” should be disqualifying. There are so many things that Trump has said and done that are disqualifying, from mismanaging a pandemic to blowing up the deficit by $8 trillion with tax cuts for billionaires to fomenting the insurrection in the first place.

Source: The Arizona Daily Star’s endorsements for 2024

Kamala Harris Is Not Our Savior. But a Donald Trump Win Would Be Catastrophic. | Teen Vogue

Image may contain Kamala Harris Face Head Person Photography Portrait Adult Advertisement Poster and Accessories Donald Trump cannot win this election. Full stop.

Right now, we have the power to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Not exercising that power only gives him more. And it will result in the loss of power for many of our communities.

Source: Kamala Harris Is Not Our Savior. But a Donald Trump Win Would Be Catastrophic. | Teen Vogue

Trump would gut Social Security, Medicare just as boomers need them – Los Angeles Times

While he has MAGA focused on Haitians and Puerto Ricans, his sights are set on cutting the very programs that baby boomers need. Make no mistake: Under Trump, the working class and middle class would suffer again as they did during his first administration.

One of the former president’s most prominent supporters, Elon Musk, reportedly would lead a “government efficiency commission” if Trump were elected — and you can bet he would find “inefficiency” wherever the government is using tax dollars in the interests of average Americans. Acknowledging that Trumponomics would hurt most people, Musk used the phrase “temporary hardships” to describe what Americans can expect should Trump get back in the White House. And he gave the former president more than $70 million to get there.

…On the campaign trail, Trump is promising to eliminate taxes on overtime pay. What he doesn’t tell you is that Project 2025, the blueprint for the next Republican administration to reshape the federal government, would eliminate overtime pay. Both he and Musk are anti-union and talk lovingly about finding ways to pay employees less. Trump has a reputation for not paying contractors at all.

…We have got to find a way to have conversations about the future of Medicare, Social Security and other programs without charlatans like Trump and Musk mucking up policy discussions with yesteryear’s racism. It’s tiresome and counterproductive, and the stakes are too high: 70 million Americans are depending on the rest of us to get our act together.

The nation is not only getting more diverse; it’s also getting older. The solutions will not come in the form of prejudice disguised as policy. That’s the world Trump and Musk grew up in, and that’s what they’re offering more of.

Source: Trump would gut Social Security, Medicare just as boomers need them – Los Angeles Times

The Inheritance of Loss – ore de drum

San Juan Chamula, 2019 – Paris, 2023

De la colonizatorii spanioli încoace, los Chiapanecas au aflat că, din partea străinilor, nu se pot aștepta la nimic bun dar, însoțit de un ghid local, călătorul e tolerat și, în centru, pe o arie restrânsă, poate face chiar și poze.

În San Juan de Chamula, interdicția de a fotografia în interiorul bisericii și în zone mai îndepărtate de centru este cu strășnicie supravegheată.

Localnicii nu fac compromisuri ca să fie pe placul turiștilor, atitudine dictată de străvechi credințe, pe care le-o respect.

Comunitatea din San Juan de Chamula, din regiunea Chiapas, numără peste optzeci și șapte de mii de locuitori vestiți pentru forța lor de caracter manifestată printr-o rezistență înverșunată în fața autorităților religioase și laice din Mexic. În spiritul vechilor obiceiuri maya, sătenii nutresc o mai mare credință în puterile șamanului lor decât în cele dovedite de episcopul catolic…

Source: The Inheritance of Loss – ore de drum