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

Federal Labor Agency Wants to Crack Down on Anti-Union Meetings

A federal labor agency Is cracking down on union-busting meetings, and Biden vocally supported the new Amazon union. We’re cautiously optimistic!

Source: Federal Labor Agency Wants to Crack Down on Anti-Union Meetings

Shanghai continues citywide lock-down despite public outcry, food shortages and chaos · Global Voices

The lockdown of 26 million people in Shanghai has been extended indefinitely until the latest Omicron outbreak is under control.

The 2-phase citywide lockdown was announced on March 27 and initially set to end on April 5. However, the number of confirmed cases has been surging and reached a recorded high of 17,077 cases at the scheduled end date and the city authorities decided to conduct another round of universal testing, hoping to suppress the outbreak under the zero-COVID policy.

Meanwhile, below the surface, the city is in chaos as many residents under lockdown are running out of food, being denied standard health care, and struggling to access basic everyday goods, according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch.

 

Source: Shanghai continues citywide lock-down despite public outcry, food shortages and chaos · Global Voices

Found Blackout Poetry on a Positive Note

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Image Courtesy of Kym Gordon Moore

Today, I commemorate National Poetry Month with another one of my found blackout poems, Power Positivity. This poem developed while reading a magazine during one of my slightly stressed-out moments. Interestingly, one of the articles caught my attention and I turned another article into found poetry. How relaxing, encouraging, and therapeutic. After I finished with the magazine, of course, I recycled it. That was yet another creative way to deactivate my stress. May you have a stress-free day! 😊

Power Positivity

optimistic living

not consumed by negative thoughts

understand their source

recognize these thoughts

from external sources.

Awareness allows

a game plan to break

negative thinking

plan to drown out external noise

watch what you consume and protect

precious emotional resources.

© Kym Gordon Moore

Image Source: Kym Gordon Moore (where it began)

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Nature’s Tomato Naan

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Next Step: Nature’s Tomato Naan. Who likes ooey gooey melted mozzarella cheese? I do, I do! Now add nature’s juicy ripened tomatoes for fresh garden flavor that will have you wiping your chin after the first bite. Be careful of those cheese pulls, though. Steam may be trapped between the naan crust and the pizza stone. Besides, there’s nothing worse than burning the roof of your mouth from lack of patience. Let your eyes create desire. After all, everyone wants eating to be an enjoyable experience.

NATURE’S TOMATO NAAN

Ingredients:

One prepared naan crust

1-2 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon cornmeal

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

3 Campari tomatoes, sliced

5 grape tomatoes, sliced

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1/8 teaspoon oregano

1/8 teaspoon basil

1/8 teaspoon marjoram

8 ounces fresh mozzarella, sliced

1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes

1/4 cup parmesan cheese, shaved

Instructions:

Preheat oven…

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Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls …

Filosofa's Word

It tolls for Democracy

Hyper-partisanship is likely to be the death of the United States.  It used to be that each of the two major political parties stood for something.  The Republican Party stood for fiscal conservatism, the Democratic Party stood for government helping people, but at the end of the day compromises were settled on.  Today, the word ‘compromise’ might just as well be written out of the dictionary. 

The most glaring example I see is the response to the events of January 6th, when a group of (mostly Republican) men and women attempted, with the blessings of the then-president, to overthrow our votes, to tell us that our voices do not matter, and to crush the democratic foundation of the nation.  The biggest problem is that it doesn’t take a majority to accomplish what the January 6th insurrectionists were trying to accomplish … all it…

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Los días, en este momento de mi vida

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SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Los días, en este momento de mi vida, parecen transcurrir con mayor celeridad. Aparecen, casi imperceptibles, similares al viento que apenas acaricia el rostro y se marcha, acaso con el mensaje oculto de la brevedad en cada minuto, quizá porque tal es la existencia. Y es así como se va la vida, junto con los instantes pasajeros, sin que uno note, muchas veces, que, a pesar de su prisa, el tiempo, que es una medida, deja huellas. Uno, con los años, aprende que cada segundo es irrepetible y que nada lo reemplaza; cambia, entonces, la conciencia del tiempo y se le valora, incluso, más que el dinero. El desarrollo y el posterior envejecimiento en los seres humanos, es un proceso natural que ni siquiera tiene apego a las manecillas del reloj; no obstante, al ser el tiempo la medida…

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