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

Use your common sense: self-isolating is still essential if you have Covid | Devi Sridhar | The Guardian

The prime minister’s pledge to scrap legally enforced isolation for people in England with Covid-19 flies in the face of basic infectious disease management, which tells us to avoid infecting other people when you are infectious. It is a basic public health protection, like others we have in daily life: speed limits on roads, the banning of smoking indoors, and laws against drink driving. These limit our freedoms to a certain extent, but we have accepted that “infringement” in order to have a safer and healthier society.

I agree that we need to get back to “normality” but it’s a question of timing, and now isn’t the right time.

Source: Use your common sense: self-isolating is still essential if you have Covid | Devi Sridhar | The Guardian

Health Ministry formally bans LGBTQ conversion therapy – The Jerusalem Post

The Health Ministry issued a circular on Monday morning banning medical professionals in Israel from providing conversion therapy.

The circular stresses the risks to mental health posed by conversion therapy and prohibits all professionals from the offering, publicizing, or providing such “therapies.” Licensed professionals who do so will face sanctions, including severe disciplinary proceedings and the revocation of their licenses.

Source: Health Ministry formally bans LGBTQ conversion therapy – The Jerusalem Post

Stop Black Land Loss via Language Learning, and ProBono Legal Education

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

Some languages help us communicate, while other languages help us make things run smoothly. Computer languages and legal language are examples of the latter. To understand computer languages, one studies computer science, and to understand legal language, one studies the law and policies active in the state of residence. But not all of us have the opportunity to study the crucial legal language that governs much of our existence, and the consequences of that unequal knowledge can be devastating.

Lynching once occurred physically, but now happens financially, through the court system all across the South, and make no mistake, it is just as murderous, and just as racist:

“…42% of the cases involved black families, despite the fact that only 6% of Carteret’s population is black. Heirs not only regularly lose their land; they are also required to pay the legal fees of those who bring the partition cases. In…

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Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” VOCÊ NÃO TEM OUTRO ASSUNTO PRA FALAR AO INVÉS DE FICAR ATACANDO OS HOMENS?”

Essa foi a pergunta que um homem me fez outro dia no tik.tok. Obviamente, eu foi muito eduacada ao respondê-lo. De imediato, fixei um texto, e no dia seguinte, o respondi em vídeo.
É impressionante, observar como, o homem que pratica a violência, ele quer ” agir conforme a sua vontade. Quer agir, sem ser questionado sobre o seu papel de macho “. É como se ele, ao se comportar como um selvagem, afirmasse ” olha sociedade, aceite esse meu comportamento violento, sem questionar as razões pelas quais, eu possa agir dessa maneira”. Esse detalhe é tão notório, que o homem que pensa dessa forma ( não todos) tenta justificar tamanha brutalidade de forma natural. Em nenhum momento, passa na cabeça dele que a violência é algo que NÃO PODE SER JUSTIFICADO. Não tem desculpa…

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Minbari Mondays, and One Thing B5: Voices of Authority (s3e5), Teaches us About Mental Health — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This week we are still mourning the fact that Ranger Mayann is prohibited from writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed.       So where is a galactic library when you need one?!   Really!!     I find it a bit easy for Draal to see the humor in sending folks off to be […]

Minbari Mondays, and One Thing B5: Voices of Authority (s3e5), Teaches us About Mental Health — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Smitty’s Letter XVI “Guard Duty” — Pacific Paratrooper

Guard Duty, armyhistory.com 15 January 1945, all of the 11th Airborne Division was back on Bito Beach where they rested, re-organized, got re-equipped, re-trained and with a little time left over – they wrote letters home.  Here starts Number 16 from Smitty….   Letter XVI […]

Smitty’s Letter XVI “Guard Duty” — Pacific Paratrooper