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

From Mexico to Australia, Indigenous youth reimagine the internet for their languages · Global Voices

There are some 7,000 languages in the world, but only 10 dominate the internet. English leads, with 25.9 percent of online content, followed by Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian, French, Japanese, Russian, and German. Facing this reality, Indigenous youth from Mexico to Australia are carving out spaces for their languages on the web.

Forty percent of all languages are at “some level of endangerment,” according to UNESCO, and Indigenous languages are particularly at risk, as hegemonic languages permeate education, governments, and media worldwide.

On July 13, Indigenous language activists from Mexico and Australia shared strategies during an online talk co-organized by Global Voices and First Languages Australia, with the support of the Embassy of Australia in Mexico.

Source: From Mexico to Australia, Indigenous youth reimagine the internet for their languages · Global Voices

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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