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

Critics denounce Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick’s immigration rhetoric as harmful | The Texas Tribune

Source: Critics denounce Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick’s immigration rhetoric as harmful | The Texas Tribune

I Wish

Kamal's Blogging Café

-Kamal Shrestha, 2011/ 2020
(From the book, “A CRUCIAL Journey of LIFE Begins”)

I wish rain,
When I am walking
To purify soul of life.


A cow-boy,
When I am living in village
To get supreme taste of life.


A traveller,
When I am beginning a journey
To love nature wildly in life.


Obstacles,
When I am adventuring
To experience new things in life.


Music,
When I am sleeping
To put away bitterness in life.

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A Pill to Treat Covid-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It. – The New York Times

The U.S. government spent more than $18 billion last year funding drugmakers to make a Covid vaccine, an effort that led to at least five highly effective shots in record time. Now it’s pouring more than $3 billion on a neglected area of research: developing pills to fight the virus early in the course of infection, potentially saving many lives in the years to come. The new program, announced on Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, will speed up the clinical trials of a few promising drug candidates. If all goes well, some of those first pills could be ready by the end of the year. The Antiviral Program for Pandemics will also support research on entirely new drugs — not just for the coronavirus, but for viruses that could cause future pandemics.

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, Institutions, and Community Emotional Health

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

Who can say what a community loses when members feel obliged to hide, or to leave the community due to persecution from the larger majority?  Both the Black community and the Jewish community here in the United States have felt these pressures, and both communities have worked together to aid one another, years ago.

So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us?

I believe that attention to shared histories of institution building in DC helped, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

” … conductor on the Underground Railroad. Jewish families sometimes switched from Ohev Shalom to the reform Washington Hebrew Congregation in order “to
be more American.”   Most members of the Negro…

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Magnolia Reveries

yaskhan

Alphabets become jeweled figurines
Like studded stars drip-dropping
Sparkling confetti on a magnolia vignette...
I sit in quiet solitude breathing in the solace of sepia memories...crocheting a borealis in my solstice day
Syllables of Monet hues flame
A potpourri of poesies
Galaxy's champagne
Serenades my rosette fire
Kaleidoscopic eloquence
Needling a mantle of chrome waltzes
A phonographic euphoria
Etching a musky interlude
Of shared tears
Radiating scarlet of an Amaryllis quill...

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INVESTIGADORES DEL CONICET SE MANIFIESTAN CONTRA MEGAMINERÍA EN CATAMARCA — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Barbara Crane Navarro

13/05/2021 Consideran preocupantes declaraciones recientes del gobierno catamarqueño en las que afirma que avanzará con los proyectos mineros en la provincia, a pesar de que estos no cuentan con licencia social. 983 morewords

INVESTIGADORES DEL CONICET SE MANIFIESTAN CONTRA MEGAMINERÍA EN CATAMARCA — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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