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Coronavirus Vaccination : What To Expect & My Experience – Invisibly Me

THE UK CORONAVIRUS VACCINATION PROGRAMME 

I’m in the JCVI group 6, which is for the 16-64 year olds with chronic underlying conditions putting them at greater risk of coronavirus. I have a few chronic conditions, but the ones that put me at risk are, I believe, the lung disease (bronchiectasis, lung scarring and inflammation) and autoimmune disease. I also have the likes of fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, ME/CFS, and so on.

Source: Coronavirus Vaccination : What To Expect & My Experience – Invisibly Me

Sojourner Truth’s Massachusetts days – Liberation News

While Truth is known and celebrated by millions of people around the world today, one lesser-known period in Truth’s life was her time spent in the abolitionist intentional community that formed in what is now Florence, Massachusetts.

Florence is a village within the City of Northampton and evolved out of a radical abolitionist endeavor known as the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, which existed from 1842 to 1846.

Source: Sojourner Truth’s Massachusetts days – Liberation News

Myanmar’s Anti-Regime Protesters Urge Asian Counterparts to Unite for General Strike

Myanmar’s pro-democracy activists have called for the anti-Chinese “Milk Tea Alliance” in Thailand, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan and Indonesia to support a second general strike against Myanmar’s military regime on Sunday.

The call came after Thailand received U Wunna Maung Lwin, the foreign minister appointed by Myanmar’s military regime, on Wednesday to meet Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi for talks in Bangkok. Thousands of young activities in Myanmar called for solidarity from the Milk Tea Alliance, a loose, online coalition of activists largely based in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan using the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance. The coalition points to the variety of types of milk tea consumed across the region and opposes the increasing influence of China.

Messages were posted in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Thai calling on activists to pressure their leaders to recognize the results of the Nov. 8 general election in Myanmar, which the National League for Democracy won by a landslide. International observers reported that the election was free and fair.

The online democratic solidarity movement grew up in Thailand in response to Chinese trolls and nationalists opposing pro-democracy activists on social media. It has since emerged as a multinational protest movement, advocating democracy and human rights.

Source: Myanmar’s Anti-Regime Protesters Urge Asian Counterparts to Unite for General Strike

Myanmar’s Ethnic Groups Join Together to Reject Military Rule – The Diplomat

Naw Zipporah Sein, former vice president of the Karen National Union (KNU) understands this widespread ethnic distrust of the NLD. But she told The Diplomat that “although the NLD leaders have shown very little knowledge or respect for ethnic peoples when they were the running the government, but now is the time for unity.”

“We have to put our differences aside,” she emphasized. “The coup is everybody’s enemy.”

Source: Myanmar’s Ethnic Groups Join Together to Reject Military Rule – The Diplomat

Gulf Stream System slows to its weakest in a thousand years, putting U.S., Europe at risk

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The Gulf Stream System is at its weakest in 1,000 years due to climate change, reveals new research. The ocean current that brings warm water and shapes weather patterns from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe is slowing down in an unprecedented way, say scientists.

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With VPNs and fancy dress, Myanmar youth fight ‘turning back of the clock’

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For a generation used to freedoms that have come with democracy, going back to military rule is unthinkable

In the searing afternoon sun, Myo, 21, stood in front of a police barricade near Yangon’s Sule Pagoda – one of just a handful of protesters to gather at the rallying point on Wednesday. He stood alone, a towel wrapped around his neck to soak up the sweat, and held a sign that read “humanity” in front of the officers.

“The military took away my future,” said the digital artist. “My work can no longer pay me. This country had barely started trying to develop and now it’s 2021. I don’t know what made them think they should stage a coup.”

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