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

Lin-Manuel Miranda says Donald Trump is spreading ‘a virulent strain of a virus’ — Repeating Islands

The U.S. has always had a tradition of xenophobia, says Lin-Manuel Miranda, and our current moment is no exception, Jorge Ramos and Jorge Rivas report for Fusion. “What you’re seeing is a particular virulent strain of a virus that has always affected our American politics, and it’s one in which when times are difficult, politicians […]

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Hillary Clinton para Presidente | La Prensa San Diego

Hillary Clinton merece nuestro apoyo. Merece un triunfo en California y llevar esa sinergia a las elecciones generales. Debe contar con la mayor solidez posible para permitirle hacer frente a la campaña de odio, división y peligroso aislacionismo que está montando Trump. Ya estamos más allá de política partidista. Se trata de quienes queremos ser. Se trata de ser el tipo de país en el que queramos vivir y heredar a nuestros hijos. Se trata del mismísimo motivo por el cual nuestras familias decidieron originalmente venir a este país. Hillary Clinton para Presidente.

Source: Hillary Clinton para Presidente | La Prensa San Diego

WitnessLA.com » Blog Archive » Muhammed Ali, Simply: The Greatest – January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ― Muhammad Ali

“The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” ― Muhammad Ali

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.” ― Muhammad Ali

“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” ― Muhammad Ali

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” ― Muhammad Ali

“The man with no imagination has no wings.” ― Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” ― Muhammad Ali

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.” ― Muhammad Ali

“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me.” ― Muhammad Ali

“I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.” ― Muhammad Ali

Source: WitnessLA.com » Blog Archive » Muhammed Ali, Simply: The Greatest – January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016

WHO: Array of Zika birth defects equals new syndrome | CIDRAP

WHO: Cast surveillance net beyond microcephaly Current evidence and unpublished data coming into the WHO are showing a wider range of birth defects besides microcephaly, including craniofacial disproportion, spasticity, seizures, irritability, eye problems, and brainstem dysfunction, leading to, for example, feeding difficulties. The WHO said clinicians are seeing a range of severity, including neurologic problems in babies born with normal head circumference, similar to those associated with other maternal infections. Unpublished data from Colombia and Panama, however, hint that Zika virus might be linked to other problems in babies, affecting the genitourinary, cardiac, and digestive systems, according to the report. The WHO said it has established a process to define the new congenital syndrome, which will focus on mapping and analyzing the clinical manifestations. Experts will need good antenatal and postnatal histories and follow-up data, lab findings, and neuroimaging results to flesh out the syndrome, the agency added.

Source: WHO: Array of Zika birth defects equals new syndrome | CIDRAP

Return Of Saffron Violence? – Groundviews

a new group of saffron robed extremist monks, who are attempting to come in to the limelight through propagating a racist agenda. The desperate common opposition led by the Rajapaksa faction in parliament has started playing the racist card once more, provoking Buddhist extremism. They are using multiple fronts to attack minorities, especially the Tamils and Muslims after their dismal performance at the May Day rally in Kirulapone, in the hope that they can harness the vote bank of the Buddhists. These forces have now been unleashed to create hate and target the Muslims and evangelical Christians with the hope that the international community and, especially the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) would notice it and impose sanctions on Sri Lanka that would lead to the collapse of our economy.  A ban on the import of Sri Lankan labour to the Middle East would drive the majority of our population to the streets – literally begging for their next meal. The income from foreign remittances is estimated to be around 6-7 billion US Dollars per annum.

Source: Return Of Saffron Violence? – Groundviews

Gaza resilience( mawasi… A failure of humanity )

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Somewhere , between north and south Gaza exists an area called Mawasi…part of the One third of Gaza geographical land that was ‘dropped’ by mistake and given to Israel during Oslo by ‘mistake’. Since the disengagement of 2005 , a tribe named Tarabin , became part of the marginalized marginalization of their existence. They were enclaved by settlements first to end up in a no existence zone. In the last aggression on gaza, the people of this area were displaced from slums to shelters , to go back to their de-slummed places poorer and just more miserable . I pretend that I encountered some difficult scenes in my life . No words can describe the misery of the tragedy that is ongoing their. Total dis belonging or actual existence. They literally live worse than animals . The government doesn’t even bother to consider them and surrounded by strong patriarchal cleanish…

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Gaza . Resilience…(culture and free thought association… An example)

Nearly always in the midst of what outsiders see only as despair – those living “now” – plan, play, produce, and innovate at breakneck speed _ Gaza Lives!

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Have I mentioned the word resilience enough ? In khan Younis , there is a center called culture and free thought association, a hub for youth and marginalized ,disabled, children, women … A real reflection of what resilience may truly mean. How people work towards the rebuilding of their own lives. No option but survival.. And living in the best way possible is the sentence I heard from one group to another . The work as such is like a snowball , it keeps rolling and moving and growing … No limit to the urge of life they carry . The group of women with the niqab are from ( mawasi) being there and holding the notion of ‘awareness and development’ and ‘ let’s create energy from disability’ is their initiative they insist to work on , a 22 woth facial deformation young woman ( with the victory signal in…

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Humans of New York

“I’ve always believed in heaven. But it was so hard to lean on that understanding after my father passed away. I was a Daddy’s girl. His death was an emotional clusterfuck. I could close my eyes and imagine he was somewhere else. But for the first time in my life, I couldn’t pinpoint his location on a map. And even though I’d taken an astronomy class in college, I couldn’t find him with a telescope. His absence was so much more real than I thought it would be. And it really shook my beliefs. I had to form a deeper understanding of what exactly ‘heaven’ means. And I’m still working on that. But I do still talk to him everyday. And I still believe that I’ll see him again.”

Source: Humans of New York