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A Citadel Of Peace – The Bee Writes…

In recent years, I have often wondered how you can learn to live in peace and with respect with people of the other side of your comfort zone. I feel this is a skill we will need to stop the conflicts blighting our beautiful planet. This school in Italy teaches students from both sides of conflict zones to become future peace bringers. Unfortunately, the video from AP didn’t offer translations, but there is English too. Just keep watching. Thanks

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Source: A Citadel Of Peace – The Bee Writes…

Grants and scholarships to Pacific Islanders challenged in court – AsAmNews

Anti-affirmative action groups bolstered by the recent supreme court decision on college admissions are now going after scholarships and other special programs designed to assist people of color and other underrepresented populations.

Kaiser Family Foundation Health News reports that a conservative group is challenging a San Francisco and California program that gives 150 pregnant Pacific Islander and Black women $1,000 a month.

The goal is to tackle the disproportionate number of Black and Pacific Islander mothers who die from childbirth; but Californians for Equal Rights Foundation argues it is illegal to assist people based on race.

“Each of the programs … is currently engaging in precisely the kind of intentional racial discrimination the Constitution forbids,” the lawsuit states, according to the San Francisco Chronicle

Source: Grants and scholarships to Pacific Islanders challenged in court – AsAmNews

Thom Hartmann: The GOP Plan to Kill Social Security | Diane Ravitch’s blog

This may be the most important article you read today. The Republicans have made it a practice to promote culture-war issues in order to obscure their real goals: cutting or eliminating entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare. Because the entitlement programs are wildly popular, the GOP can’t admit publicly that they oppose them. So the GOP elevates issues that they oppose like “woke,” critical race theory, diversity-equity-inclusion, drag queens, and gay marriage. Forget the smokescreen and see what their real agenda is… Source: Thom Hartmann: The GOP Plan to Kill Social Security | Diane Ravitch’s blog