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Tô Thuỳ Yên | You’re so small(em), how could you be the North Seabird (7) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Tô Thuỳ Yên (1938-2019) real name was Đinh Thành Tiên, born in Go Vap, Gia Dinh, Vietnam, an alumnus at Petrus Ký and Đại học Văn khoa Sài Gòn. He was a teacher and journalist in Saigon, a Major in the Vietnam Army prior to 1975. After 1975 served 13 years in re-education camps, in 1993, he moved with his family to the United States as a former political prisoner. — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Tô Thuỳ Yên | You’re so small(em), how could you be the North Seabird (7) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Wet’suwet’en updates 11/20/2021

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Following are updates from the Wet’suwet’en territory that was invaded again yesterday by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on behalf of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Militarized RCMP came with assault rifles and dogs. Three accredited journalists were arrested.

Militarized RCMP raided Coyote Camp today, arresting 14 people including Sleydo’, Chief Woos’s daughter, and three accredited journalists.. 

They came in with assault rifles and dogs, and without a warrant, used axes to break down the door of the cabin Sleydo’ and Chief Woos’s daughter we’re in, and violently removed them from their territory.

Of the people arrested yesterday, most we’re released this afternoon. Five people refused to sign conditions of release that barred return to the territory and are being brought to jail in Prince Rupert where they face court on Monday.

Solidarity actions continued across the country, with rallies, marches, rail blockades, and road closures. 

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VaYishlach, and Favorites

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

     This week’s Torah portion is Parashat VaYishlach, for the messengers that Jacob sent to his brother Esav upon his return home.  Upon hearing that Esav was approaching with 400 armed men, Jacob was in fear.  So what does he do?  Sends out his least favorite wives and kids first, in front of him.  Not exactly egalitarian.  But not even as bad as what many parents do to their own children.  How can we spare our kids, and our society, this pain of favoritism, hierarchy, and lack of empathy? 

   What do you think, Thoughtful Readers?

 

Action Prompts:

1.)  Share your thoughts on the how empathetic education might keep all children safe, please.

2.) Share your thoughts on how we Human Beings might start to build a more fully inclusive society for all of us.

3.) Write a book, story, post or tweet that uses…

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Once more, Jamaicans debate whether states of emergency are an effective crime-fighting tool or a band aid · Global Voices

On the morning of Sunday, November 14, Jamaicans were surprised with the news that Prime Minister Andrew Holness would be holding a press briefing on “matters of national importance.” Some media houses were quick to speculate that the focus would be on crime.

Holness’ announced that states of public emergency had been imposed that morning in seven police divisions, including in Montego Bay and two other parishes in the west of the island, and four police divisions in the capital, Kingston. The restrictions cover approximately one-third of the country and will remain in force for two weeks, after which time they will have to be reviewed by parliament.

States of emergency in Jamaica are nothing new. Between 1962, when the country became independent from Britain, and January 2018, the government imposed six major states of emergency. Two of the six were in response to natural disasters, the others to crime.

In April 2019, states of emergency were declared once again for the same three western parishes currently under lockdown but were lifted ahead of the country’s 2020 general elections.

At the briefing, the prime minister noted that murder rates in the affected areas had increased between 16 and 57 per cent this year. Major Antony Anderson, the commissioner of police, added that as of November 12, Jamaica had recorded 1,240 murders for 2021, COVID-19 curfews and lockdowns notwithstanding. The four Kingston divisions accounted for 32 per cent of that figure, with 392 murders. 272 people had been killed in the three western parishes, making up 22 per cent. Anderson stressed that these numbers did not include the 11 murders that had taken place in the previous 24 hours, nine of them in areas that had been placed under states of emergency. Anderson also noted that a surge in gang-related murders and reprisal killings, fueled by extortion, scamming, and the guns for drugs trade with Haiti, accounted for a little over 70 per cent of homicides…

Source: Once more, Jamaicans debate whether states of emergency are an effective crime-fighting tool or a band aid · Global Voices

A bondade é uma grandeza do espírito

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Fazer o bem não é cansativo, é uma forma de agregar valor na vida do outro. Toda vez que se pratica uma boa ação, não nos tornamos suficientes para a outra pessoa. Antes, nos tornamos suficientes para nós.

A consciência de poder construir coisas de valor, de assumir essa condição de humildade e, o que é mais importante, de nos aprimorar como pessoas, principalmente sobre aquilo que se precisa melhorar, não em relação ao outro, mas no que diz respeito às nossas próprias imperfeições, nos permite enxergar beleza na pessoa que há em nós. A bondade é uma característica da nobreza humana. Só faz o bem, aquele que o bem guarda por dentro de si.

Eu fico extremamente incomodada quando digo que o bem existe e, que precisamos praticá-lo se quisermos ter uma vida com êxito. O incômodo é porque algumas pessoas não compreendem o porquê de minhas palavras. Então…

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