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That “Day”

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There was a day last week, that literally numbed and exploded my mind at the same time.

On one day, I saw Americans talking about how ridiculous Republicans are with their “pro-the-blue” and yet, at the same time, ignore the police and security who were harmed and injured and killed during Jan 6th. At the same time I saw transphobic women, “standing with” another transphobic woman, where the public are being asked for her to be sacked, because she keeps like a violent man’s tweets. Yet, at the same time saying how they’re all for Women’s Rights.

It was really bizarre, to the similarities between the two groups, at once.

And how they don’t see it, blows my mind.

Both groups not only stand with other people’s horrific behaviour in their own group, but deny it, lie about it and then hide behind the Constitution or Women’s Rights.

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EU: 60% vaccinated adults

EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Brussels 02.07.2021 Today,the European Commission president announced that 60% of all adults in the EU are now fully vaccinated. “Full vaccination protects us from #COVID19 and its variants” the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen wrote on her Twitter micro blog.
“Let’s stay vigilant. Let’s get vaccinated! For our own health – and to protect others” the EU top official called.

Pfizer company is raising the price of its Covid19 product in Europe by over 25% under a newly negotiated contract with the European Union (EU), according to a report from the Financial Times (FT) newspaper. Competitor Moderna is also hiking the price of its…

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A “Third Wave” (of mangoes) on Emancipation Day

Petchary's Blog

First of all, a disclaimer of sorts: I am not trying to make light of COVID-19. It is weighing heavily on our minds, as new casesare hovering around the 200 mark on a daily basis, and our hospitals are filling up rapidly. It’s no joke at all. Mass vaccination is under way – and we are so grateful for the vaccines, indeed!

So, throughout this hot, treacherous summer the mango trees in our yard have been bestowing their bounty on us, as if to compensate for the trials of the pandemic and the at times almost intolerable heat. And they have come in waves – heavy, bouncing waves, sometimes crashing on the roof and rolling off.

Julies from mother-in-law’s house. (My photo)

The First Wave was the Julie mangoes (augmented greatly by my mother-in-law’s generous tree on the other side of town, which is the “gift that keeps on…

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Perfume de artista

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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El arte estaba impregnado en su esencia y en su forma, y lo percibía en sí y en las imágenes de los espejos y de los charcos, al asomar y al preguntar por su identidad, al despertar una mañana y al dormir una noche, al crear sus obras y al andar por el mundo, al vivir y al soñar, al escribir su nombre y al pronunciarlo y al callarlo, al reír y al llorar, al caminar y al remar. Le encantaba experimentar los minutos, los días y los años de su existencia, aquí y allá, en las aventuras y en los capítulos que protagonizaba; pero el arte, fiel a su alma, ya era él, y no se traicionaba al escribir sus letras, sus palabras, decoradas con sentimientos y perfumadas con ideas. Era ser humano, y artista; persona, y creador…

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Access to Clean, Safe Drinking Water: A Racial Justice Issue – Blind Injustice

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  • 2 million Americans lack access to running water and basic indoor plumbing as of November 2019. Native Americans are 19 times more likely than their white counterparts to be without indoor plumbing, while African American and Latinx people have no indoor plumbing at almost twice the rate of white people.[3]
  • Tap water that violates legal water safety standards in the United States is 40% more likely to serve people of color.[4]
  • Rising water bills, which in turn makes it difficult for households to afford their own water, has disproportionately affected Black communities.[5]

Without meaning to belittle the importance of making sure that people in different countries all around the world have access to clean and safe drinking water, maybe we should also look at the issues with water access and safety in our own backyard, too. And we should look at these issues through a racial justice lens because it is clear that there is a connection between race and water access/safety. To that end, water access is not just a human rights issue (because every human on this planet should have the right to clean, safe, affordable drinking water), but also a racial justice issue.

While water may not get the sort of attention issues-wise that certain other elements of racial justice advocacy may be getting right now, it is no less important. After all, if we are given water that leaves us unwell in some way, then we end up unable to advocate for the other racial justice issues at hand. As such, water access and cleanliness, while not getting the attention it often deserves, should get attention in the push for racial justice, and particularly racial justice for Black and Indigenous communities.

“Source: Access to Clean, Safe Drinking Water: A Racial Justice Issue – Blind Injustice

Republicans Must Not Be Allowed to Retake the House

Filosofa's Word

Mid-term elections are just fifteen months away … or, to phrase it another way, mid-term elections are fifteen months away, approximately 450 days, and a lot can happen in fifteen months.  In all my history as a political animal, I’ve never put a lot of importance on the “party”, but more on the individual.  Today, though, that has all changed as we are in the age of uber-partisanship and the values of the two parties are miles apart.  From where I stand, the Republican Party shoots itself in the foot a little more every day, but I also understand that not everyone shares my viewpoint.  However, I think that in the midterms in some 450 days, it will be the end of this nation as we know it if the Republican Party manages to capture a majority in both chambers of Congress.  And folks … it could happen.  Every day…

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♫ You Send Me ♫

Filosofa's Word

Every song I’ve considered playing for the past hour, I have already played too recently for a redux. And anyway, I’ve been re-duxing entirely too much of late. I was chatting with a friend the other evening and the subject of Sam Cooke came up, so I went in search of a Sam Cooke favourite that I haven’t already worn out here. And I found one! I literally did a happy dance … well, okay, it was more a sigh of relief, since it’s late and I am too exhausted to dance at the moment.

Sam Cooke wrote this song, but gave the writing credit to his younger brother L.C. because he did not want his own publisher to profit from the song.

According to Songfacts …

“Cooke was signed to Specialty Records, which was a gospel label. Cooke’s producer, Bumps Blackwell, brought this to Art Rupe, who owned the…

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Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Colombia is courting other governments and conservation organizations for support in tackling Amazonian deforestation bringing about what it describes as one of the most ambitious emissions reduction goals in the world.

Carlos Eduardo Correa, the country’s minister of environment and sustainable development, visited Washington, D.C., from July 14 to 16, where he met with members of Congress, representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and nonprofit organizations such as WWF, Conservation International and the Amazon Conservation Team, among others. Correa discussed with them the priorities of the Colombian environment and sustainability sector.

Correa made the United States his first international destination in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the solid political bonds and common environmental interests between the two countries.

According to Correa, with its return to the Paris Agreement, the U.S. government has a crucial climate plan aligned with Colombia’s priorities.

Source: Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit