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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, Institutions, and Community Emotional Health

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

Who can say what a community loses when members feel obliged to hide, or to leave the community due to persecution from the larger majority?  Both the Black community and the Jewish community here in the United States have felt these pressures, and both communities have worked together to aid one another, years ago.

So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us?

I believe that attention to shared histories of institution building in DC helped, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

” … conductor on the Underground Railroad. Jewish families sometimes switched from Ohev Shalom to the reform Washington Hebrew Congregation in order “to
be more American.”   Most members of the Negro…

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Magnolia Reveries

yaskhan

Alphabets become jeweled figurines
Like studded stars drip-dropping
Sparkling confetti on a magnolia vignette...
I sit in quiet solitude breathing in the solace of sepia memories...crocheting a borealis in my solstice day
Syllables of Monet hues flame
A potpourri of poesies
Galaxy's champagne
Serenades my rosette fire
Kaleidoscopic eloquence
Needling a mantle of chrome waltzes
A phonographic euphoria
Etching a musky interlude
Of shared tears
Radiating scarlet of an Amaryllis quill...

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INVESTIGADORES DEL CONICET SE MANIFIESTAN CONTRA MEGAMINERÍA EN CATAMARCA — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Barbara Crane Navarro

13/05/2021 Consideran preocupantes declaraciones recientes del gobierno catamarqueño en las que afirma que avanzará con los proyectos mineros en la provincia, a pesar de que estos no cuentan con licencia social. 983 morewords

INVESTIGADORES DEL CONICET SE MANIFIESTAN CONTRA MEGAMINERÍA EN CATAMARCA — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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1 mil. COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Japan delivered to Vietnam

Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long indicated the donated vaccine, developed by Britain’s AstraZeneca Plc, will be distributed mainly in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam where cases are increasing.

Vietnam had confirmed 11,635 infections as of Wednesday, but about 70 percent of them were confirmed in May or later.

Japan donated 1.24 million AstraZeneca shots to Taiwan earlier in the month.

Tokyo is also considering donating COVID-19 vaccines to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand in July, according to Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

Source: 1 mil. COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Japan delivered to Vietnam

Japan to start issuing vaccine passports in July

Japan plans to issue so-called vaccine passports from around mid- to late July as more activities around the world open up to people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, the nation’s top government spokesman said Thursday.

The government is asking other countries to exempt travelers carrying the documents that officially certify their vaccination status from quarantine or to shorten the quarantine period, government sources said earlier.

Source: Japan to start issuing vaccine passports in July

Filipina Heroine

Pacific Paratrooper

Magdalena Leones Magdalena Leones

The Silver Star is the third-highest honor for gallantry in the U.S. Armed Forces. Previous recipients include Audie Murphy, Chuck Yeager, and Norman Schwartzkopf. But few people have heard of Magdalena Leones – she was a Filipino woman that served as a guerrilla soldier under U.S. command in World War II.

Leones was in her 20s when she joined the Philippine-American military effort. She is part of a small group of women – and is the only Filipino woman – to receive the award for her heroism. She died on June 16th in Richmond, California at 96-years old.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recognized her on June 28. “We are diminished by the passing of Corporal Magdalena Leones, Silver Star Filipina World War II veteran — the only Asian to receive this honor,” Supervisor Jane Kim said. “Corporal Leones has paved the way for many…

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