Newly released Chinese Covid data points to infected animals in Wuhan | Coronavirus | The Guardian

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Israeli authorities shutter Voice of Palestine radio’s Israel operations, question 5 journalists – Committee to Protect Journalists

Israeli authorities should immediately reverse their order to shut down the Israeli operations of the Voice of Palestine radio station and should cease harassing members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. On Monday, March 20, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ordered Voice of Palestine, the official broadcaster of the Palestinian Authority government, to be barred from operating within Israel, according to multiple news reports. After the order was issued, Israeli police officers arrived at the company’s offices in East Jerusalem and informed the staff about the ban, those reports said.

Source: Israeli authorities shutter Voice of Palestine radio’s Israel operations, question 5 journalists – Committee to Protect Journalists

Warm-heartedness – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“Honest concern for others is the key factor in improving our day to day lives. When you’re warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity. A calm mind and self-confidence are the basis for happy and peaceful relations with each other.”

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Source: Warm-heartedness – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Tennessee Is A Drag on the First Amendment

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee looks fetching in drag. The photo from the Franklin High School 1977 yearbook with the caption “Hard Luck Woman” shows a smiling Lee wigged out in a short dress and sporting a necklace of fake pearls. The apparel is so on-point that it is hard to tell that the future governor is indeed a man. As Rod Stewart once sang, he wears it well.

Forty-six years later, when the Daily Beast asked about the photo, Gov. Lee dismissed his youthful prank as part of “lighthearted school traditions” [that] shouldn’t be ‘conflated’ with the issue the state is banning.”

Source: Tennessee Is A Drag on the First Amendment

Discover the Real You: Rescript the Film “My Life”

 Ned Hamson

Many of us want to succeed, grow and develop as a whole person, to make a difference because we were here. A critical step forward would be one that helps us be a whole person more of the time. That is, to be seen as a whole, spirited person and not one person at work, another at home and another in the community. Plainly, each of us would like others to see and at least appreciate, if not love the real and whole me, then I could be that person all of the time.

So, if you were a film maker, to help others see the whole, real you, you would just rewrite the old script or create a new script, right? Wrong!

One of the best ways to write or rewrite the script My Life so others see you anew is to unscript how you see others.

Script by unscripting – That sounds crazy, rewriting the script by unwriting the script. Not really, let me explain. If you unscript how you see others, it will not be long before someone says to you:

  • “You are really a different sort of person, you see me as I really am,” or
  • “You have really changed. I don’t know how or why but it’s as if I am seeing the real you for the first time!”

Now, do I have your full attention (grin)?

Unscripting is about changing how you see people who are not in your mirror.

  • It means not judging (seeing) a person based on your past knowledge of people or experience with that person.
  • It means not seeing or categorizing a new person according to their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, height, weight, clothing, speech, or how she or he carries him or herself.

Unscripting your views of people means dropping your automatic and usual means of categorizing people, even if it feels a bit awkward.

You may feel awkward or uneasy because these automatic judgments are in part a survival skill born into all creatures, including humans. Being able to predict behavior and whether a situation is dangerous or not is a survival skill we all must have.

When we overextend our need for predictability and apply it simply to make life easier (on the basis of fewer decisions means less work), we not only reduce our ability to adapt (another basic survival skill), we put ourselves behind mental walls or in a mental box that not only prevents us from clearly seeing others but also hide us from others’ view.

Test yourself. How long does it take for you to tag or categorize someone as you watch people enter a public room or building, or walking on the street? And you thought computers were quick. I am willing to bet that each of your judgments will take no more than one or two nanoseconds. Many of your speedy tags or scripts for these people are based on what you expect people to be from how they appear at first glance.

As you watch people walk down the street: this one is a craftsperson (a well-kept man in a clean jumpsuit carrying a toolbox), that one is a day laborer, she is an office worker, she is a government clerk, that one is a religious pilgrim, he is… she is….

We need only consider the first person:

  • You only see and react to him as a craftsperson.
  • You cannot see him as a brother, uncle, father, a village or district historian and storyteller, someone who won a foot race or scored three goals.
  • You don’t see a kind man, a man who has read every book on music in his local library.
  • And the important point, that he cannot see you as anything other than another “what” who only sees him as a “what.”

Rewriting the script in practice. So our first step at writing a new script is to do our best to not just see people as “whats.” It will open up new possibilities at work and in the community. As you see and treat people as whole people, so they will see and treat you.

Once, when I had made a really bad mistake in misjudging a person – and paid for it with a bruised eye and nose – I asked my father if he had any good ways of not making the wrong judgment. His reply has served me well.

Look at people’s eyes. Only see their eyes — not how they are dressed, not the shade of their skin, not how they speak. When you look into another person’s eyes, they have to see yours as well.

Then, the first thing they will notice is that you are not looking at how they are dressed, how they are standing, or what they sound like — you are seeing them as a person. And then — they can see you. In the same way — as a whole person.

The new script is based on seeing whole people not whats or used to be. And that lets them see you in a new light as well.

Copyright Ned Hamson, 2005

Climate Change Policy: Brookings is Right, We CAN Do Better

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

     Reparations in various forms can address climate change and the needed cultural changes which must come before and during these redressments.   This is precisely what Project Do Better advocates, particularly during Phases II and III, although communities may opt to edit their editions of the Do Better manual, freely available in editable form from me, to start that phase of the Project sooner.  Any community may decide to update their own Project Do Better community manual,  as distinct and derived from the current #ProjectDoBetter manual, which  starts by emphasizing free forms of intensive community and self-education, in Phase I, before emphasizing greater housing, reparations, and land-related advocacy in Phase II:

A reparative stance for climate change policy begins with granting reparations for Black Americans and advancing land reclamation for Native Americans as a moral responsibility to minimize climate change impacts for the most vulnerable…”

ManannanAD and…

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