Mutual Aid is the Quaker way of being in the world

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This week I’ve been writing to help refine what I hope will happen when we discuss Mutual Aid at my Quaker meeting this weekend. Quakers have a practice of using questions (queries) to help focus and stimulate participation in consideration of topics such as peace, Quaker education, etc. In the tables below I’ve extracted queries from those we routinely consider that relate to Mutual Aid and added others I’ve written.

I think what I will have the most trouble conveying is Mutual Aid represents a paradigm shift away from our current situation. Away from capitalism, white supremacy, insurance-controlled healthcare, militarized police and punishment oriented judicial system, prisons, education that resists teaching critical thinking and promotes white supremacy, and domestic and global militarism. Away from commodifying all natural resources. Continuing extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

Simply put, Mutual Aid is the Quaker way of being in the world.

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“They Call Me Mr. Tibbs” — R.I.P. Sidney Poitier

Filosofa's Word

It was less than a week ago that I shed a tear over the death of the beloved Betty White, and today I shed yet another upon reading of the death of another Hollywood icon, one who broke the colour barrier on the ‘big screen’, Sidney Poitier.  Mr. Poitier was 94 … not quite as old as Betty White who died just a few days short of her 100th birthday, but like White, he had a long and meaningful career … he made a difference.  How many of us can say that?

Sidney Poitier (r) with Nelson Mandela

A bit about Mr. Poitier’s start in life from today’s Washington Post

Sidney Poitier was born on Feb. 20, 1927, in Miami, where his parents were on a visit to sell tomatoes they had grown on their farm in the Bahamas. The family soon returned home, to the desperate poverty…

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Celer – Celery

Vivaldi translation extract: Consuming celery is the best way to alkalize your gut, in part because celery (which is, technically, a type of grass, not a vegetable) is rich in bioactive sodium. It also contains a trace factor of micromineral salts that research has not yet revealed. These are variants of sodium and other trace minerals (more than sixty of them) that are present in celery and symbiotically and systematically cooperate with each other and with regular sodium in celery to raise your body pH and expel toxic acids from every corner of the body, including and intestinal tract. This process is ideal for cleansing and restoring the intestinal mucosa

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Celer je jedna od najmoćnijih namirnica za upale zato što izgladnjuje štetne bakterije, buđ, kvasce, gljivice i viruse koji su prisutni u tijelu i izbacuje njihove toksine i nečistoće iz crijevnog trakta i jetre. Ti patogeni često su korijenski uzrok upala – u njihovom odsustvu, tijelo mnogo bolje izlazi na kraj sa svime što vam život predstavi. U isto vrijeme, celer pomaže dobrim bakterijama da se razvijaju. Konzumiranje celera najbolji je način da alkalizujete crijeva, dijelom i zbog toga što je celer (koji je, tehnički, vrsta trave, a ne povrće) bogat bioaktivnim natrijumom. Sadrži i kofaktor mikromineralne soli u tragovima koje istraživanja još uvijek nisu otkrila. To su varijante natrijuma i ostalih minerala u tragovima (više od šezdeset njih) koje su prisutne u celeru i simbiotički i sistematično sarađuju jedni s drugima i s redovnim natrijumom u celeru kako bi vam podigli pH vrijednost tijela i istjerali toksične kiseline iz…

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Upozorenja i prateći efekti – Warnings and side effects

Herbal cautions

Myrela

  • AFRIČKA ŠLJIVA – Izbjegavajte je u trudnoći. Izbjegavajte je i ako imate povišen krvni pritisak. Konsultujte se sa ljekarom, prije nego što krenete da afričkom šljivom sami liječite uvećanu prostatu.
  • BRUSNICA – Ne uzimajte je ako uzimate lijekove za razrjeđivanje krvi.
  • DIVLJA MIROĐIJA – Ne upotrebljavajte je u medicinske svrhe duže od šest nedjelja.
  • FOLNA KISELINA – Ne prekoračujte 1.000 µg na dan bez medicinskog nadzora. Uzimanje više od 400 µg folne kiseline može prikriti nedostatak vitamina B12; njen višak može izazvati oštećenje nerava ako imate nedostatak vitamina B12. Može da ometa dejstvo antiepileptičnih lijekova. Nemojte je koristiti ako imate rak, osim ukoliko vam je ljekar to savjetovao.
  • HMELJ – Izbjegavajte ga u trudnoći. Nemojte ga uzimati ukoliko ste podložni depresiji. Pažljivo rukujte sa svježim ili osušenim hmeljom, jer on, ponekad, izaziva osip kože.
  • KANTARION – Nemojte ga koristiti u trudnoći. Može izazvati osjetljivost kože na svjetlost, pa stoga koristite…

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Macron stands by his threats to non-vax | EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

“I stand by my earlier comments,” said Macron, while he has been hosting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her trip to Paris. Macron added it was the authorities’ obligation to place restrictions against those who are not vaccinated, to protect the more than 90% of French citizens who are vaccinated.

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