Concentrating minds: the Caribbean at the UN in 2021 was shorter and sharper

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Fast forward to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 2021 – and what a difference two years can make. In my last post, I offered a critique of Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s somewhat unfocused speech at the UNGA in 2019.

Well, the world has changed. Ms. Mottley’s 2021 speech hit home and gave the media something to get excited about. It was shorter (thankfully) and much more sharply focused, and mostly hit the proverbial nail on the head. Certainly the note of urgency was there, as there has been in many recent speeches. But as I said in my post yesterday, actions speak louder than words. Yes, we know – it’s all urgent. Everything appears to be coming to a head.

You can watch the speech here, although I haven’t found the transcript yet. There was the Bob Marley quote (well, not an exact quote), and the smartphone…

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San Marino voters overwhelmingly back legal abortion | Euronews

Some 77% of voters approved a referendum proposal calling for abortion to be legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, according to official returns broadcast on San Marino RTV. Abortion would also be legal beyond that point if the woman’s life is in danger or if her physical or psychological health is at risk because of fetal anomalies or malformations.

With the “yes” votes winning, San Marino’s Parliament must now draft a bill to legalise the procedure. Turnout for the referendum was 41% in the microstate of 33,000 people surrounded by Italy.

San Marino, one of the world’s oldest republics, had been one of the last European states that still criminalised abortion. With Sunday’s result, it now joins other predominantly Catholic states like Ireland, which legalised abortion in 2018 and neighbouring Italy, where abortion has been legal since 1978. Abortion is still illegal in Malta and Andorra, and Poland introduced a near-total ban on the procedure this year.

The San Marino referendum was set after around 3,000 people signed a petition drive to overturn the microstate’s abortion law, which dates from 1865.

Source: San Marino voters overwhelmingly back legal abortion | Euronews

Connections: justice for land, for food, ecology and us

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

Adulting is about getting better and better at understanding connections between ideas that may not, at first glance, appear to be connected.  When we use a framework like Baby Acres/Floors, for example, to position all of the various types of work for the many forms of justice needed in this world, it becomes more clear how each of these campaigns is related, like my re-post earlier today of Jeff’s LANDBACK and Mutual Aid work, and my coming share later today of Becky’s post, originally shared by WillowCroft, on how going meatless just one day per week can have an impact on a variety of kinds of justice, and also on your personal health.  

That is why I set up a framework, in my book Baby Acres/Floors, that connects these ideas, all of which are crucial to our survival as a species. 

Action Items:

1.) Search your…

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Você é a única pessoa capaz de se fazer feliz

Vivaldi translation: You are the only person capable of making yourself happy
The only person you depend on in life to be happy is you.

The only person capable of improving yourself is you.

You are the only one who can truly love yourself.

If you are in doubt between love and dependence, it is not love.

We are unique beings, that is, you have a life, the other person has his life. When love arises, it comes to serve as a “complement” in relation to the joining of two people. Now, if love hurts, it hurts … it’s not love.

”Don’t confuse love with brutality!”.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

A única pessoa de que você depende na vida para ser feliz, é você.

A única pessoa capaz de melhorar a si mesmo, é você.

Você é o único ser capaz de se amar de verdade.

Se ficar na dúvida entre amor e dependência, não é amor.

Nós somos seres únicos, ou seja, você tem uma vida, a outra pessoa tem a vida dela. O amor quando surge, ele vem servir de “complemento ” em relação a junção de duas pessoa. Agora, se o amor machuca, se dói…não é amor.

” Não confunda amor com brutalidade!”.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 26 de setembro de 2021

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Opinion | We Did the Research: Masks Work, and You Should Choose a Surgical Mask – The New York Times

While not everyone agreed to mask up, mask wearing increased by about 30 percentage points among the adults who were encouraged to do so. This change led to a 9 percent reduction in Covid-19 overall. In communities where we promoted surgical mask use, Covid-19 cases dropped by 11 percent.

Consumers Have the Power to fix the Pollution Problems we See

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When consumers stop supporting the manufacturers when they destroy the environment

Because we know how important it is for them to make a commitment

There will be far less pollution out there

Business people will start thinking about environmental care

The industrial revolution caused the big change in the way we shop

Extraction, production, consumption and disposal, this cycle can stop

We can stop following trends and repair the old things we bought before

We could all decide that it is time for us to think about having a future that is secure

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We should be thinking about the life children will live if the hurricanes keep on getting more intense

We could also think about what our future will be like if nothing gets better and do more to reduce our expense

The system that cause so many people to buy things they…

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