Colleges Say Students Must Get a Covid Vaccine. But No, Not That One. – The New York Times

Since March, more than 400 colleges and universities in the United States have announced vaccine mandates, requiring students to be immunized against the coronavirus. But the rules have been designed primarily with domestic students in mind, leaving international students scrambling — particularly those in India and Russia.

The Old Dog|سگ پیر

A Voice from Iran

Once upon a time,

A king had an old dog, and loved him very much. The king always talked to his dog. One of the days the king decided that he needs his dog to talk back.

The king announced: “If anyone could teach my dog how to talk, I will award him one thousand gold coins. And if the trainer failed and my dog couldn’t talk after the lessons, I will order to execute that person.”

The amount of the award was so high, that made a few covetous to try to teach King’s dog to talk. And of course, the dog didn’t learn and they got executed.

The king increased the 1000 to 2000 gold coins, but people were afraid of losing their lives and never volunteered.

Until one day that an old man walked to the palace and said: “I will teach your dog to talk under…

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Deathly ill COVID patient fights for life and L.A. legacy – Los Angeles Times (Me: Read this!)

As a boy in Compton, Richard Perry raised pigeons that were bred to tumble in the air. Now, as he lay in a hospital bed fighting to breathe, drifting in and out of consciousness, he saw his birds somersaulting across the sky.

For the four weeks that COVID-19 tried to kill him, Richard had nothing to do but wander through his mind. Thoughts of death and leaving his wife and daughter to struggle sent him into a panic. So he traveled back.

He was playing football in the street with his brothers Ray and Ronald, waiting for their mom to call them to dinner. He was letting his birds out of his backyard loft, a burst of squeaky wings. He was building bikes from scrap parts with his best friend, Dwayne, trading rims for handlebars, a rusty chain for grips, riding to the old Pike in Long Beach.

From his hospital bed in the weeks after he arrived Jan. 5, he thought about working on his first car with his dad. The hours together wrenching on a broken-down 1965 Chevy Impala — the spare words and scraped knuckles — set him on the path to become the man he would be.

Source: Deathly ill COVID patient fights for life and L.A. legacy – Los Angeles Times

COVID news live: Travel list changes revealed – as positive COVID cases in England hit highest level in six weeks | UK News | Sky News

PM says govt will have “no hesitation” over changing the green list; Vietnam crowdfunding jabs; debate continues over 21 June unlocking.

Source: COVID news live: Travel list changes revealed – as positive COVID cases in England hit highest level in six weeks | UK News | Sky News

Snarky Legal Snippets …

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I’m afraid I’m in a bit of a rant-y mode tonight.  I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be a judge and hear some of the garbage excuses people come up with for the evil they do, but … no way I could do that job!  I’d be leaping over the desk and bashing heads in!


They let one of the terrorists skate!  WHY???

Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against one Christopher M. Kelly, a New York man who participated in the attack on Congress and the Capitol on January 6th.  The charges were obstructing an official proceeding, aiding and abetting, violent entry and disorderly conduct, and unlawful entry to restricted buildings or grounds.  Additionally, the FBI says that Kelly used a Facebook account to inform “associates” that he had breached the Capitol and was inside the building. Two days before the attack, he told…

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and Colors??

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

Who was considered to be “Colored” and who was considered to be “White” when these things made nearly (and often literally) a life and death difference, and who decided?  That was a complex question, but there was never a question of where both groups stood.  The Reconstruction benefited both, as did working together.

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

I believe that attention to shared histories of times when we grew a bit more free from discrimination may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

Chapter 2: Before Jews Were White: Black-Jewish
alliances in DC Before 1948

Image: Carnegie Library and Central Market
-Carnegie Library

 

Much attention has been paid…

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Environmental and sociocultural disaster south of the Orinoco River due to illegal gold mining and irregular groups — The Free

Barbara Crane Navarro

by at ecopoliticavenezuela.org translation TheFreeOnline. May 28, 2021 With the deepening of the economic crisis in Venezuela, there has been a rampant race, by the official, economic and criminal groups from Colombia and Brazil to loot the mineral resources in the rich and fragile soils of the southern Orinoco River, the Amazon and Venezuelan Guiana.[…]

Environmental and sociocultural disaster south of the Orinoco River due to illegal mining and irregular groups — The Free

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Tribunal Ambiental da a conocer inédito acuerdo de conciliación entre el CDE, comunidades indígenas y Minera Escondida — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Barbara Crane Navarro

Esto se da en el marco de la demanda de reparación por daño ambiental al Salar de Punta Negra -una cuenca altoandina ubicada en Antofagasta- interpuesta en contra de la compañía minera. 02/06/2021 | Por A. González, Emol 12 Salar de Punta Negra. Un inédito acuerdo tripartito entre el Estado, comunidades indígenas atacameñas yempresa…

Tribunal Ambiental da a conocer inédito acuerdo de conciliación entre el CDE, comunidades indígenas y Minera Escondida — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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