This is how a state indicts itself for being an overbearing occupier and just plain foolish. OFER PRISON, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel indicted a 16-year-old Palestinian girl on Monday on charges including assault for punching an Israeli soldier in the face two weeks ago, an incident which made her into a hero for Palestinians and was seen as humiliating by right-wing Israelis.
Vitamin D and Calcium Don’t Prevent Bone Fractures
Researchers found no association of vitamin D or calcium supplements with the frequency of hip, spine or total fractures in older adults.
Lorde called a bigot in Washington Post ad over cancelled Israel concert
We know who the bigot is and it is not Lorde
Advert placed by ‘America’s rabbi’ Shmuley Boteach also accuses singer’s native New Zealand of prejudice against Israel
A full-page advert has been placed in the Washington Post calling Lorde a bigot, a week after the New Zealand-born singer cancelled a concert in Israel.
Related: Lorde cancels Israel concert after pro-Palestinian campaign
37 Lovely Photos That Show Farm Ladies Over 100 Years Ago
These lovely photos that capture portraits of farm ladies from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
THE NEW YEAR AND BEING 80
Me with grandkids on my birthday
(I’m not old, I’m perennial)
It’s the last day of 2017 and I’ve been 80 for 10 days. Here’s what’s bad about being 80:
I can’t run
I can’t ski
It’s hard handwriting thank-you letters which is the polite way to do it
(osteoarthritis is responsible for all the above)
Here’s what’s good about being 80:
People are solicitous, asking if I want to sit.
They open bottles for me and let me go first.
I don’t get groped or harassed
I can fall back on “Well, I’m old,” to justify mistakes
My strong muscles which have always been there have suddenly become a remarkable anomaly to people who hug me
I’m viewed as an elder (even though I feel like a newbie)
I can look back over 8 decades and hence can remember:
When song birds and empty spaces were plentiful
When there were only 2 billion people in the world and consequently less stress, clean air and water, way less traffic, more opportunity to pull yourself up by your bootstraps
When it was safe for a kid to play alone, outside, in the street or the forest
All the challenges and tradegies that I survived (hence, I know I can again)
How to make lemons into lemonade & not sweat the small stuff
Also,
I’m less scared of embracing uncertainty
I’ve had time to learn to forgive and the time to reflect and learn from my experiences
I know what I need so I can jettison what is unnecessary
I’m less susceptible to stress (“This too shall pass”)
I no longer hold grudges (with the exception of Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney both of whom I still believe should be tried for crimes against humanity)
I’ve learned to be more tolerant and patient
I have less ego stake in outcomes
I know there are many things that I will never do or do again and it doesn’t matter (start a new business, go to Myanmar, drive a Ferrari, learn to sail, get married, etc)
So, for me, there’s way more positives than negatives about being smack dab in the midst of oldness. But then, I have my health.
One more thing: There has never been a time in my 80 years when I have felt what I’m feeling today: utter terror that our country is being taken into a possible dictatorship, with a KGB-type intelligence/surveillence; that poor people, people of color, formerly well-paid blue collar working people, will never again be able to afford good schooling, a home, health care, freedom from violence and stress and that too many won’t even know it’s happening because they aren’t getting true news/facts.
2017 showed us—at least those of us who are still able and willing to access truthful news—that the threats to our democracy and to our environment are far worse than any of us dared imagine. The seeds of fascism are all around us.
So my plea to those who follow me on social media is to harness every ounce of your abilities, imagination and courage to do all that you can, in collaboration with others, to stop the destruction of Democracy and civil society. Join others in non-violent efforts not just to resist but to transform the social and political landscape. I am doing it by working with groups on the ground in various parts of the country who go door to door, finding out what people are worried about and helping them understand why those now in power do not intend to help them. Quite the opposite. There are so many people and organizations out there working to educate potential voters and to build long-term people’s movements with the aim of establishing a vibrant, democratic civil society. We must make it possible for single mothers to earn a living wage and have access to affordable child care; do away with mass incarceration and the privatization of prisons; sexual harassment and violence against women must end; former unionized workers must be retrained for the new economy and given jobs not promises; student debt must be forgiven and schools must be improved for all young people; our public lands must be protected and all forms of extraction halted; racism must be made a shameful (and acknowledged) part of our past. There is so much to be done and all of it is possible if all of us can muster the will and determination to fight back against what’s happening.
Greed and selfishness are not the pillars of a stable society so let’s be fierce in this New Year.
Buffy Sainte-Marie – “Cho Cho Fire” Live on Arbor Live Season 1
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Court Rules California High School Athlete Can’t Be Forced to Stand for Anthem
When a football player at San Pasqual Valley High School near El Centro kneeled during the game’s national anthem, his school district ordered the high school student to stand rather than protest racial injustice and police shootings of unarmed people of color.
In a victory for that high school student and for all advocates of non-violent political speech inspired by the kneeling football quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Glendale-based law firm Bush Gottlieb persuaded a federal court to enjoin the school district from banning kneeling during high school games.
In a victory for that high school student and for all advocates of non-violent political speech inspired by the kneeling football quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Glendale-based law firm Bush Gottlieb persuaded a federal court to enjoin the school district from banning kneeling during high school games.
The Court in holding that the policy likely violated the First Amendment, noted that “schools may regulate students’ speech in some limited circumstances”, but declared that “public school students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The Court ruled that students “cannot be punished merely for expressing their personal views on the school premises – whether in the cafeteria, or on the playing field, or on the campus during the authorized hours.”
“We are pleased with this outcome”, said Katie Traverso, a Bush Gottlieb attorney who argued for Plaintiff in court. “Students like our client who conscientiously carry their values and ideals with them, cannot be silenced or directed on what to say or not say by their school in this manner. We look forward to the District’s acceptance of this ruling, and toward an amicable final resolution to the litigation.”
The student football player, a Native American identified in the lawsuit as “V.A.” to maintain his privacy, had kneeled without incident during the national anthem at a San Pasqual home game, in protest of racial injustice in America. The school district, reacting to a later incident in which a Mayer, Arizona high school student group hurled racial epithets at San Pasqual students after a second football game in which V.A. kneeled, issued a directive ordering its students to stand during the playing of the anthem, and prohibiting them from kneeling or engaging in any protest.
After the School District rejected informal requests to rescind its Compulsory Anthem Policy (“CAP”), the student, represented by the Glendale, California law firm of Bush Gottlieb, sued for violation of V.A.’s constitutional right to free speech in the federal District Court for the Southern District of California, on December 8, and the Court issued a temporary restraining order enjoining the enforcement of the CAP on December 12.
On December 21, after consideration of the District’s written and oral arguments, and those of Plaintiff’s attorneys, the District Court issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the District from restricting students from kneeling or sitting during the playing or singing of the National Anthem, and from requiring any action from students during that time.
Marcy Winograd
(wife of Ira “Buddy” Gottlieb, one of the lawyers who persuaded the court).
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