City Jackdaw has a sobering post up on a young Polish Catholic girl, Czesława Kwoka, that perished at the German prison camp.
I wanted to re-post in memory of her, too. And the other children. And the gypsies.
Be sure to click on the link to her biography.
It’s important to note that these are the poor. The wealthy could flee the country until the war was over.
The crisis in Syria...what, where, and how to intervene? And why is it always the United States expected to expend the troops, finances, and risk to intervene? Where is the global community?
Well, this was heartening when I read it…a young woman is not taken in by Terry Richardson’s manipulation, bullying, and exploitation.
I admire her, as many young women are unsure of themselves, which Richardson exploits. I can feel it in my bones that the young women are most likely the victims of prior molestation or products of a home life that devalued them. It’s hard to think you have the right to set boundaries when your boundaries were violated by someone you trusted…whether that be in a sexual way or in violation of your sense of self–your own autonomy.
…and the question is: how many women have to be allegedly assaulted by this guy before authorities nab him?
My former post here.
Warrior Publications has this up on a Mohawk warrior who became ill after being fed a meal while being held in jail.
He became violently ill, but did not receive medical attention.
Shawn Brant is asking that the tape of the day he became ill not be erased. There’s no mention of any remaining food being tested, so I’m guessing that is not being done.
It doesn’t appear that the police are going to own this, based on the comments of the representative. We’ll see…
David Sirota has this up on Eva Moskowitz, queen of charters in NY. She closed the schools to bus children to her rally. Unfreakingbelievable. Can you imagine anyone in public education being allowed to do that?? They would be fired.
Next, we have this from Fred Klonsky on the close ties of pro-charter education profiteers and our elected representatives. Sleazy opportunists.
One notorious group, “Democrats for Education Reform” (DFER), is a front for financiers that seek to spread charter schools in Chicago, even at the expense of neighborhood public schools. DFER has given extensive support to Christian Mitchell, placing him on their “Hot List of 2012” and naming him their “Reformer of the Month” for January 2014, in which they solicited political contributions on his behalf.
Rep. Mitchell has also accepted over $100,000 in political contributions from “Stand for Children,” an organization that wants to defund public education through voucher programs and other failed policies that only hurt Chicago students.
Last year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 50 neighborhood schools which put more than 80,000 children at risk. The closings are the largest in U.S. history. Rep. Mitchell showed little support to his constituents as they protested the drastic action. Instead, he has loudly supported private charter expansion, which research shows have little accountability and a questionable academic success rate.
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In more education news, Fred Klonsky has this up about DFER and David Axelrod.
Julian Vasquez Helig, PhD, has a great summary of the billionaires’ club influence on public education and charters here.
Diane Ravitch features a poem by a teacher who couldn’t take any more.
Their innocence plundered their self now askew,
They hardened completely while no one even knew.Their spirits were taken their childhood replaced
A new breed of children – a much meaner race.Now where are those sadists who made up such rules
to torture young children with cruel cunning ruse?They’re safe in their castles no thoughts of that time,
When children were maimed by their heinous crime~~~~~~~~~~~
Woot! Teachers taking back their classrooms! The tactics of intimidation by Barbara Byrd-Bennett did not work.
…and the teachers, bless their hearts, still taught a lesson in civil disobedience and nonviolence, a la Ghandi and Rosa Parks.
Makes me smile. 🙂
Warrior Publications has this up on what we already knew, but yeah, putting it in writing that Harper and the rest see the land rights of the First Nations folks being problematic.
See…it’s so much harder to get the oil out when you have to ask permission by folks who see it as violating the Earth. They aren’t as easily swayed by $$ because the Earth is sacred to them.
It’s even more of a problem when those folks have the law on their side.
Honor the Treaties, Canada.
Here’s another article on the blockade drawing attention to the missing and murdered indigenous women.
The federal government has already insisted that it is willing to commit $25 million to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains. While this is a start, the mandate is not specific to why First Nations women are at a higher risk of violence due to historical and socio-economic factors.
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It seems lost on the Harper government that these women are being targeted because they are First Nations women…why?
And why have most of them occurred in the last 15 years? A serial killer undetected?
Global News has this up on Russia blocking websites that favored the ouster of the Russia – leaning president. More here on Ukrainian-Montrealers protesting outside Russian consulate.
This is another example of why we need Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press and how easily those in power can block them with the claim of national security.
As I listen to and read about the uprising/civil war/revolution in Ukraine, the words I hear the most are about economic factors and standing in the world. The message is framed to turn the viewers’ gaze on how this is going to effect economic status.
And the sharks are circling…waiting to capitalize on the fallout.
Democracy seems to be an afterthought.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: most folks around the world just want peace; to take care of their families; be healthy; have a purpose in life. They want a government they elect to represent their wishes…not their economic benefactors.
Pando Daily had posted this a few days ago. A billionaire funnels money to the opposition in Ukraine. Ugh…
My first thought that this is wrong, wrong, wrong.
And then I thought of the dark money of the Kochs and Bill Gates, et al, and my second thought was “is it wrong to fund the underdog when up against dark money…?”
But I don’t know that the underdogs in Ukraine are for democracy or for authoritarianism a la Russia. Reports have been that at first the original protesters were for democratic society, and then the conservatives, leaning towards authoritarianism, had taken over.
So that begs the question of who is Omidyar supporting? Does he care, as long as he can capitalize on whomever wins?
Comments section is lively and make the point that Pando is also supported by billionaires.
They responded with this article. They make the claim the Omidyar is hands-on involved in the process, while their contributors cannot touch them with a 30-foot pole.
But back to the main theme of billionaires behind upheaval…
I come back to this is wrong, wrong, wrong in that however good intentions are…somebody always seems to twist things around to the opposite. The dark ones always seem to manage to quash the emerging light.
If only politicians were put on poverty-level wages…then we would be governed by those truly serving out of duty instead of out of their own self-serving interests. You’d see a mass exodus from government positions…
**A side note~ one of the links provided was to Glenn Greenwald’s behavior.
The Tyendinaga Mohawks of Canada are protesting the lack of action on the part of the authorities for the missing and murdered First Nations women. It has been decades of inaction for these cases.
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