Onondaga Men march against violence and abuse

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Warrior Publications has this up on the Onondaga men marching against domestic violence and child abuse.  A great way to publicly show support…but then the hard work comes to put it into action.  Honoring women, respecting women, and treating them as equals all takes a conscious effort to go against a culture of violence and rape.  It means going against other men, when men are taught to stick together no matter what.  It means courage and compassion.

 

A week of sliding meals

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Fig Jam and Lime Cordial has a good blog up on…leftovers.  There. I said it.  It sounds so much better the way it’s written in the blog..without actually saying the word.  Leftovers have been given such a bad name…but Celia does such an excellent job of the kitchen version of reduce, reuse, recycle. 🙂

 

Charter Supporters making money grab

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Diane Ravitch has a post up on the repubs and DFERs  (Democrats in favor of charter schools).

She notes that in 1988, advocates were saying that charters would cost less because of less bureaucracy.  Remember that, folks, when they say “less government meddling”…the actual results speak volumes…

 

Marking the 20th Anniversary of Rwanda

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Samantha Power is set to mark the 20th Anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. 

It doesn’t seem as though there has been a healing solution–that it could happen again if the conditions were right.

Hotel Rwanda is a graphic film about the genocide…that was ignored by Bill Clinton, even though he knew of the “final solution”.  It’s sad to read the Catholic Church’s connection to the advancement of Tutsi…at the expense of the Hutu. Glad that they changed their thinking later, however, to help the Hutu.

Note how the Eugenics ideas are behind the Tutsi being put into power.  And the acts of privatization caused poverty and slave labor.

They used identity cards to identify Hutu and Tutsi….the purpose can only be to keep Hutu in their “place”.  Gah, it is so much like Nazi Germany…a holocaust not for religion, but for ancestry!

The use of rape as a war tool is highlighted in the piece.  It’s often ignored as part of the war casualties numbers, as a woman’s issue, so its inclusion is hopefully a sign of measuring the true numbers of casualties of war.  As I read this, I think about the resulting pregnancies…and it just seems so contradictory to their goals of eliminating the other–they ironically reproduce, mixing blood and genes and all they claim to find disgusting.

 

 

 

Chart Of The Day

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Andrew Sullivan's avatarThe Dish

Yesterday, the UN Refugee Agency reported that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon had passed the one million mark. A visualization of the news:

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Keating comments on the sad milestone:

Lebanon already has significant populations of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees, and agencies were warning as far back as 2012 that the country’s capacity to absorb more people from Syria, most of whom fled with little money or means to support themselves, was waning. The country has for some time now had the highest per capita refugee population in the world.

Unlike its neighbors, Lebanon has refused to build refugee camps—the camps built for Palestinians have essentially become permanent settlements—but informal tent communities have sprung up. The influx of Syrians may also alter the country’s delicate sectarian balance—currently roughly evenly divided among Sunnis, Shiites, and Christians.

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Eye Candy

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Okay, I’m wondering how the guy in #3 got there?  Is that a raft that he pushed out there?  Because I don’t see any paddle to push it out there.  And I hope he’s going to eat what he catches and not just catch and throw them back.  It seems rather cruel to hook them for the fun of it.

Of course, I love the rainbows in #6 and #13…

And #1 is sooo serene…wish I were there…Bless nature for the comfort it offers us…

 

 

 

Mi’kmaq Warrior Trial

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Warrior Publications has this up on the Mi’kmaq Warrior Trial.  This is the first I have read of someone on the First Nations side having  a gun.  In the reports that I read, no one mentioned this…so this destroys some of the credibility of the reporting.

Because I am not down with bringing guns….you may not have the intention of using it, but bringing it makes it easier for someone to get hurt.  You may only intend on using it in self-defense, but the other side does not know your intentions.  If you live by the sword, you die by the sword, as they say.

If you are doing this for your children, be an example to them.  Show them how to stand up for your rights without violence.

And the other side?  Only an unethical coward would shoot someone whom is unarmed.

People have a right to protest, especially when their rights to their land are being pushed aside for dirty fracking, but I will not support violence on either side.