Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Angelina Jolie: “We are all partners in this life.” By Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, April 1, 2019 httpss://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/angelina-jolie-gender-equality-speech-un/ Angelia Jolie is urging the world to support gender equality to promote world peace. The actress and United Nations special envoy delivered a speech at the UN’s annual meeting for foreign and defence ministers, on Friday, according […]
This post is excerpted from “What You Should Do When Someone Is Being Sexually Harassed on Public Transportation” By Joanna Chiu, BWSS, March 26, 2019 httpss://mailchi.mp/bwss/bystander-intervention-on-public-transportation-1265291?e=c5d6fe9959 Not a usual topic but one that’s an everyday occurrence for many: sexual harassment on public transport. What is sexual harassment on transit? • Comments about appearance, gender or […]
What can we do when we see horrendous situations around the world with many suffering and dying? Dear reader Céline emailed me the YouTube below explaining about the multiple cyclones that have occurred in the area of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe, similar to Cyclone Idai, how she is grateful for the organizations stepping up, and […]
By Stephanie Vozza, Fast Company, March 22, 2019 httpss://www.fastcompany.com/90319581/why-the-velvet-hammer-is-a-better-way-to-give-constructive-criticism It’s time to bag the sandwich method of delivering bad news. You know, the technique where you say something nice, then drop in the criticism, and the end with something nice. It’s not like the person won’t notice that the center of the sandwich is terrible; […]
Thank you to Céline for this post. By Sean Coughlan, BBC News, March 24, 2019 httpss://www.bbc.com/news/business-47658803 A science teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a $1m prize (£760,000) for the world’s best teacher. Peter Tabichi, a member of the Franciscan religious order, won the […]
Love for our brothers and sisters. . . We are with you in spirit. Cyclone Idai: Scores more deaths reported in Mozambique Reuters, March 24, 2019 httpss://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47678743 The official death toll from Cyclone Idai, which tore through southern Africa more than a week ago, rose sharply on Saturday as authorities reported scores more deaths. […]
On March 20th, I posted Warren Buffet’s Philanthropic Giving Pledge Letter and The Giving Pledge: A Committment to Philanthropy. A few days later a reader wrote in pointing out that Warren’s son, Howard, and his colleagues allegedly act like vigilantes along the Mexican border. Before looking into the matter, I dropped into my heart, into […]
Joining together with New Zealand in solidarity. We at the Golden Age of Gaia are One with our Muslim brothers and sisters. By Sonali Paul, Reuters, March 21, 2019 httpss://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shootout-headscarves CHRISTCHURCH – Women all over New Zealand put on headscarves on Friday to show solidarity with Muslims a week after 50 people were killed at […]
By Robert Cribb, The Star, September 14, 2018 “You can basically spread a rumour now to hundreds of people with one click of the button so bullying is old as the hills but social media makes it faster, more widespread and easier to be anonymous.” httpss://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/09/14/youth-suicide-is-like-a-cancer-experts-warn.html At the age of 15, Laurissa Rose Degraw attempted […]
The Brazilian Fraternity of Assistance to the Convicted (FBAC), a non-governmental, non-profit entity, oversees a privately-owned prison system, the Association for the Protection and Assistance to the Convicted (APAC). These prisons are nothing like traditional detention centers; the inmates are even given the keys to their own cells, but none leave. APAC operates under the […]
This Brazilian prison gives inmates the keys to their cells By Alex Gray, World Economic Forum, September 24, 2018 httpss://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/in-these-humane-brazilian-prisons-inmates-hold-the-keys-to-their-cells/ The horrors of Brazilian prisons are notorious. Brutality, endemic violence, riots and severe overcrowding have given Brazil the ignominy of having one of the worst penal systems in the world. In January 2017, a turf war between […]
By McKinley Corbley, Good News Network, September, 16, 2018 https://tinyurl.com/y88rmu75 Working as a lone woman in the physics department at Cambridge University, she was responsible for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, but she hasn’t been recognized until now. Jocelyn Bell Burnell spent years being ridiculed in the 60s for being […]
For the first time, mathematics’ most prestigious prize has been awarded to a woman, Karen Uhlenbeck By AJ Willingham, CNN, March 19, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/yy7jo94h (CNN)Karen Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and professor at the University of Texas, has been awarded this year’s Abel Prize, a mathematics prize modeled after the Nobels. It’s the first time the prize […]
‘Just kind of felt like I was existing’: Life after aging out of care By Brittany Hobson, APTN News httpss://aptnnews.ca/2019/02/22/just-kind-of-felt-like-i-was-existing-life-after-aging-out-of-care/ Less than a year ago Judith Paul was facing homelessness. Child and family services had provided care for Paul for the past 14 years, but that day it all ended when her social worker handed […]
(Concluded from Part 3, yesterday.) The Second Dimension Each of us has emanated from the Heart of One, originally as an idea, a spark of light, an essence. In the second dimension, this energy is communicated out to the multiverse. This dimension, where there is no depth or emotion, is a creative, busy place. Co-operation […]
