Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Warning: This story contains graphic details By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241 Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women. Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century. Two […]
By Citizens Basic Income Trust, February 27, 2020 https://citizensincome.org/news/citizens-basic-income-a-response-to-poverty ATD Fourth World has published the results of its Understanding Poverty in all its Forms research project: an international project that is asking people in poverty what for them are its most important dimensions. A report has now been published on findings for the UK: https://atd-uk.org/projects-campaigns/understanding-poverty. […]
Pipeline Dispute: Ministers, Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Reach Proposed Agreement The Canadian Press, March 1, 2020 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/pipeline-rail-blockade-agreement SMITHERS, B.C. — A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada in recent weeks. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British […]
“On February 6, Unist’ot’en members watched on social media as the RCMP mounted a dramatic raid before dawn. . . arresting six people. “But rather than serving to quell the resistance, the arrests inspired a wave of solidarity protests and transportation blockades across Canada.” Elsewhere, the Pope and Greenpeace are pleading for protection of the […]
I am a supporter of the Wet’suwet’en people in their struggle for territorial sovereignty. By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Narwhal, February 21, 2020 https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-loves-the-rule-of-law-unless-were-talking-indigenous-rights/ Last October, an international celebration occurred in the verdant coastal community of Bella Bella, B.C. Members of the Heiltsuk Nation finally opened their Gvakva’aus Hailzaqv, their Big House, a red and yellow […]
This is an issue in Canada (and the UK according to my friend, Mark, on Facebook). America’s Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars “Ten psychiatrist jobs have gone unfilled for two years.” By Eric Westervelt and Liz Baker, NPR, February 25 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/805469776/americas-mental-health-crisis-hidden-behind-bars It’s recreation time at a Los Angeles County jail known as the Twin […]
Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Rape, Sexual Abuse In Mixed Verdict Colin Dwyer and Vanessa Romo, National Public Radio, February 24, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rglkul7 Editor’s note: This report includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault accusations. Updated at 3:42 p.m. ET A Manhattan jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual abuse but acquitted him […]
Marianne Williamson endorses Bernie Sanders for president By Annie Grayer, CNN, Feb. 23, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/marianne-williamson-bernie-sanders-2020/index.html (CNN)Former Democratic hopeful Marianne Williamson made a surprise appearance at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ rally Sunday in Austin, Texas, to announce her endorsement of the Democratic front-runner. “Bernie Sanders has taken a stand, and Bernie Sanders has been taking a stand […]
“The sad fact is that since non-Indigenous peoples arrived on Turtle Island, Indigenous peoples have been “economically inconvenienced.” “Moreover, their lands have been desecrated – plants, animals and land no longer have sanctity, but rather they are treated as mere commodities to sell or to create the next job. “Academics and philosophers concerned about the […]
Enjoy The Extra Day Off! More Bosses Give 4-Day Workweek A Try NPR, February 21, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try Shake Shack shortened managers’ workweeks to four days at some stores a year and a half ago. Recently, the burger chain expanded the trial to a third of its U.S. stores. Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Companies […]
As the RCMP retreats from the Wet’suwet’en blockades, the delicate trust it is building with Indigenous women remains at risk By Jula Hughes and Elizabeth Blaney, The Globe and Mail, February 20, 2020 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-rcmps-involvement-in-the-wetsuweten-blockades-crisis-puts/ Jula Hughes is the dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. Elizabeth Blaney is the director of […]
Please send your prayers to the people of Syria affected by these events. (1) Civilians fleeing, dying as UN charges Syria and Russia are deliberately targeting them United Nations says the attacks could constitute war crimes Reuters/CBC.com, Feb 18, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-displaced-people-targeted-1.5467301 Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed […]
Tara Talks: What Does Love Mean? with Tara Brach, 2019-12-18 We are hard-wired for belonging. In this short video, Tara shares the wisdom of children as they answer the question: What does love mean?
By McKinley Corbley, GoodNewsNetwork, February 12, 2020 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inmates-earn-college-degrees-through-hudson-link/ In a win-win for the public, these New York prisoners proudly earned their college degrees—while they were still behind bars. They were part of the latest graduating class consisting of inmates who’ve gotten their diplomas for free through Hudson Link: a nonprofit degree-granting program dedicated to providing […]
The dialogue so needed in Canada. . . From 2019. So say the Better Angels of the partisan divide. Sarah Lazarovic, YES!, November 12, 2019 https://dev-wp.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/12/healing-a-divided-nation Three weeks after the 2016 presidential election, a group of 21 people came together in South Lebanon, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, to talk. The group comprised 11 people who’d supported […]
