Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in George Floyd’s death The death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, touched off international protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Janelle Griffith and Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, April 20, 2021 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/derek-chauvin-verdict-reached-trial-over-george-floyd-s-death-n1264565) MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts Tuesday for causing George Floyd’s death, […]
Two stories on Canada’s troubled history with racism and harassment. Racism goes back centuries. (1) Canada’s history with Indigenous people is cruel and unfair, but we need to own up to it Indigenous people have been damaged by generations of oppression, but we have not been broken Kerry Benjoe, CBC, July 1, 2020 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/point-of-view-kerry-benjoe-racism-george-floyd-canada-indigenous-1.5632918) On […]
The energies have been so intense these past weeks that I totally lost it the other day and wrote a grumpy blog about someone who’d been writing deceitful blogs for years. Normally I can easily let blogs like that go but because the negative energies swirling around were getting to me and I allowed them […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Some subjects may be too uncomfortable to read. We ask you to use discernment in your choice. Skirting the meme war does not affect the subjects we cover; only the sources we use to cover […]
I wept when I saw this video (below) of, first, North Carolina policemen kneeling and, second, the protesters kneeling. At last the two sides had found a common language. I hope it catches on. I believe the example started with Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett. This is a spontaneous outbreak of human unity. I’m […]
Surveillance Technology | Ivo of Vega via Sharon Stewart, 5/28/2020 (https://voyagesoflight.blogspot. com/2020/05/surveillance- technology-ivo-of-vega-via.html) May 28, 2020 Ivo: If you think people looting a Target store in Minneapolis is “bad,” stop following me. I would not loot a store, even if someone in my family was murdered by a dirty psycho cop. The people who looted […]
