Books, film, and other forms of media, like comic books, aka graphic novels, and music can all help us see the world from a new perspective. Books and other works that are in the public domain are made accessible by volunteer libraries, like the one compiled by LibriVox, or Project Gutenberg. Libraries of various kinds are one of the key parts of our democracy, and therefore, of Phase I of the Four Freedoms movement :
Action Items:
1.) Download some public domain version of a classic book, or grab your favorite version of the The Arabian Nights (yes, I know: the 1001 Nights was by Frenchman Antoine Galland, who made up a few stories and inserted them into older Arabic and Persian stories that may have come from India, but still…) or any other story, in an original language, if possible!
2.) Read a page,
3.) Share your thoughts on that page
4.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure & #StopSmoking for CCOVID-19:
1. #PublicLibraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. #UniversalHealthCare, and
4. good #publictransport
-we can learn from the past Stayed on Freedom’s Call for free,
by Teaching and Learning (Lesson Plans offline) in the present, to
help create tools: Do Better: a Vision of a Better World to build a kinder future
(Online pdfs of 5 month GED lesson 5 of 67 plans),
and Babylon 5 review posts, from a Minbari Ranger’s perspective: story inspires learning…
Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa. I am your friend, and work for peace.
Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS
the year, 2021 CE = year 12021 HE
Stayed on Freedom’s Call
(free: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…)
includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Please leave a review, if you can, on the GoodReads page.
Yassas, γεια σας! Salût ! Nos vemos! Görüşürüz! ! שָׁלוֹם
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Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story 
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