Sometimes it is hard not to get disheartened

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What we need in this world are cooperation, empathy, love, not hate and war-mongering for some idiotic reasons that usually originate from politicians thirst for power and general greed.

I know people, who have lost several family members and friends in only one year, yes even some, who had to bury their children, something no father or mother should ever experience.

Is that not enough suffering?

Thousands of people die because of natural disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, vulcano activities, floodings, draught and the resultant famines.

Is that not enough suffering?

Millions die because of diseases, many of them caused by our own lifestyle, which doesn’t alleviate the pain of the bereaved.

Is that not enough suffering?

How can anybody take with a good consciense a weapon in their hands and kill people or watch others die, without even trying to help them? Animals show more compassion than we do.

Let us put an end to the creation of yet more suffering! There is enough suffering in this world that we cannot change. Right now and already for a long time, a lunacy wave of unnecessary suffering is swashing over the world, and it seems that nobody is asking themselves, what the heck we are doing.

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Unprecedented Call for Civility

    When so many who disagree unite on a common call, you know it is time to sit up and take notice.  Apparently this is the first time that the Presidential Libraries have ever issued a joint statement.   Commitment to decency is the first requirement for a republic to function.  Now, we really have to Do Better.

Shira

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Potential

    This gorgeous Greek song, mentioned last week in Greek Notes Page 9 (linked after my poem), has haunted me for years.

I Love You

Oh, for the love of,

Whom?

For the love of a god,

For the love of a world,

For the mere love of one,

A simple human being,

Could we love all the rest?

-S’Agapo.

      We could, as this beautiful old Smyrna love song says, also love all of the entire world, for the love of one person in this world who lives within it.  We all live together, in this world. 

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     We could learn to be more loving toward each other, if we willed it. 

Shira

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old version of Black and Jewish Americans fight together for human dignity… in Spain…

     A newer post mentions my all time favorite show, El Ministerio del Tiempo (sorry Babylon 5!!), and how an old friend told me, after watching an episode together, that one of her relatives had  gone to Spain, and fought in the Spanish Civil War as part of the Lincoln Brigade which turned out to have been known officially as the Lincoln Batallion.

(see link to the full post after this image…) 

Black and Jewish citizens  from the USA fought valiantly for freedom.

In honor,   for the  victory against racism overseas and at home, and to

keep on cooperating…  To Do Better… 

Shira Destinie Jones

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aka online as ShiraDest, aka as just Shira;
originally posted on March 16th, 12017 HE

We Could Prevent Wars, By Cooperating, Like The Ladies of Wales…

“These people weren’t afraid to think that this was possible, and [had a] common sense approach, ‘OK, so how can we do that? … is to hold on to hope. And to interpret hope not as a crossing of fingers, but as a power and energy of force that can enable us to do two things: First of all, to see that better place, and secondly, to know the way to get there. It is possible. We have to believe that.”

This was something that could have worked, had the women of the United States actually been informed of this work request from the women of Wales.  Of course, much more work would have been needed to prevent WWII, but with alot of planning and forward thinking (and persuading France to annul the Treaty of Versailles in favor of something far less punitive toward the Weimar Republic…), this treaty could have been used as a foundation to build a lasting peace based on mutual cooperation and tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion, rather than the othering which led to WWII.

We  could have done better, and we still can, in fact, with some planning, and hard work.

   We can still Do Better.

Shira

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     Fellow Peace Workers, please consider reading and connecting (especially making the connections between peace, mass transit, public healthcare, libraries, and consumer education) about #ProjectDoBetter.  Then, please share the idea, or maybe even the free book about the idea in case other community organizers wish to request editable copies for their communities (free, obviously).

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Women Organizing: Francia Márquez Mina

        The first Black vice president in Latin America, and an organizer against illegal mining, who has risked her life before, for the good of others.

Her election  is “…a big step towards making changes that will enable us to live better, like having access to clean water, to quality education, securing our rights to our lands.”

-NPR

Toward #PazTotal  /  Total Peace,

Shira

Action Items:

1.) Share your thoughts, please.

2.) Write a story, post or comment that uses those thoughts.

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Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading about #ProjectDoBetter.  This post is my personal way (as opposed to founding the Project, overall) of contributing to building tools that can help increase empathy and compassion in our world.  Story, as part of how we see our world, helps us make sense of and define our actions in this world.  And remember how important story is also as part of this project. Let’s Do Better.

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The Free Manual For The Umbrella Project Is Here, Willing Hands Needed

     The Project Do Better manifesto is a manual for community organizers which proposes  a long term plan that they can modify for their own communities, and use to work together with other projects and communities to help build a unified movement for the Common Good.

     The book,  Project Do Better: Enough For All, in Four Phases (isbn 9798201715922), comes in various sizes of PDF, as an epub, and as a mobi file from the stores that would allow me to set the price to Free, meaning that Amazon and the library systems, which require a minimum price well above that, did not allow me to publish through them.  Note that I personally prefer the ePub, since most PDF readers on the phone are not capable of showing the thumbnails or bookmarks that bring up the left hand side Table of Contents in the published PDF, so if  you will be reading it on a cell phone without an eBook Reader, you may prefer the draft 9 pdf, which has the Table of Contents inside the document .  I can download and send about 20 different sizes of PDF upon request:

  as a 212 pg. PDF here on WP, 

or as an epub from The Archive,

or via Draft2Digital’s Book URL, free of cost here.

    Draft2Digital says that the distribution is now also included on Smashwords, so that should also make the epub and mobi versions even more easily accessible in a few months or so.

    I can be contacted here, and still need a logo for the project, and help with getting the word out about this project, from all willing hands.  I plan to start sending a copy of the book to each person cited in the notes, page by page, and then to look for communities and organizers who might be interested in collaborating with the project, or using the book as a starting point for their own long term planning.  I will happily send the editable version of this book to communities wishing to modify it and publish their own versions of this plan.

Thoughts, Fellow Community Builders?

—

Shira

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More Flexibility for Women, Please, on Day 21/67

      No thoughts on  Day 21 of my 67 night-school class set of lesson plans for GED/HiSet learners.

   A local non-profit helps incubate local businesses for women, like this set of businesses, which formed a cooperative to share a store space while setting up their businesses and learning how to keep their books, etc at the Women Empowered coop a few years ago.  They also mentioned that sometimes working together also required a good deal of empathy to keep relations smooth between them, while running different businesses out of the same small space.

    Keep working on building new neural pathways by learning languages, or music, or something to help build empathy, as these ladies did in San Diego, please.

    Sorry, I am so tired.

Shira

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Other Important Rulings are Being Forgotten…

    This topic, which is getting even less attention than the overturning of Miranda v. AZ ’66, may be nearly as important, over the long run (since the horrific state of affairs recently codified will be continued over the next generations by these rulings not being discussed as much):

“We have never previously held what the court holds today, namely that a state must use state funds” to finance private religious schools.

In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out that : “Today the court leads us to a place where separation of church and state becomes a constitutional violation.”

from:  NPR.

   And  I keep trying to work, remembering Toni Morrison’s admonition that this is the time when the artist goes to work, and not to succumb to this world’s malevolence.

    I look forward to your impressions, Thoughtful Readers.

Shira

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El Sepulcro del Cuervo, por/by Núria Masot, & La Empatia/Empathy

El sepulcro del cuervo:  Núria Masot

(the English review is here…)

Leer la revista en castellano aqui…

Shira “Era Holocena/Humana” Destinie
orig.  28 Augosto del año 12 015 EH

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