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.

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

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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 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?

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Shira

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Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

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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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Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

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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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Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

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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…)

La empatîa lleve a todo: Pensar, atreverse y amar. Absolutamente inspirador. Este ultimo libro de la quintologia de Masot està tan buena como el Muy Buen (La Sombra del Templario) primer libro, y casi casi tanto como el Buenisimo segundo (el Laberinto: El Laberinto de la Serpiente) de este serie. Se involucran màs los viejos con los jovenes que en el serie de Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), y se usa la guerra como preuba de maturidad para los dos jovenes hecho hombres en el serie. Pero queda un paradoxo. El maestro Bernard, quien muere al comienzas del libro 1, se queda como una presencia constante en todo los libros. Es el verdadero protagonista.

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

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Learning Languages to Greet Strangers in the Street: Empathy or Insanity?

   R.  Nachman of Bratslav said that “The whole world is a very narrow bridge.”   If so, then maybe that explains why people tell us not to talk to strangers.  I am still glad, though, that I smiled at someone I did not know -who thanked me, and made me grateful to be alive, back in 2005. And even more recently.

Less short version of the story:
When I lived in Izmir, that summer I took long walks on Saturday afternoons. I had the habit of smiling, or at least nodding, to every person I saw because frankly, I hoped someone would smile or nod back at me. At least acknowledge me as a fellow human being, as I tried to do, even passing the homeless people lining the streets as you go into the Metro (in DC).

So, I nodded at a lady in passing, never met her, just kept going because I was too tired to say Gunaydin (Good Morning/afternoon in Turkish), and my Turkish was only rudimentary any way.

Then I heard a call behind me. I turned to see that woman walking back toward me, and her eyes were glistening.
She put her hand on my chest, nothing scary, nothing sexual, just an ordinary safe contact, and said, in very simple Turkish that was clear and slow, that in five years in Izmir, no one had ever greeted her. She thanked me, and I nodded in return, too moved to get out even one word of Turkish. We both turned and went our own ways. And now, over ten years later, I am glad that I smiled at a random person whom I had never met, and never saw again.
I hope that I can share that joy with …    Everyone.

Questions:

1.)   Consider:  Do you, personally, greet, or don’t greet, people you do not know?  How did you feel about strangers greeting you?

2.)  How do you think this appears, from the other person’s point of view?

3.)  What do you think about the idea of greeting everyone, stranger or not, and why? 

orig. posted  in September, 12020 HE

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Guest Blog Post Invitation: Solving Homelessness

         I  would like to issue an invitation to any blogger, but especially to a guest blogger who is a teacher or professor, showing how housing and learning is important to human survival in the long term, and connecting all types of housing related education to the proposed Project Do Better plan.

    Ok, back to work.

We can definitely  Do Better.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.)  Share your thoughts on how we might make some changes to our housing system that accommodate all sorts of people, at all ages!

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Thank You, Octavia Butler

 Today is the Yahrzeit, or the anniversary of the day, in 2006, on which this American prophet and Science Fiction/Fantasy writer left us. 

   I look back to her words, dreaming of  one united human race.

 

And I look to finding a community of willing workers, united in service to the good of all humanity, where I can both contribute, and be truly included, myself, as well.

To Human Kindness, and in thanks, to Octavia Butler,

S. Destinie

 

Action Items:  

1.)  Share your thoughts on how story, and dreaming, may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

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

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Public transportation in North America -we could do better…

Here is why the trains come first, and then the quiet, safe, separately ventilated apartments and office buildings:

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The fact that Vancouver transit has posted such strong gains in the absence of Uber and Lyft undercuts those companies’ claims about reducing car usage in major cities. But it also shows that the formula for rising ridership isn’t that complicated: Providing ample service while clustering development around good transit will yield results.

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So, it turns out that even up in the cold north, folks use mass transit, when it is available with decent service.  The US could take some lessons from our northern neighbors…

Yassas,   γεια σας!    Salût !  Nos vemos!  Görüşürüz!     ! שָׁלוֹם

Action Items in support of transportation for All that you can take right now:

1.) Search for two different reasons to use public transportation.

2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.

3.) Share your thoughts on how you could encourage your local transit board to improve mass transit in your region.

4.) Write a book, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

 More Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how we can build empathy in our society today

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

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Shira

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Do Better, new Draft: No Chapter 6

The Project Do Better manual is ready.

I have removed chapter 6, so please comment here if you wish to be a Beta Reader, and I will send you the latest draft.

We still need more eyes on this new PDF of the current, 5th, Draft of Project Do Better‘s book , if Beta Readers would like to volunteer. (Please leave feedback on this book by commenting here on this post…)

Oh, and new title is

Project Do Better: A Kindness Manifesto in Four Parts

Dying to finish and release this book so I can get back to doing my own personal part of Project Do Better: writing historical fiction, so please let me know if you’d like to read 280 pages of how we can become a kinder world that meets everyone’s needs in 60 years!

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