Above, goats. More goat videos on peacescientists.org/goats.html, because I love goats.
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I love to walk through woods, there the air is sweet, I can breathe, we all can when woods are included in where we live. Luckily I live in Camden County in South Jersey, which seems to me to be a massive forest with houses perched in places that are easy for developers, who leave the streams, hills, small cliffs, gorges alone. Above, a walk through Saddlers Woods in fall 2020.
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When are procedures and tests "absolutely necessary" and when are they designed to make health professionals wealthier? click here and scroll down to essay
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Wednesday Quaker Meeting for Worship click here
Friends from the Monthly Meeting of the Friends of Philadelphia
Gather in Philadelphia, where the American Revolution started, and where
cool heads wrote the Constitution of the United States of America, click here
All
ages are invited to join by Zoom from 5.45pm Eastern time (US &
Canada) each Wednesday. We greet each other, then sit quietly in
unprogrammed worship for 30 minutes or longer if someone gives a
message. All are welcome to give messages that come from the light of
God that lives inside us all, click here
Only one, we listen in silence and do not
respond verbally. If you have something to say that does not seem to you
to be an inspired message, you will be invited to share it at the rise
of meeting for worship, click here
We do not pass around a basket, in fact Quakers in general are horrible at fundraising. We do not pay priests because we do not have any.
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From the YouTube: Dr SJ Dodgson. These videos are not edited and most are technically really bad. They give an idea of what a British-Irish-Australian-American activist does when not growing food and teaching medical writing. Go to YouTube.com and search for Dr SJ Dodgson. Or click on video above.
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On May 12, my English grandmother Hannah Frances was born in England in 1891, and my great-uncle Reginald Frederick Charles was born in India in 1890. Relatives click here
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Nepal, a tiny jewel of a country with our highest mountains: playground for billionaires, surviving after loss of life from a massive earthquake click here
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Mauritania: deserts, slave labor, child brides click here
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Uganda: next to Kenya in East Africa, a place that both gives refuge and generates refugees click here
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"Love Me, Barbados" by Richard Andrew King click here
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During Black History Month we recognize the shame of Americans who rejected, despised & hunted other Americans who only want to live in peace click here
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A Hershey kiss or a blob of paint? The Paint Torch outside the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia click here
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A young woman is pregnant and loses a glove visiting a paraplegic veteran. She does not know if she will ever see her soldier bridegroom again and so she mourns the lost glove click here.
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Martin Luther King jr Day celebrates all warriors against American apartheid. Bayard Rustin click here
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Not much good news from Sudan: teaching how to swim the Nile is wonderful, Sudan click here
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Lilies loom large in Camden, where roses are still blooming in December click here.
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Chocolate starts with cocoa beans, most are grown on farms in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire. Also Madagascar click here
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When the pastor and the painter were chained to crosses and sang
"Bless the Lord, oh my soul" as bullets hit the targets over their
beating hearts click here
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Coming out to support President Obama's call for gun law reform are registered Republicans who own guns, are evangelical Christians and voted against Obama in 2 elections, here is one, click here
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Walt Whitman, Muhammed Ali and Dr Susanna had a few things in common: one is that all owned houses in Camden County, New Jersey click here
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Heir to French and English political families becomes prime minister of Canada as Canada rejects right wing agenda and votes for tolerance and separation of church and state. Canada click here
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Ah. Turning trash into light! So easy, so clever. Made my day click here Videos.
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When Fire Jumps: audio of why I wrote it after a young girl and a young woman died, and first 3 chapters read aloud click here
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More than 3 decades have passed since my most productive day when I gave birth to a robotics engineer click here
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We need water to be clean. Plastic water bottles are clogging our lands and our waters. Videos. click here
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Guns are now legal everywhere in Georgia: in schools, airports. Nothing like putting guns into the hands of children and crazies to lessen the time between birth and death click here
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Italy, where the Pope lives in a dormitory click here
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Death comes as a thief in the night. I love New York. So does Bed Stuy Vollies click here
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No place for children, the Republic of Syria click here
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Candidate for mayor of Newark Shavar Jeffries comes from a extraordinary family of over-achievers
who have been unwilling to succumb to despair after
violent tragedies. His cousin is US Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, and
early on his mentor was the great late Congressman Donald Payne click here
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Walmart, the world's 3rd largest company, owns ships, planes. Labor Day in Philadelphia click here
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Growing up in peace in Niger, living in peace in Camden County, New Jersey click here
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Richard Allen, freed from enslavement, was told by Quakers to sit on "colored benches" so he bought land and built his own church and worked to free as many sons and daughters of Africa as he could. The burying ground at 4th and Catherine was given to the city of Philadelphia, who turned it into a playground and are currently revamping the playground. It should be a memorial garden. click here
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Somalia, final resting place of a Dodgson cousin click here
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100 years of Dr Patience Uprichard Dodgson click here who was born 3 days before a much-filmed, equally pale but taller woman, Ingrid Bergman. This always delights me, because I know whatever age Ingrid Bergman was in a movie, my mother was that age then click here Darling Patience click here
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I had the enormous privilege of spending the day with Amnesty International activists protesting the death penalty and laws oppressing minorities and listening to the first person released from death row and prison because DNA proved his accusers lied. Story from Witness to Innocence from October click here
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Universities all around the world are showing support with protesters in Venezuela. Meanwhile, Venezuelans continue to make news in technology, and continue to make music click here
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90% of all infected with ebola will die: horrible disease causing panic in 5 countries in West Africa. Senegal and Liberia have closed their borders with Guinea. What it is, what to do, how to avoid it, and audio interview with Dr Ladi Owolabi, son of Nigeria, physician and CEO of Lifescope Africa click here
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Pope visits USA in tiny Fiat, Philadelphia welcome click here
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Greece, birthplace of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, democracy and the Olympic Games. Europe: forgive their debts, and let them restructure click here
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Always a good time to watch Shakespeare plays, and to watch William J Barber II in action click here
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Thailand's military coup. Protesters are defying the coup, young soldiers with guns are showing constraint, history of Thailand and things to avoid. News feeds click here
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On
a cold March Saturday, Amnesty International groups from Pennsylvania
and South Jersey gathered at the Ethical Society in Rittenhouse Square
to talk about their efforts in abolishing the death penalty, and police misconduct click here
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"Maya Angelou was an inspiration and a
role model. She knew how to get the flowers to grow." Dr Althea V
Hankins MD, director of GC Medical Center and Aces Museum, great-niece
of Marcus Garvey. Maya Angelou: thank you for speaking and singing to us for 86 years, and flying through the cage door...Maya Angelou, you were one, but you are legion click here
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On D-Day, MAP Wood landed on Juno Beach in Normandy with the Royal Navy Commandos and was their chaplain. He was my cousin, and later became the Bishop of Norwich. Before all that, he was born during World War I when his father was jailed for being a conscientious objector click here
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How do you know your online students wrote their own assignments? click here
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The story of when the United States of America invaded the sovereign nation of Grenada click here
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Media heist in Media: FBI breakin by the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI click here
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Yangtze River is dammed with the world's largest structure China click here
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Pakistan is often in the news: today,
May 28 2015, it is in the news because the CEO of a fake degree mill was
arrested after the New York Times.... Essay click here
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US Congress debating sending $1 billion to Ukraine in aid. Crimea: the jewel of the Black Sea click here Ukraine click here
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Parkinson's Disease got the man who was my athletic inventor husband: what it is, therapies. Diet and exercise baby. The magic pills for our time click here
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Mother's Day 2011. "I was released by the arresting officer who had spent the 8 hours on and off trying to ...." click here
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Building on word inventing that a Dodgson relative was good at: religionism (others used that first), Humanity Index, poverwalmartization (you can tell I have been hanging out with Germans) click here
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Happy Mother's Day! My wish: say a kind word to a mother who has lost a child, essay click here
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Young people are converging on Philadelphia to
watch Penn Relays! I will be there tomorrow, I will have my Nikon and
Canon and video, looking for at least one great shot! Philadelphia click here
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Spring Saturday in the country for Philadelphia kids being taught respect, love, decency, empowerment and the value of believing in the future. UROC founder, daughter of Trinidad & Tobago Miranda Alexander rocks click here
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A Phoenix
University instructor based in Minnesota is building a 1,000-acre
medical university in Nigeria AND a 4,000-acre medical university in
Kenya at the same time click here
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Legal Aid South Africa threw a hissy fit when Etienne Taratibu Kabila asked for a bail hearing and told them his 6yo had been kidnapped. They dumped him as a client. He has written a second letter to the Minister of Justice of South Africa, included is the letter he received from Legal Aid click here.
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Turks slaughtered the Armenians in Turkey starting April 24, 1915; and slaughtered the Anzacs at Gallipoli starting April 25, 1915 click here
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Damn coward shot up safe place for folks in Florida. We need gun control laws yes, but we also need to stop attacking Muslims, LBGT folks, sons and daughters of Africa. Will British-Australian-Americans be next? click here
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Wales has its own language and premier, who, unlike the premiers of Northern Ireland, Scotland and England, is male click here
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Libertarian candidate for president , Gary Johnson, paid a lot of money to a lot of exploiters so that Sherpas could mark the trail and carry his equipment so that he could say he climbed Mount Everest. Nepal click here
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Donald J Trump is not a Jesus, is not a Hitler. He is an
old demented man who is a puppet of the far right, as was old demented
German President Paul von Hindenburg, who opened the door to chaos and
the destruction of millions of lives all around the world click here
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Dr Susanna's advice to folks looking for a mate click here
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Brazil loves soccer, and its young players click here
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MSF aka Doctors Without Borders set up camp between Independence Hall & the Constitution Center in Philadelphia for 10 days in November click here
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The Democratic presidential candidate has a progressive policy for keeping us above water and reducing the effects of climate change click here
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The Republican presidential candidate, job creation and how he pays his contractors. Read the Republican platform click here
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Brexit or Remain? The European Union certainly can be improved, but should it be abandoned?click here
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The Philadelphia Inquirer slaps its former owners by endorsing for US Congress in Democratic primary Alex Law over Donald Norcross click here
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Make America kind! We can if we join together! A good place to start is to support the congressional campaign of Alex Law, of the 1st District of New Jersey click here
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Chinese officials throwing tantrums on official visit to London called out by the Queen of England, video, click here
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Climate change sinks countries, blows away towns, burns cities, parches fields. In North America, in Africa, in the Pacific: nowhere is immune from the cruel and many symptoms of climate change click here
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May 04 was "May the Fourth be with you!" And May 05 is "Revenge of the Fifth" If you are not a Star Wars fan, you will not understand. But you can always dance, because May 05 is Cinco de Mayo! Olé click here
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So why would a professional Irishwoman, a qualified physician, with 3 young children, take orders from a self-centered man and follow him to the other side of the world to lands of the Southern Cross? click here
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Happy birthday Ernst Lothar Blossfeld Dipl Physik! You were born 75 years ago to a "half-Jew" in Nazi Germany in Freiburg click here
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Handing over all wealth to the wealthy did not work for most of us in the time of the Caesars, did not work for most of us during the time of Reagan, and certainly does not work for us now. If a business cannot survive unless it uses slaves, or pays poverty wages, it should not survive. The case for a minimum wage being a living wage click here
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Chinese Lunar New Year: 2016 welcomes the year of the
Fire Money, farewell to the year of the Wood Sheep, which started off
with lion dances all over Philadelphia click here
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Ireland: in 2015, In Eire, all of-age human marriages legal; in Ulster, a woman First Minister, and no, I do not celebrate violence that caused the death of activists, civilians and friends of my family click here
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India in the news, with good news, a 15-year-old boy plays cricket better than anyone click here
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Many, perhaps most, Congolese refugees in South Africa continue to be harassed daily, and underemployed. Not all, some are doing spectacularly well. You know who you are click here
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The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to 4 groups in the north African country of Tunisia click here
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Nov 11th 2015: Armistice Day,
Remembrance Day, Veterans Day. The one day to remember the men, women
and children whose lives were cut short by war. At the going down of the
sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. All of them. click here
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Nov 10th 2015: 100 years since Hannah woke as a bride, went to bed as a widow click here
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Nepal: on the ceiling of the world, far too easy for buses to slide down mountains click here
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I expected to land in Europe but landed in Asia, and survived because of an Iraqi engineer. I love Turkey, my heart hurts today, news feeds, videos. Not that I notice these things but Turkish men and women have to be the most beautiful in the world. Fusion does that click here
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Come hang with us in our urban farm in Camden, New
Jersey, and give rest and aid to anyone who walks over the bridge to
Philadelphia. Walking to Philadelphia click here
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Condolences to the families whose members died in the collapse of the Mosque in Mecca on 9/11 click here
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After Sep 11 comes Sep 12. Essays on Sep 11 and the Pink Houses in Brooklyn click here
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Sunday August 2nd: African Festival at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia! Detailed directions, pictures from previous years click here
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Dominican Republic: trafficked in sugar workers, took away documents, now tossing out 250K undocumented humans. Scroll down for movie, edited article and document about sugar click here
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After the New York Times wrote about the fake diploma mills in Pakistan, the owners were arrested and degrees from Nixon, Columbiana, Oxdell and others exposed as fake. Pakistan click here
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Such beautiful music coming from India, the land of Arundhati Roy and Mahatma Gandhi click here
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Malnourished and yet obese? Dr Volcy writes about what is going on click here
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In the knockout round, the star Brazilian
player broke his back. Brazil will do anything and everything, but it was not enough. The World Cup was great! click here
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Chinese movie where a dainty young lady
by herself beats up an army of bandits. Scroll past the
Chinese lessons. English subtitles. click here
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Back then, Vikings in Ireland were not a whole lot different than ISIL. Scroll down for video of Brian Boru, Ireland click here. Not all Vikings were head-hacking destroyers, some were highly civilized. Their Swedish descendants are downright spectacular Sweden click here
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India went to Mars when our congress was squabbling and bombing folks! India, my new favorite country click here
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Philadelphia gets ready for Penn Relays click here
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South Africa: resist bullying refugees, resist divide and conquer of Black Africans. You are better than that click here.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: evening Apr 15 to evening Apr 16. Anne Frank's relative bore witness in 2014 click here
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Ah to be in England, now that April's here click here
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The International Space Station is the coolest place not on earth; definitely the coolest place for earthlings to hang out and speak English, Russian, Japanese, and sing opera. Why not! click here
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Who is in charge in Palestine? Hamas? Palestine Liberation Organization? Palestine National Authority? Very
hard to unravel. The one authority is the occupying country of Israel click here
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St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland click here
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Pi: the irrational number that is constant and remains when everything else fades, wilts, evaporates, sublimates or otherwise vanishes. Pi Day 2015: 3.14.15 click here.
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Rape and the value of human life, specifically, female human life click here
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My children's
Jewish relatives died in the German Holocaust, please Israel, stop the Israeli Holocaust of Palestine and the Israeli
rule of the United States click here
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Youssef Kromah aka Seff Al-Afriqui. Inspirational rap to celebrate Black History in Camden, New Jersey click here
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Keep those little Susannas coming! You know the first one was saved by angels. Songs for Susanna click here
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America used to have a Congress that understood the importance of science. And actors who educated us while raising our eyes to the stars. We still have NASA, for how long, we don't know. And we still have actors who work to educate us. But we no longer have Mr Spock. Thank you Mr Spock, and RIP click here
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Lent. The worst time to be a fish. Antarctica, where fish are safest. Videos, news feeds click here
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I watched the Lion Dancers at midnight, in minus weather. Some days, like when your friends are released from 2 years of prison, you just have to go out at midnight in the freezing cold and DANCE!!! Happy New Year China, where all your stuff comes from, click here
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Bloodshed in DRC-Congo; rubber bullets shot at protesters in South Africa and 10 were arrested click here
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The last marcher to Independence Mall on Martin Luther
King jr Day in Philadelphia. She struggled down Market Street with her
walker click here
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WE DID IT! International outcry halted Saudi Arabia lashing Raif Balawi to death click here
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Murder by beheading, murder by 50 lashes a week: cold-blooded murder in Saudi Arabia. click here
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100 years since Scottish artist Campbell Lindsay Smith put on his kilt and was shot dead in a field in Belgium click here
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United States Government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is getting increasingly worried about the lack of regulation of e-cigarettes. Little children are being poisoned click here
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Attack on satirical newspaper: appalling tragedy, condolences to France, videos, newsfeeds click here
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Russia is always a hotbed of dissension, repression and czars. How cool are the Navalny brothers? news feeds click here
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Emerald Pademelon Press LLC reviews books before & after publication and will do all your publishing for you click here
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The South African and international media call them "coup-plotters". I call them 20 good men, jailed because South African cops lied. While Colonel Zeeman retains his position, and is allowed to write 52-page affidavits about non-existent weapons supplies, non-existent murder plots, South Africa is not governed by laws, but by bandits click here
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American die-ins protest being shot dead by a nervous armed-to-the-teeth racist cops click here
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South African police misconduct. Endemic. Videos. Scroll down for video that blew open the honeymoon murder and released Shrien Dewani click here
South African police: keeping the country secure or targeting citizens, refugees and visitors for abuse? How can good cops do good when colleagues are thugs, thieves, murderers? click here
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Nelson Mandela: one year without his breath click here
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Friends of Congolese 20 on Aug 1st, 2013. 15 now acquitted; 5 can be bailed click here
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On November 28, 2014, 15 of the Congolese 20 were released after being found innocent of all charges, after 660 days in Pretoria Central Prison. Idiotically, 5 are still charged with organizing non-existent coup that exists only in the imagination of Colonel Noel Zeeman. Etienne Kabila is out on bail; the other 4 are trying to scrape together bail money.
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When life gets so crazy and lives end abruptly because of evil people shooting a Black congregation and its pastor, or building balconies that cannot hold more than a few young Irish professionals, we all need friends click here
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Water: you need it, and sometimes the best way to get it is collect that which falls from the sky click here
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Escape from a mountain in Germany. Through barbed wire click here
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Serious spring fever today in Brooklyn and Manhattan. No-one protesting Crimean invasion outside the Russian consulate, but a lot, a lot of barriers. They were ready, but it looks like Putin is ready to throw in the towel, or part of it. Goodonya economic Obama diplomacy!! USA click here
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On April 2nd, 2014, Philadelphians preyed on sick, hard-working, vulnerable. Without
investigation, without intelligence, without thoughts for the human
rights of a genius chemist and his wife, who survived the bloody civil
war of Liberia, who worked hard all their lives, whose US Army veteran
daughter served in Afghanistan, Philadelphia police decided that Vickson
Korlewala and his wife had no right to freedom click here
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Spring brings business meetings all over the north-east; today the annual African Economic Forum is in full swing at Columbia University in New York. In my 8 years focusing on health in African communities, I have learned that the greatest cause of ill-health is poverty. And that the greatest cause of poverty is theft that is called "investment" that results in polluting the air, the water and in sub-poverty wages. Glencore in Zambia is an example. Zambia click here
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Romania was a Warsaw Pact country, under the influence of the Soviet Union. In 1968 their president spoke out against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; 31 years later, on Christmas Day 1989, immediately after a speedy trial, Romanian soldiers took him and his wife out of the courtroom in the deep snow, and shot them. After that, orphanages filled with abandoned children were seen, and many were adopted into the United States. Romania click here
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President of Zambia died in a London hospital. Zambia, East Africa, robbed by investors bringing in sub-poverty jobs click here
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Ruth Noerdlinger, a "half-Jew" gave birth to father of my younger 2 children, in Wiesbaden, during the second world war. He now sits in a chair & shakes, imprisoned by a "guardian"... May Day click here
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600 days in Pretoria Central Prison without trial. South Africa's Guantanimo. Congolese 20 scammed, kidnapped and jailed click here
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Indonesia is stupid. Exploded a great opportunity for favor from Australia. They are thugs and cold-blooded murderers. Why is anyone trading with them. Boycott Bali. And anywhere else with the death penalty click here
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Mr Alfredo Thiebaud died in an accident today in the Bronx. I am heartbroken. Son of Honduras, he made water ice and built a small empire. A kind man, he always had a smile and was part of the CACCI family in Brooklyn. Honduras click here.
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We
declared war on the earth the minute we learned how to start a fire. We
can declare peace by accepting that we do not own the earth, we are
merely stewards passing through, and our duty is to ... click here
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April
23! Happy birthday William Shakespeare! Happy St George's Day! Yeah England, the land of my birth! Videos, plays, newsfeeds, essays. England click here
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Have you thought about Comoros lately? A lovely Ethiopian movie, great music, and awareness that this little nation of islands in the Indian Ocean is particularly vulnerable to rising seas click here
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Charges against Vickson Korlewala and Lorpu Korlewala dropped. When
accountability is demanded at the end of a gun, trust is gone, love is
gone and the threatened wants revenge. That is what we have in
Philadelphia. We have armed police who are afraid of the ease with which
guns are passed around and used on the streets, who want to stop the
frequent murders and accidental killings of young and old click here
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I am entitled to Irish citizenship because my Irish mother was born in
Ireland when there was only one Ireland, and have UK citizenship because
I was born in England and my father was English. But my mother's maiden
name was Welsh, and she was descended from Scottish Presbyterians. And
my very English father; one grandmother was an Agnes Doherty. My
father's mother's first husband was a Scottish portrait painter from
Aberdeen; blown up in his kilt in WWI click here. The
British are a mix of all 4 countries. I only now have an opinion:
Scotland, please stay in the UK. Stay British. Scotland click here
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Tunisia was part of the Arab Spring, a North African country. It had a horrific shooting in a museum click here
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Republican senators: when 47 of you sent a letter to the leader of Iran after being asked to by the leader of Israel, was this treason? I believe so. Iran click here
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Liberian man working in the Ministry of Health in Monrovia comes to Staten Island for back surgery and stayed because of ebola. So his wife in Liberia sends him money to survive. New York click here
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Remembering a 1987 trip to Yugoslavia. I am so happy that I am able to throw out the abandoned chrysalis from each of my children click here
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Yeah! James Kazongo is flying back to Philadelphia to his wife and 3 small sons (middle son Mat is my favorite but don't tell
anyone) on March 10!!! Ah, ye who have little faith: shine a light and
good people crowd out the bad people!!! click here
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We raised the Liberian flag at Philadelphia City Hall on Liberia's 167th Independence Day celebrations on July 26, 2014 click here
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Lunar New Year was celebrated properly in minus weather in the streets of Philadelphia's Chinatown, inside auditoria and libraries from New Years Eve, Feb 18, 2015 though Feb 26, 2015. Chinese productivity stops for the world's biggest holiday travel and lion dances click here
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Happy birthday Gambia! 50 years since Union Jack came down. Gambia accused of human rights
abuses, withdrew from the British Commonwealth, this tiny, gorgeous country in West Africa, click here??
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Deep in 1944, 2 months after D-Day... Maurice
was awarded the DSC, Tony lost the use of his legs, Robert was killed,
my father became engaged. His third male cousin spent his life in
perpetual and happy childhood, God bless Geoffrey. Story, awesome videos
from 1944 click here
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For a month we watched a war that was not destructive:
the 2014 World Cup. I would love to see the energy in Gaza and Israel
diverted to playing football. There is no way to peace, peace is the way
and the American Friends Service Committee reaches out to communities
all around the world, in peace. AFSC click here
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All about Denmark: news feeds, videos, stories, pictures click here
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The numbers of adults and children infected with ebola is climbing in West Africa, as is the number of deaths. Isolation practices have slowed its spread, but new cases are being reported in Sierra Leone daily click here
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January 25, 1945. Snowy day in Belfast. Irish rose Dr H Patience
Uprichard married Dr MCH Dodgson, descendant of London Stock Exchange
founder. Thanks Mum & Dad!
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A
long-lost speech of the Rev Martin Luther King jr. He gave it in Dec
1964 on his way to Sweden to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize click here
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America pauses to remember the life and struggles of Martin Luther King jr click here
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The Panama Canal opened in August 1914 enabling the 1957 passage of the Southern Cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The building of the Panama Canal resulted in the defeat of the massive death toll from yellow fever. Panama click here.
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Sons of Africa die more frequently from bullets, and younger; sons of Europe die more frequently from cancer, and older. Died on the same day, different years: Martin Luther King jr and Roger Ebert click here
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I celebrated Caribbean Heritage Month with CACCI at Brooklyn Borough Hall, and with Miranda Alexander's group in Philadelphia at Reading Terminal Market. I heard a lot about Anguilla, a tiny jewel of an island that is part of the United Kingdom and has a population of oh, 10,000, give or take. Anguilla click here
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Saudi Arabia: war against humanity. We stand for free speech, and protest the brutal flogging of a young Saudi Arabian blogger click here
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As much as I would love to say the above was a recent picture, I am afraid it is not. Just after I got my PhD in physiology & pharmacology at UNSW in, cough, 1978. UNSW click here
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AIDS scientists, healthcare providers and activists have been meeting in Australia's other big city, Melbourne, all week. News from the conference and videos click here
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Is Uruguay the only country filled with human compassion? The men spent their entire nine-hour flight to freedom in handcuffs, shackles, blindfolds and “ear defenders”, their lawyers said, “When they arrived, the Uruguayans refused to let them walk off the plane in shackles, they insisted that they be allowed to take their first step on Uruguayan soil as free men.”
Uruguay's president lives in a humble cottage and waits in line like his people. My new favorite country, Uruguayclick here
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After 9 years focusing on African communities, my conclusion is that ebola is a disease borne of poverty, spread by poverty. When the country has infrastructure, information, and huge help from CDC, ebola can be contained, as we saw in Nigeria. In Congo, the Congolese figured out how to contain it themselves. The real issue is that investors from the north, east and west still are stealing from Africa's wealth, as they have for hundreds of years. The first step is awareness that companies creating subpoverty jobs is a denial of human rights, a crime against humanity. For example, Glencore in Zambia click here. Zambia is in south east Africa, no ebola has been reported there. They have plenty of other diseases.
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Dr
Ketna Volcy is a young microbiologist (Univ Maryland BS, Univ
Rochester PhD) who has worked in research labs for over 9 years.
MJoTA is proud to announce that she will be writing a weekly health
column click here
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When Fire Jumps: a magic realism novel about the random nature of love and loss. A family makes plans for summer, and the fires come click here
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White frozen water on my fallen leaves and car windshield and I don't
even drink alcohol. What sort of an English-Irish-Australian-American am
I, anyway? Weather click here
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President Obama's executive order on immigration; DHS announces temporary protected status designations for Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone click here
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Loved Mexican First Lady caked in makeup explaining how honesty, hard work got her $10million mansion. She likes purple. Mexican news feeds, mostly in Spanish. Video, click here
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Always
a good idea to remember what happens when right wing fanatics block
voting and steal government, my children's relative Anne Frank click here
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I love Diwali. My grocery store is Indian and they have been selling great things now for a few weeks. I am off there now to listen to Indian music and see what they have left. We celebrated last night in Philadelphia next to the Love statue. Wonderful! Diwali in Manhattan and Sydney, click here
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The disease of ebola is being attacked aggressively in West Africa...but the message has changed.... the word ebola is used for hate crimes... click here
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The world's largest democracy booted out the family of Nehru: what will the new government do? Indians are campaigning to ban illegal sales of acid which is only used to disfigure or murder women and children. India is a terrific country to be born a woman, and India is also a terrible country to be born a woman click here
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Ebola is an inconstant threat: it can kill parents but ignore the children, ignore whole planeloads and apartments full of friends and relatives and then slither inside protective gear of healthcare workers. The most at risk for ebola infection is the health professional, bringing us back to the pre-antibiotic age when perhaps 10 to 20% of trainee health professionals died before they could graduate. Ebola click here
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The Kingdom of Northern Sudan was proclaimed on June 16,
2014 by US Army veteran, former congressional candidate in Virginia and
neo-colonist Jeremiah Heaton. Sudan, all 3 of them, click here
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Solar panels are underneath all street lights in my town in New Jersey and are the main source of electricity at a local college. The White House has installed solar panels on its roof in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions click here
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Aces Museum during Black History Month: honoring the Dairamont, a green beret, Councilmember Jannie Blackwell click here
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Drumming in May with the Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble. This hugely disciplined, enthusiastic gorgeous-looking acrobatic dance and drum group plays anywhere, everywhere, and they practice about 2 miles from my house click here
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In the early hours of April 23, 2014, more than 5 days after a judge lowered the bail and ordered them released on bail, Vickson Korlewala and Lorpu Korlewala were released from prison in Philadelphia click here.
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Brooklyn District 42: if you live in Flatbush, Ditmas Park or Midwood, I recommend you elect the best candidate for New York Legislative Assembly. Who is engineer and daughter of Haiti, Rodneyse Bichotte. She has been endorsed by just about everyone, but that will not help unless you go and vote. And Shirley Chisholm will smile at you from heaven. Rodneyse, videos, pictures, stories click here
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How many times can my heart break over Israel and Palestine? Can the survival of Israel only be guaranteed by murdering noncombatants including Quakers? Why? Feeds and videos from Israel click here
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William Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays, a lot, and during my 6 years of high school in Australia, they rubbed our noses in them, 1 or 2 or 3 each year. Did I like them then or now? Some of them. And how dd he write them? Two whole plays, and a series of videos explaining how he got to have the best PR of any writer in the past 1,000 years. William Shakespeare was born 450 years ago, on April 23, 1564 click here
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So why did Nigeria's president pay a
non-Nigerian firm to represent him in the ongoing disaster that was
the kidnapping of nearly 300 school girls? I would have paid a battalion
of elite peace-keepers to bring them back. click here
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Links on the Friday Night Movie pages are now all working. Links frequently vanish after a few days or months, we do our best to replace them with live links. A lovely movie to watch is the first in Oct 2012 click here. And on the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, say a prayer for the good work of the survivors and watch a movie click here
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.... legislation that it will grand dual citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country....Spanish motorists are more likely to honk their horns, insult or pass .. than other European drivers. And an Ernest Hemingway movie and Segovia, ah! Spain click here
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Pictures I took of the Russian Consulate on Friday. Only 2 NYPD officers outside, lots of portable barricades. On that day, Russian president called US president trying to get some sanctions dropped. Russian politicians love parking their millions in New York City real estate, and at the moment, they cannot even visit click here
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Australia armed forces: "You are the perpetrator or the victim. Treat women as humans or leave the army". Ah yes. We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Good on Australian General David Morrison for his zero-tolerance of harassment and physical assault in the Australian army click here
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Feb 18th 2015, 2 years, 13 days in Pretoria Central Prison: last 4 of Congolese 20 released and now all have been ACQUITTED!!!!! Allelujah! Huge victory for the South African justice system!!!!!!!!
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The Land of the Rising Sun allied with Germany and took America by surprise in 1941 by bombing Peal Harbor. Do they still love Germany, specifically Beethoven, and is the heroic remembrance of kamikaze pilots widespread? I don't know. Japan is home to Nigerians. Japan click here
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Turkey is enormously important for stability and humanitarian work throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. This mine tragedy has cut to its heart; the political leaders were immediately on the scene, doing everything possible to pull surviving miners from 2 miles underground and giving support and comfort to relatives click here
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I am
tremendously proud of my Irish mother, who managed to be born in August
1915 in Belfast, when all of Ireland was part of Great Britain, when
Germans and Britons were slaughtering each other (and Africans,
Australians, Indians, Canadians....) click here
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Turkey is too important to go nuts. To Asia, to Africa, to Europe, and to half a million or so refugees from Syria. Prime minister cutting off Twitter? Too many of us inside and outside Turkey are watching this great nation click here
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Quakers have been in Flushing longer than most places, and in 1672 George Fox showed up to talk to them (us). Quakers in Flushing still welcome visitors and discussions that are focused on human rights and peace. Flushing is an Asian city in New York City's borough of Queens. And it is alive with flowers in May. Come on any Sunday at 11am for Meeting for Worship click here
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Peace Island Institute: "We
condemn the Prime Minister's unfounded demands and appeal to the
collective conscience to urge the Prime Minister to end his harassment
of law-abiding citizens." Turkey click here
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Holocaust Remembrance Day at Aces Museum with Allister Blossfeld, relative of Anne Frank. Anne Frank lived in an attic for 2 years, faced daily with the evil men do, and wrote about hope and the triumph of good over evil click here
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To celebrate St George's Day, "we've got Dodgson here", Stephen Dodgson talks to Julian Bream who plays classical guitar, video of the legend of St George and all kinds of other English things click here
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Two years of Buddhist meditation followed by 23 years of Quaker practice, and the first thing I do when stubbing my toe going into a bike shop jammed with people is yell "sh**". Aaaggghhh. I am not there yet. Maybe I will be after the AVP workshop on June 7 and June 14 at Flushing Meeting. Flushing Quakers were America's first Quakers click here
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We traveled by
bus on roads that fit only 3 of the 4
wheels of our bus.... One person
started throwing up out a window, and it caught on. Everyone else did
too. Roads along sheer cliff faces make me focus on mortality rather
than the spectacular views... Nepal click here
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Memorial Day weekend: war speeches, peace speech: remember veterans everywhere, so many caught up in a whirlpool of destruction not of their making click here
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Organization of American States has sent 16 members to, ahem, Antigua, to oversee June 12th elections. Hm. The island nation of Antigua & Barbuda click here
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683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood sentenced to death in Egypt, many in absentia. Nothing on this earth is easier than killing, no easier
way for a coward to thrive than let him kill. You don't have to feed the
dead, don't have to listen to them. The Nazi military were cowards, and so are
the Egyptian military click here
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World
Cup kicks off in Sao Paolo in 2 days, Croatia v Brazil. If you have
paid lots and are in Sao Paolo, you may be in trouble because of the
public transportation strike; I am watching it with cool people in
Manhattan! Brazil click here
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German group singing "you are in my heart, you are in my soul." The German pronunciation of the words, the guitarist shaking his blond hair: ah. Germans at peace are, and always have been, spectacular click here
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After 30,000 Igbos were murdered in northern Nigeria, after betrayal
from the west, after all options were exhausted, General Ojukwu declared
the nation of Biafra on this day in 1967 click here.
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Holocaust Memorial Day at the Aces Museum for Black Veterans, April 28, 2014. Talk by the children of a
Nazi Holocaust survivor. Their grandmother was a cousin of Anne Frank click here
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Lawyer Shavar Jeffries is a member of the brilliant Jeffries family, and was endorsed by
the Payne family in the May primary. Both families filled with good citizens working for
the public good for decades. He was not elected mayor of Newark, but he has pledged to work with the mayor click here
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Bed Stuy Vollies is on the scene in the 2-building collapse in East
Harlem today, Mar 12, 2014. They are entirely volunteer, the first volunteer ambulance corps
run by sons and daughters of Africa. They are not racist: they work
with and treat anyone in need, anyone willing to obey the rules can join
and train as an EMT click here Send them a few dollars if you can, follow link to their website.
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Women and men are demanding Nigeria find and bring back home nearly 300 girls kidnapped during their final exams. May 3: wear a headwrap for Nigeria brought out protesters all around the world click here
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Vickson Korlewala and Lorpu Korlewala were ordered to go for a
police lineup. The
Liberian community protests the use as evidence of any outcomes of a police lineup click here.
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Philadelphia
Councilmember Hon Mrs Jannie L Blackwell has as her personal motto:
“Politics is an open ended opportunity to make life better for others.”
Videos and pictures click here.
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For 5 years, the young man's father learned the language
of his son's captors, he learned all he could about Islam.... Follow
the example of a Calvinist who loved his son more than anything in his
life, and knew the only way to bring him home was to treat the captors
with respect. Afghanistan click here
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New
Jersey has had an official state climatologist since 1979. The job of
the climatologist is to collect climate data, be a faculty member at the
largest New Jersey state university, Rutgers University, and to have
data accessible click here
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