tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post1302642138799556979..comments2024-03-28T09:40:06.621-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Next Steps: It's Time to Stand UpOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-47902127680828029642020-05-26T09:29:45.377-04:002020-05-26T09:29:45.377-04:00We have to ask Stan where he got that picture, Zoe...We have to ask Stan where he got that picture, Zoe. I liked it so much that I swiped it from him. Stan?Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-67064604942809627262020-05-26T02:36:26.208-04:002020-05-26T02:36:26.208-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.angelenaalessandrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962004822510113254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-44637628561140843632020-05-21T02:14:47.888-04:002020-05-21T02:14:47.888-04:00I agree with much of this, of course, and I love s...I agree with much of this, of course, and I love seeing photos of demonstrations I attended, and also women's rights and union rights protests.<br />Well, it's such a problem now. Anti-science, anti-worker politicians are running the show; also truth is a casualty in their administration. The doctors and CDC have been pushed out. The guy in the White House is taking an unapproved drug and others follow. (Oh, I ask, where is critical thinking? Some people actually ingested disinfectants and detergents!) <br />And the rich business owners want factories and stores bringing in money regardless of harm to their employees. And the guy in the WH orders them to work, and if they fear getting sick and don't want to go to work, they will lose their unemployment benefits. <br />A lot has to change here, and I agree that young people, along with frontline workers, those walking out of a lot of warehouses, stores and factories, will be in the lead.<br />But when I heard someone on TV saying it's "good-hearted Americans who are protesting the shut downs," I yell at the TV. Maybe some are, but they are carrying Confederate flags, swastikas and signs with Nazi slogans. They are yelling misogynist death threats at women governors and carrying guns into state legislatures, in Michigan anyway. <br />They are abusive to health workers who are keeping people alive. A photo of brave nurses standing silently up to guys waving flags in their faces, calling them "actors" and not nurses, yelling threats, shows who are the people to join with -- the health workers.<br />It's a lot of frontline workers calling for PPE and safe working conditions. Think about meatpacking and food processing workers. I just read that 10,000 have gotten sick, and 45 died.<br />There's so much involved here. It's mind-boggling, but I'm with the frontline workers, including health care personnel at all levels.<br />Meanwhile, I have cabin fever.Kathy D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18418720666849497808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-71702980723256846122020-05-18T20:12:02.072-04:002020-05-18T20:12:02.072-04:00Bravo, Annamaria. Where do I sign?
And I particul...Bravo, Annamaria. Where do I sign?<br /><br />And I particularly love the pic: 'First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that.'Zoë Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065427744062846167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-78109706935784985502020-05-18T10:36:19.554-04:002020-05-18T10:36:19.554-04:00Well, that is good news, Michael, that a Nobel Lau...Well, that is good news, Michael, that a Nobel Laureate agrees. I know that the moneypower guys will do everything they can to prevent the kind of change I hope for. They do not care how deeply scarred the rest of the world will be. BUT. All I have to do is think of the difference in South Africa. When your gorgeous country was in the grip of apartheid, change seemed impossible. But as the opposition grew and grew, as people around the world leant their voices, hope grew. Here in the USA, it was the youth who first took up that cause in large numbers. When I was going to look at colleges with my daughter in 1984, the campuses all had "Mandela Camps" where protesting students carried on day and night, demanding freedom for Madiba. They insisted that their school divest of SA stocks. My daughter, then 17, crossed a school off her list because there was not sign of such a protest there. We know the outcome. It is the young that give me hope. At my age, I may not live to see what the next generation accomplishes, but every generation seems to have its work cut out. Progress can be slow and oh so painful. But Gandhi was right. Love always wins. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-50952703318862627012020-05-18T03:48:50.878-04:002020-05-18T03:48:50.878-04:00No doubt you are right about this. Nobel prize win...No doubt you are right about this. Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman calls concepts of tax cuts for the wealthy and the "trickle down effect" zombie ideas. Although they are long dead and buried by theory and experience, they just won't stay in the grave! Guess why?Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.com