Author: Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

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Miss America 2014, Miss New York Answers Question About Julie Chen’s Eyes

Miss New York Crowned Miss America 2014 Miss New York Nina Davuluri was asked by Carla Hall about Julie Chen’s decision to have plastic surgery about making …

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

She didn’t answer the question – and she still won.

 

 

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Choosing not to protect child farmworkers

 

“Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of pesticide exposure as their bodies are still developing, and they consume more water and food and breathe more air, pound for pound, than adults. Long-term effects of pesticide exposure include cancer, neurological problems and reproductive health issues.

 

Most children working on farms in North Carolina are poor and Latino. While their parents are frequently undocumented migrants, most of the children are U.S. citizens. Farmworker parents rely on their children’s minimum wage earnings to help supplement meager family incomes, averaging less than $20,000 annually nationwide.

 

Under a double standard in federal labor law, children can work in agriculture at far younger ages, for far longer hours and in far more hazardous conditions than other working children. Federal law has no minimum age for children to work on small farms with their parents’ permission. At age 12, children can work for hire on a farm of any size.

 

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Community Village‘s insight:

 

Racist U.S. laws allow certain groups of children (mostly Latino) to work in these dangerous conditions.

 

@getgln

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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

On Sunday September 15th 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls: Addie Mae Collins, age 14 (1949-1963) Cynthia Wesley, age 14 (1949-1…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

There is an excellent Spike Lee documentary called “4 Little Girls” filled with many heart wrenching scenes and interviews of the parents, family and friends.

 

One of the most heart-rending and poignant scenes is when the father of one of the murdered girls shows the cinematographer an absolutely perfect photo he took of his beautiful happy daughter hugging a white doll as close as she can to her head as her and the doll pose for the camera.

 

The beautiful innocence of childhood contrasted alongside the hate and violence of racist adults is emotionally overwhelming. Viewing a happy photo from a grieving parent made me sad and sick to my stomach at the absurdity of the hate and violence in this world.

 

It’s not enough to say that one man or four men were sociopathic killers. The whole U.S. culture allows those sick and twisted people to be members of our society virtually unchecked.

 

@getgln

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Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals

Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals : Parallels : NPR. As many as 5,000 Syrian refugees are after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government agreed to a U.N. request to host them. But they a…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

It’s easy for the U.S. to highlight how groups in other countries are not welcoming refugees – but have you heard the U.S. news speak about the U.S. welcoming refugees at all lately?

 

And the first comment on the NPR site is a good reminder to balance the message.

 

@getgln

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Jonathan Ferrell

Jonathan Ferrell (1988-2013) was an unarmed black American man shot dead by the police. The Charlotte/Mecklenberg county police in North Carolina gunned him down in the early hours of Saturday, Sep…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Two of the comments ask important questions that other news outlets seem to have glossed over.

 

Check the comments by “Awake BW” and “King“.

 

@getgln

Edit: More about the 12 gun shots and the 10 that hit Mr. Ferrell on CNN
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Spike Lee w/ Bobby Rivers: “4 Little Girls”

“On WNYW’s morning news show, Bobby Rivers interviewed filmmaker Spike Lee for the release of his first documentary, “4 Little Girls.” Lee’s 1997 feature covers a racial hate crime in September 1963 that made international headlines.

 

Four children were killed in an Alabama church bombing two weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic March on Washington.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I just saw this superbly made documentary on HBO Go.

HBO Go is available through Apple TV if you have an HBO subscription.

It will be availalbe through HBO Go through 9-30-2013

 

It’s also available through NetFlix.

 

It may also be at your library on DVD.

 

@getgln

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Difference Between Psychopath & Sociopath

Dr. Drew explains the differences in regards to Casey Anthony.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

Do you know any people who fit into these categories?

A lot of men seem to have a predisposition to use violence to “solve” problems.

 

Many men lean toward sociopathic behavior. Isn’t it men who invented chemical weapons, nuclear bombs, napalm (sticky fire), machine guns.

What kind of person in their right mind would invent that stuff?

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Nican Tlaca University of Cemanahuac (NTUC)- NicanTlaca.com

“Our Nican Tlaca Indigenous Civilizations began over 6,000 years ago. Europeans destroyed our Nican Tlaca civilizations starting in 1492 with Columbus. We are currently in the process of reconstructing ourselves as independent Nican Tlaca people with our own Nican Tlaca Civilization — forever free of European colonialism.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Decolonize your mind

 

@getgln

See on nicantlaca.com