What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Why the language we use to talk about refugees matters so much – The Washington Post
This.
I can’t help but wonder how conversations about ‘migrants’ coming over the United States’ southern border would change if we took into account (or were more familiar with) the strife and danger they were leaving behind.
& That.
“While witnessing the tragedy, suddenly we noticed the lying, lifeless bodies,” she said. “We recognized the bodies belonged to toddlers. We were shocked; we felt sorrow for them. The best thing to do was to make this tragedy heard.”
Source: Photographer who found Syrian toddler dead on Turkish beach: ‘I was petrified’ – The Washington Post
I think they made the right call. These pictures really brought home the scope and humanity of this tragedy and that needed to be done.
Migrants forced from a train threw themselves onto railway lines and scuffled with helmeted riot police in Hungary on Thursday as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion
: Hungary police prise migrants from train tracks; dead boy’s image shocks Europe | Reuters
Photos of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Doubly awful to look at because you want to look away quickly but it really does highlight the human aspect of this terrible tragedy so you can’t.
For three weeks after Katrina, Mexican soldiers helped thousands of displaced Americans in Texas.
When Mexicans crossed our border to feed Americans in need – The Washington Post
Yup
Outpouring comes after officials said Iceland would only take 50 refugees.
Thousands of Icelanders Have Volunteered to Take Syrian Refugees Into Their Homes | TIME
Police in a German city have been forced to ask the public to stop bringing donations for arriving refugees after being inundated with food, clothes and toys in an overwhelming show of support.
Refugees Welcome, which matchmakes citizens willing to share their homes with displaced people, also receiving offers to set up schemes across EU
Source: ‘Airbnb for refugees’ group overwhelmed by offers of help | World news | The Guardian
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Arab ban proposed in Jewish areas
a depressing blast of inhumane bigotry and evil from the past
India village council orders rape of two sisters – Al Jazeera English
What a bunch of backwards ass bullshit.
The men on this council need to be stripped naked, raped by animals in a public square until their insides bleed out their asses and left to die.
Fantastic!
New faces and competitors from different backgrounds keep all sports moving forward.
Plus, I love the sport of swimming.
It would be so cool if it (or any sport really – well, except NASCAR, those crowds are plenty big enough already, thank you!) attracted a bigger, more inclusive, more representative, and more diverse crowd.
Israeli Villages Near Gaza Rebound Warily Year After the War – The New York Times.
Bet they are rebounding a shitload better those on the other side of the border.
salient bit:
“About 2,200 Palestinians died during the war, and 73 were killed on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.”
For sale: entire medieval Italian village for £485,000 – Telegraph.
oooooo, when I make my millions I want an albergo diffuso in a medieval village!
Inside the Spanish ghost villages you can buy for £50,000 | Daily Mail Online.
wild, just wild.
…And wouldn’t be interesting and hopeful harmonious to people them with refugees?
Ted Cruz viciously attacks Jimmy Carter a day after his cancer announcement.
I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice.
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