During a slow breast-stroke behind ten other people in a row at the Stadtbad Mitte swimming pool this evening, I thought about social order, the need for community structures to keep us all from swimming amoc. Today is Human Rights Day. If you’ve never read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, you can WATCH it [...]
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paddle rights
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animals, human rights, literature, poetry, women writers on December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
odetta
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged biography, death, feminism, human rights, music, women writers on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you get a chance, watch this wonderful 20 minute video in the New York Times on civil rights folk singer, Odetta, who died this week: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html
what could have been (worse)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged berlin, germany, human rights on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following viewpoint is pessimistic optimism, or otherwise a complaint: Today I received a visa to inhabit The Federal Republic of Germany for two years. Clearly, a cause for celebration, and I am grateful and relieved, though I feel pressed to mention as well how awful the experience was. German bureaucracy. Is horrible. But while [...]
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