To my fellow #europeans: Please #vote in the upcoming #election and vote for parties that want to keep Europe a power to be reckoned with.
A weak Europe only benefits Putin. Don't be tricked by nationalistic propaganda. We have to stick together if we want protect our values. #europe#life#liberty
The right to privacy is a fundamental right in this country. The discussions a patient has with her physician were protected by Roe v Wade.
This isn’t about being pro life. The republicans have shown time and time again they wouldn’t give two squirts of piss for anyone’s life. If they did, they would quit trying to defund social programs that are proven to save and improve lives of children and adults.
What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?
Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period—in print & online via Project MUSE
West Bank Wall graffiti art in Bethlehem: Handala and Liberty as "Pietà".
An iconic symbol of Palestinian identity and defiance. The character has been described as "portraying war, resistance, and the Palestinian identity with astounding clarity".
Why do we see very few people from minorities in #meditation circles? Is #zazen a white upper middle class-only activity?
I don’t think so. But because #capitalism makes life so hard for those minorities, they aren’t granted the chance to participate in those meditation sessions, as they have other, more urgent, things to struggle with in the first place.
Therefore, as a monk, vowing to liberate all sentient beings means to offer equal opportunities to everyone to practice #zen and this can’t be achieved under capitalism. Only an #anarchist society, where both #liberty and #equality are guaranteed, can allow that.
Covid's great lesson was demonstrating that "patriots" who favor government with unshakeable support as long as it is harming people will also deploy impenetrable skepticism and violent opposition as soon as that government seems it might ask them to engage in even tiny acts of harm reduction.
This nuance is the distinction between the terms “#freedom” and “#liberty”, which get dismissed as a refuge of the pedant, but actually articulate different concepts and implications.
"In Ukraine's second city, just 40 kilometres from the Russian border, mass gatherings have been banned since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Most cultural events that do take place are not advertised to make sure they do not get shelled.
But after two years of near-silence, the Kharkiv National Opera and Ballet is about to burst back into sound - underground."
"When confronted with basic questions on '60 Minutes,' the group appeared ill-prepared and stumped and alleged their critics were trying to 'marginalize us.'"
Today 10 years ago Aaron Swartz committed suicide, after being arrested by MIT police and prosecuted by the then U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz for massively downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR. He was charged $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. He was 26 years old.
He believed that, above anything else, information should be free.
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@larsmb The way employers treat essential workers in Europe is just as bad minus the fact they get “bonuses” such as paid vacation and such. We in Europe just love to act delusional and to tell ourselves that “at least we are better than the Americans”, which is such a low bar to be honest.
#BOTD: Yan Fu 嚴復 (1854–1921), the most important translator of modern #Western ideas into #Chinese. He translated, among others, Thomas Huxley's #Evolution and Ethics, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and John Stuart Mill's On #Liberty and A System of #Logic.
"In the last few weeks, unprecedented numbers of people have taken to the streets all around the #UK to stand up for what they believe in. You might be one of them.
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"Liberty challenges injustice, defends freedom and campaigns to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly."
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
-- Judge Learned Hand, May 21, 1944