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Ben Okri is a Booker prize-winning author and poet. His book Tiger Work, a collection of stories, essays and poems about the climate crisis, is published by Head of Zeus, and in the US by Other Press 1 I don’t know how many have diedOr how many died before war flared up.There must be a way to listen to allThe pain that burns in a peopleMust be a way to hear all that anguish.Pain creates pain…

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A Shoutout for Fathers Kris Conklin, a long-time friend I met at Judson Memorial Church, celebrated and mourned her father’s recent death by describing his sweet, wise nature and sharing this poem. Shifting the Sun by Diana Der-Hovanessian When your father dies, say the Irish, you lose your umbrella against bad weather. May his sun be your light, say the Armenians. When your father dies,…

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Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Hisham Awartani are the three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont. To quote Representative Rashid, “There’s no place safe for a Palestinian.” I’m printing Hisham Awartani’s dignified and honorable statement to Brown University which is lucky to have him as a student. Because of the shooting Mr. Awartani might never walk again.  Mr. Awartani…

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My Letter to Martha

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Please go to Representative Betty McCollum’s website to read her letter written with other members of Congress to the President and Secretary of State. News from Representative Betty McCollumSUBSCRIBE  CONTACT ME  November 16, 2023 Dear Fourth District Constituent, Thank you to everyone who was able to join me for my virtual update from Washington yesterday. If you missed it, you can watch the…

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Iceland's Women On Strike

New York Mysteries. Com Good News!!! The Guardian reports that many Icelandic women and non-binary people will not work on Tuesday. The goal is to highlight the gender pay gap and the gender based violence. The Icelandic PM, Katrin Jakobsdottir, will participate as well as teachers, nurses, cleaners, caregivers, fishing industry workers. There’s a 21% wage gap and 40% of women have suffered…

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Narges Mohammadi, right, from the center for Human Rights Defenders, listens to Karim Lahidji, president of the Iranian league for the Defence of Human Rights, during a press conference on the Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Iran, at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 9, 2008.  Nargas Mohammadi is serving a thirty year prison sentence. She has been awarded the 2023…

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I’m quoting from the GREAT Rashida Tlaib’s recent email: “We can’t continue the piecemeal, inadequate status quo of government services. Our neighbors are struggling to put food on the table, fighting to keep a roof over their heads, and rationing their medication. Most families are living paycheck to paycheck.  But the majority of my colleagues in Congress are millionaires. They don’t…

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Yesterday, President Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose far-right racist regime wants to eliminate Palestinians altogether.  Thousands of Israelis have been protesting for months against Netanyahu’s recent judicial overhaul as a threat to Israel’s democracy.  But for millions of Palestinians, Israel has never been a democracy. The Indigenous Palestinian people have been…

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I have copied the following article from The Wall Street Journal. Recently, a commentator on one of the financial programs questioned why we do not have a Technology Committee in Congress. I thought it was worth following. What do you think? Sponsored byThe Morning Download: D.C. Tech Gathering Sets Stage for AI LegislationBy Tom Loftus Good morning, CIOs. The government needs to play a role…

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BARBIE  I had to see Barbie. I love Barbieland. That cute pink convertible that fits her like a size 2, her big white teeth, her girlie ways. That lasted for ten minutes.  Then no more bright, insincere smiles, no more very lightly tanned, hairless skin, no more paper doll hairdos.  Did the producers rush to their daughters’ Manhattan private schools and hire the sixth graders to write, I…

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Pagliacci A confession: I have never appreciated opera. Pretending to be entranced, I had sat through a performance by Maria Callas at La Scala. That was followed by a number of years in Rome and New York suffering through operas at the Met, both old and new. This afternoon I watched a 1982 filming of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Pagliacci. Finally, I got it. I was blow away by Plácido…

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FOOD Is food our latest obsession? Does anyone cook at home anymore? Considering these weighty questions, I’m describing briefly some New York City restaurants I’ve recently dined in. City Winery, 25 11th Avenue (at 15th Street)The website is scary. My friend and I wanted an afternoon lunch overlooking the Hudson. Armed with hunger and ignorance we walked into the enormous building identified…

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A New York Afternoon

New York Mysteries    August 12 A perfectly delightful New York Saturday afternoon: lunch at Cafe Un, Deux, Trois followed by GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR. I had not been in Un, Deus, Trois in years. I had remembered it as being small and intimate. Not at all. Last Saturday it was bustling and smartly jazzy. Everything was perfect: the food, the decor, the lady’s room, the service. Also, it’s next door…

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Father Leo New York Mysteries    July 31 Are you going to Oppenheimer? Hard not to even if it is three hours long. My cousin, Leo Haigerty (1924 -2001), worked on the Manhattan project. When I was five years old my mother and I would visit her New Jersey family in the summer. One summer we were told that Leo was working on a secret project in New York City. My three year old cousin, my eight…

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From Rashida

As the Israeli government escalates violence against Palestinians with our tax dollars, we urgently need more Members of Congress to hold the Israeli government accountable and speak up for Palestinians’ human rights. This week, freshman Congresswoman Summer Lee was among the few Democrats to vote NO on a dangerous resolution denying Israel’s racist apartheid policies and reaffirming…

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