A short update on the final paragraph of my Death and Destruction post from two days ago: The Children’s Burn Foundation, based in the United States, will provide treatment and care for Youssif and his family. They are seeking donations to help with the family’s living expenses — the treatment of Youssif will be covered […]
Category: social justice
Death and Destruction, Hope at Home
I hate war. This site keeps a running tally of Casualties and Fatalities in Iraq — not just U.S. and other foreigners, also civilians and Iraqi forces. I don’t have a solution for this mess — we all saw it coming, but protests were useless. And what little I have and do will never heal […]
Tanforan
Warning, this one is more deep than my normal posts, and probably unsettling. But I think it needed saying. Tanforan was the name of a horseracing track in California. Then it became a waystation for people of Japanese ancestry prior to their internment in concentration camps in the United States. It was mentioned in the […]
Sometimes there are no answers
Today a horrific shooting at a university in Virginia… dozens dead and wounded. Pre-teen children have been in the news recently for doing sex acts in front of their classmates when the teacher was out of the room. People setting fires to homes in the wee hours of the mornings, children dying in their beds. […]
Convince Nike to just Do the Right Thing
Among the social justice issues I track are housing, education, healthcare, diversity and fair labor practices. Garment workers around the world tend to be poorly treated, badly paid and work in unsafe conditions (not all, just in general). They do this so those of us who have time to sit and blog can wear comfy, […]