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Golden Joni ✨

Photo by Nicola Dill, May 1991

Correct.

The results are in and it’s proven that regulating traffic so kids in your city can breathe clean air, and calling for a ceasefire so kids in Gaza can keep breathing, are not only ethical policies but vote winners.

The results are in and it’s proven that regulating traffic so kids in your city can breathe clean air, and calling for a ceasefire so kids in Gaza can keep breathing, are not only ethical policies but vote winners.

Anyway today I am thinking of this. When Sinead O’Connor was asked to perform on a TV chat show & surprised everyone by changing her planned hit song, dropping the musical accompaniment, & singing a hymn. This hymn. The audience wept. I do too, each time.

Social justice is love applied to systems, policies, and government practices. #SocialJustice #ShiftTheCulture #ItStartsWithMe

Love this from Ben Phillips Our futures & fates are intertwined. Global public goods are just that, good for us all, as a collective & our humanity.

'Hurting anyone hurts everyone'

Well said Ben Phillips 🫂

Is empathy the future?

We do not know. We cannot know.

But we do know this: if we let go of empathy, there is no future.

A agenda global anti-direitos tem como essência a mentalidade de procurar pessoas para sofrer.

A lição da saúde pública, por outro lado, é que prejudicar alguém prejudica a todos. A lição de ética é a mesma. Empatia, aceitação, é onde o que é sábio e o que é certo se encontram.

The global anti-rights agenda has its heart a psyche of going on the lookout for people to hurt.

The lesson of public health, in contrast, is that hurting anyone hurts everyone. The lesson of ethics is the same. Empathy, acceptance, is where what is wise, & what is right, meet.

Today the world’s journey to become fairer, and safer, took a step forward.

So keep faith that progress is possible when (and only when) determined people work together for it, keeping on going despite setbacks and pushbacks…

Not long ago, *most* countries criminalised people for being gay.

Now, over two thirds of countries do not criminalise people for being gay.

Each time another country decriminalises, more people are set free from fear, and momentum towards global decriminalisation picks up pace towards unstoppability.

Tonight, in one fewer country, will people spend the night in fear of arrest for who they they love or who they are.

In Dominica, in a court case brought by Dominicans, Dominican judges in Dominica’s Court have ruled that Dominica’s Constitution protects Dominicans rights against the harmful and hateful British colonial legacy anti-gay law.

The sacrifices made are huge. The obstacles remaining are still many. But Caribbean campaigners are winning the struggle for human rights for all.

Would you like to read a *good* news story?

Read this Press Release from UNAIDS:

UNAIDS welcomes Court’s ruling to protect the rights of LGBTQ people in Dominica

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.UNAIDS welcomes the Court’s ruling to protect the rights of LGBTQ people in Dominica. We congratulate commend the advocates and organisations for leading the movement for the human rights of all people.

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