Each person is a magician in his heart, but he becomes a magician only when he begins to think less of himself and more of others, when he becomes more interested in working than having fun in the old sense of the word. #fiction#book#bookreview#russianliterature#meaningoflife
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More than 50% of the 🌎’s population lives in urban areas.
Trees and urban forests can make our cities cooler, greener, healthier and happier places to live.
With this message I kindly ask everyone to get educated on what’s happening in #Belarus. After all, to make a fundamental change in human rights globally, it’s compulsory we pay attention to #injustice and crises happening further than our own noses.
Protesters in Belarus arrived wielding slippers, with which to squish the man they call “the cockroach”—Alexander Lukashenko, the president https://t.co/ExnehLA3tg
Everything you ever wanted to know about measuring the #SDGs but were afraid to ask: https://t.co/wCl5iXMa5M Increasing numbers of works on the topic will help connect #sustainability initiatives with tangible #business goals and facilitate an #investment flow in such projects.
The #Church of Our Lady of Laeken is a neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church in #Brussels, originally built in memory of Queen Louise-Marie, wife of King Leopold I. The crypt of the church holds the tombs of the Belgian #royalfamily, including those of all the former Belgian kings.
Tangible actions for #BLM movement to demand:
- Reform Criminal Justice System AND Educational System
- End Predatory Lending
- Protect Voting Rights
- Channel Funding of Education from Government and NOT from Property Tax
FT Big Read: The pandemic has exposed tensions over food security that are now playing out in UK-EU trade talks. With just over half of the UK’s food sourced domestically, the country faces critical decisions https://t.co/tgKRi2Clp2
“aspirations HAVE to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices” —> tangible measure of progress in the current situation, don’t you agree?
I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action. https://t.co/jEczrOeFdv
2. The point of protest is to raise public awareness, to put a spotlight on injustice, and to make the powers that be uncomfortable. But eventually, we have to translate those aspirations into specific laws and institutional practices.