Starting the commemoration for Human Rights Day .. 12/10/13!
Human Rights Day 2013: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Daily Archives: December 9, 2013
Quincy Jones – aka – Q
Honoring Africa then ….. and now!!! Love this song!
“Where the Sea Breathes”: A Letter from Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera
Thank you for posting this! This is a reality as he well described …. the Oceanus so important for an islander!!
We Are the World by Usa For Africa
In memory of Nelson Mandela …..
There comes a time when we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one.
There are people dying and it’s time to lend a hand
To life – the greatest gift of all.
We can’t go on pretending day by day
That someone somewhere will soon make a change.
We are all a part of God’s great big family
And the truth
You know
Love is all we need.
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving.
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives.
It’s true
We’ll make a better day
Just you and me.
Well
Send them your heart
So they’ll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free.
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
And so we all must lend…
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Placing our Gay Flag for Nelson Mandela
With honor and pride …. honor a champion of equality!!! PRIDE ….
By Melanie Nathan, Dec 09, 2013.
When I was a child I was told by my Government that Nelson Mandela was bad man, a terrorist who wanted all white people dead. They did not allow us to see pictures of Mandela, and all images of him were banned. He was serving life in prison. When Mandela was finally released after serving 27 years, many believed South Africa would be a bloodbath, and most South Africans who at that time did not know Mandela the human, could not have imagined that he would ensure peace, unity and equality for all, through a process of negotiation and reconciliation.
And so he became our Tata Madiba, our unifying hero and when he died at the end of last week, we were devastated.
People by the thousands began to descend on Nelson Mandela Square, mere blocks from my hotel in Sandton as well as…
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Facebook created this for my year in review ….. 2013!
~~FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW ME ~~
Click here: https://www.facebook.com/yearinreview/horty.rexach
I’m originally from Puerto Rico. I was born in Santurce and raised in Rio Piedras. I currently live in Florida – since 1999. I have a doctorate degree in Medicine; completed in 1976. My Internal Medicine specialty was completed in 1979.
Worked for Puerto Rico’s health system until 1985.
At this time, I’m happily retired after working for the federal government for almost 28 years!
I also worked for the government of Puerto Rico from 1979 through 1985 …. for a total of almost 40 years as a physician.
I want to offer any knowledge that I have to anyone “out there” who is interested. My views are liberal in almost every sense.
My knowledge is “eclectic” – a bit of everything.
Music and reading are my passion.
Blogging has also become a very interesting endeavor.
Metaphysical topics attract me. I’m interested in news – reporting human issues like injustice, discrimination and abuse – the “wrongly” affected.
My intention is to bring this knowledge to an understandable level and to help anyone in need. I’m open to questions and will answer them to the best of my ability. Currently working on an enterprise whose main mission will be to bring peoples of all walks of life together.
To be one …. since we ALL are ONE!!
The future looks bright and promising!!!
~~HUMMINGBIRD~~
We ALL are ONE!!
We ALL are connected through this wonderful WEB!!
Edward Snowden, 2013 Person of the Year
Snowden …. 2013 Person of the Year … The Guardian!!
This video is called NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’.
From daily The Guardian in Britain:
Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013
NSA whistleblower’s victory, for exposing the scale of internet surveillance, follows that of Chelsea Manning last year
Mark Rice-Oxley, Leila Haddou and Frances Perraudin
Monday 9 December 2013 12.44 GMT
For the second year in a row, a young American whistleblower alarmed at the unfettered and at times cynical deployment of power by the world’s foremost superpower has been voted the Guardian‘s person of the year.
Edward Snowden, who leaked an estimated 200,000 files that exposed the extensive and intrusive nature of phone and internet surveillance and intelligence gathering by the US and its western allies, was the overwhelming choice of more than 2,000 people who voted.
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When Mandela was president
Thorough review!!
The death of Nelson Mandela last week produced tributes from across the political spectrum–from hypocritical celebrations of his “capacity for forgiveness” from former enemies who defended apartheid, to honest appreciations of his role as leader of a liberation struggle that won one of the most important victories of the last half century.
Here, , author of Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation and director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society focuses on the legacy of Mandela’s years after that victory, when he was president of the first post-apartheid government.
Nelson Mandela walks out of prison
THE DEATH of Nelson Mandela at age 95 on December 5 brings genuine sadness. As his health deteriorated over the past six months, many asked the more durable question: How did he change South Africa? Given how unsatisfactory life is for so many in society, the follow-up question is:…
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History in the making!!! Real time report …. South Africa preparations!
“Thousands of South African citizens have flocked to parliament, to monuments, to the homes of Madiba — both in Soweto and Houghton. People are grieving – singing – dancing – candles, flags, flowers, pictures everywhere. Holding services, memorials – all over this country. Foreign dignitaries are arriving.
His photos are outside every store in every mall. Parliamentarians are singing tributes in true African style in the House of Parliament, walking in processions to flame of remembrance, stadiums are being prepared.
There are no cars left to hire, hotel rooms are jammed with journalists, people are wiping tears – this nation is moving and standing still – all at the same time for Madiba.
And the hum is Hamba Kahle Tata Madiba.
South Africa will always remember these days – We are now preparing in South Africa for over 70 sitting heads of States, members of US Congress, Parliaments, and numerous former heads of states. The service for Madiba will be tomorrow, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at FNB stadium with many overflow stadiums providing space for the hundreds of thousands of people who are converging on the City.
Madiba’s body will be held in State from Wednesday through Friday and it will travel the roads of Pretoria from the hospital to the Government Building each morning.
After that time Madiba’s body be flown to Umtata airport in the Eastern Cape and then he will be buried in his birth and home village of Qunu.
Source: Melanie Nathan
Link: https://www.facebook.com/melanie.nathan1?fref=ts
JOHANNESBURG: South Africans crowded into churches, mosques, temples and synagogues on Sunday to remember Nelson Mandela, encouraged by their president to celebrate a life that transcended race and religion.
The nationwide day of prayer marked the formal start of a week-long state funeral for the man who forged a new multi-racial South Africa from the discredited remnants of the apartheid era he helped to dismantle.
In the Regina Mundi Catholic church in the once blacks-only township of Soweto, parish priest Sebastian Rossouw called Mandela “a light in the darkness” and praised his capacity for “humility and forgiveness”.
Inside the church, once used as a sanctuary by anti-apartheid activists during police raids, a single candle illuminated a portrait of Mandela with a raised-fist salute.
“He fought for us then, now he needs to rest,” said Olga Mbeke, 60, who was born in Soweto.
The extraordinary depth and breadth of Mandela’s appeal will see heads of state of every political stripe rub shoulders with leaders across the religious spectrum and marquee names from the worlds of sports, art and entertainment during the funeral events.
“A life well-lived”
As well as the steady pilgrimage to his Johannesburg residence, crowds have gathered in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, in Soweto and outside Capetown‘s City Hall.
In a statement, Mandela’s family compared the loss of their adored patriarch to the trauma of separation during his long incarceration in Robben Island.
“The pillar of the family is gone, just as he was away during that 27 painful years of imprisonment,” the statement said.
“As a family we commit ourselves to uphold and be guided by the values he lived for and was prepared to die for.
“Chief among these is the lesson that a life lived for others is a life well-lived,” it said.
Mandela’s body will lie in state for three days from Wednesday, with his coffin taken in a cortege through the streets of Pretoria each morning to allow as many people as possible to say farewell.
One of the towering figures of the 20th century, Mandela’s reputation was truly global.
Among the many world leaders scheduled to attend the funeral are French President Francois Hollande, the British and Canadian prime ministers David Cameron and Stephen Harper, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and singer-activist Bono are expected to be among the celebrity mourners.
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/south-africa-unites-in/914540.html
We ALL are ONE!!
Biography of Nelson Mandela: End of Apartheid
Uploaded on Jun 17, 2011
He was the first black president of South Africa, and he helped negotiate the end of apartheid rule. http://www.WatchMojo.comlearns more about the life and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela.
We ALL honor MADIBA!!
Wycelf Jean performs “Oh Madiba” at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall
Uploaded on Jul 30, 2009
Wycelf Jean performs “Madiba” at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall
Maya Angelou’s “His Day is Done” Tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Maya Angelou …. His Day is Done …. Schedule!!
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