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Jackson, Martinelli threatens to seize journalists’ assets

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“Given the restart of the political and dirty campaigns against me, I want to announce that I will not waste my time with criminal complaints. The processes that I will initiate in defense of my honor will be civil and will be accompanied by seizures of property.”

Talking about property seizures…

by Eric Jackson

This billionaire thug is threatening to seize the assets of those who criticize him and are not billionaires. This, right after his two sons confessed in an open US federal district court that they conspired with him to launder $28 million in Odebrecht bribes.

He would scream ‘fruit of the poisoned tree’ because the attorney general at the time had improper communications with his successor. HOWEVER, it’s alleged that Don Ricky laundered money stolen from Panamanians to buy EPASA, in part via US banks:

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Notice, on the right-hand side of this chart published several years ago by prosecutors, the allegation that bribe money used for the purchase of EPASA (El Panama America, La Critica, Dia a Dia) was laundered through 13 banks in four countries, including banks in the USA.

Let’s cut out the fake “national security secrets” routine in the USA. The National Security Agency (NSA) would have electronic records of the transactions involving US banks and probably those in China, Switzerland and Panama. There would be no reliance on authorities here to prove money laundering.

The ex-president is trying to intimidate the press here in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy that is presently before the US courts and for which there are already findings of guilt that implicate himself.

I don’t see much reason why the US Department of Justice should not move to sequester EPASA. It has never been done and may be difficult to impossible to enforce? Perhaps. But look what the Treasury Department did to the Waked family’s business holdings here.

If Martinelli wants to further a criminal conspiracy about which the USA has already taken cognizance of a part, and cover crimes that used US banks, AND threaten freedom of the press, what better way for Biden to crack down on international corruption?

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Greeting the judge’s husband at the club. Click here to see the video, the narration of which is in Spanish. Video and still graphic taken from the FOCO Panama Twitter feed.

 

 

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Lerner & Zavis, Strategy for our times

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Our Strategy

by Rabbi Michael Lerner & Cat Zavis

What Rabbi Lerner discovered as principal investigator of an NIMH research grant to the Institute for Labor and Mental Health on the psychodynamics work and family life is this: most middle income people carry either consciously or unconsciously a painful self-blaming story about how they screwed up or failed in ways that have made them fail to achieve what they hoped for in their lives. Yet what ILMH research showed was that most of these self-blaming stories were rooted in the central self-justification of the capitalist order: that capitalism creates the illusion that we live in a meritocracy. A meritocracy is one in which everyone can create the life they want and if they have failed to do so, it is their own fault and thus only have themself to blame. This story leaves out the roles of inherited wealth, limits on class mobility, unequal distribution of wealth, systemic discrimination, and the resulting unequal access to education, health, and longevity.

Most people go to great lengths to hide their self-blaming story, not only to friends and family but even to themselves. They soothe their pain through various addictive behaviors. Or they find right-wing churches that tell them that the source of their pain is the demeaned other of their society (in the US that has been African Americans and Native Amercans, and more recently homosexuals, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ people, liberals, progressives, and the list keeps growing).

Now can you see how destructive it is when many people on the Left talk about everyone not yet with us as “stupid”, or all white people as racist, or all men as sexist? That kind of talk just drives more and more people to the Right.

Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives help people understand these tendencies of self-blaming or blaming demeaned others and then dislodge them with prophetic empathy and a critique of the phony meritocracy. We need tens of millions of people to join this consciousness-raising campaign. 

If our analysis speaks to you, we encourage you to share these ideas with your friends, family, elected officials, social change activists, and on social media. Just as consciousness-raising was central to the growth of the second wave of feminism in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, our strategy is to take this way of thinking about the pain people feel and bring it to millions of people. You can participate in this consciousness-raising effort by sharing this analysis and talking about it with others. Most people are unaware of the link between the fallacy of meritocracy and their pain of self-blaming. The more people internalize this message, the more likely they will have inner resources to reject reactionary politics that blames the ‘other’ for their pain. 

(We’re all starved for financing in this difficult year, but if you can, click here to help Tikkun and the NSP with this project.)

 

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La Universidad crea Grupo de Estudios Africanos y Afrodescendientes

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El Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Humanidades (CIFHU) de la Universidad de Panamá crea Grupo de Estudios Africanos y Afrodescendientes

En cumplimiento de un reto lanzado por el Dr. Gerardo Maloney, el Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Humanidades (CIFHU) de la Universidad de Panamá, crea un Grupo de Estudios Africanos y Afrodescendientes, que coordinará la joven estudiante de nuestra facultad, Naschelly Beitia Mercado.

Como expresa el manifiesto inicial del Grupo de Estudios Africanos y Afrodescendientes, éste no constituye un “observatorio”, sino un espacio de diálogos, debates, círculos de lectura, que permita expresar nuestras experiencias, investigaciones, publicaciones, y demás actividades, favoreciendo el pensamiento crítico esperando que esto genere el deseo y la acción hacia la transformación social.

A partir de este momento invitamos a las personas interesadas en promover reflexiones sobre las problemáticas que afectan a las poblaciones afrodescendientes a coordinar actividades con este Grupo de Estudios Africanos y Afrodescendientes.

Olmedo Beluche
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CIFHU

 

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17 US governors on voting rights

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Editorials: Panama’s economy; and Next year’s US elections

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A Christmas shopping season Saturday — slow this year, not as bad as last year. The daily death toll is down and epidemic may have peaked here, but most Panamanians seem to have less to spend and a quick economic recovery for many sectors looks unlikely. Photo of Penonome by Eric Jackson.

We won’t agree, but on some things we should

A decision on the minimum wage may be delegated to an underling, but for practical purposes it’s on Nito Cortizo’s desk. Labor says that it must go up, as what employers are paying to a large segment of the working class does not suffice to feed a family. Management says that a lot of businesses have been forced to close their doors, and many that remain just can’t afford to pay their workers more. The sad fact is that what each side is saying is largely true. Minimum wage can only go up a little, and it should go up, but that will largely be passed along to working people through higher prices. There will be a continuing need for food subsidies, promotion of household food production and other creative strategies to keep starvation at bay. Those will not be free, either. Investments of labor from those who can do it and of money from those who can afford it will be required.

What about the macro-economy? Across the political spectrum and the class divides, there is widespread agreement that Panama needs to get down to brass takes and start or resume work on some major public works projects. But then comes the question of which ones, with the possible choices carrying the burden of decades of public corruption.

It’s easy enough to reject the obvious boondoggles.

Mayor Fábrega’s artificial beach near the mouth of the filthy Matasnillo River? It would be a perpetual gift to sand miners, an international laughing stock that would chuckle down through the ages and yet another proof that to Panama’s benighted political caste a good business idea is to defraud gullible foreigners.

Spending $80 million on five kilometers worth of bus lanes on Via España? That would still be urban design for the internal combustion engine and even with electric buses it would not make much sense.

Finishing the Corredor Playera, the purpose of which is to promote gentrification that would replace fishing villages and mangrove swamps in Panama Oeste with expensive beachfront condos for which there are no obvious buyers waiting in line? Better if instead of toward the beach the road to be heads toward the hills and provides a more inland traffic artery parallel to the Pan-American Highway but miles inland.

The expansion of the copper mine, the revival of the Petaquilla gold mine swindle, the sale of concessions over public lands that would remove farmers and fishers from their long-held homes, the seizure of parts of the Ngabe-Bugle Comarca? We can reject and prevent all those associated horrors and an Atlantic Side road from Colon to Bocas del Toro would still make a lot of sense.

Extension of the Metro trains into the Interior? A good idea, but again, opening up places closer to the Continental Divide to development rather than tracks alongside the existing highway.

Some huge water projects? Those make sense but under the planning and management of a Panama Canal Authority that has still not broken with its history of climate change denial makes no sense.

A major new seaport at and around Diablo and Corozal would be a maritime traffic hazard. A big expansion of the existing port at Vacamonte would make far more sense.

Cable cars over scenic San Miguelito gang turf, or from the Mercado de Mariscos to the top of Ancon Hill, the latter to be transformed into something “just like Disney World?” That’s not tourism development. Those are dangerous, potentially deadly to the national economy, hallucinations.

Above all, there need to be metropolitan and national development plans to provide reasonable context. ‘I get five percent’ is the typical context that we have seen for many years, but the national setting for that sort of thing should be that those sorts of people spend time in prison for it.

The overarching squeeze with respect to public works is that Panama’s credit is just about maxed out, to the point that we risk turning our democracy over to international financial institutions.

The way to ease the squeeze? We start to become an economy that makes things, producing food for our own consumption and for export, manufacturing all sorts of things the we now import and some things that we can start to export. Imagine that — a Panama that produces stuff, with service sectors on the side.

 

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Mother Nature takes her course. With all of the main Democratic congressional leaders in their 80s, figure that there will be and should be some changing of the guard. However, the big problem is old thinking, of habits born of different times that don’t suit the present times. There are some remarkably adaptable and competent senior stateswomen and statesmen, too. Photo by Eric Jackson.

Despite everything, the Democrats ought to win next year

First thing for Democratic strategists to remember is that Donald Trump’s name will not appear on the ballot. His legacy and personality will shade many things, but each race will be local or statewide. Democrats should run on what we delivered, what we wanted to deliver but were blocked and our broader notions of the way things should be. We should run against the things that Trump stands for — racism, corruption, making a weird religion out of right-wing politics, the celebration of gun violence, misogyny and so on. We should unapologetically say that black lives matter to us and that we’re against fascism. Under that big tent we should argue out our differences in the primaries, and then come together for the general election races.

How could we lose? By failing to take vote suppression seriously and working our ways around that stuff. By letting under-talented wannabe power brokers drive this or that wing of the organization, nationally or in particular states or districts, out of the Democratic Party. By thinking that old personalities or symbols or arguments will suffice for us.

Most likely, Donald Trump and various prosecutors will take care of Donald Trump. By 2024, and probably by next November, his status is likely to be that of a convicted felon, and over some tawdry non-political things. We should not react with laughter or jubilation, but with sorrow for the country and disgust for the man and those who share his values.

Will some of his goons kill some of our people? We should learn the art of the political funeral, even though none who fall on our side will be saints.

We will need to lawyer up, and be ready, if and when slapped down on voting rights cases by packed federal courts, to turn that into a movement to enlarge the Supreme Court. We shouldn’t let it drown out everything else we have to say, but if the Trump campaign strikes down Roe v. Wade next summer that would be a game changer of which Democrats should take full advantage.

In our primaries we should pick and choose well, based on ideas and accomplishments rather than identities or family ties. In many a race unpleasant things will need to be said. And then the bitterness of primary campaigns should be over, both for the winning and losing campaigns. The party needs to assign honorable and functional roles to folks from primary organizations that opposed one another. Parallel or rival clubs need to proceed in their own ways toward the common cause.

If some of our leaders don’t come back, or come back and find that they no longer have the support to remain leaders, that’s the natural cycle of things. There is a deep pool of younger Democrats who are fit to lead. There is also a deep and diverse pool of volunteers ready to pitch in, folks who should not be browbeaten by those who imagine themselve to own dibs.

History says we lose. Today’s polls suggest that possibility. But Democrats need to just go out and patiently do the work, and boldly invade GOP turf to win in places like Texas, Georgia and Florida, and in rural areas generally. Nothing is in the bag, but we should win next year.

 

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               No refugee leaves their country without having to.

Dua Lipa               

 

Bear in mind…

 

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

 

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence – that is beautiful.

Simone Weil

 

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

 

 

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WHO, What we know and are still trying to learn about the Omicron variant

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A virus you don’t want to get. WHO photo.

Update on Omicron

by the World Health Organization

On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern (VOC), on the basis of advice from WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution. The variant has been given the name Omicron. Omicron variant is a highly divergent variant with a high number of mutations, including 26-32 in the spike protein, some of which are concerning and may be associated with immune escape potential and higher transmissibility. However, there are still considerable uncertainties. As of 9 December 2021, cases of human infections with this variant have been identified in 63 countries across all six WHO regions. Current understanding of the Omicron variant from recent data are likely to evolve as more data becomes available.

The overall threat posed by Omicron largely depends on three key questions, including: (1) how transmissible the variant is; (2) how well vaccines and prior infection protect against infection, transmission, clinical disease and death; and (3) how virulent the variant is compared to other variants. Public health advice is based on current information and will be tailored as more evidence emerges around those key questions.

Based on current limited evidence Omicron appears to have a growth advantage over Delta. It is spreading faster than the Delta variant in South Africa where Delta circulation was low, but also appears to spread more quickly than the Delta variant in other countries where the incidence of Delta is high, such as in the United Kingdom. Whether Omicron’s observed rapid growth rate in countries with high levels of population immunity is related to immune evasion, intrinsic increased transmissibility, or a combination of both remains uncertain. However, given the current available data, it is likely that Omicron will outpace the Delta variant where community transmission occurs.

There are still limited data on the clinical severity of Omicron. While preliminary findings from South Africa suggest it may be less severe than Delta, and all cases reported in the EU/EEA to date have been mild or asymptomatic, it remains unclear to what extent Omicron may be inherently less virulent. More data are needed to understand the severity profile.

There are limited available data, and no peer-reviewed evidence, on vaccine efficacy or effectiveness to date for Omicron. Preliminary evidence, and the considerably altered antigenic profile of the Omicron spike protein, suggests a reduction in vaccine efficacy against infection and transmission associated with Omicron. There is some preliminary evidence that the incidence of reinfection has increased in South Africa, which may be associated with humoral (antibody-mediated) immune evasion. In addition, preliminary evidence from a few studies of limited sample size have shown that sera obtained from vaccinated and previously infected individuals had lower neutralization activity (the size of the reduction ranges considerably) than with any other circulating VOCs of SARS-CoV-2 and the ancestral strain.

The diagnostic accuracy of routinely used PCR and antigen-based rapid diagnostic test (Ag-RDT) assays does not appear to be influenced by Omicron. Most Omicron variant sequences reported include a deletion in the S gene, causing some S gene targeting PCR assays to appear negative. Although some publicly shared sequences lack this deletion, this remains a minority of currently available sequences, and S gene target failure (SGTF) can therefore be used as a useful proxy marker of Omicron, for surveillance purposes. However, confirmation should be obtained by sequencing, as this deletion can also be found in other VOCs (e.g., Alpha and subsets of Gamma and Delta).

Therapeutic interventions for the management of patients with severe or critical COVID-19 associated with the Omicron variant that target host responses (such as corticosteroids, and interleukin 6 receptor blockers and prophylaxis with anticoagulation) are expected to remain effective. However, monoclonal antibodies will need to be tested individually, for their antigen binding and virus neutralization and these studies should be prioritized.

 

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Decree to sell permits to use protected areas rescinded

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“More than a month of protests, complaints, pronouncements and a lawsuit for annulment have borne fruit: MiAmbiente announced that it will repeal the disastrous Executive Decree 141, which would grant accreditation certificates for land use in protected areas.” CIAM – the Center for Environmental Litigation – reacts to the decree’s retraction. Photo from the Twitter feed of ANCON – the National Association for the Conservation of Nature.

MiAmbiente rescinds Decree 141 after protests from several directions

by Eric Jackson

The Ministry of the Environment (MiAmbiente) has called off the sale of permits to use the nation’s protected areas and national parks for private purposes.

The loudest and best organized opposition was from a national environmentalist movement that showed rare unity. The prospects of parks and national forests being clear-cut for strip mining, cattle ranching or industrial farming set off many an alarm, and these were heard outside the usual activist ranks. As environmentalist, architect and former Panama City deputy mayor Raisa Banfield put it on her Twitter feed, “To this we added the stand of men and women in Donoso, who demanded from the president the repeal of the disastrous 141. It was not good for the environment, nor for the people, only for the mining company.”

As the furious six-week environmentalist campaign came to a boil, remote farming and fishing communities began to organize, with support from leftist groups and lawyers. For them, rights of possession accrued from sometimes decades of living and working where they were stood to be erased by people waving documents indicating a government concession. It’s a very old land grab game in Panama that has in particular displaced many fishing villages. Almost always the concessionaires are politically connected. Often there is a plea that it’s for a tourist resort that will protect or improve the environment and bring jobs to an impoverished area. Rarely do the displaced people see any benefit at all from their expulsion.

With a lawsuit attacking the decree’s constitutionality before the Supreme Court and the threat of farmer and fisher road blockages in Colon province and elsewhere, on December 10 the Cortizo administration threw in the towel.

 

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The starting point for modern international human rights law

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“…disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.” Ambassador Eleanor Roosevelt, who headed the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was passed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. The committee was established after, on the first day of the first session, Panamanian Ambassador Ricardo J. Alfaro, proposed a bill of international human rights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, therefore,

The General Assembly,

Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11

Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offense was committed.

Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15

Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21

Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29

Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

 

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¿Wappin? It’s Human Rights Day / Es el Día de los Derechos Humanos

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Concert mix for Human Rights Day

Mezcla de conciertos para el Día de los Derechos Humanos

Billie Eilish Global Citizen Festival 2021
https://youtu.be/bv9iraRSYIY

The Isley Brothers – Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
https://youtu.be/uQvdcfosF5A

Princeton University Jazz Vocal Collective with Nnenna Freelon
https://youtu.be/mG1yoSdVcGE

Romeo Santos y Aventura – Sesión En Vivo
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Sech – Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
https://youtu.be/jdHPotMqv1M

Alison Krauss – A Hundred Miles or More from The Tracking Room
https://youtu.be/9WNpwyP0_IA

 

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Los pájaros de Milton / Milton’s birds

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Batará Barreteado / Barred Antshrike

video por Milton Roldan Heriberto Roldan

This bird ranges from eastern Mexico to Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina. Here it’s mostly a Pacific Side bird, but crosses over the Continental Divide onto the Caribbean Slope from northern Cocle through the Panama Canal Watershed and down to Colon’s Costa Arriba. It’s generally a lowlands bird, not found at altitudes over 2,000 feet. In older and secondary forests it inhabits the understories, and the forest edges. You see it in scrubland and in gardens. It’s present on Coiba and the larger of the Perlas Islands.

 

Esta ave se extiende desde el este de México hasta Bolivia, el sur de Brasil y el norte de Argentina. Aquí es principalmente un ave del lado del Pacífico, pero cruza la División Continental hacia la ladera del Caribe desde el norte de Coclé a través de la Cuenca del Canal de Panamá y hasta la Costa Arriba de Colón. Por lo general, es un ave de las tierras bajas, que no se encuentra en altitudes superiores a los 2,000 pies. En los bosques más antiguos y secundarios habita los sotobosques y los bordes del bosque. Lo ves en matorrales y jardines. Está presente en Coiba y la mayor de las Islas Perlas.

 

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