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TOGETHER WE CAN Next year I don’t want to hear about the Oscar, Grammys, Tonys or Golden Globes. I don’t want to see a single pathetic actor, actress, singer, celebrity or sports person on any red carpet!!! Next year I want to see nurses, doctors, ambulance crews, health care support workers, shop workers and truck drivers, all essential workers, grocery store workers having free red carpet parties with awards and expensive goodie bags. If this doesn’t happen it will be... the biggest injustice ever!! Thank you! All of you that are working hard to keep our families safe and allow us to have food on our table.

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We as human beings tend to identify with anything that connects us to our beliefs or religions. Culturally, people are attached to the things we’ve been taught to love. The Cathedral of Notre Dame is a stellar example of how people worry about an earthly structure that can be rebuilt, in a world where historical landmarks of both synthetic and natural are destroyed almost every day, ignored and sometimes even celebrated. What happened when indigenous land was destroyed for p...ipelines? When bombs were dropped over the Middle East or Africa? buildings, artifacts, hell lives as well, lost forever with no global call to action. At the time of publishing, nearly a billion dollars has been raised for the restoration of the Notre Dame most coming from extremely wealthy donors. It seems rather foolish now, considering the issues that threaten our lives every single day, when people are more concerned that a replaceable cultural monument tops human life and the very existence of this planet. Sadly, this is the behavior typical of our species, being the precise reason why we suffer from war, poverty and the endangerment of species. People worship their culture like a god, forgetting the real threats of their own natural world, fellow human beings, considered slaves, to be controlled. It’s a real eye opener and proof that humans can show compassion, proving the money needed can be raised rather easily. I mean, it will cost more than a billion dollars to repair this world, but this happened in a measly 24 hours! Imagine what could be accomplished if people reached out to charities, targeting the problems head on which are really a threat to this world. As an Op-Ed from Carl Kinsella of Joe.ie pointed out, If two men in a world of more than 7 billion people can provide 300million to restore Notre Dame, within six hours, then there is enough money in the world to feed every mouth, shelter every family and educate every child. The failure to do so is a matter of will, and a matter of system. The failure to do so comes from our failure to recognize the mundane emergencies that claims lives all around us every single day. Everywhere in the world, from Paris to Persepolis, people are suffering. But their suffering is every day. It does not light up a front page, and it does not inspire immediate donations from the world’s wealthiest men, Kinsella continued. Everywhere in the world, from Paris to Persepolis, people are suffering. But their suffering is every day. It does not light up a front page, and it does not inspire immediate donations from the world’s wealthiest men, Kinsella continued. This failure is proportionately the fault of global media. They shy away from reporting on war, environmental issues, economic issues or anything that could make their sponsors look bad in any form.

700 million raised in 24 hours for a burnt building...80,000 CHILDREN have died of #STARVATION in Yemen alone in the last 4 years. Food for thought. (No pun intended) (C/O Shan)... M.J

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