PEACE and HARMONY... BAN WARS

PEACE ON EARTH...

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We may dismiss him as another "no-good-hoody"... We may dismiss him for whatever reason we may find... But actually his principal cares enough so as NOT TO SUSPEND them...

I have always argued that suspending a kid from school or kick them out for disruption...is the easy way out... is the dumb way out... it is the stupid way out...

Actually, principals who suspend students are admitting that they have failed...and they do not have any clue how to educate and help the kids...

These principals should be dismissed... We should be allowed to dismiss principals who are detrimental to the well being of the kids... who suspend instead of educating... 

The educational system should not be held hostage to Union privileges... The unions and GREED should not decide the mental well being of the kids... and the Big Brothers and Boards should not determine the policies...

The neighbourhood communities and parents should be the decision makers... and not the administration, or the Boards or the politicians...

Student committees + Parents councils + Neighbourhood councils should make the decision... and no principal or teacher should have life long tenure... They have to prove their commitment everyday... and educate the kids...  and not be their for a secure salary...

Read below...

"Who's influenced you the most in your life?"
"My principal, Ms. Lopez."

"How has she influenced you?"

"When we get in trouble, she doesn't suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter."

“This is a neighborhood that doesn’t necessarily expect much from our children, so at Mott Hall Bridges Academy we set our expectations very high. We don’t call the children ‘students,’ we call them ‘scholars.’ Our color is purple. Our scholars wear purple and so do our staff. Because purple is the color of royalty. I want my scholars to know that even if they live in a housing project, they are part of a royal lineage going back to great African kings and queens. They belong to a group of individuals who invented astronomy and math. And they belong to a group of individuals who have endured so much history and still overcome. When you tell people you’re from Brownsville, their face cringes up. But there are children here that need to know that they are expected to succeed.”

What's your biggest goal in life?"

"I want to make it out of the hood. I don't have to go that far. But if I can just live an inch outside, then I'll feel safe and know that I'm straight."
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When given the chance, kids appreciate it...
When given compassion and understanding... kids act in kind...
And,
When kids are suspended and banished and punished... there will be indeed another prison cell built

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Adrian is the student government president at Mott Hall Bridges Academy. For anyone who hasn't seen already, we are currently holding a fundraising campaign to provide the students at Adrian's school with an annual visit to Harvard.

Instead of taking the students to the zoo, to Disneyland, to a car show... they want to take the students to Harvard...

A wonderful way to make them inspired and motivated... to raise the bar and expectations... instead of just dismissing them as no-good-hoodies and suspend them...

Instead of the kids, we should suspend the Big Brothers, the Boards of Education, the principals, the teachers... 

The kids know whom to trust... the kids realize whom to thrust...

GIVE THEM THE CHANCE...
Give EVERYONE a chance... to grow and to breath and to BE...whatever they aspire to be...

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Why Praise and Glorify WAR...?

A WAR in any other name... is still professional killing... and it kill people and destroys lives and property...

The release of the film American Sniper has led to an increase in threats against Muslims in the US, according to an Arab-American civil rights group.

Bradley Cooper has been nominated for best actor at the Oscars for his role in American Sniper

The movie degrades and dehumanizes people from the Middle East and Arabs in particular... Hollywood has special skills to divide the world into THEM-US dichotomy...

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has written to director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper.

Their film is based on US soldier Chris Kyle's service in Iraq from 2003-09.

The ADC said a "majority of the violent threats we have seen over the past few days are result of how Arab and Muslims are depicted in American Sniper".

The organisation, which describes itself as the largest Arab civil rights organisation in the US, said it had collected "hundreds of violent messages targeting Arab and Muslim Americans from movie-goers", mainly from Facebook and Twitter.

The “Western democracies”... have always relied on this simplistic and childish duality... you and I, them and us...the bad and the good... the black and white... The soviets and the west... the Chinese and the Western democracies... the evil Russians and the angelic Americans...

Hollywood is a huge propaganda machine in the hands of Big Brothers... they want this simplistic idea of the world so as to have free hand in subjugating all the rest (the them) and profit from it... and satisfy their GREED...

Check the stats...

• The British have invaded 193 countries out of the total of 203 countries that are UN-recognized (195) or not UN-recognized (8).

• France , the US and Israel have invaded 80, 70 and 12 countries , respectively.

The consequences of British invasion for greed-based conquest (as opposed, for example, to invasion for the purpose of liberation from Nazism in WW2) ranged from total or near-total dispossession and extermination of hundreds of unique Indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia to the active and passive mass murder of scores of millions in Africa and China and India...

History ignored yields history repeated.

Britain in the 21st century is still invading and devastating other countries ( Mali , Libya , Iraq , Afghanistan ).

Not satisfied with Britain 's First Syrian War (WW1) and Britain 's Second Syrian War (WW2) , the UK is now presently engaged in Britain 's Third Syrian War. Similarly, not satisfied with Britain's First Iraqi War(1914-1932), Britain's Second Iraqi War (1941-1948) , Britain's Third Iraqi War (the 1990-2003 Sanctions War in which 1.7 million Iraqis, half of them children, died avoidably from imposed deprivation), Britain's Fourth Iraqi War (the 1990-1991 Gulf War in which 0.2 million Iraqis were killed) , and Britain's Fifth Iraqi War (2003-2011 in which 2.7 million Iraqi died, this including 1.5 million violent deaths and 1.2 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation), the UK is now engaged in Britain's Sixth Iraqi War (2014- onwards, with thousands of Iraqis killed and thousands more to die from war-imposed deprivation in what seems to be an endless war for oil and hegemony).

Britain invaded Australia on 26 January 1788 and this is celebrated as Australian Day by White Australians. However Indigenous Australians commemorate this event as Invasion Day in remembrance of the continuing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Australian Aboriginal

Ethnocide in which 600 unique Indigenous groups and dialects disappeared, with only 150 remaining and of these all but 20 severely endangered.

Britain has invaded 193 countries - all but 10 of the world's 203 countries - and continues to illegally invade other countries for oil and hegemony.

The Western democracies have invaded and invade other countries with impunity... 

The Russians invade other countries and the West is furious... the Chinese cheat and the West is indignant because they see their profits shrink...

Invasion is the most powerful expression of racism... Decent, anti-racist, pro-peace people around the world resist the Big brothers who invade other countries... and a proposal... Maybe the UN should designate a day, and I propose April 24 when Armenians commemorate the Genocide perpetrated by successive Turkish regimes against Armenians... as WORLD INVASION DAY... and let schools and communities educate people about the brutality of war...

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The Human Cost...

Do the Big brothers of the East and West and North and South CARE...?

Fighting is ranging in the east of Ukraine... and towns and villages are devastated and people are maimed and killed...

The heaviest fighting was said to have taken place around the town of Debaltseve

• Some 5.2 million people live in conflict-affected areas and 1.4 million are considered "highly vulnerable and in need of assistance"
• More than a million people have fled their homes with 633,523 living as displaced persons within Ukraine and 593,622 living outside Ukraine, mostly in Russia
• More than 5,000 people have been killed in the fighting and more than 10,300 injured

...And do the Big brothers of the East and West and the North and 
the South CARE...?
I guess their GREED motivate them to invade other countries and kill at will...
It's not only Russia invading Ukraine... but the "democracies" 
invading Iraq and the Middle east and ...
The UN should ban the wars...and the people of the world should protest... The SILENT MAJORITY is irrelevant... 
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