Education
Commemoration day of autism in Paestum
At the 9th of April 2018 a celebration took place in commemoration of the autism spectrum disorder, in the archeological Park of Paestum, a town in Southern Italy. This day is regarded as very important for the staff of the park and people who are victims of this particular disease. »
Red for Ed: The Teachers’ Red State Revolt Rolls On
If you drive the southern route between Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, your halfway point will be Memphis, Tennessee. The route forms an arc, a shape on the minds of many on this 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Paraphrasing the abolitionist… »
Piero Giorgi: Empathy, solidarity, cooperation, nonviolence, spirituality and respect for nature could unite us
As the European Humanist Forum approaches, we’re taking the opportunity to interview our speakers about the ideas behind the Forum. Piero P. Giorgi is an Italian neuroscientist whose education took him from Bologna, to the UK, Switzerland and then to the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia,… »
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. by NOAM CHOMSKY, CHRIS HEDGES, JOHN PILGER, ET AL. First published on Counterpunch April 2, 2018. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a… »
Money rules the world – but who rules money?
Berne – The referendum campaign for the Sovereign Money Initiative is being presented in Berne today. The people bringing the initiative put a question to the Swiss voters: Who should be allowed to create our Swiss francs? Private commercial banks like UBS and CS… »
A Special Day in America
By David Andersson Everything started as usual. The morning cold made me move quickly to the train. When i got to work, i went through my usual routine of checking my email, getting updated for the day. One email, titled ”17 minutes walkout, ” had been sent by our head… »
Blockchain Will Upend Big Medicine
Posted on: Monday, February 26th 2018 at 1:45 pm Written By: James Grundvig The original article, copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2018, can be found here. Here are GreenMedInfo Re-post guidelines Translated into Italian in two parts: here and here The third digital revolution to… »
Teachers’ response to Trump’s proposal to give them guns
From the United Teachers Los Angels Facebook page “I am a teacher and you want to arm me? President Trump and the NRA say the answer to stop school shootings is more guns. But we say, arm us with more resources not more guns. #KidsNotProfit #SuppliesNotGuns #ARMMEWITH Mary… »
#NeverAgain: Parkland students lead thousands in rally to demand gun control legislation
“We may be too young to vote, but soon we will be able to vote and we will vote you out!” by Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams The steps of the Florida State Capitol building were crowded with thousands of students, teachers, parents, and advocates on Wednesday… »
JROTC, Military Indoctrination and the Training of Mass Killers
By Pat Elder, February 16, 2018 Nikolas Cruz, the south Florida shooter, was enrolled in the Army’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program as a 9th grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Army taught Cruz to shoot lethal weapons at a very young and impressionable… »