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joyce_donahue@diasp.org
Joyce Donahue

I am starting to build a list of books to help me survive the coming chaos...

These are not political or religioius books - or even books on how to resist our new oligarchy, but books on how to create a stable, positive place for life when everything around us is a circus of endless unpredicability and cruelty. #books #survivingtrump

On the list so far:

Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything - Victor Frankl

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh - Lindsey Stonebridge

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness - Alice Walker

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times Katherine May

More to come. Suggestions appreciated.

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

...and there's radio: shortwave radio.

â™Č earthling - 2024-12-19 04:26:32 GMT

Fake You - an Activist's Guide to Defeating #Disinformation: Don't Blame the People, Don't Blame the Internet. Blame the Power - Governments, Political Parties, Mass Media, Large Corporations and Fortunes: The Monopolies of Information Manipulation and the Threats to Freedom of Expression by Simona Levi, 2024This is THE activist's guide to defeating fake news and blocking policies that use disinformation to curtail civil rights and freedoms.

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Power has lied to us since the beginning of time. The methods and technologies used have differed, but lying is in power's DNA. In the institutional agenda, disinformation is used to say that the problem is with us (as usual) but, in fact, it's with them. We have had enough. This book shows how and why power has always created disinformation and how today's fake news is just that same age-old lie and propaganda going by a different name. We provide rock-solid solutions: first, more democracy, and second, a brand new systemic labelling method.

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)

17.9K Posts, 59 Following, 1.19K Followers · ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

Key word: "Greco-Roman". Rome actually domineered Greece.

â™Č earthling - 2024-12-19 03:40:12 GMT

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick, 2009Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general.

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Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)

17.9K Posts, 59 Following, 1.19K Followers · ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Travers, P. L.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

P. L. Travers (1899-1996) Australian-British writer [Pamela Lyndon Travers; b. Helen Lyndon Goff]
Essay (1978-07-02), “I Never Wrote for Children,” New York Times

#quote #quotes #quotation #audience #books #childhood #children #literature #maturity #writing
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/travers-p-l/73367/

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gander22h@diasp.org
Adam Hunt

Renowned novelist says London board's teaching ban of his book is like 'burying our heads in the sand'

Note that the book is written by a black author and is about slavery:

A prominent Canadian novelist is speaking out after a local high school teacher was ordered to stop teaching one of his award-winning novels in class because of its use of the N-word.

Lawrence Hill said the teacher, who works for the London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB), was told to stop teaching The Book of Negroes and that "under no circumstances am I to teach a novel using" the word.

"Although it may be well intentioned 
 my concern is that it essentially excludes, completely excludes, Black voices from the curriculum," Hill told CBC Radio's Afternoon Drive on Tuesday.

#book #books #LondonOntario #CBC #News #Canada

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
psychmesu

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden/113618459189716959 FediGarden@social.growyourown.services - Indie Authors Social is a Mastodon server for independent self-published authors who want to support each other, as well as anyone who appreciates their work:

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You can find out more at https://indieauthors.social/about or contact the admin @steaphan

#FeaturedServer #Authors #Writing #Books #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #SelfPublishing #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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