Good morning!

Christopher: Done. Thanks. Here’s one to support your post from the website Save The Internet.

Net Neutrality Activists Prepare for Day of Action as Pressure Mounts Against the FCC

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Readers: I HOPE you clicked over on Christopher’s post and signed.  Mark your calendars…May 15th is the day marked to save the internet. We all have our voices and have the capability to make them be heard. Do what you can to save one of our very important freedoms on the net. Take some action now below please. Thank you!

Blog me.

Happy Friday!! Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

It wasn’t until three weeks ago that I had ever heard of Giles Duley. I had received an e-mail from a client, now a good friend, inviting me to a special talk and intimate chat with Duley. I read his story, watched his TED talk,  and was so very intrigued and inspired, I bought my ticket, and marked my calendar, excited for the event and an opportunity to meet such an incredible man doing great things.

If you know of Duley, then you probably know that he travels the world to many places that most people don’t dare visit, telling stories and giving a voice to the forgotten and marginalized…those who have no voices. And he does this all while peeking from behind the lens of a camera - Duley is a photographer…a very courageous, talented, and compassionate photographer.

The talk was originally at my friend’s home in San Francisco, but after the huge response, the event was moved to the Fort Mason Center.  After a few yummy nibbles, a glass of wine, and lots of chatting with friends and new acquaintances, the event began.

Duley sat on a small stage, with a microphone in front of him, his MAC to the side and a big screen behind him. He began by speaking of his days as an editorial photographer in the fashion and music industries in both the U.S. and Europe…a dream job for many photographers. And although Duley stated that “he enjoyed it and had a lot of fun,” he said that he wanted to do something more…storytelling was something that he always wanted to do.

Following his passion, he ventured off to many different parts of the world, Sudan, Angola, Ukraine and Bangladesh, among other places, and began photographing people in their situations…in their lives,  documenting conflict and economic hardship, recording their stories so that he could bring them back and other people might understand.

His photographs draw the viewer to the subject, creating intimacy and empathy for lives differing from ours only in circumstance. 

“The family of Prymorska Street, Odessa, Ukraine, 2010.”
Odessa guidebooks suggest “do not talk to the street kids,” but Duley lived with these homeless teens in a squat while photographing them and describes them as “great kids.”

“Rohingya Refugee Portraits, Bangladesh, 2009.”
Forgotten in a refugee camp for the past 20 years, the Rohingya people lined up to have their portraits taken, amazed that their story was being told. This is Fatima, then age 10, with her younger brother Noru.

Then one day, doing what he loves to do most, he experienced tragedy, only this time it was very personal.  While on assignment in Afghanistan, and on patrol with the 75th Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army in Afghanistan, Duley stepped on an IED (improvised  explosive device) and lost both his legs and his left arm. The stories that he tells about suffering and surviving now suddenly became his own.

As we all sat big eyed and glued to the big screen, listening attentively in silence, the photos that he took of his travels, the stories that were told photographically, ended.  Then unexpectedly the next thing we saw was footage up on the screen, loud, graphic, and very real. The film was of Duley’s rescue after he stepped on the bomb, an event ensuring that his life would never be the same. Throughout the rescue he was awake and coherent, as medics rushed in to save his life.

It was a hard emotional watch, and we were told by Duley, something very rare to see, not only for the general public to witness,  but how often does one get to observe their own life changing event on film? One can only imagine how it must be for him to see and listen to his story, as he plays it over and over again for his viewers to watch.

“At first, I was devastated by what had happened. I thought my work was over. [Nothing made] sense to me,” says Duley in a powerful, must-watch talk from TEDxObserver. “It was the stories I’ve documented that inspired me to get through the last year. To survive. To get back up on my new legs and to come tell their stories but also my own … To show that losing your limbs doesn’t end your life.”

He is now back working. His work has been exhibited and published worldwide in many respected publications including Vogue, GQ, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sunday Times, The Observer and New Statesman.

In 2010 he was nominated for an Amnesty International Media Award and was a winner at the Prix de Paris in 2010 & 2012. His self-portrait was selected for the 2012 Taylor Wessing Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

I got the chance to meet Giles Duley last night and speak to him for a few moments. He is a sweet, humbled man, with a strong heart for humanity…still out there doing what he loves most…telling peoples’ stories through photography. I admire his drive to continue his work even though it isn’t easy. He suffers daily pain, much like the people he photographs, but like those people, he does the best he can. Duley is courageous, living proof that losing your limbs doesn’t end your life.

If you would like to watch Duley’s TEDX Talk, click here. I would post it but for some reason I can’t seem to get the link from youtube. If you would like to read more about Duley, click here, or visit his website for additional info and to view more of his beautiful photographs.

Duley relies on donations to fund his travels so that he can continue telling the stories and ensuring those without voices are heard. If you are inspired by what you have read and seen, and would like to make a donation, click here. Thank you.

Peace & Love:”Live it, Give it.”…anyway you can.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Since climate seemed to be the talk of yesterday (Thanks Howie for the write), I decided to post this write to continue the conversation.

From Think Progress:

Can’t Deny It

Obama Administration Plans For Release Of National Climate Assessment

There’s a major climate change and public health event that’s set to take place tomorrow, and it doesn’t have to do with the Keystone XL pipeline.

The event is the release of the National Climate Assessment, a high-profile review of the present and future damages that climate change is inflicting and will continue to inflict on the United States. Accompanying the highly scientific report from hundreds of scientists will be a call to action to reduce emissions. And a month from now, the Environmental Protection Agency will propose the first ever limit on carbon pollution from power plants – our largest domestic pollution source. This proposal will likely stir up some controversy on Capitol Hill, wherealmost six in ten congressional Republicans refuse to believe that humans are the cause of climate change, despite the fact that scientists are as sure of this as they are that cigarettes kill.

Here’s just a bit of what we already know: man-made global warming is bad, and it’s getting worse. It is linked to worsening drought, extreme precipitation, more intense wildfires, and maybe even to lowering the yield of our most important agricultural product, corn. It’s going to make sea levels rise higher, heat waves last longer, and diseases spread farther. Hotter cities means more smog and asthma attacks, too.

The report’s release is also the latest indicator that the White House remains determined to slow climate change. The Obama administration is planning a sizable public outreach effort to coincide with the report: President Obama will give interviews to television meteorologists, including Al Roker of The Today Show; Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will highlight the report while in California; and E.P.A administrator Gina McCarthy will address the National Association of Farm Broadcasters. Today, Counselor to the President (and our organization’s founder) John Podesta addressed the media, shooting down the expected conservative efforts to stop the new power plant climate rule from the E.P.A.: “those have zero percent change of working. We’re committed to moving forward with those rules.”

Americans want our elected leaders to act on climate. And they trust Democrats to do so more than Republicans — in the most recent poll, by an 18-point margin. The release of the National Climate Assessment marks a key moment to focus the nation’s attention on climate change, educate on what the impacts of it have been so far, and marshal support for slashing carbon pollution in the future.

Tune back in tomorrow for a more detailed breakdown of the report’s findings and reactions from around the world of politics.

BOTTOM LINE: The National Climate Assessment, a periodic report by 300 scientists and other experts on the impact of climate change in America, comes out tomorrow. Conservative climate deniers may try to drag their feet in opposition to essential limits on carbon pollution from power plants, but it doesn’t look like they will have much wiggle room from an administration sharply focused on taking meaningful steps to slow the dangerous climate changes hurtling towards us.

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Readers: There are steps to take to prevent the worst from happening. There are solutions. Now we just have to make sure that the right administration is in the majority if we expect to get anything done. That means that once again, the midterm elections are super important.

Thoughts? Blog me. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Good morning!

 From Think Progress:

This is just so typical from the Right – Not wanting to get into the real world to solve real issues happening to real people.

Paul Ryan Won’t Let Poor People Testify At Hearing About Poverty

On Wednesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will hold a hearing on poverty called “A Progress Report on the War on Poverty: Lessons from the Frontlines.” While it will feature three experts, none of them are actually low-income Americans who struggle to get by.

But that’s not for lack of trying from some poor people themselves. Witnesses to Hunger, an advocacy project that shares the stories of low-income Americans, has tried and failed twice to have some of their members who live in poverty speak at Ryan’s poverty hearings. “When Ryan had his first hearing last July,” Director Mariana Chilton told ThinkProgress, “we wrote to his office to see if we could testify, but they weren’t interested.” While Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) tried to get one of their low-income members to speak, it was too late. They were asked to submit written testimony instead.

Chilton’s organization stayed in touch with his office and immediately called his press team when they saw the announcement for Wednesday’s hearing. “They said, ‘It’s too late, we’ve already chosen our people.’” There was one slot left to be filled by Democrats, but that went to Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund. “I think Marian Wright Edelman is a great choice,” Chilton said. But “they had a stronger interest in having a more well-known person to testify.” That means that once again, the hearing won’t feature anyone who really is on the frontlines of poverty. “None of the people who are testifying today are currently living in poverty and it’s unclear if they really know what’s going on from the perspective of people living in it,” she said.

And the written testimonies they submitted will probably do little to impact the conversation. “They’re submitted and they disappear,” Chilton said. Tianna Gaines-Turner sent in a document last year, and this year Barbie Izquierdo has done the same. “If you look at the July hearing for the War on Poverty, you don’t see evidence of Tianna Gaines-Turner’s submitted testimony,” she added. It’s not on the website for the hearing, despite her requests to his office that they include the document, although it has been included on page 64 of the record. Izquierdo’s will probably meet the same fate. “Asking for formal written testimony is a way to let Paul Ryan’s office off the hook,” she said.

It’s also worth remembering that one of the three people who will testify has some controversial opinions about anti-poverty programs. Bishop Shirley Holloway, founder of the House of Help City of Hope, said, “You don’t dream when you’ve got food stamps.”

Ryan’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.

Those who wanted to testify aren’t happy about being excluded. “I think that’s just another poor excuse,” Gaines-Turner, married mother of three struggling to make ends meet, said. “You say you want to speak to someone who’s experienced frontline poverty, but you have no one there who’s actually experienced poverty first hand.” She said that she’s grateful for the opportunity to submit written testimony, but she said, “On the panel you have experts on hunger and poverty, but I’m the true expert. I’m the one who lives these daily struggles every day, who runs out of money at the end of the month every month, has faced homelessness, hunger, poverty.” And she added, “Not to knock the people that are there, but if you want to really understand, you need to speak to the people themselves firsthand. We’re real people, not just numbers.”

Gaines-Turner has certainly experienced these things. “I know what it’s like to use your stove to heat your home,” she said. She knows how dangerous that can be. But she also has young children — six-year-old twins and a son who is nine — who all have medical disabilities and need to be kept warm in winter.

Izquierdo, who was the first mother to join Witnesses to Hunger, regretted she wouldn’t be at the hearing. “Speaking is one of the most important things you can do,” she said. “You can write something, but there’s something different when you’re telling your story and they’re seeing your face and attaching your emotions to the written word.” She hopes a message can come across from her written testimony. “One of the most important things to take away from what was written is that people who are asking for the help actually need the help, and that these programs can work and people on public assistance can be productive citizens, we just need a chance,” she said. “We just need to be looked at as human beings.”

She’s now in school full time, studying criminal justice with the goal of one day being a funeral director and leaving a business to her children. But she has had direct experience with public programs. When she lost her job, she turned to food stamps. “It became the only source of income I had to provide food for my children,” she said. “If I didn’t have it I don’t know what I would have done, I had no other choice and no other option.”

For Chilton, these experiences are why it’s important to have low-income people testify. “They can talk about the shortcomings of federal programs,” while experts “cannot get it across as well as people who are low-income and actually living it,” she said. Poor Americans “have a vested interest.”

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Readers: What would you say to Ryan? Blog me.

On a side note…I don’t know why I’ve never noticed this before, but what is the first thing that comes to mind when you see this picture of Ryan? I don’t like to make fun of someone’s looks because I don’t think it’s very nice. However, when I was posting this and looking at Ryan, all I could think about was Eddie Munster.

So I just had to Google: “Does Paul Ryan look like Eddie Munster?” So let me preface, I am not making fun of his looks, although I think it’s funny that there is a similarity. Evidently, I am not the only one who sees the similarity because I found quite a few comparison photos. Here’s one.

Happy Monday!

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

I HOPE I didn’t go too crazy on ya’ll with yesterday’s post. I felt like I was getting lazy with “Just noticing” on Sundays, because everyday seems to be a “Just noticing.” I use to post a few topics under this heading, not long ones as I did yesterday, so some of you might think the read was a bit busy or overwhelming. Perhaps some of what I posted was ignored. Yeah, well no surprise there. Unfortunately, many topics that have to do with women’s challenges are ignored by many and not just in the blogosphere.

On the same vein, I heard from a trusted source that my “ego” got to me, and that perhaps some of you may think that as well. Huh. Well, I posted the blog the evening before it was to go live, and there were no comments other than ZL. But I’ll take the hit from him.

So, if you’re reading, and I know you are, if it looks as though my “ego” got to me, so be it. In my opinion, one can never have enough “ego” when it is in support of illuminating, and working on putting an end to the horrific blatant in-your-face and the subtle slippery nuances, that women have to endure everyday, all over this planet.

And if you felt overwhelmed or confused, or couldn’t choose which write to focus on, know that is nothing compared to what us women feel, which is a helluva lot more. Just when we think we’ve got something handled and in the bag, another issue arises (and another, and another...) that we have to address and deal with. And we do deal with it. So, if you had a difficult time with the write yesterday, all I can say is, “I tried something new, perhaps it was too much. Deal with it.”

Thomas: It figures a man would say this. But I’ll be easy and just say, “I know how you feel.” Commenting is no sweat when there is only one topic. It is similar to how I feel when choosing which important topic to post when there are so many that need to be highlighted. It ain’t easy. Please see the rest of my comments above if you haven’t read them already. I noticed you haven’t come back to comment yet.

PS: As of almost 11:00 PM last night, I “just noticed” that it was only men (Hello Raymond) who seemed to comment about the content of yesterday’s blog post. Interesting eh?

Now…onto today’s write. This one is short and sweet….well, maybe short, not so sweet, but definitely “funny.”

Here’s a video of one of my favorite men on the planet…our president Obama, from the recent White House Correspondents’ dinner.

*G*o*O*b*a*m*a*!*

Blog me.

Irene, et al: Thank you for all the kind words and kudos.

Shannon: Sweet. I love sisterly support between siblings. I don’t have one but I feel blessed by all of the awesome, around-the-world sisters here.

Anna Of Guam: You say when sister and it is done.

Amanda: I think Alycedale is a wonderful choice. I miss her presence here too. Maybe she is reading and will come back and grace us with her unique speak.

Ruth, SM: Thank you. Missing you too sister. HOPEfully again very soon.

Howie: I just wanted to acknowledge your post and the Holocaust Remembrance Week. The Holocaust was horrific. Just like slavery, I have no doubt that many feel if they could repeat the holocaust again, they would. I pray that never happens. The only way to ensure that it doesn’t is if the OTWs stick together and grow outnumbering the racists who dream of the “good ‘ol days.”

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

If you love my blog and my writes, please make a donation via PayPal, credit card, or e-check, please click the “Donate” button below. (Please only donations from those readers within the United States. – International readers please see my “Donate” page)

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