Author Archives: Ylva Rancken-Lutz
Kvinnor i Pakistan vågar kräva sin rätt till utbildning
I en artikel i DN beskriver Mia Holmgren flickornas skolgång i Pakistan och att de idag finns en medvetenhet även i Pakistan att utbildning är viktig för att få ett bra liv medan landet satsar bara 1.5 % av sin budget på utbildning och 1% på hälsovård och försvaret får 25-30% (med 4e största kärnvapenarsenalen […]
Singing for Solidarity
Pete Seeger turend 94 yesterday and we were singin If I had a hammer in a tower in Italy to celebrate him and his life. One of music’s most powerful attributes is its ability to bring people together around a cause, a theme Bill Moyers has explored many times with a variety of artists. […]
Hashem: A Survivor’s Story from the Anfal Campaign
A reblogged text by Karzan Kardozi about Survivor’s from the Anfal Camaign in Irak 1988. The film One Thousand and One Apples tells a very sad but important story about Saddam Husseins mass murdering in Irak 1988. We owe it the ones who died to not let the world forget these stories and the people working democratically and peacefully […]
Jonas Hassan Khemiri och om gatukonst
Jag satt just och tittade på Babel i SVT och serien Khemiri på prao. Denna gång skulle Jonas Hassen Khemiri skriva encyklopediska – en text för Nationalencyklopedin. Uppdraget var att skriva en objektiv definition av begreppet “gatukonst”. Jag funderade på det han skrev “det jag tog bort (som var jag)”. Han sade själv i inslaget att när han ska […]
They (or we all) have been Trumped no. 2
Isn’t it funny that Scrooge McDuck the cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed by The Walt Disney Company somehow resembles Donald Trump! A coincidence? It probably is his favorite character (and role model) of the ones Carl Barks drew. Maybe Trump has not understood Bark’s sarcasm but took the cartoons as instruction books. Scrooge McDuck is: an elderly Scottish anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, […]
They have been Trumped!
Isn’t it funny that Scrooge McDuck the cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed by The Walt Disney Company somehow resembles Donald Trump! A coincidence? It probably was his favorite character of the ones Carl Barks drew. Scrooge McDuck is: an elderly Scottish anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nezglasses, and spats and is portrayed […]
Harry Chapin sings Cats in the Cradle and Flowers are Red
Yes I found Harry himself singing two of my favorite songs so I wanted to share them with you all! Harry was first introduced to me by my 2 year older brother in the early 1970s, he had bought 2 LPs . I had not seen him perform before I found some YouTube clips where […]
Den finländska skolan och risken att snubbla på sin egen sjävbelåtenheten
Om ”i en internationell jämförelse” inte förekommer är nyhetsrapporteringen om den finländska skolan sällan positiv skriver Torbjörn Kevin i en insiktsfull ledare i Åbo underrättelser. Mycket bra inlägg i debatten om den finländska skolan, auktoritet och moralen: Argumentationen har sin upprinnelse i en karikatyr av skolan. Enligt den är skolan en plats där lärarkåren förser elever med […]
The space where we live, work, study and spend our freetime affect our lives…
…it really does. To me this issue is very important to discuss. What can we do to affect the way homes; places where we work, study and play are planned and built? Why do we have so little influence when it comes to the planning of our everyday spaces? Why have we given the planning […]
Compassion knitted into blankets
This picture is amazing not only because of all the work that is put into the making of the blankets (I also crochet and knit so I know) but the vast contrast between all the love and thoughts put into the wool squares, between the softness and colors of the yarn compared to the hard, […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 