Category Solidarity, democracy and sustainability
Tammy Baldwin first female senator in Wisconsin and first openly gay senator in the US
Baldwin’s victory makes her the first openly gay candidate elected to the U.S. Senate. “Tammy Baldwin’s victory showed what a majority of Americans already know: that candidates should be judged on their qualifications for the job and not their sexual orientation,” said Herndon Graddick, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). In an […]
Romeny software?
Yes rumor has it that Romney owns a company which has changed some of the software in the polling machines. Maybe this one?
American third party candidates do exist but could they ever win?
Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala with roots in Finland, are the Green Party candidates in the US presidential election 2012. They have not been invited to the large debates and have protested outside instead. Below on the grounds of Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York. I remember when my father-in-law went door […]
Cuba hit by Sandy too
Yes – there are other places which were hit by Sandy! Cuba for instance.
The beutiful sandy shore of New Jersey before Sandy
While looking for news about Sandy and the New Jersey shore where we visited friends in July I stumbled upon news about other areas where the storm has hit. We have to remind ourselves that the storm hit in other places too but that news is not as hyped as the storm in the US […]
At Emmaus broken things and people get a second chance
By helping others we can help ourselves Emmaus is a politically and religiously non-aligned international movement, whose mission is to help those in need and thus promote social justice and peace. There are 313 Emmaus groups spread over 36 countries. The Emmaus groups work with and for the poorest in society, to fight against the causes of […]
Något många yttrar på dödsbädden: “I wish I didn’t work so hard”
Jag skrev en uppsats när jag studerade socialpsykologi i USA för 10 år sedan med rubriken “Do americans work to live or live to work?”. Jag upplevde, när vi bodde där ett år i början av 2000-talet och igen när vi besökte vänner och släkt i somras, hur galet förhållande alla verkade ha till förvärvsarbete. […]
The fixers movement and repair cafés – an act of resistance
We throw away alot of stuff in Finland which become waste. Even things with almost nothing wrong and which after a simple repair could get a new life. In the Netherlands, Brazil and the US, a growing number of repair groups are protesting society’s throwaway mentality by fixing what is broken. To repair things when they […]
Finland har nästan mest avfall i Europa – Finland – third largest producer of waste in Europe
(In English below) Den siffran hittar jag inte i Finland (fast jag söker) utan kommer via media i Sverige som är den femte största avfallsproducenten i Europa räknat per capita, skriver Dagens Nyheter som tagit del av en färsk rapport från Naturvårdsverket. Mest avfall per capita producerar Bulgarien följt av Luxemburg och Finland. Enligt det svenska Naturvårdverkets […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 