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Social Justice Saturday: professional basketball takes a lead in the fight for racial justice
Social Justice Saturday time again. When I started this series I didn’t expect to be writing a post on social justice leadership in professional sport, but as I think about it more fully, I should have. It’s been there for … Continue reading
Social Justice Saturday: introducing a new Robby Robin series
As has been analyzed in blog after blog and media opinion piece after media opinion piece, the global pandemic in which we find ourselves has, along with many hardships and horrifying numbers of deaths, shone a badly needed light on … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Leadership, Social justice Saturday
Tagged a better society, COVID-19, environmental destruction, essential service workers, essential services, global pandemic, income inequality, inequality, leadership, long term care homes, pandemic, politicians, politics, racism, saving the planet, schools in society, social justice
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The big blogging question of the day: What lessons have you learned during the pandemic?
Boy, people seem to be learning lots and lots of lessons during these troubling times of pandemic lockdown, if the number of blog posts on this topic are anything to go by. It’s also a question that’s starting to annoy … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Leadership, Odds and Ends
Tagged compassion, COVID-19, inequality, leadership, lessons learned, long term care homes, pandemic, racism
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COVID-19 has brought us a day of reckoning; how will we respond?
As we think about what our world – our individual countries and communities – might look like when this pandemic is finally fully in check, we find ourselves with options. We can work hard to get things back to being … Continue reading
Map Monday: what maps can and could teach us about pandemics
We’ve looked at a lot of maps at this blog over the past several Mondays. We’ve seen some statistics that have surprised us, reassured us, upset us, and some which we were correct to question. We’ve come to realize that … Continue reading
What the Bushmen of the Kalahari can teach us
Who would have thought that the longest “serving” hunter-gatherers on our planet, the San people of southern Africa, more commonly referred to as Bushmen, would have some important reminders for the rest of us. But a Christmas book I just … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, History and Politics, Just wondering
Tagged Affluence without Abundance, botswana, Bushmen, Climate change, egalitarian, hunter-gatherers, hunting, inequality, James Suzman, Kalahari, Namibia, patriarchy, people, resilience, San, social conventions, southern Africa, stress, wants versus needs, work versus leisure
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