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Good overview and history, with a variety of applications.

Sharing from Wendy Schmidt It’s exactly how I think about the future. Why live in fear??? We should do anything possible to collaborate and build a brighter future! It is really in our hands. Looking forward to watching this documentary series. #future #futureforward #pdiegroup #purposedriven

How I am paying tribute to the memory and legacy of Stephen Lawrence today 1. Never Forget - Stephen was a kind, handsome, intelligent ambitious young man; loved and cherished by his family and friends. Stephen was 18 & murdered 31 years ago today in an evil, malicious, unprovoked, racist attack. Decades of failures, corruption, incompetence and institutionalised racism has seen two out of the six accused convicted. If this is still the outcome today in 2024, it certainly goes without saying huge transformations for the betterment of society are still to be made. -We need to combat and eradicate racism. -We require assurance in the priorities of holding police accountable for their actions or lack there of. -The police & CPS need to do everything they can possibly do as a collective, to bring as much justice and closure as possible for Stephen, his family and friends and all of us as a society. ⚖️ Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere⚖️ 2. Take Direct Action - What happened to Stephen, his family and friends has directly influenced me as a person, my outlook and interests and the work I have done and aim to do in the future. I decided to go university to study Sociology and Criminology due to what happened to Stephen. With a somewhat simplistic and naive yet pure and innocent intention, of ''getting the bad police out of the police force''. More recently, I have changed my career path into Law to work towards my goals, to eventually achieve such changes. 3. Contemplation - Today I think about the times that I've worried and cried over the years, thinking about what happened to Stephen and others, and wondering whether someone or a group of people, would do the same to my brother or my dad. Randomly thinking about times that I've only ever been pulled over by the police when driving with my friends, who happen to have brown or black skin. Remembering as a child, my dad telling a police officer "this is the tenth time your lots pulled me on this road this month!... I live here." - Only when the officer saw me (a very light skinned child sitting in the passenger seat looking confused) did his tone and attitude change towards my dad. To hearing my dad's experiences of recent times of" No blacks, No Irish, No dogs" (my dad being a brown/black Nigerian & white Irish man with a thick Dublin accent), and growing up in Ireland as a Catholic brown child during the 1960s. To recalling the utter heartbreak of my dad breaking down in tears one night due to the trauma of years and years and decades and decades of "it". Of Racism. -Its tiring, it's exhausting and every single one of us owes it to human kind to change this. 4. Celebrate our uniqueness and who we are with love and appreciation - -Shout it from the rooftops! -Celebrate our cultures, who we are, where we originate. Today I celebrate my Nigerian heritage, being a princess Anyanwu by blood, of Owerri Imo State and my Great Grandfather the Ebo Chief.

#PublicationAlert What role can media collaborations play towards peace building and reconciliation in post-conflict societies? My new publication, co-authored with the brilliant Dr. Gabriela Martinez, examines the collaboration and production of a documentary film in Medellin, Colombia. We study how this collaboration between professors, grassroot organizations and students becomes a crucial political act that contributes to discussions of peacebuilding, transitional justice, and memory processes. https://bit.ly/47JLeU6

In order to understand today and tomorrow, you have to understand the past - first https://lnkd.in/gHxRkqj4

Is drama at the bottom of the subject hierarchy in your school? Yes it’s a familiar story to most of us. Drama mocked, scoffed at, called a ‘mickey mouse’ subject, not a ‘proper’ subject. The snobbery is alive and well. SMT teams putting up with it rather than endorsing it, pushing it as a stress-buster, a club, happy to market the shows but actively steering young people away from A level study. English co-opting Shakespeare (who was an actor). Arts careers de-legitimised. Arts teachers kept out of leadership posts. Drama as preserve of the wealthy - a nice to have. A toy. A bit of froth. Thing is - directing, play-writing, acting requires not only a deep sensitivity to language, but proper intellectual rigour and precision. It’s not about those ‘soft skills’ (a term I personally dislike). Not only are these people far intellectually superior than any I know - Cate Blanchette, Sam Mendes, Jez Butterworth, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Wole Soyinka, Sam Holcroft, Jessica Swale, but they are, or were, makers of theatre; nobel laureates, storytellers. When AI takes its foothold schools had better catch up - a bot will be taking care of the equations and formulae - but the bot will struggle to communicate the nuance, depth and humanity in the great plays, productions and performances. The arts might just save us. #drama #teaching #dramateacher #schools #learning

Parallel CinemaDocumentaries: Gain insights from documentaries such as "Oppenheimer: Science, Mission, Legacy," "Community in Conflict," and more. This is happening August 10, 17, 24 & 31, with a Q&A session on the 10th in Los Alamos, NM.

Evil incarnate. If they were your daughters, wives, sisters or mothers would you support the Palestinians or Hamas terroists by supporting schools who allow these unlawful pro-Hamas protests? Wake up. Our way of life based on biblical values is being threatened. Our children, our grandchildren will ask why they are forced into the mire of communism and socialism. What will you tell them? Did you speak up for your beliefs? Did you stop sending money to these schools? Did you continue to vote for politicians who did nothing because of the fear of offending a specific voting block? What will you tell tell your children? Think about it.

Nobel Prize-winning logician, mathematician, philosopher, public intellectual, and respected social activist, Bertrand Russell deduced the following formula for calc'ing a 'Truth': 𝘐𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘈'𝘴 = 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘉'𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘉'𝘴 = 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘟'𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘟'𝘴 = 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘈'𝘴 A) Where then 'A' equals #Antisemitism (Aggression Against or Promotion of Hatred Against #Jews & #Israel) B) Where 'B' equals #Hamas' promotion of the Annihilation (from River-to-Sea global genocide campaign) against the State of #Israel -- objecting to Israel's right of self-determinism/It's very existence! -- and the global #PLO-PR campaign of Jewish hatred, anti-Zionism. X) Where 'X' equates #Iran-backed and state-sponsored #Terrorism in its malevolent proxies of funding & propping up #Hamas, #Hezbollah (in #Syria & Southern #Lebanon) Then Algebraic logic does not make error: All these 'pseudo-Gaza protesters' -- who so reckless in their disingenuous proclivities, thoughtlessly 'rush in' with their imprudent intentions -- are aligning on 'the wrong side of' progressive human historiography and Western values. Renowned Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan -- and the name of the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, published in 1964, who said: ""The medium is the message" -- could NOT have foreseen how the immediacy of 21st Century internet Paas (as mass social noise-portals) -- where the distance between an event as a stimulus and a response (Viktor Frankl: "Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.") -- could now confound & degrade all veracities of the foundations of legacy journalism. And subsequently erode the consecrated progression of western culture and values. Consider this -- all YOU doused within your fuels of hate and venom -- who gather at #ColumbiaUniversity, #UCLA, #Yale and #Harvard University, and in #NYC-#TimesSquare, #London, #Paris and other major world cities... Consider this #ColumbiaUniversity (and all ilk-minded academia) -- where once your esteemed halls of learning offered the most highly respected beacon of legacy journalism -- your candle dims when you let #terror-supporters, thugs, miscreants and their criminal mayhem piss on our consecrated Western values -- which in the past ensured "truth as facts" locked hearts-minds-and-sinews with "truth as values." "Between stimulus and response" there's been plenty of opportunity & "space" to see the "truth" above foolish lies which perpetuates your ill-conceived antics. The post below poignantly speaks stimulus! Ian Kaplan Brad Zarnett Lara N. DiCristina Offer Dischon🎗Yoseph Haddad Hillel Fuld Michael Osborne Mark Simon Moshe Sender #historymatters #IstandwithIsrael #factsmatter #truthmatters #valuesmatter #charactermatters #history #democracymatters #leadershipmatters #letmypeoplego #freethehostageNOW #societyandculture #ILOVEJEWS

A thoughtful perspective on content warnings from Howard Sherman. Whilst the generation gap & clickbait traps are certainly factors, theatre needs to become better at making the case for access. I want All In to assist in this task to make everyone feel welcome & to grow vital new audiences for the sector https://lnkd.in/e_Y6YeYF