…If you have a minute, take a look at Anisa Nandaula’s poem, “Choose to Challenge” on the IWD website. I’m inspired by her line, “Scream when the world has chosen to whisper.” I look forward to the time when we don’t need a IWD anymore….

…In any case, I am struck by the parallels between the brutal response to the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 & the actions of the Myanmar military in all the Burmese cities. Yesterday, protestors in the ancient city of Bagan were fired on….

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….Our nation is fortunate, too. Don’t you think? While we have had our troubles of late, we are overcoming them. When I see what’s going on in Burma, our Jan 6 coup attempt pales in comparison. When I see the people struggling with the flood this fall in Guatemala, the winter storm in TX seems minor…..

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…“they are unarmed, but they are the true warriors” & are defying the general’s view of women as weak. I smiled at their “defiant creativity” of stringing “up clotheslines of women’s sarongs, called htamein, to protect protest zones, knowing that some men are loath to walk under them.”…

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…So please take a few minutes today before you talk & Eric Lander talk about Cancer Moonshot 2.0 to express your sympathies for all of the people of Myanmar & tell them you are sending prayers. It’s the least you can do….

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…Did you ever wonder why the protest signs in Myanmar are written in English? Today’s CSM offered the answer, explaining that there’s a “global peace industry, enhanced by the connective power of the internet” to appeal to an international audience…

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I got a smile out of reading about Jill’s “semi-stealth visit”…I hope to meet Winette someday, because not only do we share the same last name, we share a passion for baking & STEM education. I’m sure her PhD in Biomedical Engineering comes in handy when she’s thinking through a new cooking technique. Maybe you can invite her to the WH so she can show off her award-winning cupcake baking talents…

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…If I had more time, I’d figure out how to slip a word about elephants into this note as I was excited to see protestors riding elephants in Ongyaw, but alas, my timer just rang so I am closing.

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…It looks like you got a warm reception in Houston yesterday & got to meet Judge Hidalgo. I’d love to hear what your impression of her was….

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…I hope that UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (LTG) is also knowledgeable on the topic (Myanmar). I caught the tail end of her remarks to the special meeting that the special envoy to the UN Sec Gen called today. It seems that she’s bringing her commitment to multilateralism to the situation…

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…It’s too bad that distributing the vax in an equitable & orderly manner has turned into such a nightmare. The NYT has a fascinating info graphic to represent this dynamic for every county in the US. Take a look. It’s fascinating….

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I want to introduce you to my neighbor, Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR). … I just heard him talk about his latest book, Ministry for the Future. .. Believe it or not, he is a utopian & tries to imagine his way to a transformed future where we learn to live differently to survive. KSR could help John Kerry & Gina McCarthy develop their narratives so they are not all doom & gloom.

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…The bad news is what happened to Rodney Reese (RR) in Plano, TX. In case you didn’t read the Guardian, the poor kid was walking home …when the police tried to stop him. They had been called out on a wellness check because someone noticed him stumbling along on the ice. He ended up spending the night in jail….

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…Thank you for scheduling a moment of silence today to mark the loss of 500,000 American lives to CV. I am trying to fathom that #. I’ve seen an analogy showing that a bus caravan of all those people would stretch from DC to Delaware….

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It’s Sunday. Soon, I will be sitting in front of my computer with about 30 faces covering my Zoom window….

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