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ous les pavés, la plage!” (“Beneath the pavement, the beach!”) was the rallying cry of the May 1968 protests in France. As demonstrators tore up paving stones in order to build barricades or to hurl at the police, they discovered that there was sand beneath the streets. Though this was a typical building practice, it reinforced the protesters’ belief that everyday life wasn’t quite what it appeared to be, but was rather an illusion manufactured by modernity, capitalism, and consumerism. During the early months of the pandemic, we were all confronted with the same truth. The levels of noise, garbage, and greenhouse-gas emissions pumped into the environment were drastically reduced because so many schools, workplaces, and restaurants were shuttered. Just as people abruptly changed where and how they spent their days, all sorts of wildlife began venturing into public places they’d previously avoided: deer roamed the streets of Paris while coyotes wandered around San F
Yvette Buigues and Carl
Yvette Buigues will be my guest today as we honor Flora Fauna and deepen our participatory animism…. that we may be worthy of our kin… as all chauvinism and human cruelty, war on life, are on trial now. Whatever our rogue species does to our kin, will happen to our community – So let’s renew our respect for life, by approaching the world with informed reverent curiosity, “What’s your story? and how can we cooperate?” Including Viruses, largely arising by our rogue species lack of respect for boundaries and home/habitat. April Fools Day – so we include Animal Humor!
Separated by lockdown, this man wrote nearly 300 letters to his wife in a care home
When the pandemic struck last March and stopped Brian Barnes from visiting his wife Joanne in her locked-down care home, he turned to paper and pen to stay in touch.
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Lockdown measures separated Brian Barnes from his wife Joanne, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson s disease and was living in a care home in Barrie, Ont.(Submitted by Brian Barnes)
A year to turn the page
The year 2020 has been humbling in the face of nature. The coronavirus pandemic rattled the earth and revealed just how unstable the ground beneath us was. For journalists, the avalanche of life-or-death news crashed into an industry already beset by acute financial strain, the warping effects of disinformation, and long-standing inequity. In the print pages of the
Columbia Journalism Review, we’ve looked at a media ecosystem confronting the realities of our distressed planet and the people who inhabit it.
First, in the spring, was the climate issue. E. Tammy Kim turned her attention to the