The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday November 7th, 2023
An Open Letter to President Biden by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Mr. President,
More than 20 years ago, Rachel Corrie, a
23-year-old American peace activist, was killed in Rafah by an
American-made, Israeli-owned Caterpillar bulldozer. Her crime: she
protested a demolition campaign by the occupying Israeli government that
destroyed over a thousand in the Gaza Strip.
In a letter sent to her family from Gaza, Corrie described the Palestinian suffering she had witnessed. “No amount of reading, attendance at conferences, documentary viewing and word-of-mouth could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here,” she wrote. “You just can’t imagine it unless you see it.”
In another letter she wrote, “I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature.”
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Those early years #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“I didn’t learn much in those early years,
just remembered a few essential things,
and my middle years were mostly spent
convalescing through my hidden fears.”
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Desertification Decade Ends: Challenges Remain by Rene Wadlow
The U.N. General Assembly had proclaimed an International Decade on Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification (2010-2020). The aim of the Decade was to promote efforts to arrest the spread of deserts and desert-like conditions worldwide.
Desertification is a plague which upsets the traditional balance between people and the socio-economic system by which they live. Because desertification disturbs a region’s natural resource base, desertification leads to insecurity and in some cases to violence. The violence in Darfur province of Sudan and in the Sahel states of West Africa is largely linked to the persistent drought and the advance of the desert.
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Screws & Chips #72 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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