Ovi magazine; Sunday February 20th, 2022 – World Day of Social Justice – World Whale Day

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday February 20th, 2022 – World Day of Social Justice – World Whale Day

Social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations. We uphold the principles of social justice when we promote gender equality or the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants. We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability.

The annual World Whale Day, was founded in Maui, Hawaii in 1980 to honour humpback whales, which swim off of the coast of this tropical island. This day was started as an idea by Greg Kauffman, founder of the Pacific Whale Foundation, to raise awareness about the threat of extinction faced by humpback whales.

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World Day of Social Justice: A Sense of Direction by Rene Wadlow

On a proposal of the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstzan, the United Nations General Assembly has set 20 February as the World Day of Social Justice. It was observed for the first time in 2009, but is not widely known.  As with other UN-designated “Days”, the World Day of Social Justice gives us an opportunity to take stock of how we can work together at the local, national and global level on policy and action to achieve the goals set out in the resolution designating the Day of “solidarity, harmony and equality within and among states.”

As the resolution states “Social development and social justice are indispensable for the achievement and maintenance of peace and security within and among nations and that, in turn, social development and social justice cannot be attained in the absence of peace and security or in the absence of respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

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Living vicariously through Dorothy Parker #poem by Abigail George

“I dope myself up with the dead poets and sleeping pills,
with Marilyn, with Bukowski (it was booze), with Sylvia.
I just want to rest, chill, relax, float out of the window like it
matters. I’ve been so tired. One day in your life you’ll
remember me, my touch, the look in my eyes when I”

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A fistful of cactus #018 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Ovi magazine; Tuesday November 23rd, 2021

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday November 23rd, 2021

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A Divided America by Dr. Habib Siddiqui

The Rittenhouse ‘not guilty’ verdict once again showed how divided America is today. Justice is not, or so it seems, color-blind in this land of Abraham Lincoln. The five felony counts against Kyle Rittenhouse stemmed from the 2020 shootings that left Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber dead, and seriously wounding Gaige Grosskreutz during chaotic protests against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Rittenhouse was 17 when he traveled to Kenosha from Illinois amid disturbances in the city and carried an AR-style semiautomatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha and opened fire on demonstrators after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, in the back. Anthony Huber was shot in the chest trying to disarm Rittenhouse and stop his shooting spree.

In Kenosha, shouting matches flared on the courthouse steps between supporters of opposing sides, exemplifying a divided America. About 200 protesters in Portland, Oregon, broke windows and threw objects at police on Friday night as reaction poured in after the verdict was read.

Many experts argue that the verdict could have been different with a different jury and/or a different judge. All but one of the jurors were white.

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Firefly Dreams #poem by Bohdan Yuri

“Fireflies whisper dreams
In the forest without noise,
And the night birds swoop
From shadow stations.”

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Contract law for dummies by Joseph Gatt

Contract law tends to be the most frustrating subjects to study in law school. Often because professors teach it in complicated ways, use all sorts of jargon, and choose the most boring examples and case studies in the world.

So here’s the challenge: I’ll make contract law fun!

Contract law is in fact simple. It involves three things:

Parties (could be individuals or companies or organizations)

The environment it creates (that’s what a contract basically does, it creates an environment where the individuals or parties have obligations towards each other, the obligations could be to pay people, to sell things to people, to stop doing things to people, to help people and so on).

And, third thing, the jurisdiction (which government, which court system is the contract under? Is it under US law or French law? If so, which jurisdiction oversees the contract? Is it the local district court? The state court? The federal court? Specialized courts?).

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Ephemera 21#28 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Ovi magazine; Friday November 19th, 2021

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday November 19th, 2021

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How fair is Singapore’s judicial system? by Zulfikar Shariff

The late Subhas Anandhan, one of Singapore’s foremost criminal lawyers famously said that while he would defend murderers and terrorists, he would not take political cases.

He was a married man with a family and could not take the risk of the government’s reaction.

For anyone who speaks or acts against the PAP, the cost can be extreme. And a lot of the PAP’s abuse of process can be traced to its control and abuse of the judicial system.

From being sued to bankruptcy to detention without trial, the PAP’s use of the judiciary is well known.

This does not mean that the PAP direct judges in every political case. Instead, as Ross Worthington noted, the PAP leadership appoint judges that they know would toe the line, especially when they sit on political cases.

But there have been the odd cases where judges do not play ball with the PAP’s expectations.

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“Washington Heights” #poem #haiku by Saloni Kaul

“Stormy river heights!
I revel in fulfilment.
Mind made up, I cross.”

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Survival of the State of Israel? by Joseph Gatt

Recently, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made what I thought was a surprising statement by saying that Israel had been destroyed twice before in the past, alluding to the destruction of the First and Second Temple, and that surviving the 80th anniversary of the creation of Israel should not be taken for granted.

A bit of a historical reminder. Judea was a kingdom where a good chunk of the population were shepherds. So lots of sheep (because that’s pretty much what you can do in the desert) and the sheep were herded and sold to neighboring kingdoms (Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, Arabia, Axium, Greece, Rome and so on).

Now remember sheep is not just meat. It’s also wool and leather and those were luxuries back in the day. Then Judea had lots of wine, and lots of salt but that’s pretty much all we produced and exported. No wheat, no grain, little or no produce.

So Judeans depended heavily on exports, and when neighboring countries struggled to find the gold and silver to purchase our sheep and wine and salt, the Judeans had a rough time.

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Always something; the family edition 21#20 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Pirate Bay and a charge change

Half of the charges leveled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped. Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two.

Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neik said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology. The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges". Peter Danowsky, legal counsel for the music companies in the case, said: "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay.”In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works."

Another bite the bust for the sharks of the music and film industry. Enough with their unbelievable profits with victims the artists who perform for pennies.

Austria’s Fritzl custody

The Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her is to appear before a judge.

The judge in the town of St Poelten is expected to decide whether Josef Fritzl should remain in custody while police investigations continue. Mr. Fritzl has said he was driven by an addiction that "got out of control".

Speaking through his lawyer, he said he had locked up his daughter Elisabeth to protect her from the outside world. The statement was carried by the Austrian magazine News. Mr. Fritzl has been in detention in St Poelten, capital of Lower Austria province, since his arrest at the end of April.

He was originally remanded in custody for 14 days. Over the past few days, police have been questioning dozens of people who had connections with Josef Fritzl and his family. And they have been searching the cellar dungeon inch by inch.

Are they going to take him out of the cell and hold him in the cellar of his own house? That they even talk about it proves that justice is really blind!