For those of you who don't routinely watch Fareed Zakaria on CNN each Sunday morning, you might watch this morning. The 8:00 show is repeated at 11:00. Interview with Zelensky, plus a short video made by the Ukranians that they preview on the show.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 3:45 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking through some of the recent purchases from Come Back Alive. ( > https://www.comebackalive.in.ua) > > Purchases include 1500 Mavic 3 Drones and many batches of bulletproof > vests in groups of 3000. There are individuals putting down tens as well > as thousands of USD at a time. Crowd sourced defense is a thing.. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:17 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] human side of the Ukraine crisis > > Mary's nephew's "charge", Vlada made it to Warsaw most of a week ago from > a small farm east of Kiev. She has established a network of support and > (new) friends among the refugees there. The goFundMe cash they gathered was > very helpful to this effort and being crowdsourced, the load was shared > among hundreds of friends/family. I think the average donation was under > $30. > > Mary's nephew's wife just gave birth (this morning) to their second child > which is what prevented the nephew (early 30s) from traveling to Poland to > help Vlada directly over the last few weeks. In the meantime, the > upside-down refugee admissions to the US (refugees from Europe capped at > 10,000 while 30,000 Ukrainians *already* in the US have claimed (and been > granted by exec order?) refugee status. According to an immigration > lawyer they have retained, Vlada can likely still enter the US under a > student visa. The family is ready to effectively adopt her (as a young > adult) but her heart is *in* Ukraine and will likely return. I understand > she has no immediate family in Ukraine to rely on (or worry about), but she > does have a more extended family there. > > As someone who has become a "bleeding heart liberal" over decades of (not > so) hard knocks, I fully support this type of immigration or more likely > temporary refuge (years?) for anyone around the world. When anyone is > willing to "host" someone from another part of the world, including taking > financial responsibility for them, it seems unconscionable not to allow > that. In this case, Europe, especially Poland and the other eastern EU > countries bounding Ukraine is carrying the load and being able to release > some of that pressure, even one individual at a time would seem like a boon > to them as well. > > Of course, there is all the (not unfounded) rhetoric about how cold our > shoulders are to those from other countries where the people don't remind > us of ourselves as much. I understand some of both sides. It seems a > shame that we treat refugees from violence and poverty in Central America > as a nasty, dangerous "horde" while we welcome these pink-faced, blonde > haired people wearing designer label clothing. And yet, I also understand > why those who have been infected with fear and mistrust of "the other" > would have this bias as well. > > As I think we have discussed hear in great detail, Xenophobia is an > organic response in individual/group survival. But that neurochemical > response of "it's diffr'nt, killit!" might should be something we can in > fact overrule consciously and culturally. The (relative) welcoming that EU > has given to middle-Eastern and north African refugees is a positive > example. I am surrounded by many individual positive examples in my life, > but the Fox/Trump News message about Caravans of Rapists and Murderers > still bleeds through and exhibits itself in folks mostly 2 degrees of > separation from me. None of those have I heard squealing in horror at > supporting Ukranian refugees, however. > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609
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