…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…
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I live with these myths, and they tell me this all the time. This is the problem that can be metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you. The Christ in you doesn’t die. The Christ in you survives death and resurrects. Or you can identify that with Shiva. I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas…Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. That is what myth is. Myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images, of the energies of the organs of the body in conflict with each other.
—Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth, an Interview with Bill MoyersIllustration by Ilonka Karasz for The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper).
Turkish ‘standing man’ inspires silent vigil in restive square
Reuters: A Turkish man held an 8-hour silent vigil on Monday in Istanbul’s restive Taksim Square.
Erdem Gunduz decided to start his silent protest as a form of peaceful demonstration against violent police disruption of protests in the square over the last two weeks.
Gunduz stood on his own unnoticed before pictures of his protest went viral. By the time police cleared the square at 2 a.m. local time, about 300 others had joined him.
Follow the latest on the protests in Turkey at Breaking News.
Photo: Erdem Gunduz stood for several hours unnoticed before his presence on the flashpoint square went viral on the social network Twitter. (Marco Longari/AFP - Getty Images)
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The Only Existing Video Footage of Anne Frank
On July 22, 1941, a 12-year-old girl at Merwedeplein 37 looked on as her neighbor got married.
— Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum? (via markcoatney)
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“He described as formative an incident in which he claimed CIA operatives were attempting to recruit a Swiss banker to obtain secret banking information. Snowden said they achieved this by purposely getting the banker drunk and encouraging him to drive home in his car. When the banker was arrested for drunk driving, the undercover agent seeking to befriend him offered to help, and a bond was formed that led to successful recruitment. “Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world,” he says. “I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.” He said it was during his CIA stint in Geneva that he thought for the first time about exposing government secrets. But, at the time, he chose not to for two reasons. First, he said: “Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn’t feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone”. Secondly, the election of Barack Obama in 2008 gave him hope that there would be real reforms, rendering disclosures unnecessary.”
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It will also work against any tendency white children have to view their skin as “colorless,” which can be dangerous in the context of our shared history around racism, where being white was often seen as being just “American”—or as Toni Morrison writes in Jazz, “In this country American means white. Everyone else has to hyphenate.”
From “How do you talk to your kids about race?” More here.
