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  • Do help Mrs Dalloway!

    Do help Mrs Dalloway!

    Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf – eBook: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91md Mrs Dalloway’s 1997 film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119723/?ref_=nv_sr_1 What Singapore, Norway and Switzerland have in common ? According to OECD (http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/data-and-statistics), they are the 3 most advanced countries in the world. They also share the same approach to justice and mental health by providing their citizens with a system common to all.…

  • Prisoners thinking, not sinking

    Prisoners thinking, not sinking

    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love.”     Johnny Cash San Quentin (Live at San Quentin, 1969)– Johnny Cash: https://youtu.be/7e2B-thaJG0?si=Ti9sLEG8cgoQ6J6e Johnny Cash Prison concert – (Resolution360P-MP4): https://youtu.be/vVA-b7XmJk8?si=VjXWwekee2sSKfzp « Celui qui ouvre une porte d’école, ferme une prison. »  Victor Hugo

  • Memphis music, Black and White people fighting injustice.

    Memphis music, Black and White people fighting injustice.

    “If I could find a White man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion of dollars” Sam Philips.  Rock ‘n’Roll Impacts: http://player.slideplayer.com/36/10616662/# Memphis music – Universalis: https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/hi-records/#i_47555  Great Balls of Fire! (film) – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Balls_of_Fire!_(film) Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire (Jamboree, 1957): https://youtu.be/lgCNOsSYP4I?si=ZN3RA1x1KH47VfVZ Jerry Lee Lewis –…

  • The Help

    The Help

    The NYT on The Help:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/movies/the-help-spans-two-worlds-white-and-black-review.html?pagewanted=all https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000000992277/maid-in-the-usa.html?smid=tw-share Wikipedia on The Help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson: https://youtu.be/U3NJC18Oi04?si=dyoUfoP8mShqx26y “The 2016 election was a result of anxiety about dominant groups’ future status rather than a result of being overlooked in the past.” “Those who felt that the hierarchy was being upended (…) were most likely…

  • The Aviator 2004 – Brewster Senate Hearings scenes

    The Aviator 2004 – Brewster Senate Hearings scenes

    Howard Hughes – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes The Aviator 2004 – Lunch scene The Aviator 2004 – Is that a yack? The Lama scene – Lunch scene: https://youtu.be/FRM0G1wfXoM?si=LFCixS9mhD0Cb2Sp The Aviator 2004 – Brewster Senate Hearings scenes – August 6, 1947 – Howard Robard Hughes Jr. testifies…: https://youtu.be/0MXSAwkVU3U?si=dTR-MDHNRatT3IvW and https://youtu.be/OYNUVaefTFM?si=D8QOLrjlULzCjWSC Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. testifies about profits on…

  • Better Factory Cambodia

    Better Factory Cambodia

    BFC improves labour conditions and the profitability of the garment industry through a combination of factory assessments, tailored training for both workers and managers, factory advisory services, and public disclosure of working conditions on factory floors. Better Work in South Asia: https://betterwork.org/blog/2016/10/20/op-ed-better-factories-cambodia-and-its-15-year-journey Kering has included ilo conventions in its internal regulations since 2015. Look at…

  • Two for the road

    Two for the road

    They make something wonderful out of being alive. Two for the Road 1967 – Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062407/

  • Better days

    Better days

    Supertramp – Better Days: https://youtu.be/xE_dA479MCs Trust me, I can help youFeel free, we can save youJoin us in the good lifeAnd better days, better days Campaign for a new lifeChampagne and the bright lightsMake way for the right wayAnd better days, better days You didn’t realize about the other life that we can give youWe’ll…

  • Gold

    Gold

    Gold (2016): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800302

  • Dinosaur on the road

    Dinosaur on the road

    – Oh! There is still something we’d like to tell you … – Ah? – Nothing serious. It’s just that the police came to school to explain how to be safe on the road to the children. They explained the signs, how to cross the street … That sort of thing. When they finished, they asked if there were any questions. – And…