Simon Philip Oswitch

Simon Philip Oswitch

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Hera
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I didn't forget about you guys, I hope you didnt forget me #nsfw #goonette #gooner #girls

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Esmail Baghaei, Iran's Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, recently quoted from Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karmazov' about the dangers of lying to one's self. Here is the complete quotation from the novel's Father Zossima. #booksky

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The Guardian
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More than 110 Nobel laureates call on Iran to release gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi

theguardian.comMore than 110 Nobel laureates call on Iran to release gravely ill activist Narges MohammadiAs human rights advocate is treated in Tehran hospital after transfer from Zanjan prison, prize winners demand her freedom More than 110 Nobel laureates have called for the immediate and unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Iranian human rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate, after she was transferred to hospital amid concerns over her rapidly deteriorating health. In a statement released on Tuesday, 112 Nobel laureates urged the Iranian authorities and the international community to act “without delay” to secure Mohammadi’s release and ensure her continued access to medical treatment. Continue reading...
Simon Philip Oswitch
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Horace (65-8 B.C.E.), from the famous "carpe diem" ode (Ode 1.11, composed, 23 B.C.E): "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." "While we talk, envious time will have fled: pluck the day, trusting as little as possible to the future."

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Earth Day, 2026. From Aldo Leopold's 'A Sand County Almanac': "... a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such” (1949, p. 204).

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Hannah Arendt uses this from Karl Jaspers as the epigraph to 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' (1950): "Give yourself up neither to the past nor to the future. The important thing is to remain wholly in the present." (Translated from German).

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For #worldpoetryday This isn't actually a poem, but has stayed with me for many years: 'Love transcends mourning and death. Acute sorrows have been blotted out and the willows are silent. Sing, my soul to new dawns. All hopes have blossomed anew.' (Andre Gide, from 'The White Notebook,' 1891)

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My Goodreads review of John Locke's 1689 'Two Treatises of Government,' Cambridge edition, edited by Peter Laslett. This was a labor of love by Haslett and remains the academic standard. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

goodreads.comSimon's review of Two Treatises of Government5/5: The “Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought” edition of John Locke’s 1689 'Two Treatises of Government', edited by Peter Laslett (late of Cambridge’s Trinity College), is the standar...

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United Farm Workers
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On Monday, March 31st, #CesarChavezDay, join UFW members & thousands of union members from across CA, as we march in Delano in solidarity with immigrant workers. RSVP, parking info and how to donate to the march below. 🧵 1/ #WithTheseHands #WeFeedYou

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United Farm Workers
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You can't acknowledge #WomensHistoryMonth without celebrating UFW co-founder @DoloresHuerta for all she has done since the early days and all she continues to do today to inspire and improve the lives of farm workers and working people. ¡Viva Dolores Huerta!

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Authors Against Book Bans
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Good news out of Colorado! A Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries. Good work! www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...

denverpost.comFederal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school librariesThe order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”

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American Library Association
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Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically. #UniteAgainstBookBans www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...

denverpost.comFederal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school librariesThe order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”

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United Farm Workers
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3/17/66: 77 Latino and Filipino grape workers led by Cesar Chavez—six months into their 5 yr long strike—set off from Delano on a 340-mile march, or pilgrimage, to place generations of farm worker grievances before the governor and Legislature in Sacramento. 1/2