FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN COMMUTES THE SENTENCE OF LEONARD PELTIER AS A FINAL ACT
Gaza ceasefire - January 19, 2025
celebration and trepidation
UPDATE: talks on the 2nd phase of the agreement will begin on 16th of the 1st phase not the 12th as referenced in the above article.
The ecocidal war on Palestine and beyond
COP29 - When things fall apart
As I wander in the Camargue I am surrounded by swamps, bogs, marshes and estuaries. lakes, marshlands, salt marshes, and salt water lagoons (Etangs) as well as dunes, pools, grasslands, and forests.
Flamingos flame in the marshes while their young, still white, move in the tall reeds. Small bulls and white horses roam free in the horizon.
I am surrounded by a living and diverse organism. It is a dynamic system with a mind of its own that demands complex management. It is a system where one part inalterably affects another. It is vulnerable, beleaguered by its centuries of containments.
Despite centuries of anthropogenic activities the Camargue remains a vast expanse governed by the flow of saline and fresh waters with changing shapes and boundaries - with a will of its own as the pulsing flow of water carry sediments through its veins - its life blood.
Like other deltas the Camargue is a guardian at the gate and it needs protection.
The story of the Camargue and the efforts made there to bring people together through democratic processes with tools such as participatory research are important contributions to the question: how we are going to manage the uncertainties ahead?
Climate change is happening. (READ)
As a special note: PSM wrote about WEF2023 and included observations regarding the fuel use it took to get to Davos and to then talk about climate change. The same observations were made again for WEF2025
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM 2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) took place January 20-24 in Davos, Switzerland.
Over 3000 were in attendance, including 50 heads of states.
There were a lot of worries.
The 2025 WEF Meeting Featured AI and Donald Trump as topics and listed Wars as the highest global risk.
Climate change was still on the agenda. Despite Trump's backing out of the Paris Agreement again, most nations said they planned to carry on with climate change measures.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen spoke during the opening ceremony of the Annual Meeting saying the world today is connected but has started fracturing along new lines.
Similar to COP29 reactions, some wondered if the WEF had outlived its usefulness.
Why public space magazine?
As a people, what we think, what we do and what we believe represent our public space.
If we are to get along we need to own and use our public space to clear the air through mindfulness, activism, and compromise. To achieve that goal we need civility, fairness, and empathy.
It starts with people in diverse communities who are willing explore and share. In this way public space becomes stronger and more courageous.
How we honor this ownership of public space with mindfulness and action will determine our survival.
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January - March 2025
In Development and People - As a counter to an excessive amount of testosterone in the air consider the feminine view.
Human Rights - Atlanta City bulldozer kills homeless man near the Ebenezer Church where MLK preached.
In immigration this month; what about the new policies? Good or bad for the US?
And then there is the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos where as of January 23 participants' first concerns seem to be about Trump's unpredictability, wars, AI possibilities, and Ukraine followed by climate change and Palestine as lesser concerns.
Technology - thoughts on AI and its good and bad effects on indigenous knowledge.
War and Peace - A ceasefire deal was made between Hamas and Israel on January 19, 2025. Will it hold? There isn't much trust on either side and a lot of fingers in the pie.
The US has had an eventful January from devastating fires in California to the costly inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20th, (his second round as President).
There were grand inaugural celebrations complete with $ 1s and 0's heads and the richest man in the world. Comedians feasted on an array of irresistible cartoon characters.
That same day the new president with apparent glee took a sledge hammer to his predecessor's reforms.
He went after climate change measures with a vengeance, left the Paris Agreement, and raised the blood pressure of world leaders. The list of course is much longer.
California could use some of the millions spent on the inaugural parade of wealth.