Every family needs a small business. Giving away the project idea of every family in the world writing about their Grandmothers memories, putting a book in their local Public Library and  Working for the Four Freedoms and Universal Human Rights...
My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/univhealthcareshirad
Trabajando en el proyecto de tener cada familia escribiendo de las memorias de sus Abuelas, poniendo los  libros en la Biblioteca Publica de donde viene su familia  y también  Trabajando por las 4 Libertades...

Anneanneler hakkinda yazarim, kutuphanedeki kitabi yaz;  4 Serbestler icin ve Herkesdeki Insan Haklar icin calisiyorum...

-2 de Octubre no se olvida!  & Happy Gandhi's Birthday!!

Shira Dest., Hebrew Tutor and Singer

To support my projects whilst I continue seeking sufficient paid employment, or to help me with expenses as I write up various project proposals, feel free to donate to me:

Peace, Love, and "Dan Lechaf Zechut" !!!!
ShiraDest p.s. to see other projects of mine, see my website: http://shirad.x10.bz/ Paz, Shira

It is lovely to watch the lightening bugs as I sip my tea, recalling fond summer evenings as darkness fell, snapping string beans with my Grandma under the big Weeping Willow.

Well, back to learning my aliyot for Shabbat and Shavuot -this will be a fun weekend: my favorite Jewish holiday -Coffee Night!!  :-)

Peace,
Shira

I would like feedback on both this flier and also on the date, if anyone can make this time then I will put it on my SHIR (Tour Guide business) website as the next walking tour:
(RTF format still leaves out all the colors and formatting! urgh!)
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UNIQUE! Musical Walking Tour:
Early Integration Neighborhoods of DC: Shepherd Park
With Singing Licensed DC Tour Guide
Shira Destinie Jones
Join us for a walk back through DC history, to the turbulent times of
BlockBusting and Cooperative struggle uniting White, Jewish and Black
Neighbors to integrate neighborhoods, drawing on The Lost Laws, Labor
Tactics Precedents, & even Presidents to form new community structures.
WHERE?
Tifereth Israel Congregation,
7701 16th St, NW
(S4 or D31 metro buses, or 1 mile
south of Silver Spring metro station)
WHEN?
3:30pm to about 4:15pm,
Sunday, ~ June 10th, 2012 (RainDate: June 17th)
HOW MUCH?
$10 cash/$15 PayPal or $20 check, per person, before June 4, 2012
$20 cash only, per person, after June 4th
(TakomaTime Members: $5 in cash /$10 PayPal plus one Hour: Shira Destinie Jones until June 4th.)
Discount RSVP date: June 4, 2012 to (301) 968-5691
Peace,
Shira Destinie Jones

Related to my work on Shared Monetary Governance.  Sorry for the vanity post...

http://ccmag.net/ows-shared-monetary-governance

The joint presentations today at the DC Social Forum, which was held in the DC Friend's Meeting House, a wonderful historical building, were fascinating.  And disturbing. 

Fascinating because they all centered around the need to move from our consumerist and big box model of capitalism toward one which includes all of the people in the governance process. 

Disturbing because everyone also agreed on the need for us to have a societal culture of cooperation and egalitarianism, or a willingness to cooperate to create and use a level playing field for all people.  Then everyone agreed that getting there from here would take a very long time.

One of the tools mentioned included Public Banks, such as the one in North Dakota, and currently being considered by the Mayor in DC, apparently.  This is something to look into for the immediate future as a completely doable step which has in fact already been implemented in many places, according to the presenter.

Another tool is Time Banking and the creation and use of various complementary or community currencies, such as Ithaca Hours, or Anacostia Hours here in DC alongside the local time bank, DC Time Bank.org.  Time Banks in particular create and build trust and cooperation in an egalitarian mode within the community.

A further tool was the use of non-hierarchical methods and clarity on the point that groups must be set up with no more than 150 members in order to avoid creation of hierarchy, with lessons being drawn from the Cuban revoluntion of 1959 by a Hungarian professor presenting.

A final vision was one in which society is entirely cooperative, resulting in the contributions of all members being valued.  Cultural change toward a valuing of equal participation, voice, and cooperation was espoused, along with the understanding that this does not happen overnight.  With consistent work and faith in our evolving ability to cooperate, we continue forward.

Peace,
ShiraDest

"Canto poemas, Bailo Oraciónes"

Canto para tí
si me pides
Escribo para tí
si quieres
Rezo para tí
Siempre
Bailo para mí
y para tí, mi Amor

ShiraDest

I Loved giving SMG (Economic Democracy) seminar today at the DC Social Forum, look fwd to next one, Thursday April 12th, 2pm! Workshop A12.9!

http://nowdc.org/content/now-dc-social-forum-schedule

[This is an abridged translation of my 25 March Spanish language post: http://shirad.livejournal.com/566987.html]


    A friend and I were talking of the execution of Haman in Megilat Esther.  Earlier translations say he was hanged on a gallows, but newer ones translate it as impaled on a stake.  It is understanding the cultural context which leads to this different transltion.  

    That brought up the topic of cultural context in Biblical translation and interpretation.  To summarize my longer Spanish language post, two cases which come to mind are that of ´man shall not lie with man as with a woman´which, taken in the context of widespread use of rape as a means of punishing prisoners, and particularly the status of a free man, doing this to a man was not an act of sexuality nor one of desire, but simple torture and deliberate humiliation. 
   Likewise with the prohibition of temple prostitution cults -many cities in the ancient world required all girls (and sometimes all boys also) to serve in the temple of the local diety until gaining at least one coin in the service of the patron god.  This seems an effective rite of passage that forms a shared cultural experience, thus bonding each generation together in that society, but it is an incredibly damaging and insidious way to control the psychological development of the citizenry.  Effective, but evil.  Thus yet another form of torture is outlawed by the Bible.
      These were very progressive ideas 5000 years ago, curtailing violence both explicit and implicit in order to build a healthier culture leading to a society with growing equality, evidenced by commands to ópen your hand and give to the poor.   

Peace,
Shira Dest