For We Have Much to Do in This Winter of Peril and Possibility: Much to Repair: Much to Restore: Much to Heal: Much to Build: And Much to Gain: A Cry For Racial Justice Some 400 Years in the Making Moves Us: The Dream of Justice For All Will Be Deferred No Longer: A Cry For Survival Comes From the Planet Itself: A Cry That Can’t Be Any More Desperate Or Any More Clear: Joe Biden

 

 

|| Wednesday: January 20: 2021 || ά. ‘’This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day of history and hope. Of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today, we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of democracy. The will of the people has been heard and the will of the people has been heeded. We have learned again that democracy is precious. Democracy is fragile. And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now, on this hallowed ground where just days ago violence sought to shake this Capitol’s very foundation, we come together as one nation, under God, indivisible, to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.’’ Mr Joseph R. Biden, Jr, the 46^th President of the United States of America, said at his Inaugural Address to the nation at noon today, Wednesday, January 21.

Thanking the dignitaries present at the Inaugural Ceremony Mr Biden said, ‘’We look ahead in our uniquely American way – restless, bold, optimistic – and set our sights on the nation we know we can be and we must be. I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. You know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength of our nation. As does President Carter, who I spoke to last night but who cannot be with us today, but whom we salute for his lifetime of service. I have just taken the sacred oath each of these patriots took — an oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On “We the People” who seek a more perfect union.’’

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Lebanon: Dire Conditions For Syrian Refugees in Border Town

Humanics: Human Enterprise

|| Tuesday: January 19: 2021 || ά. Syrian refugees in Arsal, a Lebanese town on the border with Syria, do not have adequate shelters to withstand the harsh winter months, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a video showing their dire living conditions. More than 15,000 Syrian refugees in Arsal are experiencing their second winter since a 2019 order from the Higher Defense Council, which is chaired by the President and responsible for implementing national defense strategy, required them to dismantle their shelters.

The order has forced them to live without adequate roofs and insulation, exposed to harsh winter conditions, including, sub-zero temperatures and flooding. “Living conditions for the Syrian refugees living in Arsal forced to dismantle their shelters in 2019 remain dire.” said Ms Michelle Randhawa, the Refugee and Migrant Rights Senior Co-ordinator at Human Rights Watch. “Their situation, compounded by Covid-19 movement restrictions, threatens their safety and their very lives.” In November and December 2020, Human Rights Watch researchers returned to Arsal to interview seven refugees, first interviewed during the summer of 2019 to assess the impact of the demolitions on their standard of living and, in particular, on their access to adequate shelter during the winter months.

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