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The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial]3d ago

France finally votes to strike the Code Noir from its books, its last slavery law

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/06/france-finally-votes-to-strike-the-code-noir-from-its-books-its-last-slavery-law/

bsmall2 4d ago

> When Bill asks the rabbi what this all means, she responds that we need to "repair the world." This is a direct translation of the Hebrew term Tikkun Olam which is a central concept of Judaism, to do what can be done to repair or fix the world.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151359/trivia/

#RepairTheWorld #TIkkuOlam
#AgeOfCareAndRepair #CareAndRepair #Reparations ...
#EdwardNorton #LeavesOfGrassMovie

CTM Podcast Jun 5

Ronald Reagan's 1988 signing statement for the Civil Liberties Act made every argument needed to justify Black reparations — military service, documented government wrongdoing, harm that deserved repair.

He applied that standard to one group and not the other. This 3-minute clip from Episode 18 of Committed to Misunderstanding is the receipt.

#Reagan #Reparations #BlackHistory #CivilLibertiesAct #JapaneseAmericanHistory

https://youtu.be/k_VXG3K6AyY?si=I7F7jVyGp85RRuHQ

Reagan Said This to Justify Japanese American Reparations. But Never Said It for Black Americans.

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Brandon Anthony Bedard May 28

The old reparations debate is stuck.

Reparations 2.0 proposes NUPA: a private-sector engine that settles historical debt through contract law and asset optimization, not taxpayer-funded handouts. It offers a path to debt discharge, labor protection from AI, and sovereign restoration.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brandonbedard/p/reparations-20-600

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#NUPA #UBI #policy #technology #politics #economics #economy #AI #robots #futureofwork #business #finance #reparations

Reparations 2.0

Settling the 1865 Debt Through Private Logic

Brandon Bedard

Slow Mover May 26

A Day for the World to Say Sorry

From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair

A PeaceGrooves Reflection

There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.

Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.

National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….

Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.