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Source: A Man From Switzerland Donates One Billion Dollars To Save The Earth | I Heart Intelligence.com

Here is a woman who has earned the trust of wild sharks by helping to remove painful fishing hooks. Once they realized she was friendly, other sharks began approaching her for help too.

This is the potential we have as a species, to be gentle healers for our world.

Luxembourg is set to become the world’s first country to make all of its public transportation free. The newly re-elected prime minister Xavier Bettel and the coalition government have announced that they will lift all fares on trains, trams and buses next summer. Taking aim at long commutes and the country’s carbon footprint, the new move hopes to alleviate some of the worst traffic congestion in the world.

Source: Luxembourg Becomes First Country to Make All Public Transit Free | ArchDaily

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Source: Top adviser to Richard Nixon admitted that ‘War on Drugs’ was policy tool to go after anti-war protesters and ‘black people’  – New York Daily News

At TED 2019, neuroscientist Matthew Walker argued that sleep deprivation is having a catastrophic effect on our health and safety—here are all the ways.

Source: You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You | WIRED

In his 2007 documentary Banished, filmmaker Marco Williams examined four examples of primarily white communities violently rising up to force their African-American neighbors to flee town. This became one of the techniques used to sabotage Black land ownership, a devastating trend in the 19th and 20th centuries that robbed Blacks of millions in generational wealth.

Source: 8 Heartbreaking Cases Where Land Was Stolen From Black Americans Through Racism, Violence and Murder

Source: Cow Creek Tribe to get 17,500 acres of timber land restored | News | nrtoday.com

When Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel ran the Boston Marathon, she had 26 names on her mind—and the hashtag, #MMIW, to remember each of them and more, written on her body.

For each mile of the 26.2, Daniel said a prayer for an indigenous woman who is either missing or was murdered.

 

Source: Advocacy for Indigenous Women at Boston Marathon

Automation, robots and globalization are rapidly changing the workplace and governments must act fast and decisively to counter the effects or face a worsening of social and economic tensions, the OECD warned.

Source: The Future of Work Could Bring More Inequality, Social Tensions – Bloomberg