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Balancing water security with saving biodiversity in the river Beas
Will it be possible to achieve tradeoffs between meeting water needs of people and retaining river waters to sustain the rare and beautiful, but endangered Indus River Dolphin in the Beas river?
Andrea Momblanch, Nachiket Kelkar, Gill Braulik, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ian P. Holman
Beas river at Kullu, Himachal Pradesh (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Ensuring water security Vs conserving biodiversity: The challenge
Water related SDGs have often been found to be difficult to implement in the context of water security. This is because they involve different and competing ways of using water for irrigation, urban and industrial supply and hydropower generation. All these needs are met through construction of dams, barrages and water diversions that alter the natural river flows that sustain freshwater ecosystems.
This paper titled 'Exploring trade‑offs between SDGs for Indus River Dolphin conservation and human water security in the regulated Beas River, India' published in the journal Sustainability Science informs that while conservation of freshwater ecosystems is covered in target 6 under SDG 6, in practice, rivers are diverted to meet drinking water needs of cities and towns. The ecological dimensions that are needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems are often ignored or sidelined in the process.
This can pose a significant risk for freshwater biodiversity conservation by masking the existing trade-offs in water management between human demands, climate change mitigation and ecological conservation.
Climate change, population growth and economic development are further expected to intensify the pressure on water resources leading to further regulation and use of water resources in India. This can adversely impact freshwater environments, biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide.
The regulated Beas and the threatened Indus river dolphin
Nowhere is this more obvious than in case of the river Beas in Northwestern India where numerous interventions on the river ecosystem to secure water for irrigation, urban supply and hydropower have threatened two species of endangered river dolphins in the Indian subcontinent.
The Beas flows from the Western Himalayas to the plains of Punjab, India, where it supports urban as well as rural areas through hydropower generation and irrigation and is then diverted to the states of Haryana and Rajasthan. The river is also an important conservation area for endangered Indus River Dolphin (IRD).
The Beas has been regulated since the late nineteenth century by constructing the Pong dam in 1975. Since water is transferred from Pandoh reservoir on the Beas to the Sutlej, the Pong, Pandoh and Bhakra (on the Sutlej River) dams are managed together for hydropower generation, flood control and irrigation. These dams, along with the Harike barrage, commissioned in 1953 at the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers, supply water for canal irrigation to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan,.
The Beas River flows 185 kms between Pong and Harike and has been declared as the Beas Conservation Reserve that houses a small population of 5 to 11 dolphins, the only IRD population in India.
Evidence shows that there were around 52 to 87 dolphins at the time of the construction of the Harike barrage in the early 1950s, but regulation in the flows of the Beas–Sutlej gradually reduced the area available for IRD from 380 km to about 50 km (by about 87 percent), with the highest declines happening between 1953 and 1975, that led to the decline of the dolphins.
Threats to the dolphins continue to grow with the most recent being in March–April 2017, when the Beas River experienced water stress as water released from the Pong dam was stopped to desilt the Harike barrage. This forced the dolphins to swim in restricted areas. On 25th March 2018, the flow released from the Pong dam was reduced from around 340 m3/ s to around 55 m3/ s that led to severe disruptions in longitudinal connectivity and area available to dolphins.
What does the future hold for the dolphins and what can be done
The paper discusses the findings of a study that used water resource systems model and a forecast extinction risk model to analyse how alternative conservation strategies in the Beas river can help the survival of the endangered Indus River Dolphins (IRD) in India in the face of climate change and its impacts on river hydrology and human water demands.
The study predicts that drier conditions will persist in the region in future and the survival of IRD in the river will depend on adequate dry-season water releases from the Pong dam into the Beas and management of allocations to hydropower, urban and irrigation demands.
While glacial melt will lead to an increase in future summer stream flow, this will be gradually followed by decrease in dry-season flows in the region due to reductions in glacial extent leading to uncertainity over water availability in the future.
The contribution of winter rains to ecologically compatible flows in the Beas in the dry season too will depend on the strength of tele-connections (climate anomalies related to each other over long distances) with Western Disturbances that are responsible for precipitation in the Himalayas under future climate change. Population growth and increase in water demands for drinking, irrigation and energy production will further increase pressure on the water resources in the region.
In case of drought-like conditions, reservoir storages will be needed to meet the water demands of urban and rural populations and could spell doom for the Indus River Dolphin due to changes in river flows. How these tradeoffs can be reconciled is a challenge for water management and conservation policy for the state water management institutions such as the Bhakra–Beas Management Board.
The study argues that a simple ecologically oriented and adaptive reservoir management strategy that can assure a guaranteed release of water from the from Pong dam in response to changes in water availability will greatly help in the survival of IRD.
Specifying "minimum flows" for management will however serve as a limited approach. Rather, taking into consideration the entire ecological flow regime that includes the entire range of flow conditions and dynamics will greatly help to ensure survival of the dolphins.
The paper argues for the need to:
Conduct further studies that focus on defining the ecological flows in the Beas River and also include ecological flow and sediment requirements of other species like the gharial in the Beas.
Plan studies that will assess the potential of the Sutlej river upstream of Harike under improved water quality and flow conditions for restoration of river dolphins and gharials.
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Fashion chain Jeanswest collapses as retail sector continues to struggle
January 15, 2020 Georgia Headland
Jeanswest was founded in 1972 and currently employs 988 people across its stores. In 1994 it was bought by Chinese fashion retailer Glorious Sun, which then sold the company to a Hong-Kong-based family in 2017.
The company had revenue of about $100 million in the last financial year. It also operates stores in New Zealand and Hong Kong, which are not affected by the administration.
I've been working in the retail restructuring area for 20 years, and [retail is] about as difficult as I've seen it.
Administrator James Stewart
Mr Stewart also flagged pressure from online competition as a contributing factor to the company's demise, but broadly said global retail conditions were some of the worse he had seen.
"I've been working in the retail restructuring area for 20 years, and [retail is] about as difficult as I've seen it," he said. "There is no doubt that that globally, certain categories of retail are being challenged."
Jeanswest's collapse marks the fourth major blow to the retail sector since the start of the year, with fellow fashion chain Bardot announcing the closure of 58 stores last week.
Similarly, video games retailer EB Games announced it would shutter 19 unprofitable stores, and Co-Op Bookshop, owner of science stores Curious Planet, said on Monday it would close 63 stores after administrators were unable to find a buyer.
Despite a resurgence of spending in November for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, investors are concerned spending in the key December period may be muted.
Analysis of credit card transactions by big four bank ANZ showed spending for the last two weeks of December was down 5 per cent as consumers remain reluctant to spend despite three interest rate cuts and a tax rebate.
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Dominic Powell writes about the retail industry for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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It was dark out already.
The production crew had run into a little problem and finished for the day ahead of schedule.
The unshot parts were pushed to tomorrow, and everyone returned straight to the hotel.
Originally, Shen Weixing had just wanted Xia Qiu to go back to the hotel in the director's car so that he could quickly go to Ye Jiuyue, but Xia Qiu said that he had something he had to say to him.
As he was speaking, he just directly got into Shen Weixing's car, and Shen Weixing was too sheepish to tell him to get out, so he decided to just drop Xia Qiu off at the hotel.
Xia Qiu sat in the passenger seat, and very worriedly said, "I'm really afraid of affecting the filming progress ah."
Shen Weixing glanced at him.
"Buckle your seatbelt."
Xia Qiu paused for a couple of seconds, then buckled his seat belt.
Shen Weixing said while driving, "It's fine, those wounds of yours are just little scrapes, it won't affect things."
"It's still a little painful." Xia Qiu said.
"Later, before you go to sleep, put on some medicinal powder, then tomorrow morning it won't hurt." Shen Weixing said, "This is nothing, once you get used to it, it'll be better.
Some Seniors will continue acting the day after getting stitches.
Acting is just like this, especially for the main leads, if you stall for a day, then the entire crew will waste a day.
The whole crew's waiting for you, they can't afford to wait.
Even if it's a big injury, if you just let it keep dragging on, then it's easy to give people an unlucky feeling, and will affect your reputation.
In any case, you only have some scrapes, and it's the first time you're the lead actor, don't give people things to say about you.
Tomorrow when it's time to film, it'll be fine if you're careful and don't bump into things or touch it.
I remember there are a few scenes where you need to go into the water, you should wrap some plastic wrap on the wound to prevent water from getting in.
There shouldn't be too many problems, but if your injury really hurts too much, then go tell the director, if they can move it back then do that, but if they can't, then find a stunt double; the director'll be able to understand."
Shen Ge, did you work so hard like this when you were acting back in the day?"
Shen Weixing laughed.
In reality, he really wanted to say that these types of little scrapes didn't have any connection with 'working hard'…..
"You're so amazing." Xia Qiu earnestly looked at him, and heartfeltedly commented.
Yet Shen Weixing froze, thinking of Ye Jiuyue all of a sudden, when he said this same phrase during the afternoon, saying that he was very amazing.
Yet the feeling was slightly, subtly not the same.
Ye Jiuyue seemed to be complimenting his efforts in doing practice questions and studying on his own, and so he was–was a little bit happy.
Shen Weixing couldn't help but smile.
Xia Qiu thought that he was happy because of his compliment, and also smiled.
"Shen Ge, then do you have other things to do these few days?"
Shen Weixing quickly recovered.
"You seem to always have some stuff to do over here, but haven't been staying at the hotel, I still want to practice lines with you~" Xia Qiu used a playful, joking tone to say, "I'm afraid that the injury will affect my performance, and I want to find a teacher to give me private lessons and get extra practice."
"Which part do you have questions about?" Shen Weixing thought about it, then said, "You can go to Zhong Yi, she'll help you for the sake of saving face, there's no competitive relationship existing between you and her.
I've seen the things that she's acted in before, she has potential.
Plus, she's in the same debut era as you, if you discuss with her, it might be easier to improve compared to discussing with me.
The most important thing is, now that you two are playing a couple, interacting and getting along with each other will build up your chemistry.
Don't just cease speaking with each other once you're off set, there won't be chemistry to your ship."
"En, alright." Xia Qiu smiled again as he spoke.
He took out his phone and flipped through it.
"Speaking of shipping and chemistry, I just thought of something, I had planned on sharing these videos with you before.
They were edited by fans, and they said that us two are really shippable, hahahahahahahaha, I think they're actually quite well done, pretty interesting."
Truthfully, Shen Weixing had already secretly watched this type of video a long time ago.
It was all cut and made by the fans gained from that game show, and the content was gathered from the roles that Shen Weixing and Xia Qiu had previously played.
It was also due to the editing purposefully leading to that direction by the studio.
Nowadays, it was a popular practice to do so and attract CP fans.
Xia Qiu more or less relied on this to get a wave of fans from this show.
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Although Shen Weixing personally really wanted to strangle the "XingLu" ship to death.
He was going to die of envy of Lu Bei, they'd debuted around the same time, but Lu Bei had already gotten awards and nominations, now they weren't even on the same level anymore.
Antis would often mock Shen Weixing and say that he was sticking himself to Lu Bei and 'bumping porcelain' through levels.
Xia Qiu gave an "Oh", then didn't say anything more.
Shen Weixing brought Xia Qiu back to the hotel, once they got to the door he said, "I won't go in, it's too late, I still have things to do.
Remember to change the medical ointment and don't let your wound get wet.
If anything happens, call me."
"Now I'm embarrassed, just this little injury and I'm still talking to you about it.
I was afraid that you would see the news and be worried.
Originally, I just wanted to just give you a heads up, to reassure you is all.
Who knew that you'd run over here." Xia Qiu smiled.
"Shen Ge, you're so good to me."
Shen Weixing paused for a few seconds, then said, "It's what I ought to do, Professor Xia and Shiniang are very good to me.
You're their only child.
In truth, they don't want you to go into the entertainment industry, it's messy here, but since you were so persistent, they agreed.
They all spoil you a lot.
They often tell me to take care of you.
You have to work hard.
Since you like the entertainment industry so much, then you should make something of yourself for them to see."
Xia Qiu smiled.
But you always act in a 'just taking care of you because of your parents' way.
Then, if my parents weren't in the picture, would I just be a stranger hmm?"
When he said this, he had a bit of an intimate, playful teasing air.
Shen Weixing was used to it. Xia Qiu grew up in a honey pot, he was used to using coy tactics with the people close to him, and was always very well-liked.
That's why Shen Weixing would never flatter himself and think too much.
This crush could only be a silent secret for his entire lifetime.
Shen Weixing thought.
This is already fine.
Shen Weixing smiled at Xia Qiu.
"Of course not, I take you for a little brother."
Zhong Yi's hotel room was across from Xia Qiu's.
Thanks to Xia Qiu, she finished work early today.
After she had finished her meal, she studied the script in her room.
When she was taking a short break to stretch, she heard sounds coming from outside.
She went over and saw through the door's peephole Shen Weixing leaving.
Then, she watched Xia Qiu go into his room and close the door, after which she rolled her eyes.
Just now, the group chat for the drama's crew had said that tomorrow's shooting schedule remained the same.
Zhong Yi was very annoyed.
Tomorrow she would have to listen to Xia Qiu's horrible lines again, which would occasionally have 'one, two, three, four' mixed in, shit.
She practically wanted to advise the director to give Xia Qiu two more days to memorize his lines.
Shen Weixing went back to his car and immediately contacted Ye Jiuyue.
Ye Jiuyue replied, "At the dorm ah."
"I'll come pick you up."
"I'm sleeping."
Shen Weixing glanced at the time again.
"It's only eight, what are you doing sleeping? Have you gotten pregnant recently? Sleeping from day to night, all you do is sleep, didn't you already take a midday nap today?"
Ye Jiuyue:"……"
Shen Weixing said, "I'll come pick you up."
Ye Jiuyue replied, "I'm sleeping."
"It's only eight o'clock, how can you be sleeping?"
"I don't know why either, these past few days I've been getting tired easily."
"Did you catch a cold?'
"I haven't, yah."
"Then it's the latent period of sickness."
"It wouldn't be, would it?"
"It's only eight, how can you be sleeping?!"
"I might have come down with a cold, yah."
"Ye Jiuyue, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you?!"
"No~? You're the one who said it."
Shen Weixing banged his fist on the steering wheel.
Fuck, don't think you'll anger me to death! I won't be angered to death by you, Ye Jiuyue! Before I'm angered to death by you, I'll definitely strangle you to death first! Shen Weixing thought with gritted teeth.
In truth, Ye Jiuyue had told a little, borderline lie.
He was indeed lying on his bed, under the covers, but he wasn't sleeping, he was still playing with his phone.
Normally he wouldn't sleep so early, but tonight he couldn't muster up the energy to study.
He didn't know what was up, so he didn't force himself and just laid under the covers while on his phone.
After angering Shen Weixing—Ah no, it was after refusing Shen Weixing's offer to fuck, Ye Jiuyue continued scrolling on his phone.
The other three people in his dorm were all out on dates or out self-studying, so it was very quiet in the dorm.
Ye Jiuyue only had a little table-lamp turned on by the head of the bed, after two hours on his phone, he gradually became tired.
Just as Ye Jiuyue prepared to put down his phone to let it charge, he received a message.
When he clicked to see it, it was a photo sent by Shen Weixing.
A picture of abs.
It didn't show a face, but was almost revealing the □□.
It seemed to have been taken just after a shower, there were a few drops of water that hadn't been wiped away.
Ye Jiuyue couldn't stop himself from thinking: when men get horny, they really are capable of doing anything in order to have sex, huh.
Still in the sage mode, Ye Jiuyue saved the photo, then turned off his phone and plugged it in to charge.
Shen Weixing smugly waited for ten minutes, his smile slowly and gradually fading.
Unable to keep it in, he tried calling but the other party had turned off their phone.
Shen Weixing nearly smashed his phone.
Rinrin: aiyoooo hhhhh.
Too bad, SWX, your ploy didn't work this time (maybe woulda worked if you were there in person, gotta use the face with your abs for a combo move)
Sel: pffffft hahahahahaha
Lastin: Nice try, but YJY is too smart to fall for it.


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Virtual IEAI Speaker Series: Kampong Ethics and Life-space Storytelling: Trusting AI with Mark Findlay
November 11, 2021 – 10:00 am - 11:00 am
With its Speaker Series, the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence invites experts from all over the world to talk about ethics and governance of AI. These events serve as an important platform for sharing new research and exchanging knowledge.
The November session of the TUM IEAI Speaker Series will take place on 11th of November, 10am (CET) virtually via Zoom. The topic of the session will be Kampong Ethics and Life-space Storytelling: Trusting AI.
We are pleased to announce that the speaker for this session is Mark Findlay, Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, and Director of its Centre for AI and Data Governance, where he is a Professorial Research Fellow.
In addition, Mark Findlay has honorary Chairs at the Australian National University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of New South Wales, as well as being an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, and an Honorary Fellow of the Law School, University of Edinburgh. Professor Findlay is the author of 29 monographs & collections and has refereed over 150 articles and book chapters. He has held Chairs in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and Ireland. He was at the University of Sydney for over twenty year, as the Chair in Criminal Justice and the Director of the Institute of Criminology.
Most recent publications include 'Law's Regulatory Relevance' and 'Principled International Criminal Justice: Lessons from tort law'. Currently he is working on COVID-19 regulatory issues represented in the following discussion papers.
Regulating Personal Data Usage in COVID-19 Control Conditions
Ethics, AI, Mass Data and Pandemic Challenges: Responsible Data Use and Infrastructure Application for Surveillance and Pre-emptive Tracing Post-crisis
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using System;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Threading;
using LionFire.Alerting;
using LionFire.Avalon;
using LionFire.UI.Entities;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using LionFire.UI.Entities.Conventions;
using LionFire.Collections;

namespace LionFire.UI.Entities.Wpf
{
    public class WpfAlerter : IAlerter
    {

        public IUIRoot UIRoot { get; }
        public WpfDispatcherAdapter WpfDispatcherAdapter { get; }

        public Dispatcher Dispatcher => WpfDispatcherAdapter.Dispatcher;

        public WpfAlerter(WpfDispatcherAdapter wpfDispatcherAdapter, IUIRoot uiRoot)
        {
            WpfDispatcherAdapter = wpfDispatcherAdapter;
            UIRoot = uiRoot;
        }

        #region IsAlertOpen

        public bool IsAlertOpen
        {
            get => isAlertOpen;
            set
            {
                if (isAlertOpen == value) return;
                isAlertOpen = value;
                IsAlertOpenChanged?.Invoke();
            }
        }
        private bool isAlertOpen;

        public event Action IsAlertOpenChanged;

        #endregion

        public virtual void Alert(Alert alert)
        {
            if (!Dispatcher.CheckAccess()) { Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() => Alert(alert))); return; }

            var layer = (Panel) ((IHierarchyOfKeyed<IUIKeyed>)UIRoot.MainWindow()) .QuerySubPath(UIConventions.Keys.Layers, UIConventions.Keys.TopLayer);

            if (layer == null)
            {
                l.LogCritical("Failed to get adorner layer for alert: " + alert.Message + " " + alert.Exception);
                // TODO: Throw exception and use a fallback alerter
                return;
            }

            var a = new AlertAdorner() { DataContext = alert, Layer = layer };
            a.SetValue(Panel.ZIndexProperty, 99);
            layer.Children.Add(a);
            IsAlertOpen = true;
        }

        private static ILogger l = Log.Get();
    }
}

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As we all know, it doesn't take much to get stuck. Before we know it, we are barreling along on automatic, going down a road that doesn't support our happiness and well being. Sound familiar?
Some of these tendencies we perpetuate are so strong, that we may not even know what to do to find our way out. We are lost in tunnel vision, with seemingly no choices for freeing ourselves.
A friend of mine gets caught in trying to be perfect. When he needs to make a decision, he researches the options endlessly, staying on the fence for a very long time (up to a year!).
Whatever is your special brand of suffering, here is the truth: There is always a way out. Not sure how to begin? Simply ask questions.
Discover useful information about what you are thinking, feeling, and doing.
Embark on a path that offers the freedom to make appropriate choices for yourself.
Stop the loop of unsatisfying or self-defeating patterns.
How to do it? Simple. Take any habit at all that you recycle in your life, any way you spin your wheels, and ask yourself any of these questions. Take them slowly, one at a time, and let them sink in.
Is this supporting my well being?
Is this serving me and everyone else?
How is this pattern bringing trouble to my life?
What do I really want? Is this what I want?
How can I be more aligned with what I want?
What is my heart saying? How is it directing me?
How can I be kind to myself?
How can I bring ease to my life in this very moment?
It is not an exaggeration to say that asking these questions can be transformative. When you stop to inquire about what is actually going on in the moment, the raw truth is revealed. You may not like what you see, but seeing things clearly opens up the possibility to make a new, healthier, more life-supporting choice.
Say that what holds you back is self-critical thinking. Without you even realizing it, court is in session, and judge and jury are hard at work – in your mind. At some point, you will recognize what is happening. And this is the time to start asking questions.
Any tendency that brings you unhappiness is not aligned with your true desires. This disconnection needs to be identified, brought to the surface, and seen in the light of day – and asking questions will allow this to happen. Only then can you turn toward the peace and ease you long for.
I have to say, I'm amazed at the power of synchronicity. Just as I was completing this post, what shows up in my inbox, but a link to an article by poet David Whyte called "10 Questions That Have No Right to Go Away." Immensely revealing.
Interested in truth, authenticity, and heart-fueled living? Start asking questions.
I will admit that my first reaction was to tamp down my cringe reflex when I realized I was being redirected to an Oprah site, as I always associate Oprah fans as fanatics and mindless followers, but I read the 10 Questions. I found about half of them essentially useful, but the list was thought-provoking.
I appreciate that you allowed yourself to stay open, Clare, even in the midst of your cringe reflex! Isn't that what freedom is about – to not let our automatic reactions trap us? If you had gone with the cringe, you would have missed out. Great example of of one of my main messages on this blog. Thanks!
I love that, David – question open many doors. Thank you for your comment.
Do you agree that if you know the truth you are not in a rut the problem lies in not accepting that truth, honoring it and taking action.
I'm not sure I understand your question, Jay, but I'll give it a shot. When you accept how things actually are, you are able to honor that truth and action follows. At that point, you are not stuck – you are being authentic and real with what is happening. If you perceive a problem, then there is resistance to a thought, feeling, or situation which can be investigated – always with great kindness and compassion. As you bring kindness to whatever is stuck, it begins to soften.
We are not necessarily stuck when action needs to be taken. Sometimes we just don't know what to do, and the best thing is to wait until things become clearer. But if you know what has to be done, and you are holding back from doing it, I would call that being stuck.
If you are stuck, you are experiencing fear or resistance of some kind. First, recognize that this is what is really happening. Then bring acceptance to it – don't fight it. Simply allow it to be present, if it is there. Then you will see that you don't have to have that fear or resistance driving you. You can put is aside and move forward from a clearer place.


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Statement from Communities Against Water Charges
We Won't Back Down
On Monday the 24 November 2014 we expect four of our friends and neighbors to be committed to prison for exercising their right to peaceful protest. They are to be punished for failing to abide by a High Court injunction granted to GMC Sierra which requires them (and any other protester) to, among other things, remain at least 20 meters away from workers installing unwanted water meters.
This injunction, in spite of the High Court Judges claims to the contrary, obliterates any meaningful right to protest against the installation of water meters. For that reason protesters throughout Dublin, and the rest of the country, have rejected this illegitimate interference with their right to protest, and have continued their dignified resistance to the installation of water meters, and the water charges regime.
This injunction, and the expected imprisonment of our friends and neighbors on Monday, represents another attack on the people of this country, and on the right to peacefully resist and oppose the unjust policies of an unrepresentative government. In the coming weeks and months, we expect the establishment to engage in many more attacks on our movement, using the law as one of its main instruments.
For this reason, we have been working with groups around the country on building legal defence funds: this is a collective struggle for our basic rights and a better future. For that reason, any person that ends up in court for resisting this illegitimate tax and attempt to commodify the most basic of necessities, needs to know that they will not be alone, and we will stand with them. We therefore call on the Right2Water Campaign, its affiliated unions and the political parties that have stated their opposition to the water charges, to contribute what they can to the Peoples Defence Funds.
If, as feared, our friends are imprisoned on Monday we are calling for a mass, silent candlelight vigil outside of the prison they are committed to (most likely Mountjoy Prison in Dublin).
As the struggle against this unjust double-tax enters a new phase, and a beleaguered government begins to lash out with all of the means at its disposal, we will make it abundantly clear that fear will not carry the day in this contest, and that nobody who stands against this injustice will stand alone.
Communities Against Water Charges
Real Democracy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
This is an extended version of a comment I left on the Irish Times website in response to an article by Fintan O'Toole, which is titled What's the Big Idea? It's time for the State to consider a real democracy.
It's timely that Fintan O'Toole should be writing about the idea of real democracy on exactly the same day that Fine Gael Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan conjures up the image of a "vast majority" of anti-water charges protesters "led by forces who have no regard for democracy".
What Flanagan's perspective illustrates is the prevailing attitude towards democracy on the part of Ireland's political elites. The mass public opposition to water charges does not emerge from a sense of injustice or from a sense of anger at being made to pay once again for the corruption and greed of Ireland's political and economic elites. No: it is because protesters and by extension the people at large do not know their own mind, they are easily led, and the government always know best.
If we are going to talk about real democracy, then we should be talking about the concentration of political and economic power. How is it, for instance, that GMC Sierra, the company tasked with installation of Irish Water meters, is owned by the same individual who is also the key shareholder in Independent News and Media, as well as a host of national radio stations? The fact that a billionaire can exercise such influence over public affairs is incompatible with real democracy. In fact, the idea that some people can be billionaires whilst others live in situations of deprivation and poverty is entirely at odds with the idea of democracy that has been fought for by countless millions since the 19th century, in the Easter Rising, in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Second World War. None of this, of course, troubles Charlie Flanagan or the rest of his party, who supported the fascists when they were running rampant. Nor the Labour Party, for that matter.
We should also be talking about how Ireland's political parties have a very dubious track record, not just in terms of their general attitude, but also in terms of legislation when it comes to matters of censorship and free speech. Even more important, the prevailing idea of democracy in Ireland is that the only truly legitimate form of participation in democratic political life is voting every now and again, and in the space between one election and the next it is a matter of submitting to the will of the Cabinet, or the Economic Management Council, with just enough farcical attempts at public consultation to get over the hump of occasional opposition.
What is more, it is also clear that Ireland's political, economic and media elites have no interest in extending the idea of democracy into the economic realm, whether in terms of material equality and dignity, or in terms of collective ownership of vital resources or the means of production. Democracy by their lights means that the economic realm should be kept separate from political intervention, except when it's a matter of suppressing the rights of workers, of stripping away entitlement to health, education and welfare supports, of prioritising the financial sector over the interests of the population at large, and of sending in the police to batter protesters.
So, the first step, then, in talking about real democracy, is to recognise that what passes for democracy, right now, is a complete fake. It means recognising that everyone has the right to participation in political life and to a decent and fulfilled life. And it means realising that the representation of the public as unthinking violent hordes has to be brought to an end. Recent days have shown that Ireland's elites are not up to such tasks. In fact, they are dedicated to frustrating them, and they are therefore the major obstacle to the 'real, vibrant, engaged, republican democracy' that Fintan O'Toole quite rightly advocates.
Socialism For The Rich in Jobstown
'Socialism for the rich' became a popular phrase in recent years. It refers to the way the rich have all kinds of mechanisms for mutual support and solidarity, and the way this is reflected in government policy.
The vast machinery of speculation owned by the wealthy was saved, and at the expense of those whose labour created their wealth. The astronomical debts racked up by private banks were loaded onto the backs of the working class. The latter would pay for them through wage cuts, longer working hours, cuts to vital public services and privatisation; and through the heightened exhaustion, stress, mental illness, unemployment, strained relationships. And a never-ending litany of tiny everyday personal humiliations, if people had the time and the means to recount them.
Neoliberalism seeks to demolish any form of collective solidarity that becomes an obstacle to the logic of the market. But it also seeks to develop forms of collective solidarity that embrace the market as the way, the truth, and the life.
Just as neoliberalism demonises those who become the obstacle, it mobilises common feelings of sympathy, respect and veneration for the demolition experts. CEOs, 'entrepreneurs', economists, personal finance experts, small business owners, first-time buyers, parents who only want the best choice of school for their children, consumers who want the best private health insurance policy for their needs: all these and more form part of neoliberalism's community of the living and the dead.
Professional politicians are a special case: when they prove tough enough, brave enough, ambitious enough, to ram through legislation that serves the logic of the market, they are celebrated and welcomed. When they seem incapable of doing so, or when they get in the way, they are bitterly denounced.
The threat to this neoliberalism's community of the living and the dead –since where we are now is always moving towards everything our forebears struggled to create- comes from the seething mob, from the begrudgers, from those lacking the intelligence to see the righteousness of the path neoliberalism lays out in front of us, and from those lacking the manners to respect the way things are done under neoliberal rule.
Although neoliberalism mobilises common antipathy towards the role of government, it is only the role of government in areas that support or maintain collective solidarity. In so far as government exercises its powers to enforce neoliberal rule, it will be viewed sympathetically.
Rebellious behaviour is encouraged under neoliberalism, provided it is rebellion in favour of the logic of the market, in favour of the general will of money. On the other hand, disloyalty to the State –the primary instrument of neoliberalism- is actively discouraged, and common sympathies are mobilised in the call for greater repression and surveillance.
In Jobstown, Dublin, on Saturday afternoon, a woman was confined to her car for two hours. Insults were shouted. A water balloon was thrown. The car was rocked back and forth, and people banged noisily on the roof of the car. Following Garda intervention, and negotiation among the protesters, the woman was allowed to leave.
On the scale of things, on the scale of the massive structural violence inflicted by austerity policies in Ireland, this was nothing. Nothing. That did not stop a host of figures from Ireland's political and media establishment, but also a good deal of polite society, from weighing in against the protesters, with terms like "scum", "mob", "fascists" liberally cast around.
In this regard, Joan Burton is a beneficiary of socialism for the rich. The concern for her wellbeing is a product of the indignation felt by the rich –and those who identify with them- when they feel that one of their own has come under attack. They look at her and ask themselves what if it was them, or what if it was a member of their family. The sympathy is second nature.
By contrast, the protesters who surrounded the car are an amorphous, menacing swarm. They are not people like "us"; they are not brothers or sisters or people struggling to pay bills or people enduring any kind of humiliation or hardship who have found a common cause together. The fact that they have appeared in public view, that they have stopped the normal order and flow of things where those who rule are treated with respect and those who are ruled maintain a harmless distance, becomes cause for instinctive outrage.
The idea that they might be stopping the car, and even hurling insults or a water balloon, because the government represents the interests of the rich whilst expecting to be treated like dignitaries, is beyond the bounds of polite conversation and contemplation. Joan is right because the State is right because the markets are right and because we are right, and that is that, and anyone who disagrees is an enemy of democracy. This, as I was saying the other day, is what demophobia looks like.
The focus on the Socialist Party TD for the area, Paul Murphy, and on his role in the protests, is in keeping with this fear of the mob. What is outrageous about him, from this perspective, is not that he is an elected representative and hence not behaving like the genteel legislator he ought to be, but rather that he is from a relatively comfortable background. And as such, he is a traitor to the cause of socialism for the rich.
People from relatively comfortable places, according to this line of thinking, have no business finding common cause with people from Jobstown, since the latter do not know their own minds: people like him should become accountants and vote Labour and remain respectable members of society. And if people in places like Jobstown do irrupt into our line of vision, it isn't because they have decided among themselves to mobilise because they have had enough, but because they have been led astray. They are there to be led; they are not there to take part in politics, and if the Gardaí have to batter them, well, that's regrettable, but they're just restoring proper order, after all.
And the trouble for Ireland's political and media establishment, and also a good deal of polite society, is that this "mob" is not planning on going away soon. And deep down, they know it, and they are scared. Hence it is easier and more productive to focus on a single brick than to contemplate the crumbling foundations beneath them.
Review: Lost Tribe of the Wicklow Mountains by Dave Lordan
Dave Lordan
Is there anything to be said for another poem?
This week the Irish government released a video to promote the 2016 commemorations of the Easter Rising. 'Remember where we came from', the captions implore, even though there is no reference to the Rising itself, nor those who took part in it.
The Rising is no longer a political event, but something to do with training children to sit in front of computers and having a multinational corporation as a superego.
If the 1916 protagonists have been kept out of our imagination as ruthlessly as Stalin ever did with Trotsky, other figures of note are still allowed to take their place alongside the Queen, David Cameron and Bob Geldof.
I'm referring to poets. Yeats is there, as is Beckett, as is Seamus Heaney. (Michael D Higgins and Martin McGuinness too, but not for their poems)
Ireland's elite culture uses poets and their prestige as a kind of fireproof decoration. Whatever it is they have said or written, they are not going to get in the way. Phil Hogan, the mastermind behind Irish Water, even wanted Seamus Heaney to run for President of Ireland. From the perspective of rulers, poets are supposed to be figures of consensus and conciliation, not rebellion and confrontation, and the same should hold for their poems.
I'm not best placed to make pronouncements on what poets have to say about this, either in our outside their poems. I don't read much poetry. I'd like to do more but I don't have much time and never cultivated that much of a habit. I don't really feel that comfortable writing about poems either. I remember reading somewhere that the only true response to a poem can come from another poem. I don't know if that's true, but it feels true.
Shouldn't we worry about the fact that people like me –that is, most people around here- don't read or listen to or talk about poems? What happens to our imagination, our collective sense of who we are, our historical memory, when literary culture and tradition becomes little more than an elite pursuit of distinction, or part of an elaborate national branding exercise?
It isn't as if poetic constructions will cease to exist; they'll just be used by assorted commissars for stimulating our consumer appetites and maintaining our allegiance to the flashing corporate logo above our head as we descend into confused nihilism.
Luckily for us, however, there is Dave Lordan.
In My mother speaks to me of suicide, one of the poems in his vital new collection, Lost Tribe of the Wicklow Mountains, the poet announces he is tired of the 'public platitudes' – 'a plague, a scourge, an epidemic'- used to describe what happens when young people in Ireland annihilate themselves:
[…]Not medicine nor scripture
can explain it; suicide at Irish rates is self-destruction
as mass movement and tells us that the life we live
the all-of-us, here-and-now, has something
seriously wrong with it.
A friend of mine philosopher Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, writes, after Spinoza, that every suicide is preceded by 'a murder, by a transformation in the essence of the individual by an exterior cause that destroys him from the inside, like a cancer or an autoimmune disease'. But also, he writes, within the phenomenological description of suicide one can include the choice of death as a 'lesser evil'.
Suicide is thus 'the encounter of the individual with a destructive and invincible power'. In which case, he concludes, the option of death itself becomes an affirmation of life.
In this sense, what Dave Lordan names as "self-destruction as mass movement" can be thought of along the same lines as the conservation of dignity inherent in Seneca's suicide or in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising:
A young man double-barrelly decapitating himself
in a cow shed;
the gun-roar submerged in the chaos of cows and machines.
A young man jumping into a fast-flowing river-
dead-cold-halt after zooming through
a three-day bender.
A young man jogging a dirt track leading up to a cliff,
then lepping off.
Crucial to Dave Lordan's broader poetic approach to the social destruction told of in My mother speaks to me of suicide is the way he recognises something similar to what Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop describes here:
Though at times the only way of conserving one's dignity is suicide, there often exists the possibility of rebelling alongside others, of recognising the wrongs we suffer in others. It is what is known as indignation. Indignation is a sadness, but it is a sadness that brings to light our social fabric, solidarity, community, and can even give rise to an empowerment of the individual when she becomes able to fashion alongside others, and in the face of a hostile power, a new reality that makes it possible to live.
Or, as Dave Lordan writes:
young men in Irish small towns and townlands,
suburbs and exurbs, flat-blocks and villages
are going to go right on killing themselves
until this life, this incredible life I adore
and which must not be wasted
be made worth living and living
and living again, for everyone.
It is this all-of-us, here-and-now that confronts certain young people as a destructive and invincible power. But if it is, what can you do about it? More to the point, what can poetry do about it? As Lordan writes in Lost Poem:
Who am I to instruct
a modern professional like you?
I'm poetry. I'm the thick
and endless forest of the lost.
What it can do, in Lordan's hands at least, is confront this 'all-of-us, here-and-now' in its manifold guises.
Discover Ireland, the name for tourist initiatives that enjoin Irish people to get out and about and spend money across the country, is set in a slaughterhouse, in which 'Ireland' could be the entire operation itself, or the precarious migrant executioners slitting the cows' throats on fear of penalty.
Or, it could be the 'unstunned cow'
kicking and bucking and butting
against the eighteen-inch blade,
even as the blood is being drawn
Spin starts off in polite contrast to the carnage of the abbatoir. Silence personified has taken hold, and it is silence doing the talking:
Would you just shut-up about the budget?
Nice things, why can't we just talk about nice things?
The lovely hedgerows and lawns hereabouts. Butterflies.
Our far flung children, high achievers all.
Old country recipes. Recent sporting victories.
Weddings we have been to. Other public ceremonies.
But in this version of the all-of-us, here-and-now imposed by silence, we careen towards the social abbatoir where silence holds sway:
I am the broken promises factory skirting every Irish town.
I am the Hotel Empty. My rating is five black-holes.
I host the most magnificent cobwebs, prestigious cracks,
Glittering slug-trails, drafts of international importance.
And into oblivion:
Shhssh! Silence is packing us up in a jar,
Diving us down to her black uninhabited realm,
Roots that throttle us in wrecks, grey silt-weeds
This 'black uninhabited realm' sounds like the ideal place for the 'morbid accountant' poet of the aforementioned My mother speaks to me of suicide.
She calls and she calls and she tells and she tells,
as if she was the ledger of death self-inflicted
and I – her firstborn, the poet – a morbid accountant
who must reckon the substance, the meaning,
the worth of all this self-slaughter.
Against this silence, against this grim rationality, against a rootedness that asphyxiates, Lordan professes his faith, in the exhilarating title poem, in the realms where the human imagination flourishes, among the traces left by outcasts and rebels and apostates and the shadowy fringes of modern urban life.
It's so righteous to stray.
It's so good to abandon.
It's so just to ascend
With the lost and forgotten
To summits the rooted
Cannot even imagine.
'The rooted': those frozen to the spot by the sense of obligation to tradition, convention, and silence. But if Dave Lordan is out to accompany the lost and forgotten to the highest peaks, he is also concerned with seeking them out, gathering them in. The poem Irish history locates those who might have built a different all-of-us, here-and-now:
[…]dying in dark visions and fits
in an abandoned industrial unit
on the outskirts of Manchester
with your rummaging Aberdeen girlfriend,
full of pills made in Hoxley and vintage vomit,
syphillis breeding with TB
inside you like those gigantic
Norvegicus that swam behind you
in the wake of your ferry,
Saint Patrick II.
And yet, despite the vistas of uncompromising cosmological bleakness, there is hope to be found, and Lordan locates it in the strangest and most familiar of places: within ourselves. The poem Hope addresses the reader or listener directly, in the sounds and syntax of a down-and-out, as though the reader or listener were the very personification of hope:
I know yuv a hundurd millin virgin spouses pushin' up slums
an' high-tech factories from underneath the battlefields.
Tis tuh the dead we can never repay yud mos jusly return,
them that rose an' wuz crushed for yer dreamin', the manygod
that manytimes gave ya generation. But I ain't ready tuh let ya
go jus yet. So get up. Get up. I said GET THE FUCK UP!
An' c'mere and give us a hug and give us a peck
on the cheek, and give us a drag on yer spliff.
The final poem in the collection, Love commands the neighbourhood, recalls William Blake's The Divine Image in its injunction to love the human form in all its diverse states of fracture and disintegration and imperfect beauty.
What commands in the end, above all, is the mutual embrace of all those condemned to oblivion by a system in meltdown.
Love all those with a love like a grieving,
for they too are leaving, they too are going their way.
Close by there's a man who stole through the barracks
after bombardment, collecting watches and teeth,
and a woman who walked out of a bomb. Love them.
Love as a refusal, love as a form of militant resistance. Perhaps poetry looks puny when considered alongside 'the DJ's billion-kilometre tongue' on the radio playing in Workmate, the formidable media apparatus that commands ecstatic erotic consent for sadistic violence upon the multitude of the poor. But in Dave Lordan's hands this poetry raises our gaze, towards the summits to be conquered, where the realm of true freedom lies, an all-of-us, here-and-now of where the 'everyday holy' is worshipped, and where communion is 'sharing abundance' . He does it with dazzling technique, accessibility and explosive power, and if you have any sense of humanity, you will read this collection.
Demophobia and Letters to the Editor
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A few weeks back I was reading a piece by one of the main figures in Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero. He wrote (my translation):
Back to Gramsci: we are all intellectuals. We all work with our intelligence. A teacher is no greater than a plumber or a stagehand (I have no doubt that the reverse can often be true). But some people hold the function of intellectuals and others do not. It is a matter of occupation. One specialises in one's occupation. We all know about politics however and in democracy we must all have the right to speak up for ideas in public. That is why the letters to the editor are one of the most worthy sections of a decent newspaper. It is in the letters where you find the plain people [in Spanish, el pueblo llano, a direct cognate] writing (though the professionals of politics want to occupy that sphere too). They are a reflection of society, that is, unless they have been tampered with.
I was thinking about those lines when I read the one by Donna Hartnett in today's Irish Independent. The letter has won a lot of public acclaim, and rightly so. Eloquent and moving, honest, resolute and defiant. A person at the end of her tether who turns the focus onto the everyday inhumanity of daily life in Ireland, and its consequences for children. The word infant –I learned this from one of Monedero's books- means 'unable to speak'. So it falls on others to speak for them. In this case, Donna Hartnett speaks for her children, confined like so many others to a regime that we prefer not to consider as inhuman, even though we know it is. But in so doing she ends up speaking for other people's children, and for other people too.
"I'm one of the silent majority", said a caller who supported the water charges on Liveline recently, oblivious to the irony. The "silent majority" are often the object of the worst form of populism: the one that claims to speak on behalf of the people so long as they appear to say nothing. Within that "silent majority" are over a million children under the age of 15, whose voice counts for nothing. Over 300,000 of them are living in enforced deprivation, but as Donna Hartnett's letter suggests, that is not the full extent of the inhumanity by a long shot.
But it isn't just children who are rendered without a voice by Ireland's political and economic system. As the letter shows, it is their parents, guardians and carers too. It is a great many people for whom the day-to-day struggle to get on with things, to make ends meet, to keep a home on an even keel, renders them voiceless in the political arena. Then, when it comes to saying something, doing something, where do you start? Turn on the radio, any current affairs or talk show and all you hear about is how your problems are your responsibility and of your own making. Here are some guidelines from a psychologist or a personal finance expert or a careers specialist, now paddle your own canoe.
The crisis generated by Irish Water, and the unprecedented public mobilisation in response has exposed the ingrained condescension of Ireland's party political machine. These people, they tell us, are being led astray by hard left agitators, by professional grievance merchants, by sinister fringes. Behind these utterances lies the conviction that the plain people have no mind of their own. They are, in short, infants. There is a Greek-derived word for this condition that grips people like Pat Rabbitte: demophobia.
If the Irish Water mobilisation has achieved anything, it is this: a realisation that we are not alone, that we are not condemned to isolation and private implosion. When I looked at social media responses to Donna Hartnett's letter I saw the same word cropping up over and again: brave. But why should it be brave to say such things? What is it that prevents us from speaking out more, and louder? A sense of personal shame? A reluctance to disturb relations with others in our personal circles or workplaces that might be superficially friendly, but we sense are conditional on keeping quiet about uncomfortable things? These are questions, I imagine, that will never be probed too deeply in Ireland's newspapers. Donna Hartnett's letter will be repositioned in terms of tax cuts intended to maintain the status quo, or the squeezed middle, or family values, or governmental incompetence. I imagine attention will be diverted away from the root of the matter and in a few days balance will be restored to letters pages, with anxiously droll wordplay and pompous officialese flooding those spaces once again. It is on the streets in protests and in meetings on the grass verges of housing estates and on social media pages that the germ of a collective answer will most likely be found. And when it is found, that is when an audacious democratic awakening will take shape.
Being Born In A Stable Doesn't Make You A Horse: Stability and the Irish State
I left this comment on Fintan O'Toole's article in today's Irish Times, which is titled Losing its grip: why the Irish political system can no longer guarantee stability. I've amended the comment slightly by removing my use of the adjective 'instable', which apparently doesn't exist. Yet.
We are led to imagine that stability is the same for everyone, that everyone has the same kind of stability, and that stability is a good thing in itself. But imagining such a thing leads us to ignore the fact that stability for some means instability for others. Stable profits, stable revenues, stable expectations for big business owners can correspond to unstable incomes, unstable living standards, unstable expectations and unstable relationships for the vast majority. Thus if the State provides stability –and let's recall that 'State' and 'stability' share the same st- root, the first question is: stability for whom?
Horses are kept in stables, but that is not their natural habitat. That is, they are housed under control, for the purposes of those who use them. There is no reason to assume that this is what a horse wants. It may be trained to want such a thing, to rely on it, but that doesn't mean it is as good as it gets for a horse, however much a horse owner might argue otherwise.
Perhaps this can tell us something about human beings. True, the fact that the State provides essential services, the fact that it guarantees certain entitlements, means that in many cases, a human being will be trained to look upon it as a useful and desirable thing, especially when the visible alternatives are much worse.
But is the State –the Irish State such as it is- as good as it gets for the broad mass of people in Ireland? Only if you believe that capitalism and class exploitation are as good as it gets. Well, as even Jack O'Connor knows, capitalism and democracy are now parting company. Thus a democratic consensus under capitalism becomes an increasingly remote aspiration. Fintan O'Toole describes this situation as 'dangerous': if this is true, who are the people posing the danger?
Either we have a society based on democratic rights, or we do not. It will not do to pretend that those demanding forms of democratic recognition are equally dangerous to those primarily served by the State since its inception: ranchers, bankers and political elites. If a new social consensus needs forging, it should be based on the principle that there are winners and losers in the current scenario, and that those roles need to be reversed. If that means certain people become exposed as enemies of democracy, too bad.
Resisting the Water Charges and Defending Our Right to Protest
We are residents of a number of communities in Dublin North East. Over the last number of months we have come together to resist the installation of water meters in our areas, and to oppose this unfair double taxation that the government calls water charges.
For most of us, this is the first time in our lives that we have engaged in any sort of protest and have only done so because we simply cannot take any more of this government's austerity agenda. At all times we have sought to resist the installation of these meters in a peaceful, dignified and resolute manner.
We are therefore appalled at the recent developments in how An Garda Síochána have policed our protests, and with the blatant campaign to vilify and demonise us that the government and Gardai, supported by segments of the media, launched in recent days.
They have claimed that Gardai are routinely assaulted at protests, and that our movement has been infiltrated by a "sinister fringe" or by "dissident republicans". We categorically reject these claims. In recent weeks we have been subjected to heavy handed and abusive policing by the Gardai. Men and women, protesting peacefully, have been pushed, pulled and punched by Gardai. To our knowledge not one of our fellow protesters has been convicted of assaulting a member of An Garda Síochána, and violent protest is not something we would endorse or tolerate.
With respect to the claim that our movement has been infiltrated by sinister elements, we reject this also. We are the people on the streets, day in, day out, peacefully resisting these meters; we are mothers, fathers, parents, pensioners, workers and unemployed – we are not sinister, dissident republicans.
In light of these developments, we are genuinely fearful that the Gardai, at the behest of the government, are preparing to become even more aggressive towards our protests and to eviscerate our right to protest.
We therefore call on all of the people of Ireland to come out and support us this coming Monday, 10 November 2014, in Dublin North East. We fear that GMC Sierra will attempt, with heavy Garda support, to enter our areas and install meters that we do not want. It is our intention to continue to resist this unjust tax in a peaceful and dignified manner, but we fear that the decision has been made to strip us of a meaningful right to protest.
Each and every one of us has resolved to resist this tax and these meters, we will continue to do so in a peaceful way, but if we are to succeed we need the support of other communities. If we all stand together, we can resist these charges, retain water as a public good and human right, and vindicate our right to protest.
communitiesagainstwatercharges@gmail.com


Merry Christmas from VOB and our Tijuana team!
We are always so blessed to sponsor a gathering with our team in Tijuana, and their families, and just enjoy doing something we never get to do: sit down and eat! Ha! But seriously, we stay pretty busy, and pretty task oriented with tasks of providing basic needs, and food for many in their communities who really need help. But on this night, the night after Thanksgiving, we gather each year and share our thanks for one another. We work hard as a team. These men and women, who often put others first, rarely splurge on themselves-much less a dinner out with their entire family! There is lots of talking (loudly with this large a group), laughing, dreaming, photo taking, and yes, of course, a great deal of eating. This year, was our 8th year of gathering, with nearly 50 around the table!
We know that you have many opportunities to follow and support other ministries. We want you to know, that a great deal of our thanks, is for folks like you, who help us reach out and do what we do. We believe that worshiping God, leads to compassion for what's on His heart…..and that having compassion for what is on His heart, leads back to worshiping Him!
Thank you for joining us around the table, in our worship and compassion ministry.


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Q: Connecting Active Directory to wso2 Identity Server Im trying to connect my Active Directory as a user store of wso2 Identity Server 5.3.0 following this tutorial :  https://docs.wso2.com/display/IS530/Configuring+an+Active+Directory+User+Store
my Active directory uses on ldap and not ldaps.
After running the wso2 Identity Server Im trying to login as admin in the management console (localhost:9443/carbon) but I get this error:
04-20 10:23:39,691] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  Searching for user tomer
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,691] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  value after escaping special characters in tomer : tomer
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,694] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  User: tomer exist: true
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,696] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  Searching for user tomer
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,697] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  value after escaping special characters in tomer : tomer
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,697] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  User: tomer exist: true
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,697] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  Searching for user tomer
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,697] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  value after escaping special characters in tomer : tomer
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,697] DEBUG {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager} -  User: tomer exist: true
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,698] ERROR {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.common.AbstractUserStoreManager} -  Error occurred while accessing Java Security Manager Privilege Block
[2017-04-20 10:23:39,699] ERROR {org.wso2.carbon.core.services.authentication.AuthenticationAdmin} -  System error while Authenticating/Authorizing User : Error when handling event : PRE_AUTHENTICATION

I see the authentication is againest ReadOnlyLDAPUserStoreManager but this user store is commented out in user-mgt.xml file.
anybody knows what to do?