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Vincenzo Pietropaolo: Italian-Canadian Photographer Turns His Lens on Injustice

“I wanted to show two things with my camera: the things that had to be appreciated, and the things that had to be corrected. Photography reveals beauty and truth. And truth sometimes is not very pleasant. I learned about the power of the camera when I was trying to take pictures in a garment factory on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Because the owners were afraid that the camera could witness and record something that wasn’t right—like unsafe working conditions-- they made it almost impossible for me. If I had not become a photographer I would have been a human rights lawyer.”

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United Nations Releases SDGs Report 2019. Have You Heard the Alarm Yet?

Climate change is causing “catastrophic” and “irreversible” damage to the environment. If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut, global warming will continue to surpass the acceptable 1.5 degrees Celsius limit above the pre-industrial baseline, sea levels will continue to rise and ocean acidification will continue to accelerate. One million plant and animal species risk extinction... Also requiring our immediate attention is “inequality among and within other countries.” Liu Zhenmin states that, “Poverty, hunger, and disease continue to affect those that are the poorest and the most vulnerable.”

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Goal 18 for the United Nations: Esperanto, the Common Language of the Human Species

The UN post-2015 goals for sustainable development does not include a common language for all, as the League of Nations tried in vain in 1922.  Does the UN want the Anglophone Empire of Minds? What do the BRICS nations think? And Pope Francis? We must use Esperanto against the "Empire of the Mind" so as to avoid seeing marginalized world languages on an English mortuary table / Leggi in italiano

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