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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3h

around the US are still fighting for today: self-determination, equity, women's rights, no oppression of rights in foreign countries, and being upset when the use of the military and capitalism is taken too far.
Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!
Que Viva La Raza!

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3h

Hispanic Heritage Month Day 24
Out of Chicago and inspired by the Black Panthers, the Young Lords in the 1960s organized community action. While you or even I may not agree with every point in their 13 point platform and program, many of the points are still relevant to what people in Chicago and

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 4h

In this push for a post truth world, seek and speak and reconcile Truth

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · Nov 19

Better Way to Be in the World Page 11
Seek evidence based truth, adjust your assumptions, admit when you're wrong, repeat

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 14h

"It was actually a vast cultivated landscape carefully tended by the Indigenous peoples living there. They understood that human beings are a keystone species on whom many others depend."

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 14h

Bioneers: Seeing the forest for the trees
"When the Europeans first came to Turtle Island, they thought they’d found a luxuriantly fertile and abundant wilderness where numerous Indians living there were simply living freely off the fat of the land. The newcomers couldn’t have been more wrong."

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 14h

No one person should ever plenary power or authority....period end of story

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 14h

This is so on point

Julie (Aakadewin-O Waawaashkeshi Kwe) Francella @juliefrancella.com · 19h

Why do good people justify cruelty when it comes from “their side”?
My latest piece looks at cognitive dissonance, complicity, and the cost of silence: from ICE violence to broken treaties.

Please read, subscribe, and share:
🧠🔥 juliefrancella.substack.com/p/cognitive-...
#CognitiveDissonance

Cognitive Dissonance Is the American Condition

Living with the Ache of Contradiction in the Age of Polarization and Healing

juliefrancella.substack.com

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

not just their uninformed, self serving, ego-can't-take-being-wrong opinion.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

then complain if your gauges don't agree with your declaration. You know enough about handling to know how fast or slow your boat turns. We let our current pilots ignore reality at our own peril. A great pilot uses the facts and their skills to get you where you need to go and

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

You wouldn't navigate a.boat or plane without paying attention to the actual measurements (gps today...stars and landmarks in past) that tell you where you are, where you're going and how high and fast. You don't state those positions based on your wishes and

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · Nov 17

Better Way to Be in the World 7 Fixes and corrections in large complicated systems take time, patience and careful measurement of the correct metrics

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

significantly influenced the music of the time and evolution into modern music.
Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Eddie Palmieri, to name just a few.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

Hispanic Heritage Month Day 23
One of a number of music waves to come into US culture from Latin America was in the 40s and 50s when Latin rhythms poured onto the scene. Melding into the existing Black Jazz scene, it created new music called Latin Jazz that

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

We should talk and listen and try to learn from each others perspectives. But I will not debate my very right to exist with you. Treating other people as fellow Humans with decency and respect is not up for debate.