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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Join the Open Rescue Advocates Meeting on Sunday, July 27th! If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, in-person attendance is preferred & everyone not in the area can join by Zoom. See the event description to find out how to become an Open Rescue Advocate.

https://facebook.com/events/s/open-rescue-advocates-meeting-/1481650832585515/

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Hosted by The Simple Heart Initiative.

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Wayne is not only super smart he has an intelligent heart we need more intelligent hearts you can have an intelligent mind but you are not whole unless you have an intelligent heart.

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Aug 11, 2023Liked by Wayne Hsiung

I am not someone who is easily impressed but Mr Hsiung is a remarkable human being. I genuinely thank you, sir, for all your efforts in the struggle for giving the voiceless some level of representation.

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Aug 12, 2023·edited Aug 12, 2023Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Wonderfully put Wayne! ... sending all the support and good vibes to you and everyone else for the upcoming trial... Thank you for continuing your advocacy for Animals through all of this.

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Aug 11, 2023Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Liberation now

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The fight for animal rights is the fight for beauty never better said, but remember it is the beautiful species that took on the fight.

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Aug 14, 2023Liked by Wayne Hsiung

An eloquent, beautifully written piece.

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Aug 12, 2023Liked by Wayne Hsiung

I just pledged my support. Please pledge and share. Support Wayne!

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Oh and good luck for the upcoming trial!

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Thanks again!

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The way the legal system works in America is to try to make you wait and worry by going to any hearing the object being to try to make you suffer I have been before a judge 8 times and walked away.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-31013636

Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank,

warns that the world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics like the deadly Ebola outbreak and proposes financial "pandemic facility"... According to Kim, "...market mechanisms would help us to push improvements in our preparedness for epidemics."

Counterpoint:

The following excerpts are from a talk(10/13/2014) by Robert G. Wallace (Institute for Global Studies U. of Minnesota; http://ias.umn.edu/2014/10/13/wallace/ )

“Pathogens routinely trace society’s inequalities and expropriations like water traces cracks in ice… Ebola represents such a case. The shifts in land use in the Guinean region where the new strain apparently emerged are connected to the kinds of neoliberal structural adjustments that, alongside divesting public health infrastructure, open domestic food production to global circuits of capital… [The corporate agribusiness land acquisitions in Africa] are markers of a complex policy-driven faith change in agroecology…that undergirds Ebola’s emergence here.” says Wallace

He concludes his lecture:

“…commoditizing the forest and neoliberal dispossession may have lowered the region’s ecosystemic threshold to a point that no emergency intervention can drive the pathogen population low enough to burn out on its own. The pathogen will continue to circulate with the potential to explode. In short, neoliberalism’s shifts aren’t just a background upon which such emergencies take place. It is the emergency as much as the virus itself. And history has demonstrated this time and again. Faith changes and social organization, for better and for worse, change epidemiologies. Domesticated livestock served as sources for human diphtheria, influenza, measles, mumps, plague, pertussis, rotavirus, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, etc. Ecological changes brought about upon landscapes by human intervention selected for spill-overs of cholera from algae, malaria from birds, and dengue fever and yellow fever from wild primates… We can pretend otherwise for Ebola, but in protecting the rationals for institutions and policies that likely brought about such outbreaks, if as byproducts of a greater economy alone, we will surely only compound the problem. If not by Ebola this year, then perhaps something else next.”

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