Lockdown Update Day 125

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OK, today you're getting random links.

Syrian refugees' urgent pleas for family reunion

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The Problem with ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’

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Via Lee:

Magic Wheelchair is a nonprofit organization that builds epic costumes for kiddos in wheelchairs — at no cost to families.

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Via Kerk (this song is absolutely incredible):

'Story of a song is based on a notice from a slave auction. A woman was being sold, but the purchaser did not have to take her child with her that was at 'the purchaser's option'.

That's the horrifying thing about Blade Runner and Rutgar Gauer's line about, "That's what it is to be a slave." The child was just another added extra which could be discarded.

We're still living with that today.'

Rhiannon Giddens ft. Francesco Turrisi “At The Purchaser’s Option” - Late Show #PlayAtHome

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And finally today's art: Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, 2017, from the series of works 'Black Imaginary to Counter Hegemony (B.I.T.C.H.)' (x)