Showing posts with label united nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label united nations. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

rainy day

 it poured today.

 i'm working on the second sock and back to gaps friendly treats (coconut balls).

chanda practiced the violin today after contacting a local ballet school she might like to attend. she was sick during their saturday audition and needs to reschedule. she went to class and wore her new shoes which she has pronounced "the best." korrina was supposed to come visit, but a co-worker was sick and she had to go in early to work lunch (along with dinner). she's planning to come by on thursday now. morgana visited the united nations. i should put up a few of her pics. tomorrow we all have dental appointments. i might need a lot of work so i'm nervous.

morgana's united nations pics:

 looking west towards the chrysler building and tudor city.

 one of the assembly halls where united nations woman goodwill ambassador emma watson has spoken and where malala yousafzai spoke to the un youth assembly in 2014, i think:


(you can find her speech written out here.)

the outside courtyard where the people who were speaking had parked . . the visitors were not allowed to photograph the assembly hall currently in use where there was a discussion about the zika virus. in this assembly hall were the five main countries (china, russia, the uk, the us and france) along with the country presenting the problem or conflict (i suppose . . brazil today).

 the main entrance hall.

the main office building.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

NO to GMO


my friend carol asked if i would join her in marching for gmo labeling of food products today. the group right2know began with speeches and songs at grand army plaza in brooklyn. at about 2 pm they began walking from grand army plaza to the brooklyn bridge, over the bridge into manhattan and up centre street to lafayette and astor place. i joined them at eighth street and third avenue. we marched up first avenue to the united nations and ended with a final chant and lots of pictures which i hope they put up on their website. a group of them are continuing to washington dc. i was a bit surprised at how small the march was. carol and i find it a bit disconcerting that the majority of americans don't care about the quality of the food that goes into their bodies. germany had a wonderfully big march in 2007 or 2009 with genfrei gehen.






of course, we shouldn't even have gmo food!