An expert review of data concludes Covid vaccine boosters are not needed at this time for the general public, a group of U.S. and international scientists said.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/covid-booster-shots-data-shows-third-shots-not-appropriate-at-this-time-scientists-conclude.html
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I write the following as a Boricua who is interested in the betterment of my community. This betterment is achieved in my view throughout the application of a progressive perspective. When I say betterment, I mean the health of the community in all or as many dimensions as possible. I am talking about the community’s thriving and its self-knowledge.
By progressivism I mean humanism, skepticism and enlightenment values. Humanism in the sense of the fulfillment of the potential of our community’s people, a skepticism based on the a distrust of common views within and without our community in terms of our basic humanity, our basic competence, our ability to guide our destinies. This skepticism holds in radical doubt any view that diminishes the potential and practice of our community and its people.
Enlightenment values are many but some include that we are human beings and hence endowed with rights by our mere existence.
I think progressivism embodies these principles and draws its power to motivate from many sources…the power to motivate or inspiration is an essential component in counteracting oppression. To endow with a spirit or a mood or motivation. In this vein, I would venture some thoughts about progressivism in the Puerto Rican community.
First, all peoples draw upon people and events of the past to serve as avatars of what is possible in the present. Conservatives draw upon the past to justify their power and privilege. Progressives adopt the same strategy, but more to open possibilities of different ways of organizing society and to highlight those that tried to move towards better possibilities. Like most progressives, I want our community to draw upon their past as sign posts of our full humanity and elixirs of hope and creativity.
However, the accident of birth allows me a unique perspective, I was born in a time that in some ways was between generations. Both generations strove to change society, both had successes and failures, but each generation approached the project of changing society differently. One was the pre WWII generation and the other was the post WWII generation…. the old and new left as it is often described.
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