Wednesday 28 August 2013

Remembering "I Have a Dream" speech

Exactly 50 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King gave one of all time greatest speeches. Today it is worldwide famous with the title "I Have a Dream". Lets remember this speech, and the great man who made the world a better and fairer.



Excerpt:

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. 
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. 
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today! 
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. 
I have a dream today! 
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Sunday 18 August 2013

Community psychology and BioCultural societies: points of intersection

Today I took part in the Google Hangout "Community psychology and BioCultural societies: points of intersection", organized by G+ communities BioCultual Landscapes and Seascapes and Environmental psychology

My interlocutors were Dr. Bernadette Montanari - ethnobiologist, Center of biocultural diversity at Kent university; Prof. Douglas Perkins - professor in Community psychology at Vanderbilt university, US; Nikolay Mihaylov - MA in Clinical psychology and PhD candidate in Community research and action at Vanderbilt university, US.

 The discussion explored the basics of Community psychology, and how Community psychology can support bio-cultural diversity and can help building of resilient communities in their natural settings?

Important issues were discussed, like community environment - community behavior, community behavior, place attachment, place identity, community research, community empowerment and action, community identity, traditional ecological knowledge and many more.