2025-09-28, Lief dagboek
Zondag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Werelddag tegen de Hondsdolheid; Vroege Vogels; verkiezingslessen uit Europa; Maand van de Geschiedenis.
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Global Citizen Festival 2025 (TV webcast)
The Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival started in 2012 and organized by Global Poverty Project.
It was founded by Ryan Gall and Hugh Evans. Gall said he was inspired by visiting Austin City Limits and seeing the branding on the stage, but wanting to replace the corporate branding with branding from charities. In 2015, the organization announced that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin would serve as the festival’s curator for the next 15 years.
Global Citizen Festival
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World Rabies Day / Werelddag tegen de Hondsdolheid 2025
World Rabies Day is held every year on September 28, this date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur – the first person to successfully create a vaccine against rabies.
World Rabies Day is coordinated by Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) and it has been commemorated every year on September 28 since 2007. World Rabies Day aims to raise awareness and advocate for rabies elimination globally. It is an event designed to be inclusive, uniting people, organizations, and stakeholders across all sectors against rabies – because together we can eliminate rabies! This year on September 28, we are calling on you, me, and our communities to make a difference now! For the first time in its 19-year history, 2025’s theme does not include the word “rabies”, showing how well-established this movement has become. Whether you are an individual, part of an organization, or a decision-maker, the time to act is today.
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Banned Books Week 2025
Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association (ALA) and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, draws attention to banned and challenged books, and highlights persecuted individuals.
Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States campaign “stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them” and the requirement to keep material publicly available so that people can develop their own conclusions and opinions. The international campaign notes individuals “persecuted because of the writings that they produce, circulate or read.” Some of the events that occur during Banned Book Week are The Virtual Read-Out and The First Amendment Film Festival. The theme for Banned Books Week 2025: “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Banned Books Week will take place October 5 – 11, 2025. Current efforts to ban books and information held in schools, libraries, archives, and bookstores are a truth close to fiction – namely, the depiction of extreme censorship by an oppressive regime in George Orwell’s cautionary and prescient tale 1984. The Banned Books Week 2025 theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. ALA recently released the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024 list and the State of America’s Libraries Report. The majority of book censorship attempts that ALA tracked in 2024 come from organized movements. Pressure groups and government entities that include elected officials, board members, and administrators initiated 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries.
The 120 titles most frequently targeted for censorship during 2024 are all identified on partisan book rating sites, which provide tools for activists to demand the censorship of library books. Additionally, PEN America recorded the highest instances of book censorship in schools and the highest number of unique titles banned during the 2023-2024 school year – more than 4,000 unique titles were removed in over 10,000 instances of book bans. PEN America also tracked the influence of pressure groups, finding that they have undertaken efforts to remove materials in nearly every state. Banned Books Week launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of book challenges in libraries, schools, and bookstores. The Banned Books Week Coalition, an international alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read, appoints an honorary chair and youth honorary chair to lead Banned Books Week. Past honorary chairs include filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Origin, 2024), literacy champion LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, 2023), and banned authors George M. Johnson (All Boys Aren’t Blue, 2022) and Jason Reynolds (All American Boys, 2021). The 2025 honorary chairs will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Vroege Vogels TV | 28 september 2025 | Veluwerandmeren (TV NPO 2)
Vroege Vogels is een live-radioprogr
In het radioprogramma wordt het gesproken woord omlijst door licht klassieke muziek en salonmuziek. He
Waar vroeger de Zuiderzeekust te vinden was liggen nu de Veluwerandmeren; vier meren waar het, tussen de pleziervaart door, wemelt van de vogels. Ondanks de ingrijpende verandering van zoute zee naar zoete meren, floreert de natuur. Varend en snorkelend in de regen nemen we een kijkje in het heldere water. Kleurrijke krooneenden snoepen van de kranswieren. In het riet klinkt een grote karekiet, die na een dramatische afname langzaam opkrabbelt. Onder water zien we hoe kleine snoeken hier opgroeien en waterslakjes grazen op waterplanten. En boven water duikt de indrukwekkende zeearend op.
VPRO #Tegenlicht – De stille economische crisis (TV internet)
Waarom groeiende ongelijkheid jongeren berooft van hun toekomst volgens ex-bankier Gary Stevenson. Het gaat fantastisch met de Nederlandse economie. Althans, zo luidden de berichten na Prinsjesdag, de dag waarop de overheidsbegroting wordt gepresenteerd en de stand van de economie wordt besproken. Het doorsnee huishouden kende vorig jaar de grootste koopkrachtstijging in 20 jaar, zo bleek uit cijfers van het Centraal Planbureau. Ook op Europees niveau valt goed nieuws te melden. De middenklasse werd de afgelopen 15 jaar rijker, deels door stijgende huizenprijzen. En ook in het Westen als geheel gaat het lekker, als je de aandelenmarkten mag geloven. Die bevinden zich op of nabij recordniveaus. Tot zover de cijfers. Hoe gaat het echt? Gangbare economische cijfers en theorieën zijn immers berucht om hun blinde vlekken. Volgens de Londense ex-bankier en wiskunde-genie Gary Stevenson zitten we middenin een grote economische crisis. Maar niet eentje die gepaard gaat met een plotselinge schok zoals een beurscrash. ‘Ik denk dat een economische crisis eruit kan zien als huizenprijzen die maar blijven stijgen,’ aldus Stevenson. Wat de oud-valutahandelaar interessant maakt, is zijn achtergrond: Stevenson komt als een van de weinigen in de Londense financiële wereld uit een arbeidersgezin en ziet dingen die de upperclass jongens maar moeilijk zien. Gewone jonge mensen bijvoorbeeld, vrienden en familie van Stevenson, die helemaal niet zoveel koopkracht blijken te hebben. Of steeds langere wachtlijsten in de publieke gezondheidszorg. Stijgende voedsel- en energieprijzen. Stijgende kosten voor de kinderopvang. Minder toegang tot stabiel werk. Onbetaalbare huizen voor een jongere generatie. Enzovoorts.
Terwijl de allerrijksten steeds meer vermogen vergaren (op de beurs en via vastgoed), stijgt het gewone levensonderhoud voor de armste 60 procent van de samenleving. Op den duur de armste 90 procent, bijna iedereen dus. Dat de middenklasse dat momenteel niet per se ervaart, komt omdat de welvaartsval ook tussen generaties kan zitten. Of omdat de kosten voor levensonderhoud, zoals de huizenprijzen, simpelweg te langzaam stijgen om te voelen als een echte economische schok. Maar maak je geen illusies, zegt Stevenson. Ook de middenklasse – zelfs in het welvarende Nederland – is op den duur aan de beurt. Hoe dat voelt? Vraag het aan de schoonmakers die worden uitgeknepen of in de parkeergarage slapen van het gebouw waar ze schoonmaken. Vraag het aan de groeiende groep mensen die werken maar toch dakloos zijn en in auto’s of vakantieparken slapen. En die koopkrachtcijfers dan? Wie ze uitsplitst naar leeftijd, ziet dat jongeren onder de 25 er op achterblijven vergeleken met oudere generaties. De welvaartsgroei van de rijkeren kan veel vertekenen. De crisis is volgens Stevenson er dan ook niet een van krimp, maar van groeiende ongelijkheid. Waar academicus Thomas Piketty – die andere ongelijkheidswaarschuwer – de wereld verlichtte met ‘r > g’ (een door Piketty gebruikte formule die aangeeft dat het rendement op vermogen al geruime tijd hoger is dan de economische groei), is de rauwe Stevenson duidelijker. ‘Kies maar: of veel hogere belastingen voor de allerrijksten, of je kleinkinderen zullen extreem arm zijn. Er zijn geen andere opties.’
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2025-09-27, Lief dagboek
Zaterdag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Global Sumud Flotilla; Landelijke Tandartsdag; WorldTourismDay; NOS, Wees Eerlijk.
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#WorldTourismDay 2025 #WTD2025
The World Tourism Day is celebrated on September 27, 2023. September 27 was chosen as on that day in 1970, the Statutes of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) were adopted.
Tourism is one of the world’s most important economic sectors. It employs one in every ten people on Earth and provides livelihoods to hundreds of millions more. For some countries, it can represent over 20 percent of their GDP. It allows people to experience some of the world’s cultural and natural riches and brings people closer to each other, highlighting our common humanity. Tourism is an essential pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially goals 8, 12, and 14. It serves as a first entry point to the world of work, especially for women, youth, migrant workers, and rural populations in developing and least developed countries (LDCs). Women represent a majority of the tourism sector workforce, while half of that workforce is under 25 years of age. Moreover, in many parts of the world, the protection of biodiversity and conservation rely heavily on the tourism sector and the revenue it generates.
The constant growth of the tourism sector during the last six decades reflects more progressive access to tourism thanks to the decline in the cost of transport and the world-wide growth of the middle classes. The recognition of the right to holidays in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the improved adoption of labor rights in many countries have also supported its development. These factors also serve as a backdrop for the resilience shown by tourism in recent years. The sector has experienced almost uninterrupted growth despite challenges such as the global economic crisis and natural disasters.
The many important contributions of tourism encouraged the UNWTO to institute World Tourism Day in a meeting that took place in Spain, commencing the first celebration of the observance in the year 1980. This date was chosen to coincide with an important milestone in world tourism: the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the UNWTO Statutes on 27 September 1970. Afterwards, during its 70th session in 2015, the United Nations General Assembly designated 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (resolution A/RES/70/193), in which it encouraged support for sustainable tourism as a means of promoting and accelerating sustainable development, especially poverty eradication.
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Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste Reduction 2025
Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste is a United Nations-sanctioned designated awareness day observed annually on 29 September with the goal to raise awareness of the importance of food loss and waste, this day is co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), whereas, the day’s events are jointly led by these two organizations.
The main aim of the day is to raise awareness to the importance of food loss and waste related problems and their possible solutions at all levels, and also to promote global efforts and collective action towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, which targets to halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030, and reduce food losses along the food production and supply chains. It has been calculated that an average of 74 kg of food per person is wasted each year worldwide. According to some estimates, 1.4 billion hectares of agricultural land are used annually to produce food that will eventually be discarded; 14% of produced food (worth approximately 400 billion dollars) is lost between harvest and sale, while 17% of global agrifood production is wasted. In addition, food loss and waste related problems contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases leading environmental detriment as well.