Fighting fire with fire in California, Afghanistans exclusion on the world stage and fury over a coconut flavoured chocolate...
Welcome back to Lets Get Litical Weekly Update!
A Recap
Lets Get Litical is a political and philosophical podcast streaming in most places you go to to catch up with your fave podcasts. The podcast belongs to the wonderful Helen Femi Williams and is run by her alongside a very small team! We have Hannah as Producer, Yelz our wonderful audio guy and me (Shannon) who helps with the socials and is now doing the newsletter! I’ve been running the socials for a bit now on Insta and LinkedIn, but we felt that a newsletter would be a far better way to reach out and share the info we want to share. So! Here we are!
Each podcast episode is split into parts. We have ‘It’s Lit’. A section dedicated to some ‘lit’ news in the past week or that has suddenly re-entered the zeitgeist and deserves a mention. We then have ‘Unfortunate News’. This section is how it sounds and is dedicated to a bit of sad, frustrating, or downright outrageous news. And then we finally have the ‘Things We Won’t Care About Next Week’ section. This section is far more lighthearted and briefly covers what I think of as a bit of random news that has occurred during the week. Whilst the section title makes it sound like the topic is completely pointless, it’s usually fairly interesting, humorous or poignant in some form!
And each week this is exactly what this newsletter will cover! Alongside any important celebrations or days that deserve some recognition. We try to cover topics that not so many people are discussing and the stories come from all across the globe. Bear in mind that whilst I try to use a variety of online resources, each and every source I use had it’s own motivations and bias!
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It’s Lit!
-The inspiration? “Aboriginal tradition, modern eco-consciousness, pure childhood creative expression and joy".”
Unfortunate News…
A gunman belonging to the Al-Shabab group, gunned down three Kenyan Peacekeepers in Somalia.
-Al-Shabab - An Islamist Insurgent group who are known to commit deadly attacks in an attempt to overthrown the current government in favour of an Islamic State.
-Peacekeepers - A force created in April of this year to fight back against Al-Shabab.
-For more info on Afghanistan under Taliban rule, watch this informative 15 minute video.
-If you -like me- are still a little bit confused about the world of Cryptocurrency, then check out this helpful video below.
Things We Won’t Care About Next Week!
Jeff Bezos has awarded Dolly Parton $100M as part of the Bezos Courage and Civility Award.
-The money is expected to go to good causes. Maybe it’s just my pessimistic side, but it feels like a strange way for Bezos to share his wealth. I’m eager to hear others thoughts on this topic though, so please share with us what you think of this gesture.
The world has erupted into anger after Bounty bars have been removed from Celebrations tins.
On the day this piece will be in your inbox, (the 25th of November) it shall be International Day For The Elimination of violence against women. This starts 16 days of remembrance and activism before we reach International Human Rights Day. If you want to read a bit about the two sisters from the Dominican Republic whose deaths sparked this national day, check out this page.
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