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Marie-Janine #Calic
#Balkan #Odyssee, 1933-1941
Auf der #Flucht vor Hitler durch Südosteuropa

#Exile #Emigration #Yugoslavia #Books #Review

https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/marie-janine-calic/balkan-odyssee-1933-1941.html

EXILE MATSU、家族で万博を満喫子どもたちとの満喫ショットを公開「子供たちにとってずっといい思い出ですねー」
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2412384/full/

#oricon_news #松本利夫 #EXILE #インスタ発 #EXILE_TRIBE #ニュース #画像 #写真 #SNS発

EXILE SHOKICHIが企画監修『MEAT MANIA JAPAN』に5000人渡部建との“肉談義”やMAKIDAIらのDJも
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2412346/full/

#oricon_news #EXILE_SHOKICHI #EXILE #EXILE_TRIBE #音楽 #イベント #グルメ #ニュース #画像 #写真

Disappointment among families of exiled Palestinian prisoners: ‘I thought maybe the list was wrong’

A last-minute Israeli change to the list delivered a dozen prisoners who were to be released in the West Bank to Egypt instead

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-14/disappointment-among-families-of-exiled-palestinian-prisoners-i-thought-maybe-the-list-was-wrong.html

#exile #prisoners #israel #apartheid

Cuban Dissident José Daniel Ferrer Released and Exiled to the US

José Daniel Ferrer, a prominent Cuban pro-democracy activist and coordinator of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, has arrived in Miami after being released from Cuban prison. Ferrer decided to go into exile following threats that his wife could face imprisonment and their son institutionalization. The Cu... [More info]

https://www.wacoca.com/news/2667280/ EXILE 橘ケンチ、福井市の新たな秋のダンスイベントに登場　福井市PR動画公開1周年記念フェア開催も – Real Sound｜リアルサウンド #EXILE #EXILETHESECOND #Fukui #JPOP #LDHJAPAN #橘ケンチ #男性グループ #福井 #福井県

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Snow Man、5thアルバム『音故知新』より新曲「BOOST」先行配信　総勢30名のダンサーと踊るMVも

It Is (in fact) Our Problem

https://youtu.be/cOgsOsLmYGA

“‘Dear Lord God, I wish to preach in your honor. I wish to speak about you, glorify you, praise your name. Although I can’t do this well of myself, I pray that you may make it good.’”[1]

Introduction

NMP. “Not my problem.” Have you heard this phrase before? I’ve use it when I need to draw a line between me and the three human beings born from my own body. Sometimes it’s important for them to (safely) experience their own problems; I already passed 8th grade…it’s your turn. It’s also something I’ve had to learn to whisper in my various occupations, drawing necessary lines in the sand so I don’t lose myself to my job in one way or another. From what I’ve heard through therapy and therapy related news, being able to draw that line in the sand between what is yours to bear and what isn’t is healthy and actualized. So, there’s nothing sinister or contentious about NMP, until there is.

As fleshy, meat creatures working with a gray-matter unfit for our place in post-postmodernity with its technological advancement and emphasis on autonomous existence and identity, we tend to confuse what is and isn’t “my problem.” In other words, we often say NMP where MP would work better and MP where a good solid NMP would. What I’m getting at here is biblical, like Genesis 3 levels of biblical: when we ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we took on the burden of determining—apart from God—what is good and what is evil and history—both spiritual and temporal—have demonstrated that we’re kind of very bad at determining what is good and what is evil. Looking around, I’m not sure we even know if there is a difference between good and evil. And if this is so, I think we’ve also confused what is and what isn’t our problem.

We need to be reoriented in a serious way. We need to be brought back to the source of the knowledge of good and evil: God. And from there we need to walk carefully while navigating the world around us. Why? What does it have to do with you? Everything…absolutely, positively, everything. The earth is sick, people are being threatened and killed because of their religion or the color of their skin or their sexual orientation and identity in the world, and community (in any form) is circling the drain. Once these things go, we’re dead…in the water. We’ve been commanded and exhorted by God through Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to love the land and our neighbors and care for them because they are among us and we’re among them. Yet, we refuse in the name of NMP. However, according to Jeremiah, this is very much a “you and me” problem.

Jeremiah 29:4-7

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Jeremiah is speaking to the deported Judeans who are in Babylon.[2] Rather than tell them to refuse to make the best of it, to ignore the things around them because they ain’t your problem, God, through Jeremiah, commands the Judeans to act as if they are home. Home. Exiled yet home.[3] They are to embrace both the fact that they are in this foreign land and are prevented from returning to Jerusalem (home), and embrace the land and the people around them, even the government and the state. Israel would have expected Jeremiah’s exhortation to seek the welfare of the city as an exhortation referring to Jerusalem (home). But it’s not. It’s referring to Babylon, the place that is definitely-not-home but now must-be-home.[4] The Judeans stuck in Babylon for another two generations are to take the issues and problems of Babylon onto themselves because those issues and problems are now their issues and problems. Anachronistically, Jeremiah is asking them to take up their cross and bear it, and that Cross carries the problems of the neighbor and the state. In taking up this “cross” the Judeans will make the issues and problems burdening Babylon and the Babylonians their own; like God, they will identify with the problem, plight, and pain burdening the people.

Why is Jeremiah exhorting the Judeans to bear this “cross”? Because the Judeans are falling prey to false prophets.[5] By exhorting the Judeans to get comfortable, build homes and families, and care for the welfare of the state, Jeremiah was dutifully giving the Judeans hope and encouragement,[6] which was an antidote to the poison the false prophets were offering. While the false prophets were promising easy solutions, quick ends, and creating antagonism between the Judeans and their surroundings, Jeremiah spoke God’s word of comfort and hope into this swirling chaos and tumult: God will come, Judah, so wait peacefully for God.[7] In the meantime… *waves hands around*

You see, for God, thus for Jeremiah, to identify with the burdens and problems of Babylon and its people worked to fortify Judah’s loyalty to God.[8] How So? Because Israel’s mission was to right the wrongs of the world through their faith inspired praxis in the world. How better to do that than to do so when one is in exile. Faith isn’t always focusing one’s eyes on God and refusing to see the problems and issues around you; faith isn’t about letting something burn because it doesn’t involve you because it’s not your land, or your people, or your problem. Faith builds beautiful things wherever it is and you are. And that’s because faith is in you, eager to work itself out in loving deeds everywhere, not just at your preferred home among your preferred people. So, Jeremiah exhorts the Judeans, your call is still valid…even here in Babylon.[9]

Conclusion

Jeremiah graciously reminds us that we’re fellow creatures with other creatures of the earth, especially with our fellow humans; and we are reminded that this link and connection is the very product of God’s love for us and our love for God. So, we must begin to see that the problems of the land, of creation, of those who suffer hunger, thirst, loneliness, isolation, deportation, exile, harm, threat, danger, and death are our problems…even if we don’t feel like we’re home or that we should care because, well, they made their choices so, w/e. So, in honor of Indigenous People’s Day, I want to close with the following Lakota creation myth; I believe it speaks to this exhortation to be and bring the divine love you have received into the world:[10]

There was another world before this one. But the people of that world did not behave themselves. Displeased, the Creating Power set out to make a new world. He sang several songs to bring rain, which poured stronger with each song. As he sang the fourth song, the earth split apart and water gushed up through the many cracks, causing a flood. By the time the rain stopped, all of the people and nearly all of the animals had drowned. Only Kangi the crow survived.
Kangi pleaded with the Creating Power to make him a new place to rest. So the Creating Power decided the time had come to make his new world. From his huge pipe bag, which contained all types of animals and birds, the Creating Power selected four animals known for their ability to remain under water for a long time.
He sent each in turn to retrieve a lump of mud from beneath the floodwaters. First the loon dove deep into the dark waters, but it was unable to reach the bottom. The otter, even with its strong webbed feet, also failed. Next, the beaver used its large flat tail to propel itself deep under the water, but it too brought nothing back. Finally, the Creating Power took the turtle from his pipe bag and urged it to bring back some mud.
Turtle stayed under the water for so long that everyone was sure it had drowned. Then, with a splash, the turtle broke the water’s surface! Mud filled its feet and claws and the cracks between its upper and lower shells. Singing, the Creating Power shaped the mud in his hands and spread it on the water, where it was just big enough for himself and the crow. He then shook two long eagle wing feathers over the mud until earth spread wide and varied, overcoming the waters. Feeling sadness for the dry land, the Creating Power cried tears that became oceans, streams, and lakes. He named the new land Turtle Continent in honor of the turtle who provided the mud from which it was formed.
The Creating Power then took many animals and birds from his great pipe bag and spread them across the Earth. From red, white, black, and yellow earth, he made men and women. The Creating Power gave the people his sacred pipe and told them to live by it. He warned them about the fate of the people who came before them. He promised all would be well if all living things learned to live in harmony. But the world would be destroyed again if they made it bad and ugly.

[1] LW 54:157-158; Table Talk 1590.

[2] Marvin A. Sweeney, The Jewish Study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation, eds. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (Oxford: OUP, 2004), 983.

[3] Sweeney, “Jeremiah”, 983. “Jeremiah’s letter begins with God’s instructions to accept life in Babylonia and to build lives and families there. The activities enumerated in vv. 5-6 are those of establishing a new home, indicating that for at least two generations Babylonia should be treated as home.”

[4] Sweeney, “Jeremiah”, 983. “The rhetoric of this verse is intended to shock—most people would have expected the words ‘And seek the welfare of the city’ to refer to Jerusalem, not to Babylon.”

[5] Sweeney, “Jeremiah”, 984. “The letter raises the issue of false prophets, a major theme of the preceding chs.”

[6] Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman, Jeremiah: with Hebrew text and English Translation, ed. Rev. Dr. A Cohen. Soncino Books of the Bible. 6th Impression (London: Soncino Press, 1970), 188. Jeremiah’s duty is to preach hope and encouragement to the people

[7] Freedman, Jeremiah, 188. “…[Jeremiah] was at the same time realistic, and deemed it his duty to warn the people not to delude themselves into thinking that the exile would come to a speedy end, as some false prophets were assuring them.”

[8] Freedman, Jeremiah, 189. Identifying with the interests of the country and loyal citizenship, “The fact that Jeremiah could urge this doctrine upon the exiles, while at the same time assuring them of their restoration after seventy years, indicates that in his mind no mutually exclusive dual loyalty was involved, but that on the contrary each fortified the other.”

[9] John Bright, Jeremiah: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Bible, eds. William Foxwell Albright and David Noel Freedman (Garden City: Doubleday, 1965), 211. In this portion “…Jeremiah charges the exiles to disregard the wild promises of their prophets and to settle down for a long stay, pursuing a normal life as peaceable subjects of Babylon, and even praying to Yahweh for that country’s welfare…”

[10] Lakota Star Knowledge: http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamcreation.html

#Babylon #DivineLove #Exile #HFreedman #Home #Israelites #Jeremiah #JohnBright #Judeans #Lakota #LakotaCreationMyth #Land #LoveOfLand #LovingYourNeighbor #MarvinASweeney #NMP

Accord franco-britannique sur l’immigration :

« NOUS, ASSOCIATIONS ET PERSONNES SOLIDAIRES, DÉNONÇONS CE MARCHANDAGE CYNIQUE DE VIES HUMAINES » [Tribune collective parue dans Le Monde du 8 octobre 2025]

→ https://www.gisti.org/7592

#DroitsDesÉtrangers
#exile
#migrations

Die gefährliche Alte #6 (Bethi) about experience, exile and exercise

Talk with Elizabeth Ngari, cofounder of Women in Exile, about experience, exile and exercise More information about the campaign "No to the payment card/Nein zur Bezahlkarte" and the book "Breaking Borders To Build Bridges" in english and german. For further information on ways to support please get in contact. ‘Die Gefährliche Alte’ (The Dangerous Old Woman) is a series about and featuring ‘dangerous old women’: older and elderly women who do not accept the status quo, who stand […]

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Die gefährliche Alte #6 (Bethi) about experience, exile and exercise

Talk with Elizabeth Ngari, cofounder of Women in Exile, about experience, exile and exercise More information about the campaign „No... mehr

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Returning to Spain after generations of exile.

The country is experiencing a sharp rise in population, driven by a wave of 'grandchildren' settling in the land of their ancestors who fled Francoist Spain, a place to which they feel attached, despite never having lived there.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251005-returning-to-spain-after-generations-of-exile?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Spain #Politics #Franco #History #FranciscoFranco #Migration #Exile