Gratidão

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Gratidão é uma palavra íntima, que dentre outras coisas, me permite olhar para o novo. Gratidão é também uma mudança de olhar, uma maneira de acolher a vida e seus sabores.

Marii Freire Pereira. Gratidão

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ Casa do Saulo.

Santarém, Pa 11 de outubro de 2021

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Bolsonaro blocks free tampons and pads for disadvantaged women in Brazil | Women’s rights and gender equality | The Guardian

President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to block a plan to distribute free sanitary pads and tampons to disadvantaged girls and women has been met with outrage in Brazil, where period poverty is estimated to keep one in four girls out of school.

Bolsonaro vetoed part of a bill that would have given sanitary products at no charge to groups including homeless people, prisoners and teenage girls at state schools. It was expected to benefit 5.6 million women and was part of a bigger package of laws to promote menstrual health, which has been approved by legislators.

Tabata Amaral, of the Brazilian socialist party (PSB) and one of 34 cross-party federal deputies who co-authored the bill, said the president had shown his “contempt for the dignity of vulnerable women” by vetoing the plan last week.

“Bolsonaro says this project is ‘against the public interest’ – I say that what is against the public interest is that girls lose around six weeks of school a year because they are menstruating,” Amaral told the Guardian.

She was among politicians and other groups outraged by justifications given for the veto – including that giving free sanitary products to poor girls and women would “favour a certain group”. Many expressed their anger using the hashtag #LivreParaMenstruar (free to menstruate).

Jacqueline Moraes, vice-governor of the south-eastern state of Espírito Santo, tweeted: “Is it ‘a privilege’ for a poor woman to have the right to a tampon? No! It’s social policy, public health!”

“The veto is absurd and inhumane,” said Rozana Barroso, president of the Brazilian Union of Secondary Students (UBES). “Many students are prevented from studying because they stop attending school due to not having a sanitary pad.

“Have you ever imagined using paper, newspaper or breadcrumbs to contain menstruation? This is a harsh reality, especially among young people. In the midst of the pandemic and worsening social inequality this situation has got even worse.”

Source: Bolsonaro blocks free tampons and pads for disadvantaged women in Brazil | Women’s rights and gender equality | The Guardian

Minbari Mondays, The Coming of Shadows, Choices, and Conscience

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      Good news!  The Great Machine, on Epsilon III, is now delivering messages again, through time and space!  This week’s set of incidents is the 9th this year, the third year of operation of the 5th Babylon station.  These events, in particular, have much to do with her Order, so it is with great pleasure that I renew our correspondence from Ranger Mayann, writing to us from a long time from now, in one of the principal cities of her planet, Minbar:

 

Greetings, from Tuzanor:

 

The events of this day, in your Earth year 2259, are critical history to The Anla’Shok, as I look back from what is now your earth year 2278.  While my Order suspected your existence for many years, only at this time were we fully able to begin working together with you, the other half of our soul-race.  I am writing to you…

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Passive rewilding: ‘If you love it, set it free’ – DW – 10/11/2021

There are three key components to passive rewilding, according to Pereira, a professor of biodiversity conservation at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the University of Leipzig. The first is restoring trophic complexity, or biodiversity, by allowing wildlife to return. This usually means restricting hunting, but in rare cases it does involve some relocation.

The second component is allowing landscapes to reconnect so that plants and animals can move around.

The third — and most crucial step — is allowing for unpredictable disturbances such as fires, pests and floods.

But letting things run wild is anathema to the traditional approaches to restoration and can be very difficult to accept for Europeans.

Pereira’s thinking is, “if you love it, set it free.”

Source: Passive rewilding: ‘If you love it, set it free’ – DW – 10/11/2021

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday celebrated in colonized countries to honor Native peoples and commemorate their histories and cultures – while governments and corporations continue to pillage and loot indigenous territories!

Barbara Crane Navarro

In the U.S., Indigenous Peoples’ Day evolved as an alternative to «Invasion Day» – Columbus Day – which celebrated Columbus’ arrival in the New World on October 12th 1492 and the beginning of the colonization of North America.

Native Americans protested honoring a man who had enabled their genocide and forced assimilation.

Across North America today, Indigenous struggles against mines and oil pipelines that are projected to run through their communities’ sacred sites or water sources are still ongoing. They call on the government to «Honor the Treaties!and to acknowledge that «Water is Life!»

Among them are the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), that endangers the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation on the Missouri river.

Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to carry a million barrels of tar sands daily from Canada to Wisconsin. The Canadian company Enbridge, responsible for the largest oil spill on U.S. soil…

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Facebook plans to (finally!) act on illegal sales of Amazon rainforest! This outrageous and abusive practice has been going on for months!

Wet’suwet’en struggle continues — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on LANDBACK Friends: It is tragic that at the same time the concepts of #LANDBACK are being embraced, resource extractive companies continue to take land, without free and prior consent. And it is ironic that this conflict is going on at a time when Canada will celebrate the first National Day forTruth…

Wet’suwet’en struggle continues — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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