Are You Buying or Wearing Gold? … « The forest is bleeding, I can feel it in my heart. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Photo: Ricardo Stuckert « Brazilian Indians series » «The gold miners pour more poison mercury on the earth than the weight of the gold they take away. They are like living dead, covered in golden mud.» – cacique Raoni Metuktire Gold mining destroying Indigenous territory in the Amazon Rainforest Gold mining and the indiscriminate use of mercury to ferret […]

Are You Buying or Wearing Gold? … « The forest is bleeding, I can feel it in my heart. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Contar histórias da cultura indígena, é uma forma de resistência — Existe Guarani em São Paulo — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Os indígenas do Xingu, mesmo com sua terra homologada, a primeira reserva indígena demarcada, sempre viveram sob pressão constante de mineradores, madeireiros, fazendeiros. Mônica Nunes – Conexão Planeta E o pior é que alguns índígenas foram cooptados por essa gente para fazer a cabeça dos que vivem lá dentro. Sem falar na entrada de religiosos. […] […] […]

Contar histórias da cultura indígena, é uma forma de resistência — Existe Guarani em São Paulo — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Fundamentally Broken

Filosofa's Word

Yesterday we all heard the announcement that Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from his seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Although Justice Breyer has been a valuable member of the Court for more than 20 years, almost 30, it was the right decision and likely one that, much as I loved her, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg should have made several years prior to her death. It is a sad statement of our current situation that the Court has become a political pawn … the framers of the Constitution did not intend that at all. Jennifer Rubin has written an editorial that I think sums up the situation quite well …


This is not how the Supreme Court is supposed to work

By Jennifer Rubin

26 January 2022; 2:50 p.m. EST

The announcement that Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court came as a relief to Democrats and…

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Day 55/67: Five Month GED, Linear Inequalities, and Health Care

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

So, why do you think that it may be important to understand linear inequalities as they relate to Health Care, especially to health care outcomes for Black, Latino, and White Americans?

Today’s reading:

Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) lead to large coverage gains, some groups remain at higher risk of being uninsured, lacking access to care, and experiencing worse health outcomes. For example, as of 2018, Hispanics are two and a half times more likely to be uninsured than Whites (19.0% vs. 7.5%) and individuals with incomes below poverty are four times as likely to lack coverage as those with incomes at 400% of the federal poverty level or above (17.3% vs. 4.3%).”

Start of week 15/18
Day 55, Week 15
Writing -Continue working on your Cons (or finish Pros) paragraph
math: Graphing linear inequalities
Who is behind today’s Science reading?
Please see the Lesson plan…

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B.C.’s top court extends old-growth logging protest injunction to next fall | Globalnews.ca

A court injunction against old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island has been extended until next fall in a British Columbia Court of Appeal decision that overturns a lower-court ruling.
— Read on globalnews.ca/news/8539941/b-c-s-top-court-extends-old-growth-logging-protest-injunction-to-next-fall/

(Me: old growth forrest is heartbeat of environment – no more logging)