Marii Freire Pereira

“Quando olhares para frente buscando enxergar o teu futuro, ou alguma referência do que esse possa ser, espero que a sua visão não seja embaçada. Mas…

Marii Freire Pereira

The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 1 – « The Way of the Shaman »  2:40

Yanomami shaman using hallucinogenic plants for communicating with the spirits of the forest, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro « …

The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 1 – « The Way of the Shaman »  2:40

Less is More

On a mission

Less is More

In today’s world of digital destruction oops digital attractions less is more when it comes to grabbing the attention of anyone.

This summer break, kids are getting more attracted to devices. They hop from one to another, for example, X-Box to Watch some streaming to Phone. It’s not only to kids it applies to adults as well. Today if you see someone walking their dogs they are also preoccupied with their device and I am not sure what dogs would be thinking. There are exceptions as well.

Now, why I am saying less is more is because in today’s time… we have abundance but still fleeting for more. Here is how we can make Less as More!

Lower your wants.

Engage your mind

Sleep right and on time

Serve community, country

Involve others in a good cause

Smile for 30 seconds for 5-times a day.

Manage your…

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A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Threats are a part of everyday life for Indigenous leaders in Latin America. They are part of a growing wave of violence that has, in recent years, left a shocking number of bodies in its wake: between 2012 and 2020, 363 male and female activists from Indigenous communities were murdered.

“In all our reports, Indigenous people make up, on average, one third of the total number of murdered environmental defenders on a global scale, a tremendously high figure considering only 4% of the world’s population are Indigenous peoples,” says Marina Comandulli, a campaign officer for Global Witness, a human rights non-governmental organization.

The most critical situation is in Colombia, where 117 Indigenous people have been murdered in the aforementioned period – the highest figure on the South American continent.

 

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