Gaza war: Giant anti-government protest rally grips Tel Aviv

Tens of thousands of Israelis have protested in Tel Aviv demanding a Gaza ceasefire deal and the return of hostages held by Hamas.

Organisers said it was the largest anti-government protest since the Gaza war began. Video shows scuffles and people being arrested as police – some on horseback – tried to move protesters off the city’s main highway.

The rallies have become weekly events and protesters also want new elections. Hostages’ relatives were among the protesters – about 120 hostages are still held in Gaza, some of them dead.

Hamas and its allies seized them when they attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people – mostly civilians.

Gaza health authorities say Israel’s devastating offensive has killed more than 37,400 people.

Source: Gaza war: Giant anti-government protest rally grips Tel Aviv

Néo-colonialisme – Extraction d’or légale et illégale et autres industries minières contre les peuples autochtones, la faune et l’eau ! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Mine d’or légale – photo: Barrick Gold Corporation

“Chaque jour, je me réveille et tout ce que je vois autour de moi, c’est de la douleur et de la tristesse parce que Barrick Gold a tout tué ici. Tout est mort.” dit Torres, dont la famille vit à Las Lagunas depuis des générations. Maintenant, la mine Pueblo Viejo de Barrick Gold détruit la région. “Barrick est pire et plus dangereux que Christophe Colomb”, ajoute-t-elle. “Nous n’avions aucune idée de ce qu’était le diable jusqu’à ce que Barrick Gold arrive sur nos terres.”

Le Canada présente aux industries extractives mondiales un environnement commercial qui soutient la spéculation, offre des subventions gouvernementales, permet aux flux de capitaux de financer des projets étrangers litigieux et, essentiellement, offre un refuge juridique contre les litiges.

Mais le Canada n’est pas le seul à être impliqué dans l’extraction légale de l’or à grande échelle… L’extraction de l’or est une entreprise mondiale avec des opérations sur tous les continents, à l’exception de l’Antarctique. Ensemble, les dix plus grands mineurs d’or légaux au monde ont produit 27,48 millions d’onces d’or en 2020, d’une valeur d’environ 48 milliards de dollars.

Oui,  “éléments – visuels – capitalistes, nous vivons dans un monde matériel ” – et matérialiste ! Partout dans le monde où l’or légal est extrait, c’est l’écocide et l’ethnocide, tout comme avec l’or illégal.

“Yanomami observant un site minier d’or illégale sur leur territoire” – Photo des Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela et montage photo: Barbara Crane Navarro 

Source: Néo-colonialisme – Extraction d’or légale et illégale et autres industries minières contre les peuples autochtones, la faune et l’eau ! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Campanha traz perspectiva histórica do desmatamento na Amazônia — Ecoamazônia | Barbara Crane Navarro

Um anúncio de jornal veiculado em 1971 é o mote do mais recente vídeo lançado pela campanha Chega de financiar o desmatamento com dinheiro público!, que segue sensibilizando a audiência sobre a importância de restringir a concessão de recursos públicos apenas aos produtores comprometidos em manter a floresta em pé. O vídeo revela a estratégia usada pelo governo…

Campanha traz perspectiva histórica do desmatamento na Amazônia — Ecoamazônia

Source: Campanha traz perspectiva histórica do desmatamento na Amazônia — Ecoamazônia | Barbara Crane Navarro

Historical Fiction: China’s South China Sea Claims – Color My World

China’s so-called “historic claims” to the South China Sea are actually not “centuries old.” They only go back to 1947, when Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist government drew the so-called “eleven-dash line” on Chinese maps of the South China Sea, enclosing the Spratly Islands and other chains that the ruling Kuomintang party declared were now under Chinese sovereignty. Chiang himself, saying he saw German fascism as a model for China, was fascinated by the Nazi concept of an expandedLebensraum (“living space”) for the Chinese nation. He did not have the opportunity to be expansionist himself because the Japanese put him on the defensive, but cartographers of the nationalist regime drew the U-shape of eleven dashes in an attempt to enlarge China’s “living space” in the South China Sea. Following the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in the civil war in 1949, the People’s Republic of China adopted this cartographic coup, revising Chiang’s notion into a “nine-dash line” after erasing two dashes in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1953.

Source: Historical Fiction: China’s South China Sea Claims – Color My World

Wir müssen Liebe besitzen / … We have to have love – Stella, oh, Stella

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Liebe ist etwas, das wir haben müssen.
Wir müssen sie haben, weil unser Geist davon gespeist wird.
Wir müssen sie haben, weil wir ohne sie schwach und kraftlos werden.
Ohne Liebe wird unser Selbstwertgefühl geschwächt.
Ohne sie lässt unser Mut uns im Stich.
Ohne Liebe können wir der Welt nicht mehr mit Selbstsicherheit begegnen.
Stattdessen wenden wir uns nach innen und leben von unserer Persönlichkeit,
und nach und nach zerstören wir uns selbst.

Du und ich brauchen die Kraft und die Freude, die aus der Kenntnis entsteht, dass wir geliebt werden.
Mit Liebe sind wir kreativ.
Mit ihr gehen wir unermüdlich voran.
Mit ihr, und nur mit ihr, sind wir in der Lage für andere Opfer zu bringen.

Chief Dan George

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Love is something you and I must have.
We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it.
We must have it because without it we become weak and faint.
Without love our self esteem weakens.
Without it our courage fails.
Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.
Instead we turn inwardly and begin to feed upon our own personalities and little by little we destroy ourselves.

You and I need the strength and joy that comes from knowing that we are loved.
With it we are creative.
With it we march tirelessly.
With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

Chief Dan George

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Theoretisch scheinen sich alle Völker darüber einig zu sein, dass Liebe das wichtigste im Leben ist. Lasst uns diese Idee in die Praxis umsetzen!

… In theory, all peoples seem to agree that love is the most important in life. Let us put this idea into practice!

Source: Wir müssen Liebe besitzen / … We have to have love – Stella, oh, Stella