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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Honest Dealings

When we clear our minds of wishful thinking and Utopian beliefs about the world as best as we can, we notice that human nature is rather dark, …

Honest Dealings

We are the same as other people! – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“I’m Tibetan, I’m Buddhist and I’m the Dalai Lama, but if I emphasize these differences it sets me apart and raises barriers with other people. What we need to do is to pay more attention to the ways in which we are the same as other people.”

His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama

Source: We are the same as other people! – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

TODAY! April 30! – Join us as we bring the voices of community leaders resisting Barrick Gold’s mines to the company’s executive and shareholders at their online AGM! – Stand with communities affected by “legal” Gold mining around the world!  | Barbara Crane Navarro

If you can’t be in Toronto, PLEASE POST A PHOTO OF YOUR OWN PROTEST SIGN! #ProtestBarrickGold

Source: TODAY! April 30! – Join us as we bring the voices of community leaders resisting Barrick Gold’s mines to the company’s executive and shareholders at their online AGM! – Stand with communities affected by “legal” Gold mining around the world!  | Barbara Crane Navarro

Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas | Barbara Crane Navarro

Barbara Crane Navarro es una artista, autora y activista francesa que actualmente vive cerca de París. Durante 12 años, pasó los meses de invierno con el pueblo Yanomami en Venezuela y Brasil, una experiencia que inspiró su práctica artística y sus esfuerzos de décadas para llamar la atención sobre la devastación de la selva amazónica. […]

Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Source: Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas | Barbara Crane Navarro

As UT-Austin arrests continue, free speech questions arise | The Texas Tribune

Source: As UT-Austin arrests continue, free speech questions arise | The Texas Tribune

Hiltzik: Why were USC and Columbia so wrong about protests? – Los Angeles Times

Students are massed peacefully on campus, making politically charged demands on university presidents. The police are summoned, leading to mass arrests and even to violence — and to the collapse of confidence in the administration.

You may see the punchline coming: This picture isn’t drawn from USC and Columbia University of the present day, but Berkeley in 1964.

The lessons should be obvious. Bringing police onto a college campus on the pretext of preserving or restoring “order” invariably makes things worse. It’s almost always inspired not by conditions on campus, but by partisan pressure on university administrators to act. Often it results in the ouster of the university presidents who condoned the police incursions, and sometimes even in the departure of the politicians whose fingerprints were on the orders…

Source: Hiltzik: Why were USC and Columbia so wrong about protests? – Los Angeles Times

Ein Dienstagslächeln / … A Tuesday smile – Stella, oh, Stella

In diesem Film geht es um Freundschaft und Liebe, und wie sie uns – so sehe ich das – besser machen, uns mit Freude erfüllen.

… This video is about friendship and love, and how they – as I see it – make us better and fill us with joy.

Ich wünsche euch allen eine angenehme Woche. Am Donnerstag ziehen wir um, da werdet ihr nichts von mir hören.

… I wish all of you a pleasant week. We will move on Thursday, so you won’t hear from me that day.

Source: Ein Dienstagslächeln / … A Tuesday smile – Stella, oh, Stella