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

Canadian charity says aid truck bombed in Gaza in ‘targeted’ attack | CBC News

The International Development and Relief Foundation, a Toronto-based registered non-profit, says its key water aid truck was bombed in northern Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and is calling on the Canadian government to investigate. (Submitted by IDRF)

Oportunidade – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Na vida, nunca esqueça daquelas pessoas que, um dia lhes estenderam a mão; acreditaram em você, e por meio de um gesto, abriram caminho às oportunidades. Elas também tiveram de alguma maneira, alguém que, em algum instante lhes ajudou  a subir no primeiro degrau do sucesso.

 

Marii Freire. Oportunidade

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Ismael Girão

Santarém, Pá 19 de abril de 2024

Source: Oportunidade – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Lygia Fagundes Telles – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Não peça coerência ao mistério nem peça lógica ao absurdo.

 

Lygia Fagundes Telles . Os contos. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2018. Nota, trecho do conto Potyra

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Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Barbosa, Lucas

Santarém, Pá 19 de abril de 2024

 

Source: Lygia Fagundes Telles – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant | US unions | The Guardian

Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.

The vote was the first union election to be held as part of the UAW’s ambitious organizing drive aimed at unionizing 150,000 workers at non-union auto plants around the US.

The win makes the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the south to unionize via election since the 1940s.

The union made the call late Friday night after some 2,200 ballots were counted in favor of unionizing. The plant has about 4,300 eligible voters.

Source: UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant | US unions | The Guardian

After their PM halts Ukraine aid, Slovaks dig deep to help

A crowdfunding campaign in Slovakia to buy artillery shells for Ukraine has exceeded its target of €1m (£850,000), less than 48 hours after it was launched.

The campaign is a response to the Slovak cabinet’s refusal to join an initiative by the Czech government to buy up hundreds of thousands of shells for the Ukrainian armed forces.

“We have to drive Putin out of Ukraine. We have to defeat him,” said Otto Simko, a Holocaust survivor and veteran of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising against the Nazis. Aged 99, he helped kickstart the campaign to challenge the government’s policy.

“I lived through the Second World War. I fought in it. I can tell you there was no point negotiating with Hitler and there is no point negotiating with Putin,” Simko told the BBC from Bratislava.

It was a random conversation the Slovak veteran had with a journalist and a philosopher that led to the idea of crowdfunding Slovak help for Kyiv.

Source: After their PM halts Ukraine aid, Slovaks dig deep to help

Brazil’s Lula creates two new Indigenous territories, bringing total to 10

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara arrive at the closing ceremony of the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the National Council for Indigenous Policy

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara arrive Thursday at the closing ceremony of the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the National Council for Indigenous Policy in Brasilia.Eraldo Peres / AP

Source: Brazil’s Lula creates two new Indigenous territories, bringing total to 10

Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-year low

  • Forest clearing detected by Brazil’s deforestation alert system fell to the lowest level in nearly five years.
  • According to data released last week by the country’s space agency, INPE, deforestation registered over the past twelve months amounts to 4,816 square kilometers, 53% below the level this time last year.
  • The drop in deforestation has occurred despite a severe drought affecting much of the Amazon basin.

Source: Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-year low

Environmental Group Asks RFK Jr to End Presidential Bid

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lost the support of his own family this week when several members of the Kennedy family joined President Joe Biden to formally endorse his reelection. Now, an environmental group that Kennedy spent nearly three decades working for asked him to “honor our planet, drop out.”

Source: Environmental Group Asks RFK Jr to End Presidential Bid