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

Das coisas miúdas que conto por aí – O Outro Lado

Escrevi no diário de ontem sobre a dor de uma mulher.
Em silêncio, estendi minha mão para amparo. Ela pediu que eu contasse sobre coisas leves, de como o quintal amanheceu ontem. Falei sobre as flores que nascem ao acaso e de como a vida miúda se encaixa na história.
Ela – tão miúda diante da vida – sorriu e ajustou o ombro e colocou a armadura de quem quer viver.

Mariana Gouveia

Source: Das coisas miúdas que conto por aí – O Outro Lado

SOLEDAD – El plumier de Nenuse

Badalona by Neus Bonet i Sala

La soledad

viaja

en mi mente

donde el silencio

se encamina

en concordancia

con la calma matinal.


Senderos internos,

ignotos para muchos,

conocidos para pocos.


https://taplink.cc/nbonetsala

Source: SOLEDAD – El plumier de Nenuse

Russian court upholds journalist Evan Gershkovich’s prison sentence after nearly a year in jail – UPI.com

The Wall Street Journal has emphatically stated that Gershkovich — known to be the first U.S. journalist since the Cold War’s end to be charged in Russia with spying — has been wrongfully detained and was a journalist just doing his job. The news organization said it will “continue to demand his immediate release.”

“It’s been nearly one year since Evan’s unjust arrest for doing nothing more than his job, and every day he remains in prison is an unconscionable attack on a free press. Evan is a journalist, and any suggestion or portrayal otherwise is fiction,” WSJ wrote.

Source: Russian court upholds journalist Evan Gershkovich’s prison sentence after nearly a year in jail – UPI.com

In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids | US education | The Guardian

Nebraska’s governor announced this week that the state would accept federal dollars to help feed children from low-income families, breaking away from the more than a dozen other Republican governors around the US who have refused to do so.

Just last month, Jim Pillen joined 14 other Republican governors in opting not to enroll in Summer EBT, a new federal food program that provides low-income families with a monthly payment of $40 per child during summer vacation. In participating states, families with children in free or reduced-price school lunch programs will get $40 per qualifying child on an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card throughout each of the three summer months. That money can be used to purchase groceries and food from farmers’ markets.

Source: In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids | US education | The Guardian

Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation | Russia | The Guardian

Ksenia Khavana reportedly made a donation to Razom for Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the first day of the war against Ukraine. Photograph: Twitter

Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation

Los Angeles ballerina Ksenia Khavana faces up to 20 years in prison for treason amid Kremlin crackdown

The White House has said it is seeking information after Russia announced it had arrested a dual US-Russian citizen on treason charges, accusing her of collecting funds for Ukrainian organisations and openly opposing the Russian war in Ukraine.

A Russian legal NGO said the woman, named by Russian media as Ksenia Khavana, may stand accused of transferring $51 (£40) to a Ukrainian charity in February 2022, on the day Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of the country. She faces up to 20 years in prison.

Russia’s FSB reported on Tuesday that it had detained a 33-year-old woman from Los Angeles who holds dual citizenship. Reports said the ballerina had attended the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg and later married an American citizen and moved to the US

Source: Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation | Russia | The Guardian

Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel | Open Culture

 

 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland predates the invention of cinema by a couple of decades. Nevertheless, much like the “Drink me” bottle and “Eat me” presented to its young protagonist, Lewis Carroll’s fantastical tale has called out the same message to generations of filmmakers around the world: “Adapt me.” This century, though not even a quarter of the way over, has already brought us full-length Alice movies (to say nothing of television productions) from Europe, South America, and of course the United States. Those last include separate adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass by no less an auteur than Tim Burton.

Both of those books were also taken on by a writer-director named W. W. Young more than a century ago, though he simply combined portions of both novels into a single feature. You can watch this silent Alice in Wonderland from 1915 above, in a version its uploader calls “by far the highest quality version of this film on the internet,” assembled “primarily from two prints scanned by the Library of Congress, along with a few other sources.

Source: Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel | Open Culture

Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More | Open Culture

 

 

Few cities have been as romanticized as Paris, and few eras in Paris have been as romanticized as the nineteen-twenties. This owes much to the famous expatriate artistic and literary figures residing there in that decade: Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dalí, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Man Ray, to name just a few of the figures revived in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. It’s still difficult, a century later, not to feel at least some curiosity about the real Paris in the twenties, footage of which you can see colorized and enhanced to play at a smooth 60 frames per second in the video above.

Source: Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More | Open Culture

Turkey’s search for gold has a massive humanitarian and environmental impact · Global Voices

Image by Arzu Geybullayeva

On February 13, a massive landslide that dislodged 10 million cubic meters of earth across a 200-meter slope at the Çöpler Gold Mine in the town of İliç, in Turkey, once again raised questions over the ruling government’s lack of oversight over private business operations in the country, including in mining industry. At least nine workers are reportedly still missing at the time of writing this story as a result of the landslide. There is increasing concern among environmental experts that some 1,000 hectares of land in the area were exposed to cyanide and sulfuric acid used at the mine for the extraction.

Source: Turkey’s search for gold has a massive humanitarian and environmental impact · Global Voices