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

In Bolivia, Mercury Pollution Spreads Amid a Surge in Gold Mining – Yale E360

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Source: In Bolivia, Mercury Pollution Spreads Amid a Surge in Gold Mining – Yale E360

Dia da Justiça

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“O custo de tudo, é o esforço”, como diz o Leandro Karnal num desses vídeos que você encontra facilmente pela Internet. Esforço que ninguém sabe que você faz, ou abdica muitas vezes em prol de algo ou alguma coisa. O esforço é um processo composto por muitas exigências que você faz de si mesma; faz mas nem sempre o resultado é como você espera. Às vezes melhora um pouco aqui, outro ali, mas a vida sempre vive esse processo glorioso de querer mais, de dizer que “podemos”, a medida que temos coragem para lutar pelos nossos ideais.

Não quero aqui, ser otimista demais, nem vender milagres. Veja, não estou dizendo que o esforço diário resulta no que você quer para si, o esforço de uma vida toda, sim. Mas compreenda, os dissabores são reais, mais do que os momentos memoráveis. E, uma coisa que acho interessante é que, os momentos…

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No Snark Today — Just Good News!

Filosofa's Word

Typically, my posts bring you all the bad news, but today I actually have a couple of good news pieces, starting with the news that as I write this, Brittney Griner is on a plane heading home to the U.S. after some ten months imprisoned in Russia.  President Biden announced early this morning …

“Moments ago, standing together with her wife Cherelle in the Oval Office, I spoke with Brittney Griner. She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home after months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances. Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones, and she should have been there all along.”

Ms. Griner was arrested in February on “drug smuggling” charges, for having inadvertently packed a vaporizer cartridge containing less than a gram of cannabis oil.  For this, she was sentenced to nine years in prison in…

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Five power substations attacked in Pacific northwest similar to strike that caused outages in North Carolina – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

The FBI is investigating at least five attacks on electricity substations in the Pacific northwest similar to one that caused widespread power outages in North Carolina.Representatives from Puget Sound Energy, the Cowlitz County Public Utility District and Bonneville Power Administration confirmed t…
— Read on www.rawstory.com/substation/

In Memory of Ashley L. Peterson: Self-Publishing Pt 1 + Podcast Ver.

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Ashley L. Peterson blogged and wrote about mental health.
Ashley L. Peterson blogged and wrote about mental health.

It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that (blogger/self-publisher/mental health activist/thoroughly great person who was always there for anyone who reached out to her) Ashley L. Peterson has passed away. Fortunately, family is keeping her site up, Mental Health @ Home: A safe place to talk openly about mental health & illness.

At Ashley’s blog, you’ll find her family’s recent post about her. In addition, they created a memorial site where you’ll see photos of Ashley, learn about her life, and of their great love for her.

Caz, another blogger/health activist who lives in England, also published an insightful eulogy to Ashley at her Invisibly Me site.

Ashley contributed twice to Happiness Between Tails. What follows below and in today’s audio/podcast version, is her first contribution, worded exactly as it originally appeared…

https://anchor.fm/s/622e2888/podcast/rss

Click H-E-R-E for my…

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