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

Bruce’s Beach was stolen a century ago. It’s finally been returned. – ALISON BETHEL MCKENZIE June 27, 2022 — Just Sayin’

Bruce’s Beach once belonged to Willa and Charles Bruce, who purchased the parcel in 1912 and established a popular resort for Black families. Today, a plaque at the top of a hill informs visitors of the beach’s history.PHOTOGRAPH BY ALLEN J. SCHABEN, GETTY IMAGESThe historically Black beach in California is now only the second in…

Bruce’s Beach was stolen a century ago. It’s finally been returned. – ALISON BETHEL MCKENZIE June 27, 2022 — Just Sayin’

California to vote on adding abortion rights in state Constitution – Los Angeles Times

California voters will decide in November whether the state Constitution should explicitly protect a person’s right to an abortion and birth control.

On Monday, the Democratic-controlled Legislature gave final approval to a measure that would put the issue before the state’s voters, in the latest countermeasure aimed at the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

Senate Constitutional Amendment 10 by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) would, if approved by voters, further codify the state’s already progressive reproductive rights, which grant anyone of reproductive age “the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose and to obtain an abortion.” Currently, those rights in California are held up by case law and statutory laws, but Atkins said hostile attacks on abortion access convinced her those aren’t enough.

“We know from history that abortion bans don’t end abortion,” said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), a co-author of SCA 10. “They only outlaw safe abortions. We must preserve the fundamental reproductive rights of women here in California, because they are under attack elsewhere.”

 

Source: California to vote on adding abortion rights in state Constitution – Los Angeles Times

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

  • Switzerland imported 24.5 tonnes of gold in 2021, at least a fifth of which came from Brazilian Amazon states. Evidence indicates most of it is mined illegally on Indigenous lands. Illicit mining operations have resulted in major Amazon deforestation, widespread mercury poisoning and soaring violence.
  • With the Brazilian government of Jair Bolsonaro unresponsive to the escalating crisis, an independent delegation of Indigenous people along with others travelled to Switzerland in May to plead with major gold refiners to end the importation of illicit Brazilian gold.
  • This week, the refiners published a statement pledging to remove illegal gold mined within Brazilian Indigenous reserves from their supply chains. If the initiative is fully followed, experts say it could be a game changer that could undermine the, until now, lucrative illegal gold trade.
  • Canada, the world’s biggest importer of gold, has made no such agreement. 

Source: Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Mount Macolod part 2

Pacific Paratrooper

The reduction of Mount Macolod

2 April, the 187th attacked and cleared the area to the base of the mountain, but were unable to hold the ridges. One pocket of the enemy were dug in between the two southern ridges and small Japanese patrols were strewn along the highway near Talisay, indicating to Colonel Pearson that the enemy held that sector. His feelings were confirmed when his command post was hit with Japanese 155mm artillery shells. The quick reactions of the 674th Glider Field Artillery Battalion to counterattack saved the 2d 187th.

Shelling Mt. Macolod

Captured Japanese artillery, Mt. Macolod

8 April, General MacArthur released a communiqué to state that because of the 11th Airborne’s actions, “…all organized enemy resistance in the southern part of the island was destroyed and liberation was at hand.” As usual, his assessment of the situation was premature, but it was just the type of…

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THE HUMAN SIDE

NANMYKEL.COM

It’s easy to distance oneself from our elected officials, even those who share our interests.  There’s such a great distance between us, and at least I am usually in my cold political brain when I think about them.  In fact, I’ve become so used to being lied to that I have become somewhat jaundiced about everyone and everything.

So an article in the Morning New York Times on Sunday belatedly touched an empathic part of me when  I read Ian Prasad Philbrick’s story “In the Room.”  He interviewed Times colleague and reporter Emily Cochrane  who was trapped in the upper gallery of the House chamber during the January 6 attack.  She recalled the period when “all of a sudden the people in front of me started moving again, climbing over chairs and bannisters so I did the same.”

The article describes those who sit in the back of the chamber…

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Sanaa, Yemen – Sana, Jemen

Myrela

Bazar u Sani podijeljen je na četrdesetak manjih tržnica, namijenjenih prodaji određene vrste robe. Svaki dio nadgleda posrednik (aqel) čiji je zadatak da rješava sporove među trgovcima i, isto tako, česte nesporazume između trgovaca i njihovih mušterija. Posrednik je odgovoran i za usmjeravanje proizvodnje na određena dobra i, u nekim slučajevima, za distribuciju sirovina i proizvoda za prodaju. On nije nadležan za Samsaru, 33 trgovačke “agencije” koje su igrale važnu ulogu u drevna vremena, kad je Sana bila stanica na Putu začina kojim su se karavani kretali između Arabijskog poluostrva i Sredozemlja. Sana, glavni grad Republike Jemen, leži u planinskom području u unutrašnjosti zemlje, na visini od 2.200 metara. Nalazi se u kotlini koju sa istoka na zapad presijeca suvo korito rijeke Vadi Sajla, koja se u kišnoj sezoni pretvara u snažnu bujicu. Legenda kaže da je grad osnovao Sim, jedan od trojice Nojevih sinova, ali Jemenci su…

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Flávio Venturini

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Foi assim, como ver o mar

A primeira vez

Que meus olhos

Se viram no seu olhar

Não tive a intenção

De me apaixonar

Mera distração e já era

Momento de se gostar

Quando dei por mim

Nem tentei fugir

Do visgo que me prendeu

Dentro do seu olhar…”

Flávio Venturini. Todo Azul do Mar

Composição: Flávio Venturini/Ronaldo Bastos.

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 27 de junho de 2022

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