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

Gustavo Petro Wins Colombia’s Presidential Election – The New York Times

Mr. Petro said his relationship with the United States would focus on working together to tackle climate change, specifically halting the rapid erosion of the Amazon.

“There is a point of dialogue there,” he said. “Because saving the Amazon rainforest involves some instruments, some programs, that do not exist today, at least not with respect to the United States. It is, in my opinion, the priority.”

 

Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform – Mother Jones

Source: Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform – Mother Jones

Zizi Possi

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

A paz invadiu o meu coração

De repente se encheu de paz

Como se o vento de um tufão

Arrancasse os meus pés do chão

Onde eu já não me enterro mais

A paz fez o mar da revolução

Invadir meu destino

A paz como aquela grande explosão

De uma bomba sobre o Japão

Fez nascer um Japão na paz

Eu pensei em mim

Eu pensei em ti

Eu chorei por nós

Que contradição

Só a guerra faz nosso amor em paz

Eu vim

Vim parar na beira do cais

Onde a estrada chegou ao fim

Onde o fim da tarde é lilás

Onde o mar arrebenta em mim

O lamento de tantos ” ais”

Eu pensei em mim

Eu pensei em ti

Eu chorei por nós

Que contradição

Só a guerra faz

Nosso amor em paz…”

Zizi Possi. A Paz

Composição: Gilberto Gil/ João Donato

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Marii Freire Pereira

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Vitamin D Revisited

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Dr. Leslie Kernisan reprized an article on Vitamin D supplementation this weekend. The one finding worth noting is that simply spending time outdoors is no guarantee that you have a sufficient amount of this vitamin in your body. I’ll explain below:

Background:

  • Source: Vitamin D occurs naturally and can be created and activated by the body through a three-step process starting with synthesis from exposure of skin to sunlight, and then two hydroxylation actions first in the liver and then in the kidneys. It can also be captured from dietary supplements.
  • Known benefits of vitamin D: The body uses vitamin D for several purposes:
    • Bone creation and to limit the risk of brittle, soft or deformed bones. The related disease conditions are rickets in children, osteomalacia in adults, and osteoporosis among older adults.
    • Prevention of involuntary muscle spasms or cramps
    • Maintenance of calcium and phosphate concentrations at the right levels…

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Opal Lee — Grandmother Of Juneteenth

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I first discovered this amazing woman last year, and … well, no story of Juneteenth is complete without Ms. Opal Lee!


Look at this beautiful woman …

This is Opal Lee, age 94, and on this, the first time Juneteenth is being celebrated as an official U.S. holiday, I want to tell you a little bit about Ms. Lee who is known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth.  While yesterday I wrote a bit about the negativity of some racists toward the new holiday, Juneteenth, today I want to put aside the negative and focus on the positive … and the voice of Ms. Opal Lee.


When Opal Lee was growing up in Texas, she would spend Juneteenth picnicking with her family, first in Marshall, where she was born, then in Sycamore Park in Fort Worth, near the home she moved into at age 10.  Ms. Lee’s paternal grandmother was born into bondage…

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Opinion | Putting Babies Up for Adoption Isn’t an Alternative to Abortion – The New York Times

In the leaked Dobbs draft opinion, Justice Alito noted that many abortion opponents point to the fact “that states have increasingly adopted safe haven laws, which generally allow women to drop off babies anonymously, and that a woman who puts her newborn up for adoption today has little reason to fear that the baby will not find a suitable home.” For these advocates, “just” having the baby is a perfectly viable option.

It may seem perfectly viable to someone who has never been pregnant or given birth. Perfectly viable to someone with no concept of the full range of women’s concerns and fears. Perfectly viable to someone who has never had to make these choices — and live with the consequences.

 

Evanston, Illinois Is the First City to Offer Reparations to Black Residents

Under the “Restorative Housing Program,” the first of the reparations initiatives, Evanston City Council has given an initial 16 qualifying Black households $25,000 for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments. In order to qualify, residents must either have lived in — or be a direct descendant of a Black person who lived in — Evanston between 1919 to 1969 and suffered a form of discrimination related to housing because of city ordinances, policies or practices.

Source: Evanston, Illinois Is the First City to Offer Reparations to Black Residents