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

What I don’t know about Mutual Aid

LANDBACK Friends

Disclaimer: Before getting to that, I think I should make a disclaimer, especially since I shared the 2021 Peace and Social Concerns report of my yearly meeting, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative). I included that because Mutual Aid is mentioned in the report. “These injustices are some of the effects of systems of white supremacy. The concept of Mutual Aid is becoming an increasingly used model for communities working for justice. The idea is to have a horizontal hierarchy, where everyone has a voice. And work to ensure a vertical hierarchy does not develop. Without a vertical hierarchy, there can, by definition, be no superiority. Several of our meetings are supporting existing Mutual Aid communities or considering creating their own. These are opportunities to begin to disengage from the colonial capitalist system and white supremacy. Ways we can model justice in our own meetings and communities.”

But that doesn’t mean…

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– Journeys-Jornadas

Coisas da SIL

Interessante hoje em dia estava aqui pensando em como queremos ser perfeitos e nos expomos isso sempre, principalmente nas redes sociais postamos um lado estritamente importante, as coisas boas, as pessoas, momentos felizes, os amores, as conquistas, sonhos e planos… etc… Mas a realidade nua e crua nós exilados, fingimos não ter, mas na verdade tem sim Muito a se dizer, a se mostrar, a se revelar. Por traz de cada pequenas Vitória, existe dor, choro, crítica, julgamento, especulações, distorções, fuga, medo e renúncia, na verdade muitas outras abordagens também. Isso não postamos, amenizamos este lado escondido em nós pros outros, uma fração disso só se encontra em pessoas de quem confiamos, familiares e amigos, pessoas a quem chamamos confidentes do não revelado. Está é nossa sina. Uma vida fragmentada… cheia de realçadas jornadas… Que sejamos observadores… Com carinho: Coisas da SiL.

A good break helps you to think.- Uma…

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More on the Covid Legacy

Nails it – long Covid-19 will impact us all for decades. We must prepare against the next pandemic and get everyone vaccinated for this one – now!

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

Research from the NIH confirms the following:

  1. Covid can persist in the body for up to 283 days after infection. That’s not a limit, it just the oldest tissue sample the NIH has at present.
  2. Covid can spread into the heart and brain of people even if the individuals have shown either mild or no symptoms of the virus.

I’ve been worried about this for awhile. It’s interesting to here scientists now expressing my concerns.

“We don’t yet know what burden of chronic illness will result in years to come,” Raina MacIntyre, PhD, a professor of global biosecurity at the University of New South Wales, told Bloomberg News.
“Will we see young-onset cardiac failure in survivors or early-onset dementia?” she said. “These are unanswered questions which call for a precautionary public health approach to mitigation of the spread of this virus.”

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/965688?uac=153634BV&faf=1&sso=true&impID=3911114&src=mkm_covid_update_211228_MSCPEDIT

We also don’t know what proportion of the…

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Bloganuary: Road trips on a small island don’t really work for me

Petchary's Blog

The second day’s #Bloganuary prompt is a tricky one for me. What road trip would you like to go on, the prompt asks?

I live on quite a small island. I have done a good few road trips here – but frankly, driving around Jamaica is not for the faint-hearted. The surface of our roads varies from smooth highways (mostly three-quarters empty apart from the stretch between Kingston and Portmore, which is clogged with traffic going one way in the morning and the other way in the evening); to narrow country roads that have been patched up so many times that negotiating them is a kind of obstacle course of dips and dents and lumps and bumps. And then there are those roads that the average car would really rather not be driven on at all.

The much-lauded, mostly empty North-South Highway from Kingston/Spanish Town to the North…

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What Lies Ahead?

From Behind the Pen

Pensive Woman sitting on an Armchair
Image Credit: Monstera

Oh my goodness, here I am on another new and beautiful day. I can’t define or even quantify the way I feel right now because it’s a bit of anxiousness, and anticipation mixed with excitement. While that seems like a bizarre twist of emotions, trust me, it is. But, as I lasso in this wagon of adventure and hitch it up to my journey like a horse-drawn carriage, while the road ahead may not always be a smooth ride, it’s a ride that I am sure I will learn from, and not soon forget.

What lies ahead? No one knows for sure, not even a fortune teller peering through their crystal ball trying to predict the future. All I can tell ya is, hold on and prepare for the amazing, great unknown, like riding a wild bronco bucking the rider in a rodeo, but the rider just…

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New Years resolutions: choose life

Darcy Hitchcock

In Paul Hawken’s latest work, Regeneration, he asks us all to turn toward life, to choose actions that are regenerative rather than degenerative. A healthcare system that prioritizes health rather than just fixing symptoms. Agriculture that builds soil and provides habitat. Materials that can be easily composted. Education that teaches sustainability instead of unsustainability.

Watch this webinar about regeneration. https://connect.pachamama.org/group/314/topic/regeneration-putting-life-center-paul-hawken

Sample from https://regeneration.org/punchlist

So if you like to set goals or intentions for the coming year, make the with regeneration in mind. Check out these sample “punch lists” for ideas. https://regeneration.org/punchlist

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