All posts by nedhamson

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

COCA-COLA versus GUIA ALIMENTAR

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Uma das tantas matérias que o bom jornalismo do The Intercept Brasil produz, tradicionalmente, foi publicada em setembro deste ano (2021), com uma denúncia séria contra a Coca-Cola. A sede da empresa nos EUA havia, anos atrás, contratado a consultoria Sancroft para que analisasse riscos para a corporação no mundo todo. E o resultado do trabalho apontou como sendo muito perigosa para os seus interesses uma diretriz oficial produzida pelo Ministério da Saúde de nosso país. Estávamos no ano de 2014, durante o governo de Dilma Rousseff (PT), quando o então ministro Arthur Chioro aprovou a publicação do Guia Alimentar para a População Brasileira, o documento que tanto incomodou a multinacional dos refrigerantes.

Foi a sua existência que levou a Sancroft a apontar o Brasil como sendo um dos “maiores riscos globais para a companhia, em termos de políticas públicas”. Fomos classificados como chance “alta e severa” de haver dificuldades…

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Humans (and Vaccines!) Vs the Microbes

…Even among those who accept and understand how good vaccines are at stopping disease, it’s difficult to truly appreciate just how incredible and transformative they have been. By one estimate, vaccines saved between 150 & 200 million lives from 1980 & 2018…and that’s just for smallpox. Covid-19 vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Europe and the US in the first year of their availability. Truly a miraculous invention…Source: Humans (and Vaccines!) Vs the Microbes

Confronting white supremacy in Johnston community school district

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The video below was recorded from last night’s online meeting about the Racist Rise to Ban Anti-Racist Books, Confronting white supremacy in the Johnston School District.

Of all the awful things that have been occurring over the last several years, banning books is the worst, so far, for me as a white person. At Scattergood Friends School we were taught to be lifelong learners. I not only enjoy reading, but that is how I learn about what is going on in the world. Learn about injustice and how others are working for justice.

But there is more to this for black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC). Rising authoritarianism, increasingly aggressive and militarized policing, voter suppression, and actions such as banning books are all efforts to perpetuate racism and white supremacy.

Education is one of the most important ways to call attention to racism and to help white people…

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Do Better Project: Logo Needed

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     For those interested in helping to find or create a logo, Project Do Better, our project needs a pretty picture!  I’m not the best at those, and I’m also really tired.   I have finally finished the third draft of DoBetter, formerly known as BabyAcres, or Baby Floors, and am out of spoons.  So, I am requesting volunteers to help with the work  as I  prepare to send it out into the world, as yours, Intrepid Volunteers.

    I’m still posting the rough draft sections on Wednesdays as a reminder and rallying point, until someone offers to build a site or portal for the set of communities to be built around this project.  I offer Do Better as a starting point for guidelines over the next 70 years, with the understanding that the project must be shaped by those who come after me. …

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