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

Wet’suwet’en update 11/17/2021

LANDBACK Friends

I try to do most of the writing on this blog, rather than sharing tweets and videos. But it is important for those on the frontlines to tell their stories themselves.

Some may wonder why I, a white male in the so-called United States, follows so closely and writes about the Wet’suwet’en. There are several reasons. My whole life I have worked to reduce fossil fuel use. Which has been frustrating because so few people in industrialized societies look beyond their own needs for fossil fuels for transportation, heating, cooking, and all the products made from fossil fuels, such as plastics, etc. Our capitalist economy focuses on these things, completely ignoring the draining of non-renewable fossil fuel supplies and the many damages to Mother Earth.

The situation with the Wet’suwet’en peoples is an example of the global nature of environmental devastation. And their Indigenous leadership is an example of the…

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Nuances

Vivaldi translation: Life passes like a taste of wind
And happiness lasts only at times
Today was already yesterday
Alas, we will not be able to do everything
Tomorrow is here and now
Leaving the impression of already seen
Who would have believed it ?
The sun sets every day
Behind the velvet clouds.

De malinha pronta

La vie passe tel un coup de vent
Et le bonheur ne dure qu’un instant
Aujourd’hui était déjà hier
Hélas, on ne pourra pas tout faire
Demain c’est ici et maintenant
Laissant l’impression de déjà vu
Qui l’aurait cru?
Le soleil se couche chaque jour
Derrière les nuages de velours.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz

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Wondering Wednesdays, Do Better, Chapter 7 Intro: mapping out Phase I

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

This post is the start of the rough draft of  Chapter 7, for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.  

Putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Outlines for some of chapter 7 will be at the bottom of this post (JYP!).

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter 7 Introduction:

( Chapter 6, section IV was last week…)

 

Chapter 7 Introduction: How Phase I…

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Unsolicited

yaskhan

I hear sirens in the 2 a.m sky, red lights revolve into reflections. I blink ....my eyes vermillion in the shadows of sleep. I walk the streets under flickering neon lights.  Fog settles on hunched figures ...slumber bent. A quick wind rustles dust, leaves in umber.

Hoodwinked owls cry
Stalking trees
Where bats fly

Smog stalks the streets...weed ridden breaths wheeze in a sleep concocted by social discrepancies. Dreams fancy themselves behind eyelids too dreary. ..sleep's stillness brought by little things that slide down throats.

Moon shines dowbn:
Stores with drawn blinds
Blank stares 
Empty faces

I am bemused by the muteness of sleeping figures. Rats crawl out of nowhere and slip into hidden crevices...scurrying across yellow lit pavements. .cold bitter...impersonal 


Social imbalance 
A requisite for life?
Poverty unsolicited 
Sorrow irrevocable 

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