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

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 35, and Ms. Marian Anderson

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

It is crucial that we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us.  This famous Easter Concert, in 1939, paved the way for a more famous speech, given on the very same step upon which Ms. Anderson stood to sing of freedom.   Guess who gave that speech?

 

I believe that attention to shared histories, as in DC, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

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• Tutoring children from Shepherd Elementary school every week
• PAUSE writing club
• Africa Projects – Abayudayan Jewish Co-op Coffee”

The membership of Tifereth Israel Congregation overlaps to an interesting extent with that of the nearby Washington Ethical Society, and cooperates in various annual events with the ethically minded…

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World leaders pledge $400 billion to boost clean energy and renewables — Happy Eco News

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World leaders have promised to make electricity both more sustainable and accessible A group of governments and the private sector on Friday collectively promised more than $400 billion (just over €340 billion) at a high-level summit that called for more urgent action to curb catastrophic climate change . 190 more words

World leaders pledge $400 billion to boost clean energy and renewables — Happy Eco News

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New York City vaccine mandate can stand, judge rules, despite police union request – The Washington Post

Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Lizette Colon ruled that de Blasio’s mandate — which the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York is seeking to overturn — can proceed, reportedly citing a previous state appellate ruling that upheld a vaccine mandate for measles. Source: New York City vaccine mandate can stand, judge rules, despite police union request – The Washington Post

Wet’suwet’en Urgent Update

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The arrest of Chief Dsta’hyl occurred just a few hours ago. The only news are the following tweets and Facebook posts. Supporters are asked to do what they can now. “We need boots on the ground!”

There have been many conflicts and arrests of Wet’suwet’en people by militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There are heightened tensions now as construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline has reached the point of drilling under the sacred headwaters of the Wedzin Kwa river. For background information see: https://landbackfriends.com/?s=wetsuweten

With @jjhorgan releasing the provincial Climate Plan today AND while our People file an appeal on our Climate Change court case – this is…

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U of Toronto researchers create mirror-image peptides that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created chemical compounds that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and several of its variants.

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the researchers report the creation of D-peptides that neutralize the virus and stop infection of cultured human cells.

Known as mirror-image peptides, the compounds have chemical properties that make them suitable for the development of low-cost antiviral therapeutics.

“A big advantage of mirror-image peptides is their long stability and that they are relatively cheap to produce,” says Philip Kim, senior author of the study and a professor of molecular genetics and computer science at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

“You could imagine them being formulated as a nasal spray to take prophylactically to prevent infection from occurring.”

Source: U of T researchers create mirror-image peptides that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Michel Foucault

Vivaldi translation: ”People know what they do; they often know why they do what they do; but what they ignore is the effect produced by what they do.”

Michel Foucault.

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” As pessoas sabem aquilo que elas fazem; frequentemente sabem por que fazem o que fazem; mas o que ignoram é o efeito produzido por aquilo que fazem.”

Michel Foucault.

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pa 27 de outubro de 2021

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