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

We don’t give up

We’re occupying this space. People are going to be living here and it’ll be occupied from now on. This project is not a done deal. It’s only one third complete and most of that work is happening in other territories. The Wetsuweten have been resisting this project since day one and will continue to resist this project until it fails.

It’s time to end this once and for all because there’s no way that Wetsuweten are ever going to stand down. There’s no way that we’re ever going to move off of our territories and not be here and occupying them and not be utilizing our Wedzin Kwa, utilizing our territories the way that we’re supposed to be in the way that we have every right to.

LANDBACK Friends

This first video is an update about what is happening now on the Wet’suwet’en territories.

The video at the end, INVASION, was released in November, 2019, and gives an excellent overview of the struggles of the Wet’suwet’en peoples to protect their land and water. The story is well told, but what really affected me were all the beautiful shots of that pristine land.

We’re occupying this space. People are going to be living here and it’ll be occupied from now on. This project is not a done deal. It’s only one third complete and most of that work is happening in other territories. The Wetsuweten have been resisting this project since day one and will continue to resist this project until it fails.

It’s time to end this once and for all because there’s no way that Wetsuweten are ever going to stand down. There’s no way that we’re ever…

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as love blossoms

Develop. Inspire. Transform.

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seeing brokenness
within, without,
and everywhere about, I shout

at the sky…everywhere, I fly…

emotions high,
and the depths, deep, and dry

as spinning begins,
and the trees look at me
with a silent grin, speaking
of something I’ve missed, I stop…

digress…pause, and breathe life in…

slowing down now, I see

the moonlight cascade
off the tree, and, just then,
something else stirs from within

full of tears, and ready
to begin…this pool
of light glistens
off a reservoir,
felt, yet never been called

to sit in…while

the
moment
stretches out
to the east,
and west again…and

head meets heart
for the first time,
they bond together just fine…as

love blossoms,
they align,
and

time melts into the sublime…


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Former Elected County Coroner Indicted for Illegal Distribution of Controlled Substances | OPA | Department of Justice

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Kentucky returned an indictment today charging a former elected county coroner with illegally distributing controlled substances such as oxycodone and OxyContin.

According to court documents, David W. Suetholz, 73, of Ludlow, Kentucky, a medical doctor who served as the elected county coroner for Kenton County, Kentucky, until June 30, 2021, unlawfully distributed opioids to three patients on 10 separate occasions between approximately September 2018 and February 2020.

A summons was issued and Suetholz has been directed to appear on Oct. 27. If convicted, Suetholz faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each count. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Source: Former Elected County Coroner Indicted for Illegal Distribution of Controlled Substances | OPA | Department of Justice

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 33, and New Tools

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, right?  

 

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:

                “In Washington, D.C., The Time Dollar Youth Court (TDYC) provides alternative youth peer sentencing to first-time juvenile offenders in the District of Columbia, providing a constructive means of instilling respect and responsibility for self and others. The recidivism rate for Youth Court participants is 9% for those who successfully completed the Youth Court Diversion Program (as opposed to 30% for those in the D.C. area who were not referred to Youth Court). ”

In forming the RJI, Dr. Cahn again inspired cooperation, building…

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Running the marathon with slippers on!

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Life’s important learnings often happen at strange places and it was in a Chinese restaurant that I picked up one myself. Waiting for the meal that evening, I watched with unabashed amusement the antics of two toddlers on the opposite table, each trying to negotiate a bowl of soggy vegetable soup. The first kid, sitting on the lap of her mother, dipped a lean lemonade straw inside the bowl and tried desperately to sip in the thick solution. Repeated sucking of the straw placing it at varied angles only resulted in a flattened and collapsing pipe without a drop seeping into the mouth. And quickly learning from the unsuccessful attempt of his sibling, the second one thought differently and took a steel fork that’s placed on the table. He made valiant efforts to scoop out the soup with the fork only to find it leak out completely and the child…

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Climate Change and the Melting Glaciers

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The effects of climate change is not something we will see in the future, we are seeing it now

Climate solutions that we were told about should be used somehow

We should not be thinking that the environmentalists will do all the work one day

They are not the only ones who will not be living in a great way

When Glaciers melt, sea level rises and islands disappear

It is time for more of us to pay attention to environmental care

We can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and plastic use

We can make a difference when we recycle, reduce and reuse

Photo by Ricardo Esquivel on Pexels.com

We can benefit a lot from protecting earth and working towards living in a sustainable way

We don’t need to keep on moving along the same destructive path every day

There is a lot we can do to fix the damage that…

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