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

O Dia dos Povos Indígenas é um feriado celebrado nos países colonizados para homenagear os povos indígenas e comemorar suas histórias e culturas – enquanto governos e empresas continuam a pilhar, saquear e roubar territórios indígenas!

Barbara Crane Navarro

Nos Estados Unidos, o Dia dos Povos Indígenas evoluiu como uma alternativa ao «dia da invasão» – o Dia de Colombo – que celebrava a chegada de Cristóvão Colombo ao Novo Mundo em 12 de outubro de 1492 e o início da colonização da América do Norte.

Os nativos americanos protestaram contra a ideia de homenagear um homem que permitiu seu genocídio e assimilação forçada.

Em toda a América do Norte hoje, as lutas indígenas contra as minas e oleodutos que deveriam passar por locais sagrados ou fontes de água em suas comunidades ainda estão em andamento. Eles conclamam o governo a «honrar os tratados!» e reconhecer que «Água é vida!»

Entre eles, o Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) põe em perigo o abastecimento de água da reserva Standing Rock Sioux no rio Missouri.

A Linha 3 é um projeto de expansão do oleoduto para transportar um milhão de barris de…

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Anacaona and the Day of Indigenous Resistance  — Unwrapping Development

Barbara Crane Navarro

Today, October 12, is the Day of Indigenous Resistance, at least in Venezuela and in the hearts of millions of people in other lands. In Costa Rica, it’s the Día de las Culturas. But in many places, it’s still called Columbus Day or the Día de la Raza. In Canada, the date is mostly ignored.Here,[…]

Anacaona and the Day of Indigenous Resistance — Unwrapping Development

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S4.E1 – This Land Is Their Land — The Jilted Indian Podcast

Barbara Crane Navarro

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! The Jilted Indians are back for season FOUR with an episode to signal boost issues being faced by indigenous communities. We talk history, current events, and allyship. We also want to hip you to some amazing art and highlight organizations serving indigenous communities. Season 4 is on Spotify SHOW NOTES Obviously[…]

S4.E1 – This Land Is Their Land — The Jilted Indian Podcast

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Wondering Wednesdays, Do More (was Baby Floors), Chapter 6 Introduction: How to get there from here

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

This post begins the rough draft of  Chapter 6 for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors/Baby Acres, now working titled Do More.    This chapter and those that follow put a roadmap in place for getting to where every child born could have at least a little studio apartment (I’ve even stayed in converted tiny hotel rooms that had been advertised as apartments, and thus learned never to rent sight unseen, even if it seems legit and  you are desperate), as small as a hotel room with a hot plate, fridge, and microwave.

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

Since this is a short post (only 200 words or so), I’m putting all of the chapter 6 rough draft outlines below, since each chapter, past and future, ties back in to this chapter, via the high level…

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Mothers sue after children catch Covid at Wisconsin schools with no mandates | Wisconsin | The Guardian

Two Wisconsin mothers whose children had Covid-19 in September have sued their school districts, for “needlessly and recklessly endangering the health and safety” of their children and other students.

Both lawsuits accuse the school districts of creating a “snake pit” for students by not implementing Covid-19 safety measures recommended by health officials, such as indoor masking, at their schools this year.

The suits say the Falls Creek school district and school board and Waukesha school district and school board “are aware that by removing their Covid-19 mitigation measures they are needlessly and recklessly endangering the health and safety of their students”.

Gina Kildahl filed on Monday in Wisconsin’s western district court after her child, a Falls Creek district elementary school student, tested positive for Covid-19 in late September.

The complaint said the school board voted against a mask requirement for the 2021-22 school year and that people are allowed to visit the district without masks or being screened or tested for Covid-19.

While Kildahl’s child wore a mask to school each day, according to the complaint, many other students did not. In late September, there was an outbreak in her child’s class and the child tested positive.

Source: Mothers sue after children catch Covid at Wisconsin schools with no mandates | Wisconsin | The Guardian

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¿Quién que es no se ha sentido cautivado, una noche, al contemplar un lago rodeado de abetos y descubrir en la pinacoteca celeste los faroles y los luceros estelares que asoman enamorados al espejo actuático que duerme arrullado por los rumores y los sigilos de las horas? ¿Quién que es no ha experimentado la locura de correr, una tarde de lluvia, en el parque, solo o acompado, y sentir las gotas deslizar en su rostro y empapar su cabello, su ropa y su calzado? ¿Quién que es no ha sentido embeleso al percibir las fragancias de los tulipanes, las orquídeas y las rosas, una mañana primaveral, al internarse en algún jardín con rasgos de paraíso? ¿Quién que es, al admirar el oleaje en su interminable ir y venir y distinguir, en la lejanía, al sol y al horizonte, refugiados…

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ShiraDest’s Round Robin: Day 11/67 of High School in Five Months, Perspectives, and libraries

Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

Books, film, and other forms of media, like comic books, aka graphic novels, and music can all help us see the world from a new perspective. Books and other works that are in the public domain are made accessible by volunteer libraries, like the one compiled by LibriVox, or Project Gutenberg. Libraries of various […]

Day 11/67 of High School in Five Months, Perspectives, and libraries

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