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

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot forget dengue – Mágica Mistura 車

Source: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot forget dengue – Mágica Mistura 車

Yanomami et Arbres – Mines d’Or et objets de luxe en Or / COVID-19 propagé par les Orpailleurs – «Pas de Cartier !» – L’exposition est prolongée pendant l’année prochaine jusqu’au 4 décembre 2022

Barbara Crane Navarro

Performance : Sculpture de feu, La Miroiterie, Paris, France – 2006 : Barbara Crane Navarro

«Les chamans Yanomami qui combattent l’épidémie de xawara voient l’image de la maladie apparaître sous la forme de bandes de tissu écarlate. L’épidémie de xawara approche et sa fumée est rougeoyante! Elle fait du ciel un fantôme et dévore tous les êtres humains en son chemin! Il faut le chasser!»

– Davi Kopenawa, porte-parole des Yanomami et chaman, Roraima, Brésil, d’après son livre «La chute du ciel»

«Les chamans Yanomami luttent contre le xawara – la fumée des épidémies»
installation – technique mixte
Barbara Crane Navarro

Les chamans de la région du Haut-Orénoque en Amazonie, au Venezuela, m’ont décrit – oru a wakëxi – la fumée d’or en ces termes des décennies avant que je lis les paroles de Davi. En rêvant dans mon hamac dans la maison collective Yanomami, le shabono, j’ai vu…

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Lakota Nation vs. the United States — LANDBACK Friends

Barbara Crane Navarro

Lakota Nation vs. the United States


Art can be a powerful tool for justice and activism. Can reach the heart when the mind is closed. Following is an announcement about a documentary film that is being produced, Lakota Nation vs. the United States. The announcement helps explain why the Black Hills are a focus of #LANDBACK. LOS ANGELES — Documentary film[…]

Lakota Nation vs. the United States — LANDBACK Friends

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A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson – Free Ebook — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 Title: A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes Source: A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson – Free Ebook Project Gutenberg books are always free! in multiple formats An excerpt on one of a number of massacres: “One day[…]

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More than 100 Afghans from music school flown out of country

More than 100 students, alumni and faculty members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music have been flown out of Kabul on their way to Portugal, where the government has agreed to grant them asylum, the institute’s director said Monday.

They were on board a flight carrying 235 people out of Kabul’s international airport to Qatar on Sunday. It was the largest airlift of Afghan nationals since Taliban fighters seized Afghanistan in mid-August, two weeks before the U.S. and NATO withdrew their forces from the country after a 20-year military presence.

“You cannot imagine how happy I am. Yesterday I was crying for hours,” the school’s founder and director, Ahmad Sarmast, said from his home in Melbourne, Australia.

The musicians join tens of thousands of Afghans, including many from the country’s sports and arts scene, who have fled since August. Among the recent evacuees are Afghanistan’s female robotics team, known as the “Afghan Dreamers,” and a girls soccer team who resettled in Mexico and Portugal, respectively.

Source: More than 100 Afghans from music school flown out of country

Senate Confirms 4th Native American Judge On The Entire Federal Bench | HuffPost Communities

The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Lauren J. King to a U.S. district court, making her just the fourth Native American judge on the entire federal bench.

King, 39, was confirmed to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Every Democrat present voted for her. Six Republicans voted for her: Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mike Rounds (S.D.).

Source: Senate Confirms 4th Native American Judge On The Entire Federal Bench | HuffPost Communities

GOP lawmaker blocks $27M in COVID funds because vaccines contain “living organisms with tentacles” / LGBTQ Nation (Me: This is what happens when you drink QAnon kool-aide)

A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire is being denounced by his own party’s leaders for his bizarre claims about the COVID-19 vaccines, which included that the vaccines contain “living organism(s) with tentacles.” And he’s currently blocking millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 aid while he embarrasses the state GOP.

State Rep. Kenneth Weyler (R) emailed a 52-page “report” to his colleagues about COVID-19 and the vaccines with numerous ridiculous claims, including that the pandemic was a plot developed by leaders in the Vatican, London, and D.C. to control people’s thoughts with 5G technology.

Source: GOP lawmaker blocks $27M in COVID funds because vaccines contain “living organisms with tentacles” / LGBTQ Nation

Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters | Minnesota | The Guardian

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, which regulates pipelines, decided rural police should not have to pay for increased strain from Line 3 protests. As a condition of granting Line 3 permits, the commission required Enbridge to set up an escrow account to reimburse police for responding to demonstrations.

Enbridge told the Guardian an independent account manager allocates the funds, and police decide when protesters are breaking the law. But records obtained by the Guardian show the company meets daily with police to discuss intelligence gathering and patrols. And when Enbridge wants protesters removed, it calls police or sends letters.

“Our police are beholden to a foreign company,” Tara Houska, founder of the Indigenous frontline group Giniw Collective, told the Guardian. “They are working hand in hand with big oil. They are actively working for a company. Their duty is owed to the state of Minnesota and to the tribal citizens of Minnesota.”

Source: Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters | Minnesota | The Guardian

Wondering Wednesdays, Do Better: 1st draft is done!

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

I just have to share: I have finally finished my first draft of Do Better, formerly known as Baby Acres, or Baby Floors!  I’m still posting the rough draft sections so that when I post the first draft sections, there will be a line of progression to follow, to help me track my own craft learning and writing process.

Action Items:

1.) What are your thoughts on writing books?

2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.

3.) Share your thoughts on how continuing empathy-building cooperation might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

4.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness,  #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind? 

Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure  & #StopSmoking at least for CCOVID-19:
1. #PublicLibraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid…

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