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

COLONIALISMO del 21 ° secolo: implementato da corporazioni e ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni indigene o di Cartier e altri nel settore della gioielleria in oro e diamanti? … aggiornato 2021

Barbara Crane Navarro

“Oro o Natura?” – ©Fotolia/ Wikimedia/Collage: Mirela Hadzic per il salvataggio della foresta pluviale

“La follia dell’uomo ha aumentato il valore dell’oro e dell’argento a causa della loro scarsità; mentre la natura, come un genitore amorevole, ci ha donato gratuitamente le cose migliori, come l’aria, la terra e l’acqua, ma ci ha nascosto quelle vane e inutili. “Thomas More,”Utopia“, libro II – 1516

Pubblicità di Cartier

La sistematica conquista e colonizzazione europea delle Americhe iniziò nel 1492 ed è ancora in corso. La motivazione principale era allora, e continua ad essere, lo sfruttamento. L’aumento della ricchezza in Europa dipendeva dall’oro, i diamanti e da altre ricchezze saccheggiate a spese del degrado della natura e della sottomissione delle popolazioni indigene …

Foto: miniera d’oro: Emiliano Mancuso / National Geographic

L’ONG Survival proclama: ” Stiamo combattendo per la sopravvivenza del popolo tribale. Impediamo ai taglialegna, ai minatori e alle compagnie…

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Thoughts on Truth and Reconciliation for Orange Shirt Day — Michael J. Fast

Reconciliation Through Education: a Toolkit — Howard Public School Council

Barbara Crane Navarro

Resources for the first National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (Orange Shirt Day) on September 30, 2021 Content note: The following post discusses residential ‘schools’. The National Residential School Crisis Line 1-866-925-4419 is for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of his or her Residential school experience, and is also for families of[…]

Reconciliation Through Education: a Toolkit — Howard Public School Council

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 31, and Valuing US All

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:

” …agencies, might place access to some of their resources into the timebank. This might be the use of a minibus or sports hall, or particular skills that they have such as graphic design or legal advice. Organisations in the timebank can then share, trade and exchange resources based on the hour for an hour principle.
A false distinction?

In reality however, timebanks are most sustainble when these artificial boundaries are withdrawn, and the three models are brought together. In that way, people, organisations and…

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These unvaccinated 10% fuel Israel’s COVID crisis – Israel News – Haaretz.com

In Israel, COVID is fast becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated: Of the 644 patients in serious condition on Tuesday, 73 percent were from the small population of eligible Israelis who had not received any shots Source: These unvaccinated 10% fuel Israel’s COVID crisis – Israel News – Haaretz.com