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

Avian Flu Diary: China: Guangdong Provincial Health Commission Announces Human H5N6 Infection In Dongguan City

While H5N6 hasn’t shown the ability to transmit efficiently from human-to-human, its high (roughly 50%) Case Fatality Rate – combined with its continual evolution – puts this virus near the top of our avian flu watch list. Source: Avian Flu Diary: China: Guangdong Provincial Health Commission Announces Human H5N6 Infection In Dongguan City

Bench Sitting Nature Watch

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

On a sunny autumn morning we set out, my soon to be three grandson Sam and I, to the Lime Hollow Nature Center near Cortland for an adventure. For the first time I brought a newly purchased iPhone 7 instead of the usual slr camera. The phone can be carried in a pocket and is simpler to us, to allow me to give full attention to Sam.

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At the start is a large, today sunlit, field with an “art trail.” There are various anthropomorphic transformations on the trees and a very large sculpture of a blue face. Here is a tree from another place near here, to give you an idea.

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I do not point out the tree faces to Sam. His Mom likes to say he enjoys being frightened and, when the blue face came into view, he turned back and said, “home.” Sam was mildly anxious, so I…

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Le génocide des peuples autochtones en Amérique du Nord AVANT se produit en Amérique du Sud MAINTENANT !

Barbara Crane Navarro

«Ils veulent que nous abandonnions une autre partie de notre terre tribale. Ce n’est pas la première fois ni la dernière fois.

Ils revendiquent cette mère qui est la nôtre, la Terre, pour leur propre usage, et clôturent leurs voisins loin d’elle, et la dégradent avec leurs bâtiments et leurs déchets.

L’homme blanc sait tout faire, mais il ne sait pas le répartir… l’amour des biens est en eux une maladie. »

– Chef Sitting Bull

photo:Chef Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux – 1885

photo:Cacique Raoni Metuktire, Kayapo – 2021

«Des sociétés minières aurifères, forestières et l’agro-industrielles ont décidé de raser nos terres avec d’énormes machines.

La forêt saigne, je le sens dans mon cœur. Ils versent plus de poison sur la terre que d’or. Ils sont comme des morts-vivants, couverts de boue dorée.

Ce que vous faites changera le monde entier et détruira notre maison – et cela…

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Prophecy about black snake — LANDBACK Friends

Barbara Crane Navarro

When I first heard the Lakota prophecy about the black snake, I thought it was amazing that a sacred message from so long ago was coming true. What that said about Indigenous spirituality. I thought the image of the black snake was so powerful. A symbol of the evils of the wanton disregard for Mother[…]

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Truth and Reconciliation — Sustainable Chilliwackian

Barbara Crane Navarro

What I’m about to say is probably going to piss a lot of white people off. These children who are buried in unmarked graves at residential schools in BC….they’re not that big of a deal. That’s right. Hundreds of children stolen from their families, forced to abandon their culture and language, mistreated (or worse) to[…]

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Floors, Chapter 5: Introduction to Baby Bonds and Baby Acres, now Floors

one hectare contains about 2.47 acres

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

This post starts the rough draft of  Chapter 5, the y section, for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.

It was Baby Acres, for an Acre per baby, but may now become A floor per baby, and Baby Bonds… 

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter 5:

( Chapter 4’s  ending section, section II,  was last week…)

 Chapter 5,  Intro.:

Chapter 5Introduction (600/500 wds): How Phase IV helps complete the 4 Freedoms

 

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