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Tate Reeves: Biden vaccine mandate an ‘attack on hardworking Americans’ | Mississippi | The Guardian

  • Mississippi has second-worst death rate in world, after Peru
  • Governor insists requiring shots for workers is tyranny

Mississippi governor Tate Reeves the Covid-19 pandemic, during a news briefing on 24 August 2021, in Jackson, Mississippi. Source: Tate Reeves: Biden vaccine mandate an ‘attack on hardworking Americans’ | Mississippi | The Guardian

Peer pressure, proving oneself, and new tools for that

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

       While most of our societies no longer need adults capable of hunting to ensure our protein supply, we clearly still have a burning need to find ways to prove ourselves, especially when we are young.  NPR reported on a nationwide problem, recently: teenagers are vandalizing school property for the attention on social media.  Somehow, the very human need to prove oneself is being channeled into a means of seeking approval that actually does damage to the infrastructure that was built to help those same kids move forward in life.  Clearly, something is missing.  Is it that we don’t seek buy-in from our young people about the ways we try to prepare them for life, or is it that we lack ways of allowing all of them to gain healthy attention, apart from empty participation trophies?

   The new rite of passage I imagined some years ago may…

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Coronavirus digest: Vaccine bookings spike after Italy extends COVID pass requirements | News | DW | 19.09.2021

Bookings for coronavirus vaccines in Italy surged this week after the government announced that all employees must show evidence of a jab, negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19.

“On a national level, there was a generalized increase in bookings for the first dose of between 20% and 40% compared to last week,” pandemic commissioner Francesco Figliuolo declared in a statement.

Reservations for a first jab on Saturday increased 35% from a week earlier, Figliuolo said, but did not give the actual figure.

According to government data, nearly 41 million people in Italy have so far been fully vaccinated — close to 76% of the population over the age of 12.

Source: Coronavirus digest: Vaccine bookings spike after Italy extends COVID pass requirements | News | DW | 19.09.2021

« La tierra para los indígenas no tiene valor comercial, como en el sentido privado de propiedad civil. Es una relación de identidad, que incluye espiritualidad y existencia, y se puede decir que no hay comunidad indígena sin tierra »

Barbara Crane Navarro

El ministro de la Suprema Corte Federal, Edson Fachin, votó a favor de rechazar el «marco temporal» ya favor de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas.

Fachin dijo: «No hay mayor certeza jurídica que el respeto a la Constitución», refutando el argumento ruralista de que las demarcaciones sin un «marco temporal» generan inseguridad jurídica.

En su voto, Fachin defiende que los derechos constitucionales indígenas no pueden ser cuestionados, «porque estos derechos están ligados a la propia condición de existencia de estas comunidades y su forma de vida. »

Rechaza las interpretaciones que intentan equiparar la propiedad civil y nativa, al igual que el « marco temporal». «Las tierras indígenas», dice, «son más grandes que un ‘conjunto de chozas’; incluyen todo el territorio necesario para la existencia de los pueblos. »

Fachin agregó que «la tierra para los indígenas no tiene valor comercial, como en el sentido privado de posesión civil…

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