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

Self-Publishing in S. India: A Guest Blog Post by Nadira Cotticollan

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Traditional publishing, the kind that engages literary agents and monolithic publishing companies, has always been a challenge for writers. In my quest to find either for my soon-to-be-released novels, “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat” and “Tango & the Sitting Cat,” it feels akin to winning the lottery. Fortunately, self-publishing is rapidly becoming a mainstream empowering alternative. What’s your experience with either buying or publishing self-published novels?

A blogger from India, Nadira Cotticollan, shares about her venture into releasing fiction on her own…

When she’s not writing novels, Nadira Cotticollon loves being a grandmother.

“The Winnowing Waves” and Self-Publishing by Nadira Cotticollan

I belong to a  Muslim community from the coastal state of Kerala in South India. We are said to have been winnowed out from the rest of the Kerala populace by the inter-marriages that took place between the Arab traders and the local women. Most of the cultural…

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Brooklyn Museum Returns 1,305 Pre-Hispanic Artifacts to Costa Rica | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Brooklyn Museum in New York City has voluntarily returned 1,305 pre-Hispanic artifacts—including stone figurines, ceramic vessels and tools—to the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica in San José. As Alvaro Murillo reports for Reuters, the objects arrived in the Central American country late last year. Per a statement, the New York cultural institution previously sent 981 ceramic vessels back to Costa Rica in 2011. Both gifts were unprompted, meaning that the Brooklyn Museum sent the items without receiving a formal request or undergoing a judicial process.

Source: Brooklyn Museum Returns 1,305 Pre-Hispanic Artifacts to Costa Rica | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

« El dinero no nos protege … no crea nuestra alegría. Para los *blancos, es diferente. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Casa comunal Yanomami en la selva, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

«Los chamanes Yanomami no trabajan por dinero como los médicos blancos. Simplemente actúan para mantener el cielo y el bosque en su lugar, para que podamos cazar, plantar nuestros jardines y tener una vida saludable. Nuestros mayores no sabían de dinero. … El dinero no nos protege … no crea nuestra alegría. Para los blancos, es diferente. No saben cómo soñar con espíritus como nosotros. Prefieren ignorar que el trabajo de los chamanes es proteger la tierra, tanto para nosotros y nuestros hijos como para ellos y los suyos.»

aliento de vida de los humanos es muy corto. Vivimos poco tiempo. »

  • El portavoz y chamán YanomamiDavi Kopenawa

* El citado chamán Yanomami se refiere a la destrucción de la selva y las vidas indígenas desde la “conquista de las Américas” por europeos blancos (no indígenas) que inició el despojo…

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Com apoio da Funai, operação conjunta combate ilícitos na Terra indígena Yanomami (RR) — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Uma operação conjunta deflagrada nesta terça-feira (29), com apoio da Fundação Nacional do Índio (Funai), busca combater a mineração ilegal na Terra Indígena Yanomami, em Roraima. 45 morewords

Com apoio da Funai, operação conjunta combate ilícitos na Terra indígena Yanomami (RR) — Ecoamazônia

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Ouro do sangue Yanomami — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

O Portal Amazônia Real postou uma série de reportagens abordando a questão do garimpo ilegal na Terra Indígena Yanomami. Já são quase quatro décadas em que “os garimpeiros estão lá com parceiros, sócios e cúmplices na ilegalidade”. A confissão desse crime continuado foi feita por José Altino Machado, Zé Altino, uma memória-viva do garimpodo…

Ouro do sangue Yanomami — Ecoamazônia

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150 guards staff empty Texas prison meant for immigrants | The Texas Tribune (Me: Stupid and racist is as stupid and racist does)

While many Texas prisons are understaffed, some dangerously so, the emptied-out Briscoe Unit in Dilley is in “maintenance mode” as officials scramble to implement the governor’s plan to increase the state’s role in border enforcement. Source: 150 guards staff empty Texas prison meant for immigrants | The Texas Tribune

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and New Alliances

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?

“Of course, 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:

” … and strategies took place semi-officially, particularly between Negro and Labor
Movement organizers, many of whom were Jewish. The New Negro Alliance
(“the Alliance”), founded in 1933, began using new more aggressive tactics
borrowed from the labor union movement, such as the boycott and picketing.
These tactics in combination with a weekly newspaper used to inform and
educate, maintaining transparency and reiterating the importance of
understanding how the tactics worked, got results. Those results followed the
path that had been opened shortly…

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Infekcije urinarnog trakta – Urinary tract infections

Myrela

  1. Soda bikarbona – na prvi znak infekcije napraviti hladan, pjenušav napitak. Rastvoriti pola kafene kašike bikarbonata u 125 ml vode. Popiti dvije čaše obične vode, a zatim ovo smiješano piće. Bikarbonat čini urin manje kiselim, što smanjuje osjećaj žarenja ili peckanja dok mokrite.
  2. Sok od brusnice – sadrži jedinjenje koje sprječava prijanjanje bakterija za sluzokožu urinarnog trakta.
  3. Čaj od bijelog luka – sadrži supstance koje ubijaju bakterije i koje ga čine idealnim za borbu protiv bacila. Oljuštiti nekoliko češnjeva svježeg luka, dobro izgnječiti, a zatim spustiti u toplu vodu. Ostaviti da se natapaju pet minuta.
  4. Čaj od koprive – kopriva je diuretik, doprinijeće da više mokrite, što će pomoći u ispiranju bakterija iz urinarnog trakta. Piti jednu šolju na dan.
  5. Vitamin C – štiti mokraćnu bešiku od bakterija.
  6. Druga vrsta kontracepcije – ako koristite spermicide ili “kapu” (dijafragmu), oni mogu doprinijeti urinarnim infekcijama. Dijafragme su, takođe, mehanički iritansi.
  7. Upotrebljavati blage…

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