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

In photos: Chileans vote for a new future · Global Voices

On May 15 and 16, 2021, Chileans voted for citizen representatives who will rewrite Chile’s constitution and help the country leave behind the previous political system designed by a dictatorship of decades past. Citizens also voted for governors, mayors, and city council members that work together with the mayor. And for the first time in history, Indigenous Chileans voted for a representative of their culture to help re-write the constitution.

These elections were groundbreaking – through a democratic process, Chile was able to handle a political crisis. Back in 2019, protests rocked the country, provoking a collapse of the political system. At first, Chileans protested a hike in transportation fares, but the discontent was much deeper than that: people were not satisfied at many levels with Chilean society. Reports of police violence multiplied.

Source: In photos: Chileans vote for a new future · Global Voices

Whats healthy brunch looks like?

Smitha's Bake Love

5 items in 1 hour – Fresh & Tasty

Few weeks back we unexpectedly saw produce junction in another city while visiting someone. You guys, if you have produce junction near you, I will call you the lucky bunch. The prices are crazy cheap. I mean like crazy crazy. All below veggies and fruits came under $40. That’s a lot of veggies and I have been cooking with different varieties of the veggies for weeks now.

In addition, there are some items which I never saw or heard before like pink pears and golden beetroot. Yep, I definitely picked them up. I often say to my hubby that, I have more interest to cook when the fridge is full. I wasn’t kidding. Today I made a complete veggie lunch – no rice or pasta or any carbs to accompany the veggies. They did make quite a show and surprised us…

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Thin Leaved Sunflower

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

“Out in the meadow, I picked a wild sunflower, and as I looked into its golden heart,such a wave of homesickness came over me that I almost wept. I wanted Mother, withher gentle voice and quiet firmness; I longed to hear Father’s jolly songs and to see his twinkling blue eyes; I was lonesome for the sister with whom I used to play in the meadow picking daisies and wild sunflowers.”

from “Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist, Writings from the Ozarks” edited by Stephen W. Hines”

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Photography Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved

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Gold Fever, COVID-19 and the Genocide of the Yanomami — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: What I’ve been dreading since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Brazil on February 25th has happened. After testing positive for coronavirus, a 15 year old Yanomami boy died on April 10th in the hospital in Roraima, the Brazilian state where most of the Yanomami reserve is…

Gold Fever, COVID-19 and the Genocide of the Yanomami — Tiny Life

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Assista a “Indígenas Yanomami pedem ajuda contra ataques de garimpeiros” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

EL PAÍS Brasil: 8 anos e 12 quilos, a criança com malária e desnutrição que simboliza o descaso com os Yanomami no Brasil — Mágica Mistura✨

Barbara Crane Navarro

Etnia enfrenta crises sanitária e ambiental com escalada de violência por garimpos ilegais. Povo denuncia novo ataque neste domingo. Imagem expõe o grave e crônico problema da assistência à saúde em várias aldeias… 11 morewords

EL PAÍS Brasil: 8 anos e 12 quilos, a criança com malária e desnutrição que simboliza o descaso com os Yanomami no Brasil — Mágica Mistura✨

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« Once the gold miners arrived where we live … I saw them ravage the river’s sources with the avidity of scrawny dogs. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami shaman, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro

“This is what our elders who are great shamans say. These are the xapiri’s words, which they pass on to us. These are the ones I want the white people to hear. … Once the gold miners arrived where we live … They soiled the rivers with yellowish mire and filled them with xawara epidemic fumes from their machines. I saw them ravage the river’s sources with the avidity of scrawny dogs. All this to find gold, so the white people can use it to make themselves teeth and ornaments or keep it locked in their houses. … These white people’s thought is obscured by their avidity for gold. They are evil beings.”

  • Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa in the chapter “Metal Smoke” of his book “The Falling Sky”

Gold mining site in indigenous territory

Gold mining and the…

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Day 20 High School in Five Months, the power of Zero, and Adulting Education…

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

Scheduling tasks by breaking large projects into smaller chunks, using a spreadsheet to organize your project from 0 to Finished, and supporting our public infrastructure is all part of Adulting Education for our modern society as an adult in any democratic nation.

Day 20 Lesson Plan
Scheduling sheets: use a spreadsheet to plan big projects
punctuation
Exponents: Pwrs of Zero and 1, -1
Day20ExitSlips

( Day 19Day 21)

Action Items:

1.) How would you find out what the three branches of the US government are, besides looking at the PDF of the lesson plan from today? Any primary sources, and from where?

2.) Share your ideas with us, and why you think that way,

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses one of the ideas, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it…

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Myanmar Junta to Dissolve National League for Democracy (Me: Junta takes page from Trump and levies trumped up lies about election)

The military regime-appointed election body said on Friday that it would dissolve the National League for Democracy (NLD) for allegedly committing voter fraud, and take action against those who it says “rigged” the November vote, calling them “traitors”. The military justified its February coup by alleging massive voter fraud in November’s general election, which brought a landslide victory to the NLD. However, the Asian Network for Free Elections said the outcome of the vote was “by and large, representative of the will of the people of Myanmar.”

Source: Myanmar Junta to Dissolve National League for Democracy

Hobbs says voting machines can’t be reused, were ‘compromised’ by audit – KTAR.com

Arizona’s top elections official is telling Maricopa County leaders that the equipment they were forced to turn over for the ongoing Arizona Senate audit “has been compromised” and can’t be used in future elections.
— Read on ktar.com/story/4431309/hobbs-says-voting-machines-cant-be-reused-were-compromised-by-audit/