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Violência Doméstica — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” A única forma de chegar ao possível é acreditar que é possível “. Lewis Carroll Gosto da frase do Carroll, se é possível modificar uma realidade, trabalhemos nela para conseguir mudar aquilo que prende as nossas preocupações. Eu tomo a liberdade de usar essa expressão para tentar chamar atenção a um fato em nossa […]

Violência Doméstica — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Brazilian police target indigenous leaders after government criticism | Brazil | The Guardian

Human rights activists in Brazil have warned that the country’s authorities are targeting indigenous leaders after police launched investigations into two prominent critics of the government of Jair Bolsonaro. Sônia Guajajara, the head of Brazil’s largest indigenous organization, the Association of Indigenous Peoples (Apib), and Almir Suruí had been put under investigation last month over social media campaigns raising awareness of the threat that Covid-19 poses to Brazil’s indigenous population. Both cases were closed this week after federal judges ruled that there were no grounds for the investigations and described the situation as an “illegal embarrassment”. But Natalie Unterstell, the founder of the Política por Inteiro thinktank, said the episode exposed how the government is fostering violence against indigenous populations. “Speeches by the president and his ministers are constantly attacking indigenous peoples,” Unterstell said. “This sets an environment of violence. We need antidotes against it.”

Source: Brazilian police target indigenous leaders after government criticism | Brazil | The Guardian

‘Micro farms’ come to South L.A. with fresh food, produce – Los Angeles Times

Jamiah Hargins, founder of Crop Swap LA and the urban gardener behind the Asante Microfarm. Jamiah Hargins knows the modest frontyard at the corner of Angeles Vista Boulevard and Olympiad Drive like the back of his hand. A military brat who grew up moving from one country to another, he has traversed the yard’s 970 square feet countless times. He and a small team of volunteers spent a month cultivating the land, installing equipment and planting sloping rows of vegetables, including bok choy, Tuscan kale, rainbow chard, red cherry tomatoes, basil and chives. It’s enough to cause people in this View Park neighborhood, including their regular mailman, to gawk at the lush green grass transformed into a minifarm. “For a while, we thought it was just the typical landscaping job in View Park. And we were curious when we saw just how much work was going into it,” said Ibiere Seck, 40, who lives in the neighborhood and watched the farm come to life during walks with her children. “Every day we would just pass and see it evolve. … There are many beautiful things to see in this neighborhood. But by far, this is the most fascinating and inspirational.”

Source: ‘Micro farms’ come to South L.A. with fresh food, produce – Los Angeles Times

Sports in the WWII Military

Pacific Paratrooper

1926 Army/Navy game ticket, Nimitz Museum

The relationship between sports and the American armed forces reached a climax during WWII The military broadened its athletic regimen, established during  WWI, and thereby reproduced a patriotic sporting culture that soldiers had known as civilians. The armed services provided equipment, training, and personnel rather than rely on private agencies, as had been done in WWI.  The entry of numerous prominent athletes into military service represented a public relations boon for the Department of War and cemented a bond between professional sports, athletes, and patriotism.

American football was glorified as everything masculine and befitting the U.S. military experience. As organized sports became even more closely linked with fitness, morale, and patriotism, both within the ranks and on the home front, football became a fixture on military bases at home and abroad. Football was the favored sport among the military brass, as Generals George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur…

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Vielseitige Chrysanthemen in Asien

Google translation of first sentence: “While the chrysanthemum in our latitudes is mainly considered an autumn flower in cemeteries for All Saints’ Day, it has a completely different meaning in Asia, where it is originally located, it is primarily an ornamental plant.”

Senioren um die Welt

Während die Chrysantheme in unseren Breitengraden vor allem als Herbstblume auf Friedhöfen für Allerheiligen gilt, hat sie in Asien, wo sie ursprünglich beheimatet ist, eine völlig andere Bedeutung, sie ist in erster Linie eine Schmuckpflanze. In Japan trägt sie sogar den Status einer Nationalblume; aufgrund ihrer späten Blüte sieht man in der Chrysantheme sowohl ein Symbol der Unsterblichkeit als auch der Vollkommenheit. Der kaiserliche Thron wird oft auch als “Chrysanthementhron” bezeichnet, und das kaiserliche Wappen, das auch als nationales Wappen verwendet wird, zeigt eine stilisierte, 16-strahlige Chrysantheme. Selbst die höchste staatliche Auszeichnung ist nach der Blume benannt, es ist der “Chrysanthemen-Orden”. Diese Verehrung ist durchaus verständlich, denn die Chrysantheme gilt wegen ihrer sehr langen Blütezeit als Sinnbild für Glück und Wohlstand. Am 9. Tag des 9. Monats wird in Japan traditionell das Chrysanthemenfest „Kiku no Sekku“ gefeiert. 

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Brazil: no forest destruction for leather — World Animals Voice

Barbara Crane Navarro

Our demands on the automotive and fashion industry: Deforestation in the Amazon reached a 12-year high last year: over 1 million hectares were destroyed! Livestock breeding causes by far the most deforestation in Brazil. The use of Brazilian leather in the automotive and fashion industries is also contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.[…]

Brazil: no forest destruction for leather — World Animals Voice

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Em carta a Biden, Bolsonaro promete fim do desmatamento ilegal — CenárioMT

Barbara Crane Navarro

O presidente Jair Bolsonaro se comprometeu a acabar com o desmatamento ilegal até 2030. Em carta enviada ontem (14) ao presidente dos Estados Unidos Joe Biden, Bolsonaro reconheceu o aumento das taxas de desmatamento a partir de 2012 e afirmou que o Estado e a sociedade precisam aperfeiçoar o combate a este crime ambiental.“Queremos…

Em carta a Biden, Bolsonaro promete fim do desmatamento ilegal — CenárioMT

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Assista a “Epidemia de fake news ameaça vacinação em terras indígenas” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and Call vs. Response

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

Musical calls to action form part of our society’s way of remembering, and of teaching.  

So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us, and to respond to the call for justice?

I believe that attention to shared musical forms may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

“… Prayer and a traditional call and response section of prayer, all the way to the frolicking “Cherie Bim Baum Bim Baum Bim Baum”, Jewish music adapts this
mode of song. Likewise, the familiar spiritual turned freedom song  “Woke up this Morning”   springs instantly to mind as a key example of Call and Response in African-American spiritual music, sung in a variety of settings. That same back and forth structure can also be felt in the slowly…

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Money or Wealth?|پول یا ثروت؟

A Voice from Iran

“190th stories”

A very rich man sold all his possess and bought Gold bullion Bars.

He hid all the Gold bullion Bars in a very deep hole in the ground somewhere in his back yard.

For years he checked the Gold bullion Bars, and counted them over and over again.

One of his neighbours got suspicious and one day when the rich man wasn’t home, the neighbour dug the same spot, and found the Gold bullion Bars. The neighbour took them all without leaving a trace.

The next day when the rich guy went to count his Gold bullion Bars, as his everyday habit; saw the hole empty.

He started crying and screaming. The same neighbour showed up looking surprised and asked for the reason. The rich man told the neighbour how he put all his life savings in this hole, and now it’s all gone.

The neighbour said: “Put…

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