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

Ruby Boye, WRAN Coastwatcher

There were brave women serving in the Pacific war against Japan in 1941-1945…

Pacific Paratrooper

Ruby Boye

MRS. RUBY BOYE lived with her husband, Mr. Skov Boye, at Vanikoro, a small tropical island in the Santa Cruz group of the then British Solomon Islands

Soon after the commencement of World War 2, the Australian Navy installed a powerful AWA tele-radio for communication between Vanikoro and Tulagi. The radio was operated by a qualified telegraphist on the island.

The Vanikoro radio operator wished to return to Australia to join the RAAF.  Before departing, he taught Ruby how to transmit weather reports and operate the radio in code, and during the following months she learned Morse Code from a book.  Eric Feldt, the Commander in Charge of the Coastwatcher movement,  appointed Mr. and Mrs. Boye as members of his organization.

Ruby Boye on Vanikoro

Mr. and Mrs. Boye realized the importance of Vanikoro in relation to coastwatching, and few white men knew more about the Solomons and…

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Los corredores SIEMPRE están vendiendo tierras indígenas robadas en Facebook ¡DOS SEMANAS después de que la BBC expuso este crimen! Sin embargo, Facebook elimina las fotos de los pueblos indígenas tradicionales que “violan las normas de la comunidad” dentro de las HORAS de su publicación.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Quema ilegalmente un bosque indígena en la Amazonía para vender tierras para pastoreo de ganado y tierras de cultivo

Considero que la foto anterior es obscena e inaceptable …

“Los blancos afirman que estos diseños de tierras tienen un precio y por eso los cambian por dinero… sus líderes se dicen constantemente: ‘¡Somos poderosos! Seremos dueños de todo el bosque. ¡Que mueran sus habitantes! “- Portavoz y chamán Yanomami Davi Kopenawa de Roraima, Brasil, La caída del cielo

Mujer Yanomami y sus hijos yendo al río: Barbara Crane Navarro

Facebook considera que la foto de arriba “viola los estándares de nuestra comunidad de desnudez o actividad sexual” y la eliminó HORAS después de que la publiqué, anunciando como castigo que “Tu cuenta está limitada por 24 horas”. Solicité que la foto fuera reexaminada y mi foto fue restaurada al día siguiente …

Según la encuesta de la BBC, de João…

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Myanmar protesters able to leave Yangon district after being trapped – The Jerusalem Post

A woman shows a three-finger salute during a protest against the military coup in Naypyitaw (photo credit: REUTERS)Hundreds of young Myanmar protesters who had been trapped by security forces in a district of Yangon overnight have been able to get out, activists said on Tuesday, after calls from western powers and the United Nations for them to be allowed to leave.
Thousands of people defied a night time curfew to take to the streets of Myanmar’s main city in support of the youths in the Sanchaung district, where they had been holding a daily protest against the Feb. 1 coup.

Source: Myanmar protesters able to leave Yangon district after being trapped – The Jerusalem Post

Humans have ‘destroyed or degraded’ two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforests

Logging and land conversion for agriculture has wiped out 34 per cent of the world’s original old-growth tropical rainforests and degraded another 30 per cent, leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future destruction. Source: Humans have ‘destroyed or degraded’ two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforests

Make the Ancient Road Snack of Central Asian Nomads – Gastro Obscura (recipe included)

Qurt at the Osh Bazaar in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Qurt’s portable nature and long shelf life made it an ideal road food for Central Asia’s nomadic peoples. According to Kazakh historian Moldir Oskenbay—who likens the taste of qurt to “a dried and salted feta cheese”—it dates at least as far back as the seventh century B.C., when the Scythians roamed the Eurasian Steppe. Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uzbek, and other groups of herders took along versions as they moved to graze their animals. “Qurt was a really good way for them to preserve the yogurt so they could eat it while they traveled,” says Malika Sharipova, a food blogger from Uzbekistan who has written about making traditional Uzbek cuisine. Source: Make the Ancient Road Snack of Central Asian Nomads – Gastro Obscura