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

Equine Assisted Therapy: Can a Horse be your New Therapist? — Egyptian Streets

Horses at The Behman Hospital. Photo courtesy of Joanna Gray. Most people are used to the typical scene of a therapist’s office with a client sitting on a comfortable lounge chair as they talk through their problems, but when you think of therapy, do you ever imagine a horse? This may only be a comforting…

Equine Assisted Therapy: Can a Horse be your New Therapist? — Egyptian Streets

La Cegadora Hechicería del Oro

As Yanomami spokesperson Davi Kopenawa states in his book “Falling from the Sky”: “For the oldest old, gold was just shiny chips in the sand of river beds, like mica. They collected it to make a witchcraft substance designed to blind people they were angry with. … This metal powder was feared. That is why we call the shining metal fragments that prospectors excavate from river beds oru hipëre a: the dazzling witchcraft of gold. When white people take minerals from the ground, they grind them with their machines and heat them in their factories… Gold and other minerals are dangerous and bad things that only bring disease and death. … Although this metal is the most beautiful and strong that you can find to build your machines and your merchandise, it is dangerous for humans. When digging so far underground, whites don’t think about such things. If they did, they wouldn’t break everything they could on the ground indefinitely. I want to make you listen to the words that the xapiri gave me at the moment of the dream, so that these thoughtless strangers can understand what is really happening.

Barbara Crane Navarro

foto: Chamán Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela – Barbara Crane Navarro

Como afirma el portavoz Yanomami Davi Kopenawa en su libro “La caída del cielo”: “Para los más viejos, el oro era solo astillas brillantes en la arena de los lechos de los ríos, como la mica. Lo recolectaron para hacer una sustancia de brujería diseñada para cegar a las personas con las que estaban enojados. … Este polvo de metal era temido. Por eso llamamos oru hipëre a a los fragmentos de metal brillante que los buscadores excavan en los lechos de los ríos: la deslumbrante brujería del oro. Cuando los blancos toman minerales del suelo, los muelen con sus máquinas y los calientan en sus fábricas … El oro y otros minerales son cosas peligrosas y malas que solo traen enfermedades y muerte. … Aunque este metal es el más hermoso y fuerte que pueden encontrar para construir sus máquinas…

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Covid-19: Nearly 100,000 catching virus every day – BBC News – in UK

Nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in England, a major analysis suggests.

The study, by Imperial College London, says the pace of the epidemic is accelerating and estimates the number of people infected is now doubling every nine days.

The authors say we are at a “critical stage” and “something has to change”.

The government here is sticking to its regional strategy.

Experts are warning that we are fast approaching the peak in infections seen in the spring.

Source: Covid-19: Nearly 100,000 catching virus every day – BBC News

Wedding and Birthday Party Infect 56, Leaving Nearly 300 in Quarantine – The New York Times

Long Island health officials scrambled to contain a coronavirus outbreak in Suffolk County when dozens of people tested positive for the virus after attending a high-end Sweet 16 party in September that violated state restrictions on gatherings. On Wednesday, county officials said they were coping with the fallout from two more so-called superspreader events that left 56 people with the virus and nearly 300 in quarantine: a wedding that exceeded the state’s 50-person limit and a birthday party that did not. “This kind of blatant disregard for the well-being of others is not only extremely disappointing; it will not be tolerated,” Steven Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, said at a news conference, referring specifically to the wedding. “If you violate the rules, you’ll be caught and held responsible.”

Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway | Reuters

“Based on what I’ve seen, it pisses Black voters off,” said Linda Lewis, director of political engagement for the local chapter of the NAACP, the country’s largest civil rights organization. At that former campus in the East Waco neighborhood, 7,571 people had cast ballots in the first two weeks of early voting – more than the 5,155 who showed up in all of 2016, voting records show. Source: Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway | Reuters

UMaine student charged with submitting former roommate’s ballot as her own – Portland Press Herald

She added in another post: “The irony is she’s a trump supporter and they’re the ones who complain about voter fraud the most,” Suleiman wrote.

In an interview conducted via text message, Suleiman said they did not get along with Dau and the two argued over lots of issues, from garbage at the apartment to politics. Suleiman moved out near the end of September, but had already requested an absentee ballot.

After the move, Suleiman said, they called the postal service to try to have the ballot sent to the new, correct address, but it had already been delivered. Suleiman then made plans to vote in person after the town clerk advised that it was permissible in such cases.

A day after Suleiman cast a ballot in person, the clerk called back.

“A second ballot had been turned in and the signature didn’t match,” Suleiman said. The return address also used a nickname, “Evan,” instead of Suleiman’s full first name, and the handwriting was someone else’s.

“Then I kind of put two and two together and realized Alyssa had stolen it and I told them that’s what I suspected,” Suleiman said. “They immediately launched an investigation.”

Source: UMaine student charged with submitting former roommate’s ballot as her own – Portland Press Herald

Chris Paul Leads Thousands On Early Voting March in North Carolina

Before the march took place, Paul told reporters he felt a responsibility to encourage people to vote “given the magnitude of the election and everything that is going on right now.” He added that voting “is something bigger than me.” Paul had already voted early in Los Angeles and said his commitment to voting shows college students how important voting is.

Later in the day, Paul spoke to a crowd of students before leading the march.

“Y’all see the power of having all of you together,” Paul said to a crowd of almost 600 students. “Y’all can really make a difference.” After he spoke, WSSU cheerleaders gave a performance to the crowd, and Paul then led a crowd of almost 1,500 people to the Anderson Center on campus.

Source: Chris Paul Leads Thousands On Early Voting March in North Carolina

Tanka Fund’s Regranting is Restoring Buffalo to Native Lands by Trudy Ecoffey

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The buffalo represents the people and the universe and should always be treated with respect, for was he not here before the two-legged peoples, and is he not generous in that he gives us our homes and our food? The buffalo is wise in many things, and thus we should learn from him and should always be as a relative with him.” – Oglala Lakota holy man Black Elk in The Sacred Pipe, 1953

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Dasheen Plant Could Be the Root of Caribbean Development — Repeating Islands

Daphne Ewing-Chow (Forbes) writes about the properties and multifarious benefits of dasheen. [After conducting a bit of research, I see that there is great confusion out there as to whether dasheen is known as malanga or yautía Puerto Rico. I’ll leave this to the experts!] Dasheen is among a family of root crops or “ground […]

Dasheen Plant Could Be the Root of Caribbean Development — Repeating Islands