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

POPVOX | Top 50 Most Active Bills in Congress on POPVOX

The 113th Congress adjourned for the final time in mid-December 2014. Here’s a look at the bills that got the most action on POPVOX. The numbers represent input from verified constituents that was sent (with personal comments from constituents) to Congress through the POPVOX system.

via POPVOX | Top 50 Most Active Bills in Congress on POPVOX.

Pussy Riot Release Glam New Video Ahead Of Moscow Protest – BuzzFeed News

Alekhina and Tolokonnikova are joined in the clip by opposition activist Maria Baronova and journalist and LGBT activist Elena Kostyuchenko. The song features just four words repeated over and over: “Clean. Honest. Word. Deed.” The women don’t wear balaclavas, the look for which they have become known.

via Pussy Riot Release Glam New Video Ahead Of Moscow Protest – BuzzFeed News.

Children and adolescents in Mexico – an uncertain future

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Children and adolescents in Mexico – an uncertain future

“What does a government reap that sows students in the ground?”,
“A government that murders our children does not deserve our forgiveness much less our silence”

(Banners in the marches for Ayotzinapa)

100_3047BThe case of the missing students from Ayotzinapa uncovered a terrible reality that leads any mother and father to wonder: What future will my children have? As in many other areas concerning human rights in the country, legislative measures are being considered that do not guarantee real changes for the child and youth population. Since September, when President Enrique Peña Nieto sent bill to the Senate, children’s rights have been subject to public discussions. He asserted that with this legislative project, “Mexico will comply with its ethical obligation towards all children and adolescents”. Furthermore, it will comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which…

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“Forum for the Defense of the Land and against Displacement”

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Invitation to the “Forum for the Defense of the Land and against Displacement” with San Sebastián Bachajón and Movement for Justice in El Barrio from New York, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle

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To the national and international Sixth

To the Indigenous National Congress

To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

To the peoples and communities in resistance

To the media

Compañeros and compañeras, our community struggle remains organized for the defense of our lands and against neoliberal displacement; the bad government wants to dispossess us of our lands purely to serve the capitalist interests of the rich and discriminates as always against the people from below who care for our mother earth.

Our struggles continue walking, organized by political and legal means to defend our human rights and reclaim our culture and traditions, to raise our voice and listen to each other and walk and…

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My Blog’s 2014 In Review

Good on you – better than my 11,000 grin!

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 160,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

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2014 in review – for me and this blog – not so spectacular but many thanks to those who have found it and found it useful

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.