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

Bison Return to Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma

“That’s why the bison has always represented something deeply spiritual to our tribal ancestors and why it’s important for us to reintroduce bison within our homelands. Today, we are able to reconnect the Cherokee Nation with a prominent part of our history and our cultural roots.”

via Bison Return to Cherokee Natio.

Bison were once native to parts of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee (Cherokee land before forced to Oklahoma)

One more Jerk in the IT Jerk Wall! Microsoft CEO apologizes for comments on women | Business | DW.DE | 10.10.2014

adella continued to say that “good karma” would ensure women were compensated fairly for their work. His interviewer at the event, Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College and a Microsoft director, drew applause when she said Nadella’s viewpoint was “one of the very few things that I disagree with you on.”

via Microsoft CEO apologizes for comments on women | Business | DW.DE | 10.10.2014.

Turkey willing to kill its own people instead of IS!?! Protests and deaths around Turkey over handling of Kobani | News | DW.DE | 10.10.2014

More than 30 people had been killed and 360 injured at anti-government demonstrations in different parts of southeastern Turkey as of Friday. Unrest boiled over in response to the government’s perceived inaction against militants from the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” who were inching closer to taking the border town of Kobani in Syria.

via Protests and deaths around Turkey over handling of Kobani | News | DW.DE | 10.10.2014.

“Citizen” IDF Soldiers just stand and watch!?! Settlers attack Palestinian olive farmers for 2nd time in 2 days | Maan News Agency

Dozens of Israeli settlers protected by soldiers burned and damaged olive trees on Palestinian lands in the Yasuf village near Salfit in the northern West Bank on Friday, the second suck attack in the last two days.

Settlers from the Kfar Tappuah settlement set fire to and damaged several olive trees on Friday while Israeli soldiers in the area stood by watching, eyewitnesses said.

The lands that were attacked reportedly belonged to Nafiz and Issam Ali Mansour.

Issam Abu Bakr, mayor of Salfit, warned farmers against the “settlers’ attacks” and recommended residents work in groups in the lands close to nearby Jewish-only settlements.

The attack in Yasuf follows a similar incident Thursday near Aqraba, south of Nablus, where settlers from Itamar reportedly attacked dozens of Palestinian farmers and sought to steal their olive crop.

The attacks come as the 2014 olive harvest, a major source of income for Palestinian farmers, begins across the northern West Bank, and just weeks before harvesting begins across the south.

Attacks on the fall harvest are a key way that Palestinians are forced out of their homes and their lands confiscated for settlement construction, as the loss of a year’s crop can signal destitution for many.

via Settlers attack Palestinian olive farmers for 2nd time in 2 days | Maan News Agency.

If You Don’t Vote….Republicans Taking Away Health Care From Millions Of Americans – ‘Republicans Eye Obamacare Showdown in Lame Duck’

Going down for the last time to kill America to satisfy their collective self-delusion that it needs killing.

The Last Of The Millenniums

taking away health care

Don’t offer even 1 piece of legislation to help people without health
care coverage – just take it away.

Republican American Exceptionalism.

‘Updated 5:22 p.m. | A group of Senate Republicans have their eye on
another Obamacare showdown in the lame-duck session’.

‘The 14 Republicans, led by Marco Rubio of Florida, wrote a letter
urging Speaker John A. Boehner to ”prohibit the Obama administration”
from spending money on an “Obamacare taxpayer bailout.”

They point to a legal opinion from the Government Accountability
Office that said additional funding authority would be needed to make
payments to insurance companies under the risk-corridor component of
the Obamacare health care exchanges’.

‘The Republicans say taxpayers
could be on the hook for bailing out insurance companies that suffer
losses’.

“Without that appropriation, any money spent to cover insurance
company losses under the risk corridor program would be unlawful,”
the senators wrote to Boehner, later…

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The Jesuits denounce: “600 attacks against religious minorities: stop to violence” – Fides News Agency

“The first 100 days of the new government – say the Jesuits – have seen a crescendo of hate speeches against Muslims and Christians. Their identity is mocked, their citizenship questioned, their faith ridiculed. Coercion, divisions and suspicions multiply. Attacks against religious minorities have assumed alarming proportions: more than 600 from May to September 2014, in various parts of the country”.

The Jesuits conclude: “The hatred, violence campaign and threats have left not only religious minorities speechless, but also civil society, lawyers and academics, while the government remains silent. The Christian community has been the target of mob violence in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh”, according to an approach that -says the appeal – has changed its strategy: “A few deaths, but daily low-intensity violence that is becoming routine”.

via The Jesuits denounce: “600 attacks against religious minorities: stop to violence” – Fides News Agency.

You’ll Never Guess Where Food Stamps Are in Highest Demand | Civil Eats

This kind of silence about receiving food assistance will sound familiar to others who live in rural America. But a report out last month from the Center for Rural Affairs (CRA) illustrates quite a different reality: The percentage of eligible people relying on SNAP is higher in rural areas than it is in urban areas. CRA found that nearly 86 percent of eligible rural residents receive SNAP benefits, compared with nearly 73 percent of eligible urban residents.

via You’ll Never Guess Where Food Stamps Are in Highest Demand | Civil Eats.

Teaching A Love of the Environment: The LASCO Rootz REAP Program

Petchary's Blog

Last Friday, October 3 I had the great honor of speaking at the launch of the LASCO Rootz R.E.A.P. Program (R.E.A.P. = Releaf Environmental Awareness Program) at the St. Jago Cathedral Preparatory School in Spanish Town. I was also interviewed on Hot 102 FM, which was fun! I thought I would share my speech with you. I also wrote about the event on my Jamaica Gleaner blog page, “Social Impact,” here: http://gleanerblogs.com/socialimpact/?p=2259

Congratulations to all involved! For more information and to learn how schools can participate, please read my Social Impact blog and look them up on Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you, Mr. Hall. Councilor Claude Hamilton, representing the Mayor of Spanish Town; Member of Parliament for St. Catherine Eastern Dr. Denise Daley; President of the Jamaica Independent Schools’ Association Pastor Wesley Boynes; Mr. Stephen Newland, Project Director, Releaf Foundation; Representatives of LASCO; Principal of St. Jago Cathedral Preparatory School Ms. Andrea Baugh, and the awesome Ms…

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allAfrica.com: Madagascar: Tombs and Title Deeds – Colonial Hangover

allAfrica.com: Madagascar: Tombs and Title Deeds.

This property problem dates back to 1899, when French colonisers established that only the state could issue land titles. Although during the next 115 years successive governments identified nearly 10m lots, only 500,000 were registered, according to the World Bank. By 2005 an applicant trying to obtain a title had to wait six years on average, complete 24 procedures and spend around $500, two years’ income for the average Malagasy household. The process was so complicated, time consuming and expensive that poor illiterate farmers could not complete it.