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

Reporting for Duty at Fort Rocky: Military Precision on International Coastal Cleanup Day

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I suppose I had garbage on my mind this morning. But as the bus made its way down Mountain View Avenue some time before seven, I noticed how tidy and clean the sidewalks were; and even the patches of waste ground where houses had once been. There was very little garbage of any kind to decorate the urban blight of ruined walls and vine-covered ditches. It was especially neat in the Jacques Road area. The community has been making an effort, I am quite sure. It cheered me.

The morning was warm and calm. As we drove along the Palisadoes road towards the airport, the water of Kingston Harbour was a silvery mirror. Only an occasional patch of ripples, where small fish played, disturbed the surface. Brown Pelicans and seagulls sat on rotting posts and rusting buoys. The sky was the palest blue; except lower on the horizon, where a…

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People’s Climate March set to attract thousands around the world – live | Environment | The Guardian

Tens of thousands of people across 150 countries are taking to the streets to march for action on climate change

Dubbed the ‘People’s Climate March,’ it has been flagged as the biggest global call-to-action on climate change in history

People are demanding world leaders take action on climate change as they prepare fo a United Nations summit in New York on Monday

via People’s Climate March set to attract thousands around the world – live | Environment | The Guardian.

No, ‘Django Unchained’ Actress Won’t Apologize To The LAPD: LAist

her boyfriend wrote a post on Facebook earlier this week explaining why she was quick to assume the LAPD was racially profiling her, “What we experienced this past Thursday, September 11 was the THIRD time in the past few months that D and I have had to deal with cops profiling a ‘black and white couple.’ This is the THIRD time, an officer has realized his error and had to let us go because we weren’t breaking any laws.”

He writes that in one incident, neighbors in Loma Linda called police to report that a suspicious black and white couple were loitering in the area and that there may have been a potential robbery. He said it was just he and Daniele trying to go through storage in his father’s garage.

via No, ‘Django Unchained’ Actress Won’t Apologize To The LAPD: LAist.

Local Civil Rights Activists Want ‘Django Unchained’ Actress To Apologize To The LAPD And Community: LAist

Guys looking for free pass – get in good with police for

dissing black woman? Looks, smells, feels like profiling – Watts’ detainment came shortly after the detainment and arrest of a black TV producer, Charles Belk, who was stopped in Beverly Hills for matching the description of an alleged bank robber. In Belk’s situation, however, it took police six hours to determine that he was not the robber after reviewing video footage.

via Local Civil Rights Activists Want ‘Django Unchained’ Actress To Apologize To The LAPD And Community: LAist.

History of Mozzerella cheese

viva il buffala

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water buffalo Water Buffalo milk was the original milk for making mozzarella

Mozzarella is most commonly made with cows milk here in the US. It can also made with goats milk as well. But it didn’t start out with either of those. In Italy it is made with milk from a water buffalo which is the richest creamiest flavor of all because it has the highest butterfat in it.  You can NOT buy water buffalo milk here in the states (how the hell do you milk a water buffalo anyways, even if it is domestic?!!) Mozzarella made with water buffalo milk is called buffala mozzarella. Buffala means female water buffalo. I learned how to make mozzarella with cow’s milk and goats milk because I want it for my Caprese salad with my homegrown tomatoes that I’m growing.

The history of mozzarella starts with the water buffalo and how it came to Italy…

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Perpetual Nakba | Poetry for Palestine

In 1948 WAR, my grandmother was a young mother,

My mother was a child in 1948

* * *

In 1967 WAR my mother was a young mother,

I was a child in 1967

* * *

In 1987 WAR, I was a young mother,

My daughter was a child in 1987

* * *

In 2014 WAR, my daughter is a young mother

My granddaughter is a child in 2014

* * *

EVERY SINGLE ONE of us,

FIVE generation girls/ women/ mothers/ grandmothers

Have lived the Nakba

Repeated over and over and over again

via Perpetual Nakba | Poetry for Palestine.

Perpetual Nakba

So sad when people cannot be free and others seek to control every part of their lives.

Poetry for Palestine

In 1948 WAR, my grandmother was a young mother,

My mother was a child in 1948

* * *

In 1967 WAR my mother was a young mother,

I was a child in 1967

* * *

In 1987 WAR, I was a young mother,

My daughter was a child in 1987

* * *

In 2014 WAR, my daughter is a young mother

My granddaughter is a child in 2014

* * *

EVERY SINGLE ONE of us,

FIVE generation girls/ women/ mothers/ grandmothers

Have lived the Nakba

Repeated over and over and over again

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