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Black History Month: Seeing America Clearly

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It is one thing for me, a white person, to write about Black History, but I do so without having the personal experience of growing up Black, not having the true context of what it meant to grow up and live in a world where you were often mistreated and abused, where opportunities afforded to others did not apply to you simply because of the colour of your skin.  So, when I came upon one writer’s personal essay, I was deeply moved, as I believe you will be.  The following essay was published Sunday in the New York Times by Esau McCaulley, an author and a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois.


Black History Month Is About Seeing America Clearly

A woman who was born into enslavement in Alabama.Credit…Jack Delano/Getty Images

Feb. 20, 2022

By Esau McCaulley

Contributing Opinion Writer

Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who did the kinds…

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Qui est l’ami surprise du garçon Yanomami dans la jungle ? – Parfois, nous ratons les plus beaux moments – NE MANQUEZ PAS CELUI-CI !

Barbara Crane Navarro

un garçon Yanomami

Mon film de 38 secondes avec Namowë, un garçon Yanomami de la région de l’Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

Namowë et singe dans la maison collective – Photo : Barbara Crane Navarro

C’est un extrait de mon film d’instants de la vie quotidienne d’une communauté Yanomami dans la forêt amazonienne réalisé pour accompagner la série de livres pour enfants : “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” et “La Magia de la Amazonia”pour de 8 à 100 ans !

Une illustration tirée de «Amazon Rainforest Magic, the Adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami Boy»

Le film complet de 13 minutes et 16 secondes – (âge limité par YouTube en raison des coutumes ancestrales Yanomami qui incluent la nudité traditionnelle) entrelacé d’illustrations des livres Amazon Rainforest Magic – est ici:

Un jeune capucin

Merci beaucoup d’avoir regardé mes films!

Et s’il vous plaît, aidez à protéger la forêt, la faune…

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AGROTÓXICO agora têm nome bonito: “ produto de controle ambiental”

Barbara Crane Navarro

“E se beberem algum veneno mortífero, não lhes fará mal” (Mc 16, 18). Este é um dos sinais, relatados por Jesus, que acompanhará aos que Nele crerem Por Fábio Cunha Coelho Certa vez, o Bispo Dom Hélder Câmara estava em uma comunidade muito pobre de sua diocese e escutou os fieis cantarem um antigo canto[…]

AGROTÓXICO agora têm nome bonito: “ produto de controle ambiental” —

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Activistas protestan contra la minería ilegal en el Parque Nacional Madidi (Bolivia) — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Barbara Crane Navarro

Protesta contra minería ilegal en el Parque Nacional Madidi en La Paz (Bolivia). EFE/ Martin Alipaz 18/02/2022

Decenas de activistas por el medioambiente se manifestaron este jueves en La Paz en contra de las actividades mineras ilegales denunciadas en el parque boliviano Madidi, la reserva más biodiversa del mundo. Los activistas marcharon hacia la sede…

Activistas protestan contra la minería ilegal en el Parque Nacional Madidi (Bolivia) — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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Turkish Tuesdays, and Three Lessons from s1e3, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

What do we learn from this episode, and then, my impressions of this third episode?

1.  Aman yeter, Zeynep!  Yapma!!

Enough, Zeynep!  Stop beating him up!    -Zeynep’s Lesson:  Sometimes you have to teach your student how much he doesn’t know!

2.   Neset Korkmaz!!

Neset Fearless!!    -Sometimes you have to be like your name!!

3.     “Rumi.”   -Aferin, Hakan!

“Rumi.”   -Well done, Hakan!   He did learn his lesson: study!

This week, Hakan continues to learn the history of his ancestor the First Muhafiz, and his city: in 1502, I imagine that Selim the Grim (father of Suleiman the Magnificent/LawGiver) should have been in power.   I hope someone looks that up for me…

Interesting that “…gomlek, kendini gore bir iradesi var.”  “…the shirt has a will of its own.”  Sounds like another special object of power that we know…

The music is again chilling, in this episode.  …

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Former R.I. Republican congressional candidate sought Russian election assistance

H. Russell Taub, the onetime Republican congressional candidate who was imprisoned for defrauding political donors three years ago, illegally sought help from Russian intelligence in his failed bid to unseat U.S. Rep. David Cicilline in 2016, the Federal Election Commission has found.

A few months before the November 2016 general election, Taub sent a direct message to a Twitter account known to be used by the GRU, Russia’s main intelligence agency, according to a recently released FEC filing. In the message to Guccifer 2.0, Taub asked for a list of Republican donors, saying, “I could use your help to defeat cicilline.” Taub provided an email address and later received a dossier that included opposition research reports, polling data and other information about his incumbent Democratic opponent in the 1st Congressional District race.

Source: Former R.I. Republican congressional candidate sought Russian election assistance

Hong Kong seniors who refused COVID-19 vaccines are a ‘ticking time bomb’ | The Japan Times

Only 43% of seniors who are 80 or over have received even one dose, according to government data. While that is up from 22% in early January, it still isn’t enough to protect the segment of the population most at risk, according to Karen Grepin, an associate professor in the school of public health at the University of Hong Kong. Elderly patients have already made up the majority of the 311 deaths in this outbreak so far.

“Even doubling of a small number is still a small number,” Grepin said. “There are still unvaccinated people in nursing homes and that is just a ticking time bomb.”

Nearly 7,000 people could die during this wave, according to a report from the university’s researchers. An overwhelming majority of those deaths is likely to be among the elderly.

Source: Hong Kong seniors who refused COVID-19 vaccines are a ‘ticking time bomb’ | The Japan Times

New Zealand anti-vaccine mandate protesters clash with police – National | Globalnews.ca

One protester drove a car toward a New Zealand police line, narrowly avoiding officers, while other protesters sprayed officers with a stinging substance, police said Tuesday, as they tightened a cordon around a convoy that has been camped outside Parliament for two weeks.

The clashes in the capital of Wellington came a day after police reported that some of the protesters had thrown human feces at them.

Source: New Zealand anti-vaccine mandate protesters clash with police – National | Globalnews.ca