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21st Century COLONIALISM – implemented by Corporations and NGOs? Whose Survival is at stake here, Survival? The survival of the rainforests and Indigenous peoples or of Cartier and others in the gold and diamond jewelry industry? … 2022 — Barbara Crane Navarro

“Gold or Nature?”  – © Fotolia/ Wikimedia/Collage: Mirela Hadzic for Rainforest Rescue “Man’s folly hath enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas nature, like a kind parent, hath freely given us the best things, such as air, earth, and water, but hath hidden from us those which are vain and useless.” […]

21st Century COLONIALISM – implemented by Corporations and NGOs? Whose Survival is at stake here, Survival? The survival of the rainforests and Indigenous peoples or of Cartier and others in the gold and diamond jewelry industry? … 2022 — Barbara Crane Navarro

Janeiro com desmatamento recorde mostra que Jair Bolsonaro continua passando sua boiada sobre a Amazônia! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Dados do Deter/Inpe apontam recorde de desmatamento na Amazônia, ao mesmo tempo em que o clima extremo afeta milhares de brasileiros.  Área queimada no Parque Nacional do Juruena e na Terra Indígena Apiaká do Pontal e Isolados (sobreposição entre UC e TI), em Apiacás, Mato Grosso. © Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace Manaus, 11 de fevereiro de 2022 […] […]

Janeiro com desmatamento recorde mostra que Jair Bolsonaro continua passando sua boiada sobre a Amazônia! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Do Better (was Baby Floors), Chapter 8, section II. D.: 4/4 of a map for the early years of Phase II

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

This post  about the Do Better Manifesto records the rough draft of  Chapter 8 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.   This chapter will begin the early years of mapping out a path to get there for Phase II, with a potential new adulthood rite of passage.

The overall objective remains that of putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Outlines for chapter 8 will attempt to match with each section, at the bottom of each post.

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each…

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Brazil, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest at record levels since 2015: the surface equivalent of 40 thousand football fields has disappeared! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Brazil, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest at record levels since 2015: the surface of 40 thousand football fields has disappeared – D1SoftballNews.com https://ift.tt/25iyqWB Brazil, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest at record levels since 2015: the surface of 40 thousand football fields has disappeared  D1SoftballNews.com Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/n8i3UfsBrazil, the deforestation of the…
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Good People Doing Good Things — Good Hearts | Filosofa’s Word

I found some, I found some!!!  Good people are out there, folks, they just don’t make as much noise as the other kind, so sometimes you have to go looking for them! Workin’ 9 to 5 … It is rare that I highlight the ‘rich and famous’ in my good people posts, but today I’d…
— Read on jilldennison.com/2022/02/16/good-people-doing-good-things-good-hearts/

One Hundred Students Walk Out — NANMYKEL.COM

Thanks to Diane Ravitch for calling our attention to this item from Huntingon W.Va. : Earlier this week, teachers told students that during a non-instructive class period called COMPASS, they had to go to an assembly where a Christian prayer revival was set to take place. At the assembly, teens were told to close their eyes, […]

One Hundred Students Walk Out — NANMYKEL.COM

Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations.

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

This is an old post not about Black History, specifically, but very much a part of our history:

Languages are not only made of the words that we speak, but also, and perhaps more importantly, they are made of the ways that we think, and languages also shape the ways that we think. From ways that grammar places action, object, and subject of a sentence, to ways that the articles and forms of negation which exist, or do not exist in a given language, accustom us to listening for different inflections, learning more than one family of languages teaches us that communication involves more than just words, it involves gestures. Some gestures, like tilting the head, are physical, and other gestures, like opening the hand, are both physical and spiritual. The spiritual gesture being made by one city hearkens back to the language of the Bible: Patach, tiftach… Open, you…

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Antes de que anochezca

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Antes de que anochezca, quiero construir un puente para acercarme a ti, a ustedes, a ellos, a toda la gente que amo, confesarles lo mucho que valen para mí y abrazarlos eternamente. Antes de que se pierda la tarde en el horizonte y se apaguen los colores, deseo resplandecer con mi luz interior y no por medio de linternas ni de lumbreras artificiales. Antes de que las sombras nocturnas entuman y callen mis sentimientos, mi raciocinio y mis actos, pretendo manifestarme con los principios más nobles y bellos, repartir ideas sublimes y hacer el bien, retirar los cardos y las enramadas del camino, derrumbar fronteras, romper cadenas y destruir barrotes y fantasmas. Antes de que la noche repose, por horas, en el mundo y en los relojes, hasta cambiar las hojas de los calendarios, anhelo regalar sonrisas y hacer…

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California Cop Cleared for Fatally Shooting Homeless Black Man

In a statement from the family of Reinhold, it says, “This conclusion from the report confirms what we have been saying since day one – Deputies Israel and Duran had no reason whatsoever to stop Mr. Reinhold. This was a racially motivated stop aimed at harassing Mr. Reinhold, nothing more.”

Now the family has filed a lawsuit claiming that the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Homeless Outreach Team is unprepared when it comes to dealing with people who are mentally ill and are taking people of color into custody disproportionately, according to the Mercury News.

Source: California Cop Cleared for Fatally Shooting Homeless Black Man