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Defending Wedzin Kwa

LANDBACK Friends

Over the past several days there has been escalating conflict between the Wet’suwet’en peoples and the Coastal Gaslink pipeline company, which is supported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Coastal GasLink is trying to drill under the sacred headwaters, Wedzin Kwa.

The last tweet below talks about the most recent attempts of armed invasion of Wet’suwet’en lands by the RCMP that began in 2019.

This is a glaring example of the fossil fuel industry forcing its way against the will of the people, of Indigenous peoples, enforced by the government (of Canada in this case). Go to https://www.yintahaccess.com/ for ways you can help.

This is especially dispiriting as the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, September 30, approaches.


On the morning of September 26th, theaccess road to Coastal GasLink’s drill site was destroyed. A series of blockades were put into place and the site was…

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with a love, so freeing

Develop. Inspire. Transform.

moments
come and go,
it’s these
we’ve been bestowed

upon a sea

of tranquility,
at times, yes,
past our ability
to understand completely

and, yet,
when quiet, and

seeking
understanding,
we can learn more
from the seas ability

to transcend
our individuality,
into a one commonality

uniting us,
like the flowers,
trees, and the streams,

we dream

of this togetherness,
within our hearts
held tight, as the light
goes out from this planets beings

and, for you and me,
we then see…

possibilities expand
as we let go of our
preconceived notions
of what we think
love should be,
and stay open
to new realities of being,
with a love, so freeing…


Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash


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Day 7 of GED in 5 months, Adulting, SD Promise, and the Zapotecs

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

Adulting is taking responsibility for ourselves and for our society, where we live in a Republic that both allows us much freedom and thus, requires of us much responsibility.  Part of that responsibility is helping others in society learn and help others.  The Four Freedoms movement advocates one possible program, starting with free schooling and more funding for programs like the San Diego Promise program, to which graduates of Continuing Education and Adult High School Equivalency programs can aspire. 

Let’s help each other!

Updated  syllabus

Day 7 Lesson Plan except for the Reading Passage

Day 7 Reading Passage:  (Today’s reading is from P. 279 in Peterson’s Master the HiSET,
2nd Edition…)

By 500 BCE, the Zapotec people were developing an advanced society in what is now the southern Mexican state of Oaxoca.  This civilization developed early forms of hieroglyphic writing adn a calendar system.  the Zapotec built complex…

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Police Violence at Gidimt’en Checkpoint

LANDBACK Friends

The Wet’suwet’en vs. RCMP and Coastal GasLink situation is escalating.

#WetsuwetenStrong#NoTrespass#WedzinKwa#CGLofftheYintah#WeAreAllOne#TraditionalGovernance#StandUpFightBack

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Racconti d’Italia: Carlo Vichi e la sua Mivar

Lattughino

Questo articolo non era in programma, soprattutto dopo l’articolo su Adriano Olivetti avevo in mente di variare il tema per il prossimo Racconti d’Italia, però il 20 Settembre 2021 è giunta la notizia della morte di Carlo Vichi e mi è sembrato doveroso scriverci un articolo.

Per chi non sapesse di chi stiamo parlando, Carlo Vichi è stato un imprenditore Italiano fuori dagli schemi, divenuto famoso per essere il fondatore della Mivar.


Nato il 5 febbraio 1923 a Montieri, si trasferisce a Milano nel 1930. Dopo essersi diplomato in elettrotecnica fonda il 1 ottobre 1945 la Vichi Apparecchi Radio (VAR), inizia a lavorare come riparatore per altre aziende del settore.

Vichi dopo un periodo artigianale di 2-3 anni, intuisce l’importanza della componentistica e si specializza nel settore, fornendo l’emergente industria radio di allora. La VAR nel 1956 decide di tornare alla produzione e fa uscire la sua prima radio…

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The careful implementation of a Caribbean carbon pricing regime could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions but should be associated with a redistribution of any revenues

Petchary's Blog

As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) draws ever closer, I will try to focus more on some of the issues that Jamaica and the Caribbean should be paying attention to. Here is the latest from the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Jamaica, on the Jamaica Economy Panel’s (JEP) deliberations on carbon pricing.

And what is that? To quote from economist Dr. Olaf J. de Groot’s article:

Carbon pricing is an effective instrument in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon pricing means making emitters pay for the costs that the public purse currently absorbs, such as those in the form of damage to crops, health care costs from heatwaves and droughts, and loss of property from flooding and sea-level rise. The two primary ways to administer a carbon pricing regime are through anemissions tradingscheme (where the limited amounts permitted are traded between emitters) and a

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Todas às vezes que você tiver a oportunidade de mudar o seu destino, mude. Os erros do passado, ninguém conserta, mas olhe para frente…sempre. Apesar do futuro não ser uma certeza, ele nos ajuda a ter um norte, quando se pensa no dia seguinte. Portanto, olhe para vida com boas expectativas, pous ela sempre deixa um vestígio gracioso de esperança no caminho todas às vezes que temos a consciência e a coragem para seguir adiante.Bom dia a todos!..Imaem: Marii Freire Pereira/ Jardim Botânico/ Rio de Janeiro.

Vivaldi translation: Whenever you have the opportunity to change your destiny, change. The mistakes of the past, nobody fixes, but look ahead … always. Although the future is not a certainty, it helps us to have a north, when you think about the next day. So look at life with good expectations, once she always leaves a graceful trace of hope on the way every time we have the conscience and the courage to move on. Good morning everyone!

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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