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Tofu con peperoni, capperi e noci

InTheNameOfSeitan

Tofu, questo alimento è considerato anche un elisir di giovinezza in quanto contiene i flavonoidi in grado di proteggere il cuore e l’azione dei radicali liberi, rallentando quindi l’invecchiamento. Ha un gusto delicatissimo quasi impalpabile, quindi lo si puo’ accostare a qualsiasi cosa si vuole facendogli assorbire i sapori e rendendo in tal modo la pietanza più ricca di proteine vegetali.

Viene considerato come il formaggio fatto dal caglio di soia, ma causa del suo gusto “scialbo” viene spessissimo snobbato e parecchie persone ne prendono le distanze nonostante sia molto povero di calorie, privo di colesterolo e ricco di micronutrienti come magnesio, calcio, ferro e vitamnina A.

Vediamo come proporlo come in veste di un secondo piatto gustosissimo, siete pronti?

Ingredienti(per 2 persone):

1 panetto di tofu bioAvat_pag

2 peperoni di media grandezza

Capperi

Noci

1 spicchio d’aglio

Pepe

Sale

Olio Evo

Pangrattato

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Jamaica’s rivers and gullies are suffering from abuse

Petchary's Blog

Today is World Rivers Day. It is observed on the fourth Sunday in September every year, I have learned. It was founded by a Canadian, Mark Angelo, a long-time river advocate who spoke at the United Nations in 2005 as part of its Water for Life campaign.

Jamaican rivers are very different, of course, from the mighty rivers of British Columbia. They may disappear for months, even years due to drought (like the Yallahs River), or transform into unruly torrents during heavy rains, breaking their banks and creating chaos. Some rivers, especially those adjoining mangrove swamps, seem to remain constant, moving sometimes dark and sluggish and, at times, crystalline.

This year’s World Rivers Day theme is urban waterways. This is not a happy topic for Jamaica. In Kingston, Montego Bay and even smaller coastal towns, our waterways are our gullies. Often festooned with garbage, they are ugly spaces where…

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Thanks, Becky: Fight Climate Change with Your Fork: Meatless Monday — Platform Number 4

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

Source: Pixabay Extreme weather, rising sea levels, and species extinctions are all signs of climate change. Many scientists agree that greenhouse gases are a major threat. What can we each do to make a difference? Fight climate change with your fork! The livestock industry contributes about 14.5% of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, […]

Fight Climate Change with Your Fork: Meatless Monday — Platform Number 4

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O homem que se transforma em vulto

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Um homem atravessa a rua

Um homem que foge de si mesmo,

Um homem que atravessar o particular,

Contrariando o silêncio com seu olhar de indignação.

Um homem que cruza quadras para beber e agradar a freguesia

Um pobre homem sujo

Um homem que se consola com ilusões.

Um homem, dois homens, três homens.

Todos se encontram no mesmo recinto

Cheiro de bebida

Cigarros

Perfumes adocicados.

” Ah” esses homens!.. riem de si mesmos.

Juntos desgovernam as palavras

Declaram os seus desejos através de ações contínuas,

Acendem cigarros de uma forma gentil e vagarosa as suas damas.

Outro dia encontrei com João e perguntei:

“João, como foi a noite? “

João respondeu: ” encarei a carabina!”

Olhei para o cachorro com olhos de piedade na rua.

O que mais, João?

Olhei para o alheio tomando pelo desejo da culpa

Ri de Deus!..

Sou valente, e também bondoso na hora certa.

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

LANDBACK Friends

The first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada will be September 30. A schedule of events can be found here.

With the attention on the deaths of children in the native residential schools in the land called the United States, we are learning more about these atrocities here. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, has initiated an investigation of the institutions of forced assimilation in the U.S.

Canada went through an eight-year process to learn what happened in the residential schools there, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Quakers of the Canadian Yearly Meeting have been very involved in that process and ongoing work for reconciliation.

In 2007 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was established “to learn the truth about what happened in the residential schools and to inform all Canadians about what happened in the schools.”

In 2015 the Truth and…

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TO END RACIAL CAPITALISM, WE WILL NEED TO TAKE ON POLICING

LANDBACK Friends

When I joked with a friend about running, he said the only running he would be doing was from the police. Sadly, he was serious.

LANDBACK and Mutual Aid work to abolish the status quo of colonial, or racial capitalism, and white supremacy. This quote is by a good friend of mine, who introduced me to the food giveaway program I’ve been participating in for over a year.

So I work with a dope crew called Des Moines Mutual Aid, and on Saturday mornings we do a food giveaway program that was started by the Panthers as their free breakfast program and has carried on to this day. Anyways, brag, brag, blah, blah.

So I get to work and I need to call my boss, who is also a very good old friend, because there is network issues. He remembers and asks about the food giveaway which is cool and…

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Concentrating minds: the Caribbean at the UN in 2021 was shorter and sharper

Petchary's Blog

Fast forward to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 2021 – and what a difference two years can make. In my last post, I offered a critique of Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s somewhat unfocused speech at the UNGA in 2019.

Well, the world has changed. Ms. Mottley’s 2021 speech hit home and gave the media something to get excited about. It was shorter (thankfully) and much more sharply focused, and mostly hit the proverbial nail on the head. Certainly the note of urgency was there, as there has been in many recent speeches. But as I said in my post yesterday, actions speak louder than words. Yes, we know – it’s all urgent. Everything appears to be coming to a head.

You can watch the speech here, although I haven’t found the transcript yet. There was the Bob Marley quote (well, not an exact quote), and the smartphone…

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San Marino voters overwhelmingly back legal abortion | Euronews

Some 77% of voters approved a referendum proposal calling for abortion to be legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, according to official returns broadcast on San Marino RTV. Abortion would also be legal beyond that point if the woman’s life is in danger or if her physical or psychological health is at risk because of fetal anomalies or malformations.

With the “yes” votes winning, San Marino’s Parliament must now draft a bill to legalise the procedure. Turnout for the referendum was 41% in the microstate of 33,000 people surrounded by Italy.

San Marino, one of the world’s oldest republics, had been one of the last European states that still criminalised abortion. With Sunday’s result, it now joins other predominantly Catholic states like Ireland, which legalised abortion in 2018 and neighbouring Italy, where abortion has been legal since 1978. Abortion is still illegal in Malta and Andorra, and Poland introduced a near-total ban on the procedure this year.

The San Marino referendum was set after around 3,000 people signed a petition drive to overturn the microstate’s abortion law, which dates from 1865.

Source: San Marino voters overwhelmingly back legal abortion | Euronews

Connections: justice for land, for food, ecology and us

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

Adulting is about getting better and better at understanding connections between ideas that may not, at first glance, appear to be connected.  When we use a framework like Baby Acres/Floors, for example, to position all of the various types of work for the many forms of justice needed in this world, it becomes more clear how each of these campaigns is related, like my re-post earlier today of Jeff’s LANDBACK and Mutual Aid work, and my coming share later today of Becky’s post, originally shared by WillowCroft, on how going meatless just one day per week can have an impact on a variety of kinds of justice, and also on your personal health.  

That is why I set up a framework, in my book Baby Acres/Floors, that connects these ideas, all of which are crucial to our survival as a species. 

Action Items:

1.) Search your…

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