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

It is crucial that we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us, right?  

I have a short story to add, after this page quote, about my persona experience using Time Banks…

I believe that attention to shared histories, as in DC, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

” … Time Banks USA
“What is the function of a currency? Rewarding caring and sharing…

A medium of exchange reinforcing what we say we value.” -Dr. Edgar Cahn on Time Dollars

Lying in his hospital bed in 1980, Edgar Cahn realized something.  Each person needs something, and each person has something to contribute. Money is an impersonal and scarce medium of exchange which devalues those who cannot…

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O Genocídio dos Povos Indígenas na América do Norte ANTES de acontecer na América do Sul AGORA!

Barbara Crane Navarro

«Eles querem que abandonemos outra parte de nossa terra tribal. Esta não é a primeira vez nem a última vez.

Eles reivindicam esta nossa mãe, a Terra, para seu próprio uso, e isolam seus vizinhos dela, e a degradam com seus prédios e seu lixo.

O branco sabe fazer tudo, mas não sabe distribuir … o amor aos bens é uma doença para eles.»

– Cacique Sitting Bull

foto: Cacique Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux – 1885

foto: Cacique Raoni Metuktire, Kayapo – 2021

«Empresas de mineração de ouro, florestais e agroindustriais decidiram arrasar nossas terras com máquinas enormes.

A floresta está sangrando, posso sentir isso em meu coração. Eles derramam mais veneno na terra do que ouro. Eles são como mortos-vivos, cobertos de lama dourada.

O que você fizer mudará o mundo inteiro e destruirá nossa casa – e irá destruir sua casa também.

Pedimos que pare o que…

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Climate Science or Corporate “Food” and devastation? UN Food Summit Must Choose for a Liveable Planet!  — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Barbara Crane Navarro

Human Wrongs Watch By Davin Hutchins* 21 September 2021 (Greenpeace International)* — Scientists couldn’t be more clear. For humanity to avoid climate disaster and remain below the 1.5°C threshold set out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, society must radically transform. We need to change our energy, transport, and food systems fundamentally and quickly. Smoke[…]

Climate Science or Corporate Food? UN Food Summit Must Choose for a Liveable Planet — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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Sacrifício para o agronegócio: Caatinga, floresta rica em biodiversidade, está em chamas por causa da expansão da soja —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Monocultivo de soja na Bahia deve enriquecer ainda mais as empresas Por Norbert Suchanek, Rio de Janeiro, para Junge Welt Quando se trata de destruição natural no Brasil, geralmente é a Amazônia.Outro desastre está ocorrendo atualmente no país, mas desta vez no Nordeste.Afetada é a Caatinga, a floresta seca rica em espécies do Brasil, que[…]

Sacrifício para o agronegócio: Caatinga, floresta rica em biodiversidade, está em chamas por causa da expansão da soja —

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FBI allegedly ignored thousands of tips about Brett Kavanaugh: Ex-federal prosecutor — Here’s A Thing…

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Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is demanding an investigation into the FBI after it was revealed that there were 4500 complaints filed against then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh that went ignored and were merely handed over to the White House. The Guardian reportedthat the FBI claimed they didn’t have the authority to investigate Kavanaugh during his nomination[…]

FBI allegedly ignored thousands of tips about Brett Kavanaugh: Ex-federal prosecutor — Here’s A Thing…

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