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STAT’s Helen Branswell On How COVID-19 Has Changed the Health and Medicine Beat – Nieman Reports

Branswell: I first saw that something was going on in China on New Year’s Eve. I didn’t know at all that it was going to be as big as it was, but I knew it was something that I had to watch because China has been the source of several disease outbreaks over the last 15 years or so. I remember having an interview with Trevor Bedford [a vaccine and infectious disease researcher at Fred Hutch, an academic, teaching and research institution based in Seattle] in late January. At the time, the rule of thumb was that each case discovered outside of China probably represented about 500 undetected infections. He thought there were something like 13 cases outside of China, but I said, ‘No, it’s up to 29 cases now.’ He cursed and became audibly flustered. ‘If it’s not contained shortly, I think we are looking at a pandemic,’ he told me. I emailed my editor when I got off that call and said, ‘I think I just had the most frightening interview of my life.’ I would say, by then, I knew. Source: STAT’s Helen Branswell On How COVID-19 Has Changed the Health and Medicine Beat – Nieman Reports

Dayak Indigenous Ethnographer Dr Setia Budhi: In His Own Words

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Dr Setia Budhi: In His Own Words

Dayak Ethnographer, Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Advocate,

Rainforest Conservationist in Borneo


Bio: Dr Setia Budhi

Dr Setia Budhi is a senior lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at Universitas Lambung Mangkurat. He is an indigenous advocate, forest conservationist and a research specialist in Dayak ethnography in South, Central and East Kalimantan. He completed his PhD in 2010 at UKM Malaysia under the supervision of Prof. Awang Hasmadi Awang Moeis and Prof. Aishah Bt Mohamed. He now serves as Head of the Sociology Department and a member of the Indonesian Anthropology Association of South Kalimantan-Indonesia.

His research relates to the Dayak people and impact of socio-cultural changes, exploitation of natural resources and modernisation on their lives. In particular, he investigates how the depletion of the forest affects the availability of food sources for Indigenous Dayak peoples.

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Natures Beauty cannot be Repurchased For a Price After it has been Destroyed

The earth’s beauty is life sustaining and pretty.

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Before you destroy natures beauty, think twice

It cannot be repurchased at any price

Keep Earth beautiful at all times

The destruction of the planet should be seen as a crime

The innocent children that are being born each day

Deserve to be given a chance to live in a great way

A beautiful earth is what they should inherit

But now we have adults who are destroying it

When we think of having a bright future we are planning to do something great

When we protect the environment and have clean air and water we will celebrate

The children won’t need to worry about what their future will be like

And their will be no need for picketing on the streets, there’ll be no climate strike

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Um símbolo ardente para a necropolítica de Bolsonaro! – O « marco temporal » – Genocídio para povos indígenas e ecocídio para a floresta amazônica?

Barbara Crane Navarro

Bolsonaro insinua seu descumprimento da lei se o «marco temporal» – estratégia para fixar a data limite de 1988 para as reivindicações de terras indígenas – for rejeitado pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal!

Um grupo de cerca de 150 indígenas carregou um enorme caixão simbólico até a escadaria do palácio presidencial em Brasília e o incendiou.

O caixão tinha a inscrição «Genocídio» na parte superior com «Ecocídio», «Não adiar» e outros slogans nas laterais.

Mais de 6.000 indígenas de 176 nações indígenas se reuniram no acampamento «Luta pela Vida» em frente ao Supremo Tribunal Federal em Brasília para exigir que os juízes decidam a seu favor e rejeitar o prazo de 1988 adotado pelo governo Bolsonaro em 2016 e promovido pela agro – indústria, pecuária, exploração madeireira e mineração de ouro.

Os juízes se reuniram novamente nos dias 1 e 2 de setembro para fortalecerá a proteção aos povos indígenas e…

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Brazil Supreme Court weighs indigenous land case – Yahoo Singapore News —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Indigenous Attorney Ivo Aureliano

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Brazil Supreme Court weighs indigenous land case – Yahoo Singapore News —

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SONIA GUAJAJARA-A WOMAN WARRIOR — THE PRODIGY OF IDEAS — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

Today, in Brazil, about two thousand activists live under the threat of ‘pistoleiros’. Among them, Sônia Bonê Guajajara, vice president of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations for the Brazilian Amazon. The main organization fighting for the defense of the indigenous people, COIAB represents about 450,000 Indians from the Amazon. According to the Survival organization, a[…][…]

SONIA GUAJAJARA-A WOMAN WARRIOR — THE PRODIGY OF IDEAS — Tiny Life

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