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Gold Fever, COVID-19 and the Genocide of the Yanomami — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: What I’ve been dreading since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Brazil on February 25th has happened. After testing positive for coronavirus, a 15 year old Yanomami boy died on April 10th in the hospital in Roraima, the Brazilian state where most of the Yanomami reserve is…

Gold Fever, COVID-19 and the Genocide of the Yanomami — Tiny Life

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Assista a “Indígenas Yanomami pedem ajuda contra ataques de garimpeiros” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

EL PAÍS Brasil: 8 anos e 12 quilos, a criança com malária e desnutrição que simboliza o descaso com os Yanomami no Brasil — Mágica Mistura✨

Barbara Crane Navarro

Etnia enfrenta crises sanitária e ambiental com escalada de violência por garimpos ilegais. Povo denuncia novo ataque neste domingo. Imagem expõe o grave e crônico problema da assistência à saúde em várias aldeias… 11 morewords

EL PAÍS Brasil: 8 anos e 12 quilos, a criança com malária e desnutrição que simboliza o descaso com os Yanomami no Brasil — Mágica Mistura✨

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« Once the gold miners arrived where we live … I saw them ravage the river’s sources with the avidity of scrawny dogs. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami shaman, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro

“This is what our elders who are great shamans say. These are the xapiri’s words, which they pass on to us. These are the ones I want the white people to hear. … Once the gold miners arrived where we live … They soiled the rivers with yellowish mire and filled them with xawara epidemic fumes from their machines. I saw them ravage the river’s sources with the avidity of scrawny dogs. All this to find gold, so the white people can use it to make themselves teeth and ornaments or keep it locked in their houses. … These white people’s thought is obscured by their avidity for gold. They are evil beings.”

  • Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa in the chapter “Metal Smoke” of his book “The Falling Sky”

Gold mining site in indigenous territory

Gold mining and the…

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Day 20 High School in Five Months, the power of Zero, and Adulting Education…

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

Scheduling tasks by breaking large projects into smaller chunks, using a spreadsheet to organize your project from 0 to Finished, and supporting our public infrastructure is all part of Adulting Education for our modern society as an adult in any democratic nation.

Day 20 Lesson Plan
Scheduling sheets: use a spreadsheet to plan big projects
punctuation
Exponents: Pwrs of Zero and 1, -1
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( Day 19Day 21)

Action Items:

1.) How would you find out what the three branches of the US government are, besides looking at the PDF of the lesson plan from today? Any primary sources, and from where?

2.) Share your ideas with us, and why you think that way,

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses one of the ideas, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it…

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Myanmar Junta to Dissolve National League for Democracy (Me: Junta takes page from Trump and levies trumped up lies about election)

The military regime-appointed election body said on Friday that it would dissolve the National League for Democracy (NLD) for allegedly committing voter fraud, and take action against those who it says “rigged” the November vote, calling them “traitors”. The military justified its February coup by alleging massive voter fraud in November’s general election, which brought a landslide victory to the NLD. However, the Asian Network for Free Elections said the outcome of the vote was “by and large, representative of the will of the people of Myanmar.”

Source: Myanmar Junta to Dissolve National League for Democracy

Hobbs says voting machines can’t be reused, were ‘compromised’ by audit – KTAR.com

Arizona’s top elections official is telling Maricopa County leaders that the equipment they were forced to turn over for the ongoing Arizona Senate audit “has been compromised” and can’t be used in future elections.
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‘People die in less than a week’: Covid wave catches Argentina off-guard | Global development | The Guardian

“I am seeing people die in less than a week – young patients unresponsive to treatment. You administer oxygen, do all the mechanics – turn them face down, face up – but it doesn’t work. Then there are other patients whose oxygenation level is not so bad – but they die anyway,” Edul says.

A devastating second wave of Covid cases has caught Argentina off-guard, with relaxed restrictions and a low vaccination rate. Cases have risen from a daily total of about 5,000 in early March to a record 35,000 this week, while deaths surged from 112 at the start of March to a record 744 on Tuesday. On Wednesday daily contagions set a new record, just under 40,000 cases, while deaths dropped to 494.

The figures put the country third in daily cases after India and Brazil, and fourth in Covid deaths, after India, Brazil and the US.

Relative to population, Argentina now has the highest number of Covid deaths per day in the world, with 16.46 Covid fatalities per million on Tuesday, far exceeding its giant neighbour Brazil, which saw 11.82 per million.

Source: ‘People die in less than a week’: Covid wave catches Argentina off-guard | Global development | The Guardian

Lee Evans, 400-meter champion in racially charged 1968 Olympics, dies at 74 – The Washington Post – (Me: RIP – great runner and human being)

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Lee Evans, center, crosses the finish line of the men’s 400-meter final in the 1968 Summer Olympics just ahead of Larry James, right, and Ronald Freeman, rear. (-/AFP via Getty Images)Source: Lee Evans, 400-meter champion in racially charged 1968 Olympics, dies at 74 – The Washington Post

Facebook won’t take down AIPAC ad targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar – The Washington Post

Omar’s office warned the company that similar images of her face with Hamas attacks have directly inspired death threats against her. Her aides told Facebook in emails later viewed by The Washington Post that it “peddles both hate speech and misinformation.”

A day of back-and-forth followed, after Facebook initially could not find the ad — then spent hours reviewing it — only to determine it did not violate company policies.

The ad ran as part of a series targeting other lawmakers including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), which Facebook’s ad tracking tool estimated could be seen by between 500,000 and 1 million people.

Facebook spokesman Andy Stone confirmed the company determined the ads did not violate its policies. However, the social network does reject ads that its fact-checking partners determine are false, and the company told Omar’s office in an email exchange that this ad would be eligible for a fact check.

Source: Facebook won’t take down AIPAC ad targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar – The Washington Post