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Myanmar protesters determined to defy military with grassroots protest | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 03.03.2021

People have been barricading themselves in their neighborhoods. Esther Ze Naw, a Kachin Peace Network peace activist, shared instructions on Facebook on how to make Molotov cocktails. “Now you guys might realize why these bastards deserve this,” she wrote. Cape Diamond, a Yangon-based journalist who has been closely covering the street protests in the city, tweeted: “I’ve been speaking/interviewing people on the street (at least ten persons a day) every day since the first day of the protests. They’ll have the common answer at the end of the conversation; ‘We will fight till the end. The revolution must succeed.'”

Source: Myanmar protesters determined to defy military with grassroots protest | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 03.03.2021

Afghan women journalists and human rights activists are being forced into hiding

A wave of violence against female journalists and human rights activists is rocking Afghanistan. As the government seems unable to protect them from attacks, many are hoping for support from the international community.

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A wave of violence against female journalists and human rights activists is rocking Afghanistan. As the government seems unable to protect them from attacks, many are hoping for support from the international community.

Germany says AstraZeneca vaccine OK for over-65’s after all

German health authorities have approved AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine for people aged 65 and older, going back on their earlier verdict. Initially they had argued it was not effective enough for the elderly.

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German health authorities have approved AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine for people aged 65 and older, going back on their earlier verdict. Initially they had argued it was not effective enough for the elderly.

Stacey Abrams on American Idealism and American Betrayal

Abrams helped win major Democratic victories in Georgia, the right is retaliating and it’s getting personal. But Abrams says she doesn’t mind; it’s all about the long game.

Abrams helped win major Democratic victories in Georgia, the right is retaliating and it’s getting personal. But Abrams says she doesn’t mind; it’s all about the long game.

In Myanmar Protests, Women Are on the Front Lines – The New York Times

An undated photograph that Ms. Kyal Sin, whose English name was Angel, posted on Instagram in 2019. Ma Kyal Sin loved taekwondo, spicy food and a good red lipstick. She adopted the English name Angel, and her father hugged her goodbye when she went out on the streets of Mandalay, in central Myanmar, to join the crowds peacefully protesting the recent seizure of power by the military.

The black T-shirt that Ms. Kyal Sin wore to the protest on Wednesday carried a simple message: “Everything will be OK.”

In the afternoon, Ms. Kyal Sin, 18, was shot in the head by the security forces, who killed at least 30 people nationwide in the single bloodiest day since the Feb. 1 coup, according to the United Nations.

Doctors at a hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, protested days after the military coup last month.

The Power of a Smile —

When we smile, our body releases endorphins. Dopamine, serotonin are all the ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitters that get activated. The mere act of smiling can change our brain chemistry too, and spur a powerful chemical reaction in the brain that makes us happy. According to Ron Gutman, the author of ‘Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple […]

The Power of a Smile —

Glacier!!!

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Two person ship launch against glacier base.

Summer was the season for our visit to the edge of eternal, for now, Patagonian ice fields. Remnants from the last ice age, larger than some (small) countries. The site is surprisingly noisy with sharp, explosive, ice crackles.

More amazing even than the sounds, the dark shading on the ice is volcanic dust from recent eruptions of many cones.

Click this link for my series of posts about Chilean fjords and glaciers we visited February 2016.

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