Colorado voters to decide on abortion rights after measure qualifies for ballot | Colorado | The Guardian

Pro-choice protesters outside the Colorado capitol in Denver. Photograph: Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images

Voters in Colorado will have a say on abortion rights this fall after supporters collected enough valid signatures to put a measure on the ballot, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the US supreme court removed the nationwide right to abortion.

The Colorado measure officially made the ballot on Friday and would enshrine abortion rights into the constitution in a state which already allows abortion at all stages of pregnancy despite the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade.

Source: Colorado voters to decide on abortion rights after measure qualifies for ballot | Colorado | The Guardian

Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

O protesto contra esse flagelo social pode vir de todos os lados. Não podemos esperar só pelos nossos juízes, delegados (as), promotoras, advogados ( as) e outros profissionais. Todos nós, enquanto sociedade podemos trabalhar esse problema. O que a gente não pode é fechar os olhos ( invisibilidade) e fingir que ele não existe. Quem comete esse tipo de crime, não é digno de piedade. A pessoa tem que pagar perante a lei pelas suas atrocidades e, não viver impune cometendo mais atos dessa natureza.

 

Marii Freire. Violência Contra a Mulher / Violência sexual

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: Autoral

Santarém, Pá 17 de maio de 2024

 

Source: Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Go Any Lower … | Filosofa’s Word

I’m sure most of you have heard by now about the recently released photo/news about the upside-down flag flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home at a critical time a few years ago.  I’ve read a couple of excellent takes on what it means and why it’s so important, one of the best by professor & lawyer Joyce Vance, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017.  I’d like to share it with you today …


JUSTICE ALITO

By Joyce Vance

17 May 2024

When I saw this headline in the New York Times late Thursday, a lot of different things ran through my mind. First, I wondered who had gotten through security to rig the flag at the Justice’s home. Then, as I read the story’s opening lines, I figured the photo had to be a deep fake.

Here’s what I did not anticipate: that in January of 2021—for several days around January 17th, to be precise, both after the insurrection on the sixth and while the Supreme Court was still considering whether to hear an election-related case—the inverted flag associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement was flying on a flagpole on Justice Alito’s lawn.

We know it’s true because Justice Alito blamed his wife when asked. As though a sitting Supreme Court Justice, upon pulling up to his home and seeing the flag, wouldn’t immediately take it down and say, “Honey, I understand your feelings, but as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, I must avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and that flag conveys a political sentiment that is an affront to the rule of law I’m sworn to uphold, especially after rioters carrying it swarmed the Capitol a week and a half ago…”

Source: Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Go Any Lower … | Filosofa’s Word

Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language – Atlas Obscura

The jump-yip is a communication that involves both sound and movement.
The jump-yip is a communication that involves both sound and movement. RICH KEEN, DPRA/PUBLIC DOMAIN

A given call might contain information about a suspicious figure’s identity (“hawk!” “coyote!”), speed of approach, and size—or, if they happen to be a nosy researcher, their height and the color of their shirt. These messages are responded to with the appropriate behavior—craning a neck for a wheeling falcon, diving into a burrow for a close-by dog. By hanging cutout shapes above a prairie dog colony, UFO-style, Slobodchikoff and his colleagues learned that the rodents can even differentiate between circles and triangles (although not, for whatever reason, between circles and squares).

“It has been unfashionable in scientific circles to refer to animal communication systems as language,” says Slobodchikoff. Plenty of people consider language to be unique to our own species. But to him, the prairie dogs clear the bar, exhibiting “all the elements that linguists say you have to find,” from sounds that carry distinct meanings to the capacity for expressing new combinations of thoughts.

Source: Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language – Atlas Obscura

How UC Researchers Began Saying No to Military Work | Labor Notes

Our union of 48,000 academic workers has just authorized a strike over the University of California’s unfair labor practices in repressing peaceful protest, retaliating against members for protesting, and prohibiting pro-Palestine speech at the worksite.

United Auto Workers Local 4811 announced the results yesterday: with nearly 20,000 members voting, 79 percent voted yes.

Part of the groundwork behind this vote and informing the potential strike is the organizing we have done over the past several months in our science departments—as researchers who are no longer willing to support genocide with our labor.

As unionized workers in higher education, we are positioned to intervene at the very beginning of the military supply chain. The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions issued an urgent call on October 16 to stop arming Israel—including the specific request to disrupt military funding and military research.

In 2021 alone, the Department of Defense spent $7.4 billion on research within U.S. universities. The U.S. military vies to be a world leader in science and technology—especially machine learning and A.I., quantum computing, robotics, and weapons development.

Researchers with expertise in cutting-edge fields tend to seek careers at universities and national labs, where exploratory research is facilitated more readily than in the private sector. Expert labor is also far cheaper within academia—and graduate workers can be poached into military jobs after graduation. The military is therefore incentivized to farm the expertise and talent it needs within universities.

Source: How UC Researchers Began Saying No to Military Work | Labor Notes

Out hiking – Frits Ahlefeldt: Nomad & Walking philosopher

Short video (50s). of my time out on the trails throughout the year

Days on foot

Video by Frits Ahlefeldt

I spend as many days as I can out on the trails and in the landscapes, walking. Here is a short clip of my work out doing hiking research in the landscapes

YouTube version

And the video is also up here:

WordPress ( same video here on the website)

Source: Out hiking – Frits Ahlefeldt: Nomad & Walking philosopher

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