Title: Protectora
Location: Pisco, Peru
Artist: Machuca (Peru)
For: Festival del cuadro a la pared
A project by: Somos Pisco
Year: 2024
Photo credits: Machuca
Title: Protectora
Location: Pisco, Peru
Artist: Machuca (Peru)
For: Festival del cuadro a la pared
A project by: Somos Pisco
Year: 2024
Photo credits: Machuca
Source: Pesticide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health – Stigmatis News

Image Credit: OpenClipart-Vectors
Who has not felt at some point and time that we are carrying the weight of the world on our backs and shoulders, like Atlas (the ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the heavens on his shoulders)? To release the weight of our worries, we have to learn and train ourselves to let it go. Easier said than done? Of course, it is. When you release your burdens, how do you do it? Who do you turn to? What do you turn to? Do you feel guilty about releasing that weight at all?
We have been conditioned to accept this plight of carrying more weight than we think we are capable of carrying and find that at some point we have to let others carry their own. When we are weighed down, not necessarily by the things we can’t change, but by the things we can, we have to learn to toss out the extra baggage that hinders our altitude and aptitude, so we can gain traction and energy to move beyond constructed barriers and elevate our awareness. Keep your eyes fixed on the solution rather than the problems, even though the problems seem gargantuan.
You may not have to start all over, just commence from where you are. It’s a learning process. If it doesn’t fit don’t force yourself to hunker down in a place where you can’t breathe and be buried alive.
Jana und JS @ Paris, France
Location: Paris, France
Artists: Jana und JS
Year: 2024
Photo Credits: Jana und JS
Source: Streetart – Jana und JS @ Paris, France – Barbara Picci
“I will continue Alexei Navalny’s work … I want to live in a free Russia, I want to build a free Russia,” Navalnaya said in a powerful nine-minute video published on social media.
“I call on you to stand with me. To share not only grief and endless pain … I ask you to share with me the rage. The fury, anger, hatred for those who dare to kill our future.”
Navalnaya, 47, accused the Russian authorities of murdering her husband, hiding Navalny’s body and waiting for traces of the nerve agent novichok to disappear from his body.
“I shouldn’t have been in this place, I shouldn’t be recording this video. There should have been another person in my place. But that person was killed by Vladimir Putin,” Navalnaya said.
She said she knew “why exactly Putin killed Alexei three days ago”. “And we will tell you that soon,” she added.
Navalnaya said that by “killing Alexei”, Putin had “killed half of me, half of my heart and my soul”.
“But I still have the other half, and it tells me that I have no right to give up,” Navalnaya, who last saw her husband two years ago, continued.
For years, Navalnaya shunned publicity, rarely giving interviews to media. Instead she stood by her husband as he galvanised mass protests in Russia, flew him out of the country as he lay in a coma after a poisoning and defiantly returned to Moscow with him.
“All these years I have been by Alexei’s side,” Navalnaya said on Monday. “But today I want to be by your side, because I know that you have lost as much as I have.”
Navalny’s last message to the outside world was a Valentine’s Day note to his wife: “I feel that you are with me every second.”

“I wasn’t supposed to be making this video,” she said. “Somebody else was supposed to be in my place. But that person was killed by Vladimir Putin.” She continued:
Putin killed the father of my children. Putin took away the most precious thing I had, the closest person to me, and the person I loved most in the world. But Putin also took Navalny from you all.
In killing Navalny, she told Russians, Putin didn’t just want to kill one person: “He wanted to kill our hopes, our freedom, and our future.”
“Alexey died in a penal colony after three years of torture and agony,” she said:
He wasn’t just behind bars like other prisoners. He was tortured. He was held in an isolation cell, in a concrete box. Please just imagine it: a room of only six or seven square meters [65-75 square feet]. Nothing in it but a stool, a sink, a hole in the floor instead of a toilet, and a bed that’s attached to the wall so you can’t lie down. A cup, one book, and a toothbrush. Nothing else, for hundreds of days.
But despite being tortured and starved for three years, Navalnaya said, her husband didn’t give up:
And not only did he not give up, but he supported us the entire time: encouraging us, laughing, joking, and inspiring us. Never for a fraction of a second did he have doubts about what he was fighting and suffering for.
It was because of this perseverance, she continued, that Putin ultimately killed Navalny. “[He killed him] in a disgraceful and cowardly way, never daring to even look him in the eyes or even say his name,” she said. “And in the same despicable and cowardly fashion, they’re now hiding his body, refusing to show it to his mother, not handing it over, pathetically lying, and waiting until the traces of yet another batch of Novichok [poison] disappear.”
“We know exactly why Putin killed Alexey three days ago,” Yulia said. “We’ll tell you about it soon.”
Navalnaya vowed that she and her husband’s associates will find out “exactly who committed this crime and how” — and will reveal the perpetrators’ names and faces…

“I don’t think of myself just as a Tibetan or a Buddhist, but as a human being. We have to think of the whole of humanity. Being human is the common ground in our efforts to create a better world. Remember, we all survive in dependence on others.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Source: We are all human beings – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Carnaval de máscaras
que irradian belleza
con sonrisas falsas.
Esas máscaras
que nos ponemos
diariamente
para no ser heridos.
Y, aún así, terminan
rompiéndose
en pedazos,
por seres cínicos
que nos destrozan
el espíritu por completo.
Source: MÁSCARAS – El plumier de Nenuse
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