And Speaking of Voting Rights …

Filosofa's Word

I had considered doing a Saturday Surprise post today, but … frankly, my heart wasn’t in it and my mind kept going back to an editorial I read yesterday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  Perhaps there might be a Sunday Surprise tomorrow, but for today, please read AG Garland’s words, think about them, put them into the context of the post I wrote yesterday about Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964.  Then ask yourself … WHERE are we headed?  WHY should a person’s right to vote be infringed upon because of the colour of their skin?  And WHAT, if anything, can We the People do to stop this runaway train that will disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens, rob them of their voice in our country’s government?


Merrick Garland: It is time for Congress to act again to protect the right to vote

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Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Barbara Crane Navarro

Barbara Crane Navarro es una artista, autora y activista francesa que actualmente vive cerca de París. Durante 12 años, pasó los meses de invierno con el pueblo Yanomami en Venezuela y Brasil, una experiencia que inspiró su práctica artística y sus esfuerzos de décadas para llamar la atención sobre la devastación de la selva amazónica. […]

Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

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The Counterpunch: The easy consumer solutions that fight animal extinction and deforestation — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Although the world is highly complex, every person can make a difference. That previous sentence almost sounds like a cliche right? Really it’s not. If every person on the planet made a few simple lifestyle changes, it would result in less demand on land and resources and soften the impact of deforestation on endangered species.[…]

The Counterpunch: The easy consumer solutions that fight animal extinction and deforestation — Palm Oil Detectives

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No Time or Forest to Lose — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Barbara Crane Navarro

Human Wrongs Watch By Gaby Flores |Greenpeace International* Illegal deforestation in the Gran Chaco forest region continues. A Greenpeace Argentina team conducted an overflight last week and discovered unlawful deforestation in the Chaco province ofArgentina. Flyover deforested land in Chaco region of Argentina. © Alejandro Espeche / Greenpeace The deforestation of 10,329 hectares was detected[…]

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The Vaccine Divide

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I had interesting conversations with two people on Friday, among several with whom I spoke. The two represented polar opposites on vaccines:

  • Person one is a vaccine skeptic. Has never been vaccinated, will never be, and is sending a son off to college totally unprotected. You can do that in the South. Maybe she’ll get lucky, maybe not. Will she accept responsibility if she loses this game of Russian roulette?
  • Person two had a husband who caught Covid before the vaccines were available. He had to be intubated and suffered permanent brain damage and disability. I’m sure she wishes the vaccine had been available before her husband became ill.

Real stories, real people. The first explains why we can’t stop the virus in the US. The second explains the harm that it does and why so much of my time involves damage control.

And no, you’ll never see either story…

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Scientists make shocking discovery of ‘dead zones’ where nothing can live on two US coasts | TheHill

Scientists surveying the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico discovered a “dead-zone” – where low oxygen levels make the area inhospitable to fish –  “equivalent to more than four million acres of habitat.”

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the survey’s findings this week, which were uncovered by scientists aboard a research cruise. Typically, dead zones cover around 5,400 square miles. But the hypoxic zone near the Gulf this year measured around 6,334 square miles.

“This year, we have seen again and again the profound effect that climate change has on our communities – from historic drought in the west to flooding events. Climate is directly linked to water, including the flow of nutrient pollution into the Gulf of Mexico,” Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox said in the release.

“As we work to address the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone, we must consider climate change and we must strengthen our collaboration and partnerships to make needed progress,” Fox added.

Source: Scientists make shocking discovery of ‘dead zones’ where nothing can live on two US coasts | TheHill

Gulf Stream system threatens collapse, study finds | News | DW | 06.08.2021 (Me: The Day After Tomorrow film crossing over from fiction to near future fact?)

“Significant early-warning signals are found in eight independent AMOC indices, based on observational sea-surface temperature and salinity data from across the Atlantic Ocean basin,” researchers wrote in the study’s abstract. “The AMOC may have evolved from relatively stable conditions to a point close to a critical transition,” they concluded. A collapse of the system would substantially cool Europe and have a strong impact on the tropical monsoon systems.

Source: Gulf Stream system threatens collapse, study finds | News | DW | 06.08.2021

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