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todxs los intereseadxs en justicia ambiental, salud, y demás:
Este 25 de Mayo habrá marchas en todo el mundo encontra de la corporacion Monsanto ya que sus actividades y productos transgenicos están dañando a los animales, el medio ambiente como tambien a la salud de uno mismo.
Todo el mundo a marchar. para la raza que vive en Califaztlan, nos vems en Los Angeles, compañeros.
mas informacion en español: http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/p/informacion-en-espanol.html
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BBC — A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The Righteous Muslim Exhibition is being launched at the Board of Deputies of British Jews in Bloomsbury, central London.
Photographs of 70 Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II will be displayed alongside stories detailing their acts of heroism.
The exhibition hopes to inspire new research into instances of collaboration between the Muslim and Jewish communities.
Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, honours nearly 25,000 so-called “righteous persons” who risked their lives to protect the Jewish community during Nazi Germany’s reign of terror.
Some 70 Muslims have recently been added to the list. The exhibition explores their stories.
‘Empathy and cohesion’
Among the “righteous” are the Hardaga family from Bosnia who provided shelter for the Jewish Kavilio family when German forces occupied Bosnia in 1943.
Half a century later, the Hardagas were themselves saved by the Kavilios during the Bosnian Civil War.
Photograph: The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews
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“Yo he tenido que luchar para ser yo y para que se me respete, y llevar ese estigma, llevar el nombre de lesbiana, para mí, es un orgullo. No lo voy presumiendo, no lo voy pregonando, pero no lo niego”
—Chavela Vargas
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All the poems I’ve been writing lately are either
apologies or confessions or ways to negotiate
with the demons inside by laying myself out naked
and seeing which part of me they’d like
as a sacrifice.
Last year they took my lungs.
The year before, my mind.
I blame my childhood epilepsy on an earthquake
that I stole from San Francisco,
and ever since I’ve tremor-proofed my bones
so that each heartbeat doesn’t break me
during the night.
The other day I told someone that I never meant
to save a life with my poem.
I lied.
All of these are just ways to keep my own soul away
from its noose.
I know what it’s like to try to give yourself
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
when you’ve drowned in the pool of your skin,
and I know what it’s like to want to scream out
Help
only to realize that you’re out in an ocean
that everyone has heard of but no one
knows to name.
I’m writing this now because everyone’s sadness is a different story
and people keep mistaking theirs for something more beautiful
than another’s.
But if you cradle your heartbreak between your palms —
if you whisper to it, coddle it,
let it grow and suckle on your breasts,
all you’re doing is giving life to something
that’ll slowly destroy you.
All you’re doing is bringing glow to its cheeks
and making its eyes brighter,
while yours dim,
dim,
are gone.
Don’t hold sadness against you like you’ve given
birth to something beautiful. Don’t let it
hang onto your neck and kiss the soft spot underneath
your chin, while you, in turn, reconsider the validity of the
bridge signs that tell you Please.
Life is worth living.
Because everyone is breaking in a way I can’t understand
and the most I can do is unravel my skin slowly
and slowly and slowly
and weave it into something
that I can wrap around another human being
when the nights are too dark
for them to see the whites of their own eyes.
— Suicide Hotline - Shinji Moon (via sayywhen)
Mexico: Ground Zero in the Fight for the Future of Corn
In the 2011 action-thriller “Unknown,” scientists are persecuted by the biotech industry because they plan the open release of a drought- and pest-resistant strain of maize that could help eradicate world hunger.
There are certain parallels with the situation today in Mexico, the birthplace of maize, which is at the centre of the global fight to protect the crop’s diversity from the onslaught of genetically modified varieties.
“It’s the first time in history that one of the most important harvests in the world is threatened in its centre of diversity,” Pat Mooney, the head of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), an international NGO, told IPS.
“If we let the companies win, there will be no chance to defend them in other parts. What is happening here is of key importance for the rest of the world.”
Civil society organizations are raising their guard against the possibility that the government of conservative President Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) may approve commercial cultivation of transgenic maize, a move widely condemned by environmentalists and other activists, academics, and small and medium producers due to the risks it poses.
Read more at IPS News
For more information and resources, visit: Sin Maíz No Hay País
Follow: Jornada Mundial en Contra de Monsanto and México Libre de Transgénicos
Afghan Female Artists: Nabila Horaksh And Shamsia Hassani
Sound Central Festival, Kabul.
2013
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