Author: Daniela
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Action Alert
I personally can’t understand how these heartless…I won’t even say corporations, because at the end of the day it’s people who make these decisions, can simply come in and steal people’s water with no regard for the damage they are inflicting on the local community. It’s outrageous. Yes, governments should do something, but we enable…
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Russian Army Choir Performs Stirring Rendition of Adele’s Skyfall
Skyfall sung by the Russian Army Choir in St. Petersburg. The seven man group delivered their rendition of Adele’s Oscar-winning theme tune from the 2012 film Skyfall, on a breakfast television show on the city’s Channel 5. Founded in 1928, Russia’s military choir is better known for military classics like Katjusha, which tells the tale of a…
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Violeta Parra – “Gracias A La Vida”
TRANSLATION (source: http://www.williammorin.com) Thank you to life, you’ve given me so much It gave me two beams of light, when opened that can distinguish perfectly black from white And in the sky above, her starry backdrop And from within the multitude The one that I love Thank you to life, you’ve Given me so much It gave me an ear That,…
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Inside America’s Torture Factories
Originally posted on The Dish: A reader dissents: You do yourself and your argument no favors when you refer to industrial pork farms – however cruel they may be – as “America’s Concentration Camps.” These farms may be barbaric, but to refer to them as “concentration camps” is spectacularly disrespectful to the six million people who…
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ACTION ALERT
Deadline November 15: Protect Your Local Food Sources! We’ve been warned. Over and over again. By the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). By the John Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future (CLF). Industrial agriculture is killing the planet and making us sick. So how has the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) responded to these warnings?…
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Inside America’s Concentration Camps, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: A few readers from our Facebook page react to these videos of pig cruelty: I am wounded by this to the depths of my soul. I am an omnivore, but this sort of thing makes me question how I justify it. It also makes me question fellow Christians that are so committed…
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Face Of The Day
Originally posted on The Dish: The Telegraph has a wonderful gallery of photographs from nineteenth century London from the LSE’s digital library. “Street Life in London” (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1877) is annotated by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. This one leapt out at me: Thomson and Smith write of her: The crawler,…
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People Are Not Disposable
Vandana Shiva’s article How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life is so “right on” that I’ve posted it in its entirety. In it she expresses how our obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. Limitless growth is the fantasy of economists, businesses and politicians. It is seen as a measure…
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Diwali 2013: The Festival Of Lights
In the Sikh tradition, Diwali commemorates the release of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh Guru, who was imprisoned by the Mughal emperor Jahangir. When Guru Hargobind arrived in Amritsar, his devotees lit thousands of oil lamps to celebrate his return. For Sikhs, this day is known as Bandi Chhor Divas (day of release from prison). Sikhs celebrate Diwali by…
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Take a minute to listen to David Bronner’s impassioned plea for GMO labeling. And then say “thanks”!
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a fifth-generation family-owned business, believes consumers should have the right to know if their food, or other products, contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). So the Bronner Family has donated $2 million so far to YES on I-522, the campaign to pass a GMO labeling initiative in Washington State. Please go to…
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