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resistencia indigena es reprimida violentamente por el gobierno y militares de peru indigenous resistance faces violent repression by the peruvian government and military

hi people!

help me make my dream of travel come true!

i will be traveling soon and need to sublet part of our apartment ... anyone interested?

it's a super nice and spacious apartment!

talk to me if you're interested, please let me know, and if you know people who'd be
interested, let them know about me and how to get in touch with me here
on myspace, and then we can communicate through email or phone or in
person!

www.myspace.com/sun_moon_shine

i'm moving out this week, it's available now!

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hola gentes!

ayudenme a lograr mi suenio de viajar!

voy a estar viajando pronto y necesito encontrar alguien que pueda alquilar mi departamento!

es un departamento muy bonito y espacioso.

si a alguien la interesa la oportunidad, por favor díganme, y hagan el
favor de mencionarlo a sus amigos y amigas que les interese tambien!

por
ahora pueden contactarme en myspace: www.myspace.com/sun_moon_shine,
pero cuando me contacten les doy mi dirección de correo electrónico, o
mi teléfono, o hablamos en persona!

el departamento está disponible ahorita.

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hi people!

i will be traveling soon and need to sublet part of our apartment ... anyone interested?

i don't feel comfortable posting all the details here right now, but if you're interested, please let me know, and if you know people who'd be interested, let them know about me and how to get in touch with me here on myspace, and then we can communicate through email or phone or in person!

www.myspace.com/sun_moon_shine

~~~

hola gentes!

voy a estar viajando pronto y necesito encontrar alguien que pueda alquilar mi departamento!

si a alguien la interesa la oportunidad, por favor díganme, y hagan el favor de mencionarlo a sus amigos y amigas que les interese tambien!

por ahora pueden contactarme en myspace: www.myspace.com/sun_moon_shine, pero cuando me contacten les doy mi dirección de correo electrónico, o mi teléfono, o hablamos en persona!

Farmed Salmon

The David Suzuki Foundation ( www.davidsuzuki.org ) offers the following reasons why you shouldn’t eat farmed salmon:

Environmental Reasons:
Farmed salmon are grown in floating netcages and impact wild salmon and other marine species by spreading disease and parasites.
Farmed salmon are given antibiotics, other drugs, and pesticides. The drug-laden wastes from surplus food and feces pollute the marine environment.
Farmed salmon escape from their netcages - often by the thousands - and
can displace fragile wild stocks from their habitat.
Health Reasons:
Farmed salmon are given antibiotics that are also used to treat human illness. This contributes to the dangerous increase of antibiotic-resistant disease worldwide.
Farmed salmon receive more antibiotics by weight than any other livestock.
Farmed salmon contain lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids.

Mythic Reasons:
Farmed salmon DON’T help feed the world; they represent a 'net loss' of protein worldwide. Three to five kilograms of other fish are used to make the feed to produce every kilogram of farmed salmon.
Farmed salmon DON’T help conserve threatened or endangered wild salmon stocks. They pose a threat to wild stocks because of their parasites and disease contaminating wild salmon, because of their reducing the price of wild salmon, forcing fisherman to increase their catch in order to make a living.
Farmed salmon DON’T taste just like wild salmon. In blind taste tests, farmed salmon loses every time. Food critics, chefs, and fisherman judge the taste and texture of wild salmon to be far superior to farmed varieties, which are often found to be bland and mushy. Farmed salmon are also administered chemical dyes to color their flesh an appealing pink; otherwise the flesh would be gray.

kitteh says, "no farmed sam on for me!"

Indigenous Peoples' Caucus Statement

12th United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

21 April 2004, United Nations, New York, New York
Human settlements, water and sanitation cover a complex of social and
ecological inter-relationships, between peoples and Mother Earth. Human
settlements are cultural homes that nurture the traditional knowledge and
wisdom within our larger ecological home, Mother Earth. Water is a sacred
element of this planet and it sustains all life. Sanitation standard
determines the well-being, health and life of biodiversity and peoples.


Human settlements among Indigenous Peoples are characteristically
self-sustaining communities, where peoples are not separate from their
lands, territories and natural resources, including water. These provide for
peoples' social, economic, religious, political needs and environments. This
is a far cry from the urban concept of settlements as simply infrastructures
and facilities.


For Indigenous hunters, gatherers, nomads, farmers, herders, fishers and
pastoralists, a continuing relationship and access to their natural
homelands provide for their livelihood and food security. They follow
patterns of human settlement, which are appropriate for their natural
environments.


Related to human settlement, water is a critical source of life. In many
Indigenous societies, their relationship to the life-giving qualities of
water permeates their culture and spiritual values. Indigenous Peoples'
systems of water management and use are based upon principles and practices
that balance immediate needs with the needs of the environment and other
living things, plants and animals, as well as other people, and the
sustainability for future generations. Indigenous Peoples have an important
role in sustainable water resource management and their knowledge is an
integral part of humanity's heritage and cultural diversity.


Sufficient attention must be paid at this meeting to reviewing the overall
concepts of governance, practice of sustainable livelihood, integrated
land-use planning and resource management to ensure that the long-term
diversity and health of ecosystems continue to nurture human settlements,
including the well-being of Indigenous Peoples.


The demands of free trade agreements that promote the privatization of
Indigenous lands and territories have forced many Indigenous Peoples to
migrate to urban areas for economic reasons. Within these pockets of urban
cities, Indigenous Peoples are forced to join human settlements of poverty
and to survive in isolation, away from family support, a community sense of
belonging and their cultural values. The poverty of Indigenous Peoples is
directly linked to the dispossession of their lands, territories and natural
resources, which are essential for their security, livelihoods and
well-being. The loss of land through government expropriation, forced
resettlement and modernization have severely impacted them.


In this context, due respect must be given to the Indigenous Peoples' right
to self-determination and sovereignty over essential life-sustaining
elements. Government policies are restricting access to their lands and
territories, violating their right to sustainable livelihoods, water sources
and appropriate housing. These policies directly undermine the goal of human
security, poverty alleviation and housing for all, leading to the deep
impoverishment of Indigenous communities.

people, please be in touch with me if you want to be involved. you don't necessarily have to get arrested in order to support the action. we need this action! it's up to you and me, yes YOU, my friend, to do something about climate change and to do it NOW.

this was sent to me by don of rebuild green, please read and feel free to circulate:

January 26, 2009
Hello, friends,

Attached is a letter to President Obama that was written by the 10-year-old daughter, Chloe, of a friend of mine in Oakland, California.

Chloe's Montessori School required students to watch last Tuesday's Inaugural Address. She turned her back in protest. Subsequently her class was given for their weekly writing-assignment the composition of a letter to the President. Chloe wrote the following, which Andrew shared with a list we're on.

The letter moved me so much that I asked if Chloe and Andrew would agree to an effort to bring it to a broader audience. An e-mail from them agreed to this effort.

Here is Chloe's letter: views and questions through the clear and caring eyes of someone born only ten years ago. I think her letter can have great, healthy effect. Please post or circulate it as you see fit.



'Dear President Obama,

On January 20th my class watched your inauguration ceremony. I didn't
listen to your speech attentively while at school, but I watched it
again today with more awareness. One of the messages I heard you state was that "America is a friend of every nation." If this is true then why are we at war in the Middle East, and why do we have more than 800 military bases around the world? Most of all, why is our military defense budget larger than all the other nations' combined if we are supposedly friends to all
countries of the world?

If we want to build friendships with the other nations, such as Iraq,
one of my suggestions would be to remove our troops from their
countries before the end of 2009. I would close down military bases
and direct the money spent on weapons and other military items toward
other uses like education.

You also declared that, "We (Americans) will not apologize for our way
of life, nor will we waiver in its defense . . . " We should apologize
to the world for our way of life. We have 5 % of the world's
population and yet we consume 30 % of the world's resources. Our
habits are unsustainable and we are slowly and painfully slaughtering
our planet, Mother Earth. For this we must apologize and work toward a
sustainable solution. I see this as our duty and responsibility if we
want to begin building friendships with every nation. This is what our
money and resources should be going to, not the military.

If we want to have good friends we need to be a good friend: to
ourselves, and to the world. We have the opportunity to be a great
nation and a true friend by making necessary sacrifices and working
towards changing our need to consume the world's resources. As our
leader how will you help us confront this looming challenge, which has
been denied for decades and now must be addressed or Mother Earth will
perish and so will we?

Sincerely,

Chloe
Age 10 Oakland, California'