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Yes we hear the term 'Regenerative Culture' from the Northern Rebels. The System they created , created a monster and now it's coming back to haunt us. What exactly is a regenerative Culture? Khoe Khoe Cultures? Rainforest cultures? What principles do such Regenerative cultures hold dear ? None of them used money for example . . None of them believed we can sell and speculate on the Land, on planet earth. These are the principles that we must return to in order to stand any chance of survival as human species. The Industrial North has suffocated the planet earth atmosphere. We are running to catch up with their carbon usage even as the genocides in Africa have not led us to know what their objective is? The American Indigenous people spoke of how we can cause total extinction in pursuit of money. The last fish, the last river must be ruined before we will stop the pursuit of symbolic currency? Like people don't believe in choking as if it's a choice to need oxygen to breath. Even is it a Democratic choice? Are we democratically in agreement that humans don't need oxygen to breath? Can scientific findings be voted not true? What will a Regenerative culture look like? How will function in a "modern setting" ? Can we even regenerate the earth's life support systems now it's gone so far? Well our survival depends on it. Will we relate to regen culture as Europeans from paradise Lost, are we so sure that we can even have anthropocentric Ecosystems feeding us?- permaculture? Permanent Culture ? A culture that can live on a piece of earth without reducing it to desert? That's a regenerative culture, infact it's actually A culture. What of people who can't afford to buy land to develop such permanent agriculture? We fighting for our freedom to make a regenerative situation, a truly sustainable way of life. As Oil and gas and coal are not running out actually there is more than enough to burn through ... The term renewable energy coined long before the Arctic completely melted uncovering more oil reserves than anyone will ever be able to burn through is a falsification.
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We should become as the Standing Nations (The Tree Nations)
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Extinction Rebellion Main Page, clearly stating that XR is a Political Organisation.
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International Climate Strike Day 24th May ... Down tools, walk out of work and school for the future of Life on Earth.
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Banksy 😂
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Children seem alot more concerned than Adults.
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Archive of Extinction Rebellion Youth at Mitchells Plein Open Streets Sarah Truter and Lily Shaw gave our demands to Cape Town Mayor, Dan Plato.
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Protect our forests, Join us in Peaceful civil disobidience. Friday Actions start. Where are our Forests? Where have the forests gone? Where is the forest as Tall and thick as Knysna Reserve Forest in Hout Bay? Where are the Yellow woods and Stinkwoods of Table Mountain? Where are the forests now? How much of this Land was covered with Forests before the settlers came? Mozambique 90% of the forest cover cleared in just 20 years... The exponential rate of forest destruction. A plantation is not a forest. A forest develops over many centuries, in the case of Old Growth forests they have been developing for Millenia, for millions of years, the quickest a forest can actually redevelop is a century, although it will never be the same. The mammals and birds and insects of these forests cant survive without the forests... And the forest relies on their manure and urine and cycling and moving of nutrients to grow. A plantation will never be a forest. If one sees a patch of trees, even a large planting of one species its not any thing like a forest. It's a green dessert. When we talk of reforestation this is an Intergenerational work. Our fear as ecologists, biologists and people who understand about plant propagation etc is that we know that Conditions are also key in growing baby plants and trees... Faced with increasing temperatures, cyclones, floods and massive erosion and previous extinctions of the fauna who inhabited the forest we fear Literally running out of time completely. The last generation who can make a difference. In our wake they Dare to cut down the last forest where we may get genetics to reforest the Earth again. All the forest of the different biomes is on fire, from the Artic Siberia Forests to the Amazon to the plantations all over the old colonies. Each season more and more burns. The tropics are getting hotter with more cyclones and super storms.... Once the Amazon is 25 % cleared it will die. The species moving around within it won't survive, the People won't survive. Our technology will not save us. Only Indigenius knowledge systems can save us. Thank you Love and Rage. See you on Friday and next week, when we engage in actual direct action not plakard waving with the "permission" of "authorities". In people's face, blocking of everyday activities we are forced into doing that are murdering our planet Earth. We are not an NPO we are a Rebellion. We have eyes wide open and know what's going on and we gonna take action. We gonna bring fourth our forth demand, yes bring forth our Fourth Demand. Yes Ewe
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Newlands Place of Ancient Forests
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Extinction Rebellion Cape Town ❤️ We exist.
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The Truth about 'divestment' 😊
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Gut Feelings are very important way of the body communicating something about life. Trust it and Value it above all. It is going to lead us to survival... It's the only way we survived this long under all the pressure. Know the truth and tell the truth, Act now, beyond politics, just transition or Extinction...
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We are a Part of something much bigger, we are standing up for life on Earth. "Today gave XR Talk on Ecological Crisis in Delhi. This was back to back for 3 classes. All students are studying Journalism. There were around 150 students. Maybe many environmentalists are in process. Great response. I am also learning more while giving such talks. Tomorrow off to a different city for another Talk " CHIT FROM XR INDIA
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A Call to Action for young and old.If you do not speak out our children Will grow up in a world of Corporate Ecocide.
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We at the JSE right now!
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Passed on from National Organizer for PAC in South Africa, Chris Sankara. "WE ARE INFOMED THAT WE HAVE LOST ONE OUR PAC APLA CADRE KNOWN AS GEORGE SUNGUSUNGU IN EAST RAND, KATLEHING WHO WAS DEFENDING OUR AFRIKAN PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST AFROPHOBIA HE WAS SHOT AT POINT BLANK THROUGH HIT RUN BY PEOPLE CARING GUNS。HE WAS DEFENDING OLD LADIES WHOM.WERE CALLED FOREIGNERS WHO WERE SELLING CLOTHES AND ATTACKED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE SPEAKING SOUTH AFRICAN LUNGUAGE.." Cars arriving on a place, boots full of guns and just where is this coming from? Who is arming these insurgents? Usually we stay within the scope of ecological matters, unfortunately if we are reduced to war a situation by outside forces of Multinational companies, this will be the worst outcome for our ecology.
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If we are too meek, too quiet, too uncommitted to civil Disobedience on mass for extended periods of time we will likely just fizzle out into Extinction. There is nothing we can individually do to stop the trajectory. Join us October starting 7th for two weeks of intense nonstop protest, Civil Disobedience, Talks, workshops, SOS Training and anticirporate protesting, interviews with CEOs of corporations whether they like it or not.
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Nice Climate Strikes but we have very little time left....
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“We too are actors in the international arena, and we have the right to choose a political and economic system true to our aspirations. We have the duty to fight for a more just and more peaceful world, regardless of the fact that we have neither large industrial cartels nor nuclear weapons” Thomas Sankara
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Pollard who may be a brilliant thinker, but is still just an ordinary human being who cares deeply for his species. The Road to Hell, and How We Got There by Dave Pollard 'Keith Farnish tells us we need to get angry before we will be moved to act to undermine the Industrial Civilization that is killing our planet. Then, he says, we need to focus our attention on the "Tools of Disconnection" - the means by which the perpetrators of our disconnection from our intuition, our positive emotions, our senses, each other, and all-life-on-Earth keep us disorganized, confused, fearful and dependent. Our undermining actions, he asserts, should be aimed at accelerating the inevitable demise of industrial civilization with minimal suffer- ing, balancing the risks to ensure we don't get caught, and acting strategically to get maxi- mum impact from our actions. The sooner we precipitate civilization's fall, Keith says, the sooner its damage can be minimized, the sooner nature can begin to restore balance to our world, and the sooner the survivors of collapse can begin creating a better, sustainable way to live. So who are these "perpetrators"? They are the private and public corporations that depend on endless accelerating use of resources, production, consumption and waste, and which, as the book The Corporation explains, they pursue with pathological and amoral single-mindedness. They are the politicians, judges, lawyers, police and military forces that, working hand-in- hand with these wealthy corporations, create and enforce laws and wage wars in their own self-interest, not ours. They are the media, the shills, the advertisers and PR firms, the educa- tion system and the bought economists and junk scientists who perpetrate the propaganda that everything is fine and there is no other, better way to live than industrial civilization. And they are the religions, the therapists, and the techno-salvationists ("human ingenuity and invention will solve all our problems") who are complicit in reinforcing the propaganda by telling us that it is our fault as individuals when things are bad, and that with necessary struggle, industrial civilization will prevail and make things better for all of us despite our personal weaknesses and sins. The combined economic, political, media and psychological power and hegemony of these four groups of perpetrators constitute the self-reinforcing and completely uncritical and totalitarian system that Mussolini dreamed of - it was labelled Fascism but he called it Corpo- ratism. Its task is to completely subjugate and control the populace, to brainwash them so completely that there is no opposition, no dissent, just a perpetual machine of unthinking monolithic human production and consumption. Through its political messages, its advertising, its scare tactics, its lies, its withholding of information, its theft and violence, its indoctrination, its creation of false choices and false rewards, it keeps us in its thrall, disconnected. Each of us an obedient part of the system. But what is this "system"? Can it really control us that effectively in this world where often- conflicting information and ideas are ubiquitous and free? And why would so many people -not just psychopaths like Mussolini - willingly become perpetrators of such a system? The progressive-liberal worldview holds that we are all, at heart, innocent and good. Surely, then, the perpetrators of this terrible, unsustainable, teetering system had the best of intentions? They must have meant well, didn't they? This worldview also holds that getting angry isn't the answer; that we need to appeal to people rationally, with the facts. The truth, we believe, cannot long be suppressed, and when people learn it, they will, if this system is so bad and brutal, instinctively work to dismantle it and replace it with one in the common good, a truly democratic system. Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness, provides some clues on why this doesn't happen. Our large brains, he argues, have made us too smart for our own good. Our brains can now construct their own reality, completely disconnected from 'real' reality, and live happily in that illusory place, in effect mistaking it for 'real' reality. And, as Eckhart Tolle has explained, an unintended consequence of the evolution of our complex brains is that we now have an ego, capable of inventing and believing stories that provoke negative emotional responses which in turn produce in our heads other stories. This vicious cycle of negative intellectual and emotional activity in our brains, disconnected from what is really happening here, now, has made us all mentally ill. So two paradoxical consequences of our large brains are that (i) we can be fooled and emo- tionally manipulated by misinformation in a way no other creature can, and (ii) even if we are one of the perpetrators of this misinformation, we can fool ourselves into believing it, especially if that belief is reinforced by others who credulously accept the same beliefs. Despite all of this, despite the fact that we are all in a sense perpetrators, all so disconnected and confounded by our egos and the imaginary realities our brains have invented that we don't 'really' know what is real or what we are doing, Keith is correct about what must be done: We must act to dismantle industrial civilization. But how can we do that when we are so hobbled, so handicapped, so caught up in this vicious system of our own making? First, we have to inform ourselves about what is really happening (by reading and studying thoroughly and by thinking critically and challenging everything) and what our 'real' options are (by studying history and reading both fiction and radical non-fiction). Second, we have to get angry enough at the system that is killing us all (it doesn't much matter who the perpetrators are, or if we are ourselves perpetrators or complicit) to shake ourselves out of our passivity and unawareness and act. Third, we need to influence and educate others. Fourth, we need to become models, finding radically alternative ways to live and modelling those behaviours. And fifth, we need to reskill ourselves to facilitate both the work we must do to dismantle industrial civilization, and the capacity to live good lives during and after civilization's collapse. This is a tall order. The first step towards well-being is to appreciate the challenge we face, and the first step to doing that is to understand the Tools of Disconnection and how they keep us cowed, and dependent.'
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1) Reward Us for Being Good Consumers Description: 'It is fairly easy to make civilized people happy, or at least give people the sense they are happy; they just have to be primed in the right way. What is key to creating this malleable state of mind is making people believe from a very early age that “happiness” is something far more superficial than having a deep and genuine state of contentment and well-being. The marketing of consumer goods and services (“experiences”) taps into the desire for happiness through colourful and positive images reflecting enjoyment of whatever is being marketed; this is compounded by continual messaging through the mass media that consumption in general is a “good thing”, and the consumption of anything new and fashionable is likely to lead to improvement in our quality of life. This powerful message is easily transferred to the next generation via parents and peers who are already primed. Identification: At a personal level, this can be recognised through being aware of anything that makes you feel better, yet is clearly a product of the consumer culture: so, for instance, if you are watching or listening to an advertisement and begin to feel happy, regardless of the source of the advertisement then that Tool is in operation. The same can be observed on other people who are showing signs of happiness where no source beyond that which has been manufactured is evident. The popularity of shopping malls, cinemas, amusement parks and package holidays are further evidence that the genuine need for happiness has been sub- sumed into industrial-scale consumption: we go shopping to “feel good” now. Consequences: The two main consequences of consumption happiness are, first, we become less inclined to seek deeper, more satisfying forms of happiness from the real world – such as the enjoyment of dipping our toes into cool water on a hot day – instead seeking out disconnected sources of “happiness” through material consumption. The second, less direct, consequence is that increased consumption through our desire to be happy, leads to environmental and social degradation, particularly where the things we consume are produced, powered from and disposed of. Perpetrators: A plethora of parties directly involved in commerce, including consumer journalists, advertising executives, marketing professionals, salespeople, travel agents and product developers are all ensuring we feel good about our consumer habits.' First tool of Disconnection - The Underminers
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2) Make Us Feel Good for doing Trivial Things Description: 'In order to distract from the important it is necessary to emphasise the trivial. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the way environmentalism (or rather, its featherlight alter-ego) is imposed upon civilized people. I say “imposed” because in the absence of the prevalent faux-environmental message it is all too easy to see the bigger picture; and that is dangerous to the system. For example, if I approach a local authority with a desire to live in a more sustainable manner, the chances of being told to go off-grid (self sufficient in energy and other services), grow and forage my own food, and stop buying consumer goods are slim to none (and Slim just left town). On the other hand I will happily be exhorted to recycle and change my light bulbs. In the case of a motor company, I will not be told to stop driving, I will be advised to pump my tyres up or buy a more economical (new) car. A supermarket would never recommend buying local produce and scrapping processed food, but will have an ample supply of branded “bags for life” because we all know carrier bags are the greatest threat to life on Earth. A mainstream environmental group, such as the Sierra Club or Friends of the Earth, will say that real change can be achieved through political lobbying rather than undermining the political system itself. Follow the advice of the system and you will never have to worry about the big things, for the small things are what we are told really matter. Identification: The most obvious clue to this Tool’s usage is the source of information: in conversation even an oil executive will admit we are screwed if we keep using oil; but on a much less personal level every single instrument of Industrial Civilization has its own set of pro-forma “environmental” messages that are designed to ensure our behaviour remains just the same as always. No advice that emanates from the mouthpiece of a government, a corporation, mass-market media or even a mainstream environmental NGO12 is going to adversely affect the industrial system. You can also use your instincts: if it feels too easy or trivial, or “against nature” then you are probably on the right track. Consequences: Sweating the small stuff is akin to putting a Band Aid on an amputation stump. Not only is it too little, it is almost certainly too late, because it is in the interest of vested corporate interests to keep us totally ignorant until they really have no choice but to provide some relevant information which, as shown, is of no substance anyway. By exploiting our civilized aversion to conscious effort and major change, we are made impotent – and content with it. Meanwhile, Industrial Civilization continues to destroy the global ecosystem. Perpetrators: Almost everyone is party to this by virtue of passing on the advice given by authority – it feels good to; however, we can single out politicians at all levels, corporate public relations and mainstream environmental journalists and NGOs as some of the worst offenders.' Identifying the 2nd Tool of Disconnection - the Underminers
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Here’s Thomas Sankara’s accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87). Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara” – He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks. – He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987. – He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification – He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid – He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education. – He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights – He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers. – He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets. – He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. – He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.” – He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting – In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country). – He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects. – He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes. – As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. – A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard. – He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity) – When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.” – An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself Sankara seized power in a 1983 popularly supported coup at the age of 33, with the goal of eliminating corruption and the dominance of the former French colonial power. He immediately launched one of the most ambitious programmes for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this new autonomy and rebirth, he renamed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (“Land of Upright Man”). His foreign policies were centered on anti-imperialism, with his government eschewing all foreign aid, pushing for odious debt reduction, nationalizing all land and mineral wealth, and averting the power and influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritizing education with a nationwide literacy campaign, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever, and measles. Other components of his national agenda included planting over ten million trees to halt the growing desertification of the Sahel, doubling wheat production by redistributing land from feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents, and establishing an ambitious road and rail construction program to “tie the nation together”. On the localized level Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had over 350 communities construct schools with their own labour. Moreover, his commitment to women’s rights led him to outlaw female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy, while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.[5] In order to achieve this radical transformation of society, he increasingly exerted authoritarian control over the nation, eventually banning unions and a free press, which he believed could stand in the way of his plans. To counter his opposition in towns and workplaces around the country, he also tried corrupt officials, “counter-revolutionaries” and “lazy workers” in Popular Revolutionary Tribunals. Additionally, as an admirer of Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution, Sankara set up Cuban-style Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs). His revolutionary programs for African self-reliance made him an icon to many of Africa’s poor. Sankara remained popular with most of his country’s impoverished citizens. However his policies alienated and antagonised the vested interests of an array of groups, which included the small but powerful Burkinabé middle class, the tribal leaders whom he stripped of the long-held traditional right to forced labour and tribute payments, and France and its ally the Ivory Coast. As a result, he was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré on October 15, 1987. A week before his murder, he declared: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.” On October 15, 1987, Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d’état organised by his former colleague Blaise Compaoré. Deterioration in relations with neighbouring countries was one of the reasons given, with Compaoré stating that Sankara jeopardised foreign relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast. Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was engineered by Charles Taylor. After the coup and although Sankara was known to be dead, some CDRs mounted an armed resistance to the army for several days. Sankara’s body was dismembered and he was quickly buried in an unmarked grave, while his widow Mariam and two children fled the nation. Compaoré immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Sankara’s policies, rejoined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to bring in “desperately needed” funds to restore the “shattered” economy,[34] and ultimately spurned most of Sankara’s legacy. Compaoré’s dictatorship remained in power for 27 years until overthrown by popular protests in 2014. A transformational leader Sankara’s visionary leadership turned his country from a sleepy West African nation with the colonial designation of Upper Volta to a dynamo of progress under the proud name of Burkina Faso (“Land of the Honorable People”). He led one of the most ambitious programs of sweeping reforms ever seen in Africa. It sought to fundamentally reverse the structural social inequities inherited from the French colonial order. Sankara focused the state’s limited resources on the marginalized majority in the countryside. When most African countries depended on imported food and external assistance for development, Sankara championed local production and the consumption of locally-made goods. He firmly believed that it was possible for the Burkinabè, with hard work and collective social mobilization, to solve their problems: chiefly scarce food and drinking water. In Sankara’s Burkina, no one was above farm work, or graveling roads–not even the president, government ministers or army officers. Intellectual and civic education were systematically integrated with military training and soldiers were required to work in local community development projects. Sankara disdained formal pomp and banned any cult of his personality. He could be seen casually walking the streets, jogging or conspicuously slipping into the crowd at a public event. He was a rousing orator who spoke with uncommon candor and clarity and did not hesitate to publicly admit mistakes, chastise comrades or express moral objections to heads of powerful nations, even if it imperiled him. For example, he famously criticized French president François Mitterand during a state dinner for hosting the leader of Apartheid South Africa. Who was Thomas Sankara? – A captain in army of Upper Volta, a former French colony in West Africa – Instrumental in the coup that ousted Col Saye Zerbo as president in 1982 – Took power from Maj Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo in an internal power struggle and became president in August 1983 – Adopted radical left-wing policies and sought to reduce government corruption – Changed the name of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means “the land of upright men” – Killed in mysterious circumstances by a group of soldiers in October 1987 Via Via
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'For the denialists regarding climate catastrophe, let me spell it out for you in our context. As a result of global warming South Africa is going to have less and less rain, we already get 50% less than the global average as it is. Our average temperature is going to rise faster and higher than the global average. If the rain only comes in the new year as predicted for this season, we will have missed the planting season and will have food shortages next year. If the the rain does fall in the new year our dams, which are already empty will take longer to refill, if at all. Already many rural communities and small towns do not have water at all. With rising temperatures the human body will need more, not less water, to rehidrate. We are about to experience kidney failure on a massive scale as a result of a lack of water. In Gauteng we receive water from Katse dam in Lesotho. That dam is only 18,6% full because Lesotho has had very little rain or winter snowfalls over the last five years. Katse runs dry, 5 million people in Johannesburg will have no water. Our aquifers are fed through the dolomitic regions from Southern Angola, through the Okavango Delta, the North West Province through to Gauteng and the Northern Cape. As we speak the Okavango swamps are rapidly drying up. This means our aquifers will go empty and our ground water will disappear. Climate change means changed climatic conditions and if you cannot see it you must be blind. Even if you are blind you will soon feel it.' David Van Wyk
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Busting the Myth of Race altogether.
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Let's start the new day with a joke.
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Sydney Australia Last week's Student Protests.
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A quote from the Regenerative Culture pdf from XR to help those struggling with the decolonization concepts - it affects us all."The Decolonisation of the Self Here we name some forms of oppression and domination that have been coded into societies and institutions around the world. These are some of the features of the toxic system we have decided to rebel against, guided by the Extinction Rebellion values and principles and through the lens of a Regenerative Culture. • Anthropocentrism • Racism • Sexism • Eurocentrism • Heteronormativity • Classism Useful resources include non-violent communication, compassion, decolonisation training and resources for dealing with grief. Extinction Rebellion is inspired and informed by the work of: • Joanna Macy - The Work That Reconnects • Active Hope Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication, and, • Jon Young - 8 Shields and Restorative Justice."
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VANESSA NAKATE The Real Uganda Fridays for Future BRAVE AND FEARLESS EARTH WARRIOR!
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