A novella that punches above its weight, delivering a well-imagined, skilfully revealed future where a young and poor underclass of ‘Firewalkers’ risk their lives to service the global billionaire elite as they prepare to escape a dying Earth and leave the rest of us to burn.
My experience with Adrienne Tchaikovsky’s books is mixed. I loved his standalone ‘Dogs Of War’ novel about genetically enhanced animals being used as soldiers but I couldn’t get into his very popular ‘Children Of Time’ series.
I decided to try ‘Firewalkers’ because I wanted to see how Tchaikovsky handled the novella ( the book is 165 pages) and because it spoke to a topical theme: the very wealthy insulating themselves from the consequences of the environmental collapse that they have become wealthy by accelerating. I’m certain that the people funding Climate Change Denial see climate change as an opportunity to winnow the world’s population…
Cruel racism abounds in the USA. From the slave ships, to the slave auctions, to the schools and prisons of today; from the whippings, rapes and murders of the past to the beatings, racial profiling and killings of today… slavery is endemic to the capitalist system across North America.
— Garrison Davis (Teargas Proof) (@hungrybowtie) July 12, 2020
On the land stolen from the brutalized and decimated Indigenous peoples, capitalism was built on the backs of African and Indigenous slaves, and by impoverished, exploited and oppressed immigrants and racialized workers.
In Canada, the ruling class papered over the violent seizure of land from the indigenous peoples — much of it still unceded. Those peoples were starved, raped, injured and murdered.
Their children were seized, imprisoned in residential schools where the “Indian ” in them was suppressed relentlessly, where many were over-worked, underfed, beaten, raped and killed.
– actualización y traducción en castellano .. ¡Honramos a Anarcha la Esclava! Resistiendo el patriarcado racista. Nombrando “anarchagland”
El Dr. Sims, que no tenía experiencia ginecológica, obtuvo hasta 20 esclavas negras que sufrían lesiones ginecológicas de fístulas desgarradas y experimentó con ellas, sin anestesia, durante 4 años en su “plantación médica” en Alabama.
En 2015, #Anarchagland, un proyecto de investigación autónoma de #GynePunk en Catalunya, cambió el nombre de las glándulas sexuales femeninas a 3 esclavas, Anarcha, Betsey y Lucy, que fueron maltratadas como conejillos de indias médicos por el ”doctor” J Marion Sims.
“Si había algo que odiaba”, escribió desde el principio, “estaba investigando los órganos de la pelvis femenina”.
No sabemos cuántas de sus víctimas murieron o si realmente dieron su consentimiento, como afirmó en su extravagante autobiografía (era un delito de pena de muerte para los esclavos escribir o grabar algo), pero Sims era un ‘showman’ y se jactaba de operar más de 30 veces en Anarcha, que tenía 17 años al principio, y casi mató a Lucy en su primera intervenión.
marion sims tiene muchas estatuas en norteamerica pero su fama viene del abuso racista y cruel de las esclavas negras de su propriedad.
Estas esclavas sufrieron fístulas desgarradas, lágrimas en las paredes entre sus vaginas, uretras y rectos, por lo que gotearon orina y no fueron capaces sexualmente, por lo que sus dueños perdieron ganancias potenciales en esclavas. ..
Estas lesiones fueron causadas por partos difíciles, condiciones de trabajo atroces (por ejemplo, 15 horas diarias durante el embarazo) o violación legal (las esclavas eran propiedad y podían ser violadas con impunidad y con fines de lucro cuando tenían hijos).
Diane Collier y Marina Ortiz quieren que la estatua del Dr. Marion Sims sea retirada de East Harlem. “Obviamente es ofensivo para las mujeres de color, pero debería ser ofensivo para las mujeres en general”, dijo Collier. “Mi posición es si Yale puede cambiar el nombre de Calhoun College … Parks debería poder hacer algo en una ciudad progresista como Nueva York. Así es como lo estoy mirando “.
De hecho, el mismo Sims probablemente causó la enfermedad en Anarcha al usar pinzas para sacar a su bebé con cero experiencia, como él mismo admitió. Sims dedica muchos capítulos a alabarse a sí mismo, pero no nos deja ninguna nota sobre si los niños o las pacientes sobrevivieron.
Good News at last. A part of our CO2 release could be saved….
Or could it?? This post doesn’t analyze the emissions of crushing, transporting and spreading the rock dust
Originally posted on The Extinction Chronicles: https://scitechdaily.comBy UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD JULY 11, 2020
2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the…
Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and help meet key global climate targets, according to a major new study led by the University of Sheffield.
Major new study shows adding rock dust to farmland could remove carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to more than the current total emissions from global aviation and shipping combined — or around half of Europe’s current total emissions
Research identifies the nation-by-nation potential for CO2 drawdown, as well as the costs and the engineering challenges involved
Findings reveal the world’s highest emitters (China, India and the US) also have the greatest potential to remove CO2 from the atmosphere using this method
Scientists suggest unused materials from mining and the construction industry could be used to help soils remove CO2 from the atmosphere
The technique, known as enhanced rock weathering, involves spreading finely crushed basalt, a natural volcanic rock, on fields to boost the soil’s ability to extract CO2 from the air.
In the first nation-by-nation assessment, published in Nature, scientists have demonstrated the method’s potential for carbon drawdown by major economies, and identified the costs and engineering challenges of scaling up the approach to help meet ambitious global CO2 removal targets. The research was led by experts at the University of Sheffield’s Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, and the University’s Energy Institute.
On the 11th of July, a fiesty “Fuck the Police” march out of Dupont Circule wound their way though wealthy areas of Capitol Hill chanting “Fire, fire, Gentrifier!” The march ended at DC Jail, where statements of support for people held captive inside were read and noisy chants reached those held inside. People held prisoner […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a courtyard a few blocks from Copacabana beach, a dozen people get settled on broken couches beneath a banner reading “Cure Your Prejudice.” They face the makeshift stage where a transgender woman appears in a short, tight dress and performs to a song about transgender visibility.
Indianara Siqueira, wearing a rainbow colored shirt, sits with fellow residents to watch their weekly presentations performed on a makeshift stage at the squat known as Casa Nem, occupied by members of the LGBTQ community who are in self-quarantine as a protective measure against the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
It’s a standard Saturday night in coronavirus times at the squat known as Casa Nem.
The six-floor building is home to about 50 LGBTQ people riding out the pandemic behind closed doors. They receive food donations and are barred from leaving unless facing medical emergency or other exceptional circumstances.
Self-imposed lockdown is one of few ways this traditionally marginalized group has found to minimize COVID-19 risks, while others remain vulnerable on the streets.
“Based on the experience we had during the AIDS epidemic, when we were accused of being the vector of the virus and were left to die, we are now protecting the community,” said Indianara Siqueira, 49, a transgender sex worker and activist in Casa Nem.
Residents play basketball at the squat known as Casa Nem, occupied by members of the LGBTQ community who are in self-quarantine as a protective measure against the new coronavirus,
Bolsonaro contracts coronavirus? Another fake news Suspected
By Juraima Almeida | 07/09/2020 | Brazil Fuentes: Latin American Center for Strategic Analysis (CLAE) source: http://estrategia. shared with thanks
rough English translation! original em português abaixo
”It’s just a little flu, as an athlete it wouldn’t affect me”. By denying virus protection to the public Bolsonaro has condemned tens of thousands to a horrible death, causing both his popularity and the economy to crash. He won the Presidency in 2018 after a suspicious attack on his person, magnified for sympathy by his media and US support and by getting the favourite Lula jailed on suspicion.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced that he had contracted the coronavirus that he underestimated during more than four months.
“Positive, positive,” he replied with military language in a heroic and melodramatic declaration, when the journalists asked if he was infected.
Many fear that this is just yet another a way to divert attention from serious social, economic, political and health problems in the country.
Together with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, who also became infected, he has led the government to minimize the pandemic, refusing and cancelling preventive measures.
see also: Brazil: Bolsonaro’s fake statements on COVID-19 In June 2020, Brazil’s president Jair Messias Bolsonaro made 160 statements about COVID-19 containing information that was deemed fake or ...
Brazil has 1,650,000 infected and over 65,000 corpses already from the coronavirus. However, Bolsonaro is one of the few presidents who opposes social isolation and this week signed a decree against the use of face masks in public spaces and prisons.
Wearing a blue shirt and a white beard, he admitted to being contaminated by that disease that he had defined as a “little cold” and said it is the fruit of “media hysteria” . The President also says that the numbers of people that have been contaminated are false and urged his followers to invade hospitals and to attack medical centers in Rio, Brasilia and Sao Paulo.
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