Month: Nov 2021

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Madrid • Ecologistas en Acción shared with thanks. translations theFreeOnline illustrations added

Bee-eaters nest in burrows at the Lagoons

The parliamentary Right prevents the approval of the Proposal Not of Law bypresented in the Commission of Environment, Housing and Agriculture of the Assembly of the Community of Madrid to guarantee the conservation of the Lagunas de Ambroz and its surroundings, located east of the municipality of Madrid.

The non-law Proposition(PNL) presented in the Commission of Environment, Housing and Agriculture of the Assembly of the Community of Madrid to guarantee the conservation of the Lagunas de Ambroz and its surroundings, located east of the city of Madrid.
Ecologists in Action denounces that the rejection of this Proposal is contradictory and incompatible with the declaration approved in plenary session by the Madrid City Council on March 30.

On Tuesday, November 2, a Non-Law Proposal presented by Más Madrid that proposed a series of measures to guarantee the conservation of the Lagunas de Ambroz and its environment.

Three people have died in nine years in the pits transformed into rafts of water after the inactivity of the San Blas mine. The company wants to resume exploitation in the face of opposition from neighbors and environmentalists. The Community of Madrid has to decide whether to authorize the opening of the sepiolite deposit

Continue reading “Madrid / They vote against protecting the Ambroz lagoons and its surroundings – Eng/Esp”

Officers accused of trying to break into with battering ram and entering rooms with batons drawn

One activist said police had their batons drawn as they entered rooms, to the distress of many occupants. Photograph: handoutJessica Murray and Severin CarrellMon 8 Nov 2021 16.24 GMT

Last modified on Tue 9 Nov 2021 05.11 GMT

• The occupants of a disused building in Glasgow that was reopened to offer emergency accommodation for climate activists have accused police of trying to break into the site with a battering ram early on Monday morning.

The activists at Baile Hoose, a former homeless shelter in the Tradeston district, said up to 20 officers from the Metropolitan police and Welsh forces mounted the raid at 3am, claiming to be acting under orders from Scottish police.

The activists said Police Scotland officers arrived soon afterwards and “calmed the situation. [It] was only then that the Met and Welsh police backed off.”

URGENT: Police have broken into one of the other buildings in the courtyard here at Baile Hoose, gaining entry from the street.

They aren’t in the courtyard yet, but it’s not clear what they’re planning to do.

If anyone is awake please come down.— Baile Hoose (@BaileHoose) November 8, 2021

Continue reading “Police thug squads in Midnight raid on Glasgow squat housing Cop26 activists”

Regenerating Biodiversity in our farms, forests, and our Gut Microbiome for Zero Hunger and Good – Health for All

Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 25 Oct 2021

Mother Earth is self-organised. Mother Earth has created and sustained Diversity.

The web of life is a web of diversity woven through the flow of Nutrition.

20 Oct 2021 – Colonialism transformed Mother Earth, Vasundhara, Pachmama , Terra Madre, into Terra Nullius, the empty earth. Our living, bountiful earth, rich in Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity was reduced to an empty earth.

People of the colonised lands were denied their humanity to justify the appropriation of the their lands, their homes, their resources. The Biodiversity of the earth disappeared in the minds of men who reduced the earth to private property to be owned, and raw material to be extracted.

The colonial Monoculture of the Mind separated people from the land, forests from farms, seed from food, food from biodiversity, health and nutrition in order to maximise profits through extractivism.

People of colonised cultures and the biodiversity of plants and animals were objectified, enslaved and transformed into the property to be owned.

The colonial industrial paradigm could not tolerate diversity and self organisation and redefined “wild” as place or region uninhabited and uncultivated by humans.

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Vandana Shiva | FRANCE 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

This is clearly a flawed definition. The places and ecosystems recognised as “wild” today are where indigenous people protect nature, the land and biodiversity.

On 22% of land left with the original custodians and guardians, indigenous people protect 80% of biodiversity.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/can-indigenousland-stewardship-protect-biodiversity

Wild is not the absence of humans, but the loving, compassionate presence of caring communities.

Continue reading “Rewilding Food- Rewilding Our Minds – Rewilding the Earth – Prof. Vandana Shiva”