Edible insect fantasist does research on protein rich creepy crawlers that can save humanity

by Relational Thinking on Oct 27, 2022 from peoplenatureblog via thefreeonline

Interview…Zabentungwa Hlongwane and protein rich creepy crawlers that ‘can save humanity’

For Black History Month, the British Ecological Society (BES) journals are celebrating the work of Black ecologists from around the world and sharing their stories. The theme for UK Black History Month this year is Time for Change: Action Not Words. Zabentungwa Hlongwane—a biology lecturer at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa—shares her story below.

How did you get into ecology?

My name is Zabentungwa Hlongwane and my main research interests are Entomophagy, Entomology, and Ecology. I am interested in the use of edible insects as a sustainable protein-rich food resource that can contribute to food and nutrition insecurity in resource-poor communities.

Nice And Juicy!: 15 Edible African Bugs

My interest in ecology started at an early age—I’ve always appreciated nature and its diversity. My interest in ecology has been mainly influenced by where I come from. I am from Bergville—a small village situated in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains—in the KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Growing up in this environment, I got to appreciate the diversity of plants and animals from an early age. This then led me to develop my passion for learning about the diversity of nature.

Live: Brazil celebrates the triumph of Lula da Silva in the streets

10/31/2022, 12:04:35 AM

Supporters of the left-wing candidate celebrate on Paulista Avenue Lula da Silva, candidate of the left, has won the presidency of Brazil with more than 96% of the votes counted. The Datafolha institute already considers him the winner of the presidential elections over the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

LulaPT 60,274,223 %50.9

Jair BolsonaroPL 58,144,711 %49.1

With 99.90% of vote sections accounted for (471,586 of 472,075). Results based on a total of 118,429,081 valid votes.

“You may not have seen the changes we (the PT) carried out, but your gardeners, your drivers, your bodyguards, and your maids did.”^[25] Millions erupted into applause as their Lula spoke truth to power.”

The thousands of followers of the former president from the period 2003 and 2010 have taken to the streets to celebrate his triumph.

Lula da Silva, candidate of the left, has won the presidency of Brazil with more than 96% of the votes counted.

The Datafolha institute already considers him the winner of the presidential elections over the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

The thousands of followers of the former president from the period 2003 and 2010 have taken to the streets to celebrate his triumph.

Though narrow, the election result will change Brazil and the world. It’s not just one man or party :-The major section of corrupt deputies and parties are committed to supporting whoever is the new President. In the balance is the key future of the Amazonia climate tipping point., the direction of the BRICS alliance and the future of a multipolar world, the end of extreme racism, poverty, misogyny, neo-liberalist looting and ….

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Brazil: ..a Path Back to Self-Determination?

extract from.. Danny Shaw Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Lula da Silva…Shared with thanks!

….For the past two weeks Globo, CNN Brasil and the other mouthpieces of the economic and political establishment have published headlines stating that Datafolha polls give Lula 45% of the vote and Bolsonaro 33%.^[11] A student of Trumpian tactics, Bolsonaro has for the past four years positioned himself as the victim of “the liberal media” and “fake news.”^[12]

A military insider and political “outsider,” Bolsonaro has more recently made a list ditch effort to implement populist economic measures to shore up more votes, approving a $7.7 billion dollar stimulus package, which increases cash handouts to struggling families by 50%. According to the same Brazilian study, 61 percent of voters view this eleventh hour move as politically motivated to cut Lula’s lead in the polls.^[13]

Datafolha’s research lays out the demographics of Brazil’s divided vote:

Lula triunfa en las elecciones para Presidente de Brasil

Por Sputni/Europa Press 30 octubre, 2022

Brasilia, 30 Oct. (Sputnik/EUROPA PRESS) – El candidato de izquierda Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (50,83 por ciento) se ha impuesto por un estrecho margen a su rival y actual presidente brasileño, Jair Bolsonaro (49,17 por ciento) con el 98,81 por ciento escrutado.

Lula afianzó así las opciones de remontada tras un inicio del recuento en el que Bolsonaro estaba por delante.

Estos datos divulgados por el Tribunal Superior Electoral en su página web.

Igual que ocurrió en la primera vuelta del 2 de octubre, Bolsonaro ha aparecido como la opción más votada hasta bien avanzado el recuento. Entonces fue Lula quien logró más respaldo, aunque no el suficiente como para lograr la victoria directa en primera vuelta.

Más de 156 millones de personas estaban llamadas a votar en estas elecciones, las más polarizadas de la historia del país, con dos propuestas antagónicas.

La campaña ha sido una de las más violentas que se recuerdan en Brasil. Este domingo, los electores también han votado para elegir al gobernador de São Paulo y de otros 11 estados que no resolvieron el resultado en primera vuelta.

La jornada se ha visto empañada con denuncias de que la Policía Federal de Carreteras, un cuerpo considerado cercano a Bolsonaro, realizó cientos de operaciones en las que detuvo a autobuses para revisar la documentación de los votantes, especialmente en los estados de nordeste (donde Lula tiene mayoría), lo que atrasó el ritmo de votación. El presidente del Tribunal Electoral, Alexandre de Moraes, declaró que lo ocurrido no afecta en los resultados.

«Hoy es posiblemente el 30 de octubre más importante de mi vida. Y creo que es un día muy importante para el pueblo brasileño porque está definiendo el modelo de Brasil que quiere, el modelo de vida que quiere», declaró Lula esta mañana al depositar su voto.

Por su parte, Bolsonaro dijo que tenía «expectativa de victoria por el bien de Brasil». «Tuvimos buenas noticias en los últimos días. Si dios quiere, ganaremos hoy por la tarde», afirmó.

Organizing Transformed Spaces: Kurdish Women, Jineoloji and Rojava

The heroism of the Kurdish guerrilla women is accompanied by the painstaking work of women indulging in groundwork to organize and innovate alternative forms of resistance that would be a step in accomplishing the kind of world the women’s movement in Kurdistan wishes to achieve and inhabit.

from The Gender Security Project By Stuti Srivastava via thefreeonline

It is perhaps true that the Kurdish resistance garnered most media attention with the circulation and popularization of images of female militants of Kurd armies, symbols of a revolution where women were more not mere victims of violence, but important actors and agents.

However, there is a longer history of social revolution that precedes these women taking up arms – a revolution that sought to change interpersonal relationships, community rules and settings and ways of dissemination of information and ideology and pave the way for a future that allows the imagination and realization of radically transformed spaces.

Jineolojî… center attracted many an international woman – ANHA …

Even before garnering media attention in the West, Kurdish women were being recruited to militant forces, forming Congresses, and parties were forming women’s wings. On 8 March 1995, the first women’s congress took place, and by 1999 the PKK had a separate women’s wing. (Melis, 2016)

A mural in support of the YPJ in Bologna, Italy

In the early 1990s, by some estimates, women made up a third of the fighting force of 17,000 militants in the PKK. (Ozcab, 2007) PKK leader Ocalan’s views that centered women and anti-patriarchal resistance in the fight against the state and capitalism, largely stemming from Engel’s writings and Marxist-Leninist ideology, served as an important base for Kurdish women’s resistance.

The Kurdish movement’s aim later shifted to a goal of ‘democratic confederalism’. We can find traces of both these visions in the ideals and beliefs that have governed Kurdish feminist actions.