While 4 local activists visited Little River in Belfast Maine yesterday to claim the space and pray for justice for the trees, the water and the animals they happened upon 2 eagles dining on a deer carcass. They held a brief ceremony while the eagles enjoyed their dinner, an auspicious event! [wpvideo oP1KNKHH ]
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Standing Rock is Everywhere…. Standing Rock está em toda parte!
On Saturday, August 4, 2018, despite the near record heat here in Portugal, an estimated 800 climate activists and water protectors assembled on the beach at Cova Do Vapor, Trafaria Portugal, located on the southern shore at the mouth of the Tagas River which starts in Spain and essentially bisects Portugal. Lisbon, visible thru the wavering heat, …
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#SayHerName Therese Patricia Okoumou
Thank you Therese Patricia Okoumou! None of us are free, if one of us is chained. [videopress LwcwrPMm] There is so little to be proud of being an American in Portugal on July 4th 2018. I awoke this July 5th to the news of her (s)heroic act, in my mind, Therese Patricia Okoumou stands tall …
Facing Global Trumpism: A Declaration of European Independence?
242 years after the Independence of the United States of America, FREE asks: “Against Global Trumpism: A Declaration of European Independence?” A conversation with Rui Tavares, historian, former MEP and founder of FREE and Richard Zimler, journalist, writer and Portuguese-American professor
Learning Portuguese with Tech – 2
Google has a mobile app, Google Translate, which is simply amazing IMHO. It’s not that it works that well yet, however what it is attempting to do and currently does well enough that I use it quite often, is allow you to point your mobile device at, say a sign, and it translates that sign …
Learning Portuguese with Tech
Eu aprecio que você tenha amizade e alimente o gato. Tornou-se meu amigo também. Isso tem um nome?
An Innocent Abroad
Intersectionality abounds as an innocent is again, abroad! Innocent, me? Surely I jest!
Cangleska Wakan – The Sacred Hoop
Recently, in a phone conversation with Suzanne and Brayton – founders of Agape Community in Ware Massachusetts, I was sharing with them how wonderful my experience of this St Francis Day ended up being for me, in fact it was somewhat life changing. When they asked if I would write what I felt “drawn to …
Agape Community: St. Francis Day October 7, 2017 – Video
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An eWitness is an activist with a smart phone and a mission.