Today’s Democracy Now report on today’s powerful and devastating earthquake in Haiti includes a plea for help from other countries from the wonderful Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat. The hour long program outlines many of Haiti’s ongoing political, environmental and economic issues as well as a report on the recent NYT investigation of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deaths and abuses of people in their custody, one of whom was Danticat’s uncle.
If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in contributing their artistic skills to the preservation of BC’s farmland, please email me (donnapassmore7@gmail.com) and copy our Communications Director, Nik Cuff (nikcuff@shaw.ca).
thanks – and best wishes to all of us in reversing the loss of farmland and food security. Donna Passmore.
This BBC article references human octopus collaboration through re-purposing. The video features the octopus running..!so funny. Really interesting look at non-human tooling.
Baker is an art historian who studies the history and theory of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on attitudes towards animals in art, philosophy and pop culture.
below is a an extract form his essay exploring the power of dead animal bodies in postmodern art….
Malamud is professor of english who studies ecocriticism, postcolonial and cultural studies. He also wrote the book, ” Reading Zoos: representations of animals and captivity.
apparently ikizukuri or ikezukuri is the preparation/consumption of food from a currently living source. and is practiced in korea, japan, china, and taiwan.
“1) Evidence of vast conspiracy is sorely lacking. Ditto evidence disproving the scientific consensus on climate change. This isn’t the “nail in the coffin” of anything. However, the emails do prompt some legit questions about transparency and how professional researchers respond to criticism in the age of the armchair scientist…”
