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Filomena Conde

"Doing what I can to stop transgenics www.stopogm.net"

Coimbra, Portugal
female, age 43
single
Speaks: English, Portuguese, French, studied Italian for one year, I can read Russian, I can't understand it though
Joined Dec 23, 2006
What I Want to Do: Take it SLOW to do it right


 
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PETITIONS SIGNED:

-signed the "Pets Abuse in Uruguay with NO punishment! - Abuso de Mascotas en Uruguay SIN castigo!" petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pets-abuse-in-uruguay-with-no-punishment---abuso-de-mascotas-en-uruguay-sin-castigo.
As the 4,601st person.

-signed the "Return abducted minor Sean Goldman to his father" petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/return-abducted-minor-sean-goldman-to-his-father. As the 38,470th person.

-signed the "250 Dogs Saved by White County Sheriffs" petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/303487673.
As the 8,204th person.

-signed maximum penalty for the men who hacked up a puppy
As the 12,146th person.
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FOR THE RECORD: 2008 news piece. POTATOES ROT IN PORTUGUESE STORE HOUSES (Alto Tâmega/Chaves area).
There is enough food in the world for everyone.
We do not need transgenics.

www.cna.pt

AOS ÓRGÃOS DE INFORMAÇÃO

BATATA APODRECE NOS ARMAZÉNS DOS AGRICULTORES DO ALTO TÂMEGA

Convocados pela FAGRORURAL, com o apoio da CNA, reuniram-se hoje na cidade de Chaves, cerca de 100 produtores de batata deste Concelho, com o objectivo de analisar a situação do escoamento da batata e propor ao Governo as medidas necessário à resolução deste problema. Da discussão efectuada, estima-se só no Concelho de Chaves existir cerca de 3 mil toneladas de batata por escoar. A acrescer a este facto, regista-se uma desvalorização em termos de preço à produção (7 cêntimos/Kg), havendo ainda um volume considerável de batata a ser comercializada sem preço. Constatou-se ainda a existência de um fluxo de batata a granel, vinda da vizinha Espanha a preços verdadeiramente imbatíveis, que está a ser embalada como batata proveniente de IGP (identificação geográfica protegida de Trás-os-Montes).


Face a esta situação, acresce ainda os problemas provocados pelo atraso no pagamento das Ajudas Comunitárias – Indemnizações Compensatórias; Medidas Agro- Ambientais e RPU/Leite, situação verdadeiramente dramática para muitos agricultores que não conseguem já assumir os compromissos com o pagamento das prestações mensais para a Segurança Social.

Assim sendo, o Plenário de agricultores decidiu eleger uma Comissão com o apoio da FAGRORURAL/CNA e composta por alguns Presidentes de Juntas de Freguesia e agricultores. Foi ainda, decidido diligenciar hoje mesmo junto da DRAPN e do Ministério da Agricultura, para que estas duas Entidades intervenham na parte da fiscalização junto à Fronteira e na adopção de medidas para o escoamento da batata a 0,20 cêntimos/kg à produção.

Finalmente foi avançado, de que não havendo a adopção de medidas por parte do Governo e Direcção Regional da Agricultura, seria marcada uma concentração de produtores, como forma de protesto para a resolução destes graves problemas.

Chaves, 5 de Março de 2008

A FAGRORURAL

Armando Carvalho

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                                      [Posted around April 30th, 2009.]

KUDOS to young politician Fábio Salgado from the town where I was born. I cast my votes in Coimbra and I vote for the CDU (http://www.cdu.pt/), I explained that to him, but he is really doing an excellent job of alerting people about the ecological disaster planned for Nazaré, Portugal. A CDU e PCP da Nazaré não estão a conseguir passar a mensagem sobre as grandes desvantagens desta mega-marina, o que me deixa muito chocada, confusa.

Read the text. Study the map. Listen to the audio of the press conference. 

Ó Nazaré! «Não te deixes assim vestir» as my favourite (Portuguese) singer Sérgio Godinho says in one of his songs about the whole country but I have adopted the line here because it is so fitting when I think of this Nazaré XXI Project...

Check it all out below.
http://leiria.bloco.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=45
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Quarta, 14 Janeiro 2009

fenixAves Raras.


















A Câmara Municipal da Nazaré anunciou que a Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves visitou o concelho para fazer uma contagem de pássaros.

Ainda bem para podermos começar a fazer as contas do crime que será destruir toda a paisagem desde o porto de abrigo até S. Martinho na construção da Nazaré XXI .

Novidades estão a caminho na denúncia dos atropelos cometidos para forçar a Nazaré a construir algo que não precisa e que ninguém quer.


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My June 2009 resolution

Dear Care2 Members,

My page says I joined the Care2 community in 2006 (Dec. 23) and that is the truth, but I only realized I had a profile to fill out this year - late February, 2009. I had misplaced my password until that time and so did not know what was waiting for me. Incredible, I know, but with this explanation you will understand why I have not done more when it comes to signing petitions.

Now that I do have a profile here and am getting into the total feel of Care2, my main purpose will be to study petition texts and to sign them - no doubt about it. I think "Meeting Friends" will come naturally in a community this size. I decided it would not be necessary afterall to add that objective to my presentation. Having said this, I have a resolution for this new month. As of today (02-06-2009) I will only be accepting as friends, members who contact me
with an introduction.

If we were phoning someone, we would say something, wouldn't we? Why should it be different in this Community? I am aware that Care2 only allows for 250 characters which does not leave room for much "talk" but see the writing exercise as a challenge. What exactly attracts you to a certain profile? Mine or anyone else's? Anything in particular? How did you find it? There is always something we can comment on, even in two, three sentences. Please don't get sad on me because I have written this here or putting it another way, don't interpret my decision the wrong way, but I think it is only fair. I have noticed other members say the same thing in their profiles and I just have to agree with them. I know that (at least for me) this is my way of not feeling pressured by the full-time "job" Care2 can become.

Soon after I saw the "Friends of..." section of my page I started wondering: Care2 has more than 9 million members, what if 2 million members started writing to one single person... = me? Could I handle all that mail? No.
On top of that (something you don't know about me), I'm the Queen of Writer's Block. I suffer a lot from it. Still if people went on and on sending me link requests (without intros), I would feel I would have to write to each and everyone of them one day and it would not be humanly possible. That's when the pressure I told you about would crash in on me.

In time you will notice that I am online but take days to contact Care2 Friends exactly because I cannot put down what I really feel. I thought of putting together this Open Letter as prevention against disappoinments when I take my usual 3, 4 weeks or sometimes months (years?) to answer someone. I prefer to limit the links (to links with INTRODUCTIONS) because of this difficulty of mine. 

I am a friendly person. I like having friends even though people who think they know me, always thought differently - that way Portuguese people have of thinking they have you all figured out from talking to you a half an hour every other month is called "MANDAR POSTAS de PESCADA" - but making friends is just not that easy in real life, so I find it a wee odd that it should be so easy here at Care2. And why have more friends at Care2 than we ever had in all the schools (or learning institutions) we went to put together? It is just not feasible. 
These days I don't believe a number of things put forth by professionals in the area of psychology, but I did feel good inside when I heard professor and psychiatrist Júlio Machado Vaz on Portuguese radio (Antena 1) express that he considers it always fishy when people say they have "A LOT OF FRIENDS".   

"FRIEND" is a special, precious word indeed. I learned with age not to use it lightly (and profusely). In fact soon I will be making a suggestion to the Feedback and Suggestion team which relates to how I feel about it. If you just request a link to a page and do not introduce yourself this is the silent message I am getting: I do not really need to write to you (= Filomena C.) because down deep inside you don't want to write to me (= Care2 Friend link). I just want to link (= Care2 Friend), and this way we don't have to write to each other.
But what is the purpose of that - even with writer's block?
It is way easier to just link, without question, but I feel it is not right. Being the Queen of... as I already mentioned above... I can only answer e-mails when I feel I have found the words that best describe what I want to say even though I realize that many times not even a picture can do that for us humans. When I can't write, I just can't write. This often happens to me because I love to write so much. I take it very seriously. I am extremely happy that the Friends that have contacted me so far (right before the time of posting this open letter) have done so, let there be no doubt about that, but the introduction rule is only fair in the future.
The three Friends who sent me Green Stars for example left me flattered, honoured and speechless but interestingly enough, not with writer's block. I did write to all of you and I hope the messages got to you.

Thank you Tumusiime, Kn V., Paola, Russell, Fábio and Camelia for requesting a link. Thank you Robyn for writing to me after I introduced myself in mid-April (2009). Thank you all for your patience because I only very recently linked to you even though the requests arrived weeks ago (for all of you except one person who made the request on May 30th).

As of this moment my resolution begins.

Filomena Conde
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How I prepare for petition signing...

    I do not know how you prepare the comments for the petitions you sign but I am doing the following. I try out a comment in a doc. I let it sit there for awhile. I look at the words I wrote every other day to see if I am comfortable with them and then if I am, I copy and paste the comment to the petition I want to support.
    Now the problem comes after I am comfortable with my comment... I add it to the petition and then feel badly that I did not do a better job. Why didn't I see it before, I end up asking myself? This happened with the petition thanking the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama for the White House Garden. I wanted to put some humour into what I was writing and failed in part (or should I say terribly?).
I doubt that any one understood what I was trying to get at. I was doing a play on words because of the 1970's I Beg Your Pardon tune. You know?... I Beg your Pardon, I never Promised you a Rose Garden...

    I should have written: I beg your pardon, but I do not recall that you promised a Food garden during the election campaign, Instead I wrote the sentence with the word "promised" BEFORE the word GARDEN. So any musicality this line could have had was lost...
    I decided on that play on words (with the Joe South/Lynn Anderson song) 3 weeks before I signed the White House Garden petition. Would you believe it? That means that I had let it sit there in a e-document for that length of time and it was only after I added it to the promoters text that I felt I could have done better.
    I feel a bit embarrassed about it but I'll live. I did conclude with "Good Harvests" - organic ones of course - which was obvious in the Care2 text so I did not feel it was necessary to repeat the word "organic" or "non-transgenic" in my comment. 

Filomena C.
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Personal Professional Contact Singles
Joined Dec 23, 2006
1° Network
Pets in Need
Activist Aspirations undeclared 
Here for Support a Cause 
Group Host of none yet
Groups Care2 Feedback and Suggestions, DUO for World Peace, ThePetitionSite Center, Tobacco Free Kids
Hometown Nazaré; Toronto; Coimbra 
Homepage http://youtube.com/user/1935Greenishblue  
Birthday Jan 07, 1966  
Languages English, Portuguese, French, studied Italian for one year, I can read Russian, I can't understand it though  
About Me My first name is pronounced: FEE-LOU--MEN-NA and not FILL-OH-MEAN-A, if you know what I "mean"?
My family has called me "Mena" since I was a little girl so friends call me "Men-na", too.

I'm a Portuguese-Canadian from Toronto, but I have been living in Coimbra(Portugal)for years. I was born in Nazaré (Portugal), a beachtown photographed in the 1940's by Stanley Kubrick.
http://www.freguesia-nazare.com
http://www.anttisarkilahti.blogs.sapo.pt
http://picsbyanttithefinn.shutterfly.com/
anttithefinnpresenting.shutterfly.com/
  Introduce yourself to Filomena
  Lifestyle
Pets Our mutt Penalty [1990-2001]  
Activist Aspirations
Political Leaning Liberal
Religions Baptized Catholic, Worth looking into:, Liberation theology, www.we-are-church.org  
Eating Habits pasteis de nata = Portuguese pastry, organic eggs when not sold out, pancakes, sometimes fish, sometimes chicken, peaches, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, I LOVE SOUP  
Wild Fact About Me I was a victim of mild bullying in primary school (Grade 5). J.R. used to call me "White Esther" because I was ugly and white, he said, as opposed to what the television comedy character Sanford (of Sanford & Son, played by actor Redd Foxx) called his neighbour Esther all the time. Sanford would constantly call her "ugly", black Esther. This just goes to show what television and even comedies can teach some kids (the Vice-Principal of my school put things in this perspective).
I wonder what J.R.( a white boy/person) is doing today?
My Philosophy I did not ask to be born, but seeing as I did come to be, why not make the best of this?
What Gives Me Hope Knowing Barack Obama & Michelle Obama are in the White House.
If only I had more time to write here:http://my.barackobama.com/
page/community/blog/Bemdaterra2009
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by Tourada é tortura. Não é arte nem cultura.
No financing/sponsoring of bullfights. Go knock on somebody else's door, buddies...
What/who changed my life and why Dr. Norman Bethune(1890-1939), Canadian doctor & humanitarian. Dr. Bethune was fearless. If "socialist" is a bad/dirty word today, imagine what it was like in the 1930's? He defended free health care for everyone. www.pc.gc.ca/bethune And thank you to my teacher Mr. Sutherland of Kent Public School, Toronto for showing our history class a National Film Board of Canada documentary about Bethune. This was in 1979. I realized at that point that I had discovered my hero.
What Bugs Me piercings, tattoos, men who don't take baths, car racing, food fights like The Tomatina, people who don't knock before entering, people who don't wash their hands, the Stock Market system, people who STILL smoke, people with low tobacco voices  
Passions My family, http://www.25abril.org, Elvis, dancing, American musicals, writing, Canada, Portugal  
Inspirations Elvis, Jim Henson, red carnation, www.wstar.org, Hans Ruesch, dads like David Goldman Baltazar Nunes, Architect Georg Gressenbauer, Architect Markus Haipl, daylight, the peacock, the snail, Albino Luciani, Oscar Romero, Giovanni Falcone, Christopher Reeve, Helen Keller  
What Scares Me Philippine crucifixions at Easter time, Pessoas que matam por dá cá aquela palha, poverty  
  Favorites
Role Models Norman Bethune, media specialist Felisbela Lopes, workers' rights lawyer A. Garcia Pereira, singer Teresa Salgueiro, Tommy Douglas www.dcf.ca, Humberto Delgado, www.humbertodelgado.pt, Jose Francisco Trindade Coelho, Antonio Maria Pereira  
Quotation «Jaws was never My Scene And I Don't Like Star Wars.» Queen, Song: Bicycle Race(1978)
Interests ecology, recycling, humour, music history, movie history  
Books 1st book that made me cry, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Portuguese poet Carlos Queiroz 1907-1949, Children's literature, Jean Little books for example, Theatre of the Absurd, www.hansruesch.net lit  
Music www.radiosim.pt, www.oldies1150.com, SQUEEZE, Blondie, Sergio Godinho, Christmas music, Elvis, Raquel Tavares, The Stone Roses, Bruce Cockburn, The Eagles, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Joao Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Ginette Reno, Jacques Brel, Judy Garland  
Movies Jerry Lewis, Le Combat dans l'ile, Laurel/Hardy, Frosty the Snowman, West Side Story, Oklahoma, Meet Me in St. Louis, Monsignor, Baxter, Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus, The Deer Hunter, Girl Happy, Ticket to Heaven, Voltati Eugenio  
TV Shows TV5 Monde game shows, The Situation Room, 21 Jump Street, Wings, Highway to Heaven, Os Contemporaneos, www.rtp.pt/contemporaneos, Gato Fedorento gatofedorento.sic.pt, Due South, The Carol Burnett Show, Bosom Buddies, The Doris Day Show, Friends, Camara Clara  
Favorite Foods non-transgenic foods  
Favorite Places certain movie scenes in my head, anyplace without a bullfighting ring, the ocean, home  
Can't Live Without My family, Water, water  
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Friends of Filomena

Paola G.

Russell M.

Camelia B.

Fabio S.

Tumusiime I.

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(Aug 10) OPEN LETTER to the people who live in the same building I do.     One of my main CAUSES here at Care2 is ... more »
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(Jun 16) I still cannot believe how up-to-date the work of Architect Georg Gressenbauer and Architect Markus Haipl is - 16 years later. In 1993 ... more »
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Sep 12, 2009 11:10 PM

Filomena C. (7)

Dear Care2 members and visitors,
The site of Little Beatriz's family is now this one: http://beatrizcorreia.pt.vu/


Apr 25, 2009 6:15 PM

Filomena C. (7)




The Official Elvis Fan Club of Portugal (www.cofebs.com) is trying to do what it can to help a little girl named Beatriz Correia. Her family site is www.beatrizcorreia.net  Little Beatriz has a rare disease. www.rarissimas.pt


Apr 5, 2009 4:58 PM

Filomena C. (7)
Campaign to return kidnapped minor Sean Goldman to the United States - BringSeanHome.org
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