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"Foster Solidarity Across Borders For Migrants - Ban GMOs - Promote Justice & Compassion"

Paris, France
female, age 55
committed relationship
Speaks: English mother tongue, French - my daily language, Italian - struggling for yrs
Joined Apr 26, 2006

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What matters to me

The Business of Detention: Cracking Down on Immigration & Locking Up Profits - http://www.businessofdetention.com/
Isolation & Confinement Destroy Refugees Awaiting Deportation - 224 Detention Camps in Europe

French liberty statue battered face, reporters sans frontières

French liberty statue battered face, reporters sans frontières

They used to say, 'She was asking for it !'
It's that old line Reporters Without Borders are using
for their campaign for free speech for journalists, in danger
from human-rights-violating states, worldwide ! http://www.rsf.org/-Anglais-.html

     http://www.amnestyusa.org/index.html http://www.amnesty.org/actnow/


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/10/1413220
http://www.petitiononline.com/aZ51CqmR/petition.html
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/jena-6/

The Tibetans lined the road in 1959 as the Dalai Lama left.
They chanted prayers as he passed & wailed, grief-stricken, when
he'd gone.
The pain of their separation was striking - from their country,
brutally occupied by China since 1950 & from their leader,
in exile in India.
The Chinese have killed between 500,000 and 1.2 million Tibetans and destroyed 6000 monasteries.
Tibetans are persecuted for merely owning a picture
of the Dalai Lama. About 135,000 Tibetans live in exile,
with an estimated 2500 fleeing their country each year.
The woman was shot & killed while attempting a pilgimage
with a group of fellow Tibetans; the killing was filmed:
Chinese soldiers shoot Tibetan refugees at Mt Everest
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hXC5RxhZUYw

http://www.endoilaid.org/EndOilAid-FT.pdf
http://www.endoilaid.org/

http://www.savebiogems.org/

      http://www.chevrontoxico.com/article.php?id=192
      http://www.chevrontoxico.com/article.php?id=33
      http://www.chevrontoxico.org/article.php?id=61
    http://www.texacotoxico.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=285&Itemid=2&PHPSESSID=d954b50f8db08149bb174354d42ddc2e
      http://www.texacotoxico.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=6&id=30&Itemid=78

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto-s-seeds-of-destruction
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/wto-world-transgenic-order
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/italian-seeds-contaminated-wit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-ZeN_ghro: Vandana Shiva explains how Monsanto outlaws any seeds they have not patented; when their GM crops
contaminate natural crops in a nearby field,
they sue farmers for intellectual theft: they send out
crop 'detectives' to take samples; the courts support them !
Systematic use of intimidation, bullying tactics seek to put an end to
freedom of choice for farmers and their success spells
the end of biodiversity
for the planet and its populations.

India’s Agrarian Suicides
More Than 160,000 Suicides Since 1997,
according to official data, as of May, 2009.
The epidemic of farmers' suicides has spread across 4 Indian states over the last decade. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/9/2009/3444

MUST-SEE FILM: direct link to PBS Rough Cut 13-minute VIDEO,
"the Seeds of Suicide,"
documentary on Monsanto & the Indian suicide epidemic:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/07/seeds_of_suicid.html

Why Isn't This Front Page News ? ?

The suicides of more than 160,000 farmers since 1997 the result of deliberate policy
imposed by the WTO and the World Bank http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vandana-shiva/from-seeds-of-suicide-to_b_192419.html
http://www.navdanya.org/organic/index.htm
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/trade-and-the-environment

WRITERS AGAINST
ISLAMIC TOTALITARIANISM

http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/
Universal Human Rights are just that - universal !

Argentina's disappeared

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/mex-201206-action-eng
http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/en.html

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
      Rev. Martin Niemöller, 1945

http://www.chgs.umn.edu/HistoriesNarrativesDocumen/Fragments/The_Star/the_star.html
"And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world"
(Talmud)

La Vucciria, Palermo's famous street market, by Renato Guttoso,
reminds me of the Arthur Ave Market of my childhood in the Bronx's Little Italy.



The Navajos' Blighted Homeland : uranium mining waste
contaminated  their water, land, homes...Then, a mysterious wasting illness emerged.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-navajo-series,0,4515615.special
Photo Essay http://www.latimes.com/extras/navajo/Day1/

The International Office of the
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
To House Government Reform Committee
asking them to include the Reign of Terror
& the Case of Leonard Peltier
in their investigation of the FBI
http://www.aimovement.org/peltier/index.html

http://www.streamreel.com/archives/aim/aim_live.htm

Our SAD little GLOBAL VILLAGE :

If we could shrink the world's population to a village of
precisely 100 people,
while keeping all the human ratios exactly the same,
it would look something like this:

There would be       57 Asians
                             21 Europeans
                             14 from the Western Hemisphere
                               (North, Central & South  America)
                              8 Africans

   52 would be female & 48 would be male
      89 would be heterosexual & 11 homosexual
   30 would be white & 70 would be non-white
      30 would be Christian & 70 non-Christian
     6 would possess 59% of the village's entire wealth
   & all 6 would be from the United States of America

   80 would live in sub-standard housing
       70 would be unable to read
   50 would be suffering from malnutrition
       1 would be near death & 1 would be giving birth
Only 1 would have a college education
      & 1 alone would own a computer



STOP THE SLAUGHTER,
PROTECT DOLPHINS
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
http://www.savethedolphins.org/index.html

http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/
http://www.wdcs.org/

                                                       Saving Elephants
                                and Their Habitats
http://www.save-the-elephants.org/default.asp?linkID=1

The above folks always put me in a good mood &
never fail to make me laugh!

Men & Women I Love and Admire:

   Simon Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years
hunting Nazi war criminals,
speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism &
remembering the Jewish experience as a lesson for humanity. "When history looks back,
I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it."

Dr Vandana Shiva, Physicist, Agronomist, Activist:  farmers' rights, biodiversity, seed sovereignty; no to Coke & Monsanto; no to the privatisation of water !
Among her best known books are:
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India;
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge;
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply;
& Water Wars:  Privatization, Pollution, and  Profit.

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Hometown	New York
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Birthday	July 07, 1954
Languages	English mother tongue, French - my daily language, Italian - struggling for yrs
About Me	compassionate, outraged by injustice; emotional but very logical (they can & do coexist); a lover of arts & music, color & rythm; humour and wit, too!
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Lifestyle
Pets	Stuffed bear, pig, chicken, elephants, moose, cat, crab (it's my sign not I hope a characte
Activist Aspirations	Casual
Political Leaning	Depends
Religions	Agnostic
Eating Habits	Keep it Healthy
Wild Fact About Me	I'm a strange brew: one of my grandfathers, the son of Sicilian immigrants, ran a speak-easy during prohibition; one of my great-grandfathers was a German rabbi!
My Philosophy
What Gives Me Hope	People like Ignacio Chapela and other whistleblowers; Vandana Shiva's efforts to educate on biodiversity & GMOs; her seed bank & activism to save poor farmers from Monsanto.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
What/who changed my life and why	"Etat de siège," film by Costa-Gavras, circa 1972, raised my political consciousness as regards foreign policy,underhanded manipulation and interference, freedom to dissent; opened my eyes to the role of my country in helping South American dictators torture their opponents, facts widely recognized abroad and refuted by compatriots. Similarly, the orchestrated fall and death of Salvatore Allende, a 9/11 rarely remembered, and the frightening, barbaric repression that followed. Also, Barbara Kopple's documentary, "Harlan County, USA," (1976 Oscar) about a coal-mine strike in West Virginia or North Carolina
What Bugs Me	Chain E-Mails, apathy, indifferance, bullying, hypocrisy, arrogance, intolerance, injustice, ignorance
Passions	history, music, justice
Inspirations	people dedicating their lives to a cause, good people doing good deeds such as:, Spike Lee, Dr Vandana Shiva, Molly Ivins
What Scares Me	mob mentality, the right-wing hate machine, That Bush was able to steal 2 elections, people clamoring for harsh punishments!, Religious Extremism
Favorites
Role Models	rather my heroes 'n heroines, MartinLutherKingJr., Molly Ivins, Dr Vandana Shiva, Mahatma Gandhi, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Robert Capa, Rosa Parks, Simon Weisenthal
Quotation
Interests	Books-reading, Art/Design, Textiles, Fashion, Ceramics, Interior Design, Stained Glass, Geography, History, Social Science, Politics, Fair/Alternative Trade, Environment, Music, Movies, Concerts, Jazz Clubs, Nutrition, Good Food
Books
Music	gypsy, Eastern Europe to Istanbul, klezmer, salsa/merengue/cumbia, Jitterbug Waltz (Fats Waller), Andy Bey, jazz singer and pianist, Dianne Reaves, Tom Jobim, Duke Ellington, Stevie Wonder, Djavan, Leny Andrade, Schubert, Chopin, Marthe Argerich, Cecilia Bartoli, Le Nozz
Movies	Les Guichets du Louvre, The Godfather, When We Were Kings, "1900" Bertolucci, 'The March on Rome' Dino Risi, Harlan County USA, The Big One, American Beauty, On the Waterfront, Farenheit 9/11
TV Shows	mercredis de l'histoire : documentaries
Favorite Foods	frittura della paranza, (tiny fresh fried fish), Indian chicken with ginger root, pistachio sauce, Tuscany specialities like lampredotto, chicken-liver crostini
Favorite Places	Tuscany, Sicily, Venice (except the prices...), my neighborhood: foothills of Montmartre
Can't Live Without	money to keep body 'n soul at bay, music, love, sunshine, outside markets, trees and flowers, historic places -architecture, mosaics--oops! That's more than 5
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