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» Bolivia is Set to Pass "The Law of Mother Earth," Which Will Give All Nature Equal Rights to Humans
Bolivia, which has been pilloried by the US and Britain in the UN climate talks for demanding steep carbon emission cuts, will establish 11 new rights for nature. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered. Controversially, it will also enshrine the right of nature “to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities”.
“It makes world history. Earth is the mother of all”, said Vice-President Alvaro García Linera. “It establishes a new relationship between man and nature, the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration.”
The law, which is part of a complete restructuring of the Bolivian legal system following a change of constitution in 2009, has been heavily influenced by a resurgent indigenous Andean spiritual world view which places the environment and the earth deity known as the Pachamama at the centre of all life. Humans are considered equal to all other entities.
Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said Bolivia’s traditional indigenous respect for the Pachamama was vital to prevent climate change. “Our grandparents taught us that we belong to a big family of plants and animals. We believe that everything in the planet forms part of a big family. We indigenous people can contribute to solving the energy, climate, food and financial crises with our values,” he said.
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This is pretty bad ass.
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There is a question I have been asking myself, yet I do not know the answer. It burns deep within my brain. I ponder how to go about finding the solution. When will I know when I have answered this haunting question? When will I feel that it rings true?
My question is simple: How do I make myself happy?
And with that question comes a pool of others.
How do I accept myself the way I am?
How do I go about finding my happiness?
How will I know when I am truly happy?
And so on and so forth.
This journey horrifies me; it terrorizes my dreams, my waking thoughts, and my subconscious mind. This one tiny question is the most horrendous thing I have ever asked myself. Not to mention the fact that I have to do this alone.
Alone, Alone, Alone….
If I say it to myself over and over again I begin to despise this word. Tears start to well up in my eyes and a skeletal hand wrenches at my heart. I have lost myself along some fucked up back road. Always looking towards others to wrap myself in. Engulf my entire being in. To each of these people I have given a tinny part of my soul, and they sucked me dry till there was nothing left.
I guess that would be a form of self destruction.
Self mutilation……
`art by mwah
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Ani DiFranco @ Def Poetry Jam, introduced by Mos Def, who calls her one of his heroes.
It’s less than three minutes in length, which is more than enough time for DiFranco to send chills up my spine.
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Bomb girl in the works
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Throw myself open like I have armored skin.
Sell the lies inside my head, like a market place for thieves .
I’ll turn my cheek, locked up, hide it underneath.
These are the benefits of compartmentalization…I’ll compress you.
Watch me now, watch me drown in my psychosis.
Walk in closets filled to the ceiling with self made skeletons.
Self-destructions a man I’d like to marry.
Our wedding will be a sham lined with misery
Because she loves his company so
`art by me
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Self-centered
Chips, cracks, insatiable, unfinished
Walls left bare, ugly,
ugly, uglypatches of caked paint
wont fix whats chipped inside
Windows dull, hazy,
hazy, hazyNo amount of windex will
wash away the cracks
Front door open, easy,
easy, easyNo amount of greed
Will fill the insatiable
Broken mirrors, cut
cut cutNo super glue will fix
She’d rather be left unfinished
`art by me
About me
"Spring is super in the supermarkets
And the strawberries prance and glow
Nevermind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
As strawberries go
Meanwhile wild things are not for sale
Anymore than they are for show
So i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
It takes more than eyes to know
Just show me a moment that is mine
Its beauty blinding and unsurpassed
And i'll forget every moment that went by
And left me so half-hearted
Cuz i felt it so half-assed"
~Ani DiFranco
My misadventures of self discovery and
happiness
-Art
-music
-writing
-make-up
-tattoos
-booze
-yoga
-creating art
