Peace Radio Interim Edition: June 21, 2020
Welcome to Summer!
Yesterday was the 2020 Summer Solstice. The Gaia marches on regardless of human triumph or tragedy and all the bits between. I find it comforting.
I (Jill W) love the longest day of the year and am actually typing this while the sun is slowly slowly setting.
Other things are happening and the other Peace Babes, Sally P and Jill M, have contributed many things as have I and Sherry Dodson sent interesting article links I will work in as well.
COVID and the anti-racism movement hold the major headlines and ours as well.
The unrest...
Black Lives Matter.
Please listen to this as you read on:
https://youtu.be/A2o15RCtSS0
we have a personal report and photos from Arissa Rench, who's mom is occasional Peace Radio guest and generally excellent human, Kathleen Benton.
Arissa's photos follow her statement:
https://www.weddingwire.com/
Sally sent the link, I'd found it as well, to this powerful powerful statement about why burn one's own neighborhood. Completely appropriate language used
blogger won't load the video to the blog directly, please follow this link:
https://youtu.be/sb9_qGOa9Go
Blogger DID give me this remix that is already out. The language is still appropriate.
Jill M, all the way from Sioux Falls, South Dakota (or environs) sends us these:
https://youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM
Jill M also notes that we are being discussed abroad...
I (Jill W) am intrigued with the statues coming down. Those of confederate leaders, and christopher columbus (that lost dude who ran aground in the americas and immediately took slaves, brutalized people, and claimed without legal right pretty much the whole hemisphere. that guy...)
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, 3-4 (1980 Ed.).
I had been thinking of the people I would LIKE to see memorialized and recognized. Others are thinking as well. Here's a view from Indian Country:
As I read this, I kept thinking "YES! That person is amazing" and yet, no statue. It's time. High time.
A tune for your listen pleasure while you read:
https://youtu.be/O6ChfsU2tfs
For me (Jill W still), this story on Indigenous artists telling their OWN stories is just what is needed. Stop asked what to do and demanding things be explained to you in ways you are familiar with. Listen to what people are saying. Check out the art in the community you are wondering about. It's OK not to get it right away. For me that's true of all art. I never quite get it. But I keep looking and listening.
Check out the story:
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/16/yes-magazine-indigenous-artists-turn-to.asp
Speaking of Native Artists:
https://youtu.be/iUkgfSCjfN0
And now for COVID!
Sally sends a deep dive into the facts (remember facts? They still matter...MFMA! Make Facts Matter Again!)
Here's something to listen to while you read that! Please read the whole thing. It's good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MUSIC BREAK:
https://youtu.be/U7AVeI9Ol-4
Jill M notes that the world is watching the US response to coronavirus and they are not impressed:
Speaking of throwing Indigenous people under the covid-bus...Sherry D sent a link to the story of how the EPA and woodstove sellers are using covid in the very best disaster-capiltalistic way:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/epa-wood-heaters-pollution-donation-program?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
Great way to kill 2 birds, and lots of people, with one stone! Still profit from the illegal poisonous gas emitting woodstoves AND try to convince Indians you're doing them a favor! While we're at it! Here are some crappy stoves for you too, Appalachia! (smell the sarcasm? Snarky aside brought to you by Jill W)
Sherry and I were both looking in to how Indigenous and First Nations are dealing with covid-19.
Sherry looked at First Nations in Canada:
Something to play while you read:
https://youtu.be/C9-VTggwePA
I (Jill W) looked at how the covid and systemic racism collided to harm Indigenous mothers and infants in the US. Knowing a bit about the history of the Indian Health service and women, this is beyond appalling. It made me sick.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/navajo-nation-coronavirus-lockdown-arizona?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
And the Indigenous folks in South America are not faring better than those in Northern version of the continent
Meanwhile...other things than unrest over systemic racism and other things than the covid are happening in the world! SOME of those things are not super depressing!
The first one though, is pretty depressing.
From Sally
Lastly from Jill M
I, Jill W, found the following NOT covid or US social change/unrest articles interesting:
Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford! Way to go Malala!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53107764
In Montana, Indigenous people did pretty well during the elections!
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/16/native-sun-news-today-native-american-ca.asp
And remember that guy who knocked up your mom? It's his special day!
Happy Father's Day.
Here's how it plays out for one man in Indian Country:
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/17/tim-giago-reflections-on-fathers-day.asp
Books and Movies usually round out the pre-Miriam portion of the radio show but honestly I've been too busy to watch movies and not in the mood much. I've seen a few and will try to get reviews together for next time. Maybe I'm still mourning the loss of the Video Co-op.
Sally sent this link to a problematic trope in many mainstream US films about race/ism:
--teach concepts (even before they can understand it)
--books are good conversation starters (as a former educator, I know there are wonderful books for all ages)
--pick an activist and learn about her or him
--use historical context for talking with olders
--bottom line: "teaching them to be kind"
Easy storytelling: "Poodle, Puddle, Paddle"
To do this storytelling technique, a child tells the adult 3 things the child wants in a story and the adult builds a story including all 3 things the child chooses.
(As a teacher I used this for birthdays. We laid in the dark with swedish candle chimes in the room making shadows and when the bell started ringing I started telling the story)
HOME LEARNING
Writing and Art
--Book of blank paper (or lightly lined) for each child
--For journaling, drawing, collage of memorabilia (look it up?), etc
--Encourage personalizing cover
Biography
Encourage each child to pick a heroine or hero and learn about them and draw them or make an art piece to share in a family circle.
POEM
Funny poem from Beastly Poetry by Ogden Nash... from my friend good friend Peter Basoa, of the Radio Rider fame.
The Lamb
Little gamboling lamb,
Do you know where you am?
In a patch of mint.
I'll give you a hint.
Scram,
Lamb!
(As a vegetarian, to continue our theme, I didn't really get the joke for a very long time! That's a hint!)
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLE
Corn!
ALPHABET RIDDLE GAME
(a favorite from my childhood we still play today)
FUNEX
SVFX
FUNEM
SVFM
FUNET
SVFT
OK
LFMNXNT
Here's a hint: When you get it, it's funner with 2 different voices or 2 people, better yet.
MK PICKS
Book: Girls Who Walked the World: Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes. By Amelie Welden
"...many stories of women and girls have been left out of traditional 'history' that gets recorded and taught"
To be in the book, a girl had to achieve something extraordinary under the age of 20 and there had to be recorded information about the girl and her life.
Song: We Are Family from Kids Dance Party CD, Volume 3
OLD MOVIE: The Whale Rider (Book fabulous too)
It's about indigenous New Zealanders, a whale and a girl.
SNACK: An MK Original!
"Tortilla Cinnamon Toast"
You need: corn tortillas, butter, cinnamon, and sugar
You do: mix cinnamon and sugar (with adult help), next heat the corn tortilla on one side, turn over, heat second side. Put it on a plate, butter it and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. Roll it up and eat!
Peace out,
Miriam.
Yesterday was the 2020 Summer Solstice. The Gaia marches on regardless of human triumph or tragedy and all the bits between. I find it comforting.
I (Jill W) love the longest day of the year and am actually typing this while the sun is slowly slowly setting.
Other things are happening and the other Peace Babes, Sally P and Jill M, have contributed many things as have I and Sherry Dodson sent interesting article links I will work in as well.
COVID and the anti-racism movement hold the major headlines and ours as well.
The unrest...
Black Lives Matter.
Please listen to this as you read on:
https://youtu.be/A2o15RCtSS0
we have a personal report and photos from Arissa Rench, who's mom is occasional Peace Radio guest and generally excellent human, Kathleen Benton.
Arissa's photos follow her statement:
This will be brief since I just got home.
Went to CHOP last night, Juneteenth. So much has changed since my first visit on June 10th, which was the day after police vacated the East Precinct. The main change is the size. Initially, protesters were concentrated at the intersection of 12th & Pine with a small stage and speakers. Now the zone extends at least six square blocks, streets filled with barriers, food tents (some for free, some for sale), people selling T-shirts, folks clustered around different speakers (megaphones abound), huge memorial shrines overflowing with flowers and candles, paintings and images covering the barriers and the plywood used to board over windows.
At first glance, it might look like a ragged street fair. But the mood is festive only to a small extent. Lots of different energies swirling around here: anger, righteousness and mourning yet also focus, cooperation and a sense of purpose and possibility. Part of the space being occupied is a large athletic field which on Juneteenth was reserved for black folks to gather together and have a day of healing. There was grief work, sound healing, making flower wreaths, guided meditation, yoga and dance taking place throughout the day. Around the field stood "allies" who had volunteered to hold the space for the participants, gently turning back any non-black folks who might have wandered onto the sacred ground.
The formation of CHAZ / CHOP was and is purely organic. It is in its infancy and there are varying agendas and ideas about how it should grow. One thing I found extraordinary about it was that it is not a commercial space nor is it defined by commercialism.
It is about political philosophies and a desire, a desperate need, for change. It is about the exchange of ideas rather than the exchange of money. That, in our culture and in our times is rare. And worthwhile in and of itself...
Arissa H. Rench
https://www.weddingwire.com/
Arissa's Photos from her recent visit to CHAZ/CHOP
If you would like to reshare or use these photos, please please contact Arissa and GET PERMISSION before doing so.
Sally sent the link, I'd found it as well, to this powerful powerful statement about why burn one's own neighborhood. Completely appropriate language used
blogger won't load the video to the blog directly, please follow this link:
https://youtu.be/sb9_qGOa9Go
Blogger DID give me this remix that is already out. The language is still appropriate.
Jill M, all the way from Sioux Falls, South Dakota (or environs) sends us these:
Here’s a link to a wonderful photo collection on Reuters, Including pics from Tulsa in 1921
Links to 2 series by an excellent photographer recording the unrest
Here’s info about the photographer
Maybe some music to break this up a bit. The photos are beautiful and challenging and disturbing.
So is this
Jill M also notes that we are being discussed abroad...
UN Human Rights Council to hold urgent debate on ‘systemic racism’ and police brutality
https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/un-human-rights-council-to-hold-urgent-debate-on-systemic-racism-and-police-brutality/#.XuvFoV2GXv4.emailI (Jill W) am intrigued with the statues coming down. Those of confederate leaders, and christopher columbus (that lost dude who ran aground in the americas and immediately took slaves, brutalized people, and claimed without legal right pretty much the whole hemisphere. that guy...)
NCAI Statement on the Removal of Christopher Columbus Statues
Published on JUN 13, 2020
NCAI Statement on the Removal of Christopher Columbus Statues
WASHINGTON, DC | The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country, does not acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero. To Indigenous peoples, he was the opposite:
[O]ut of timbers for the Santa Maria, . . . Columbus built a fort [on Hispaniola], the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere. . . . He took . . . Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two remaining ships. . . . [H]e got into a fight with Indians who refused to trade as many bows and arrows as he and his men wanted. Two were run through with swords and bled to death. Then the Nina and the Pinta set sail. . . . When the weather turned cold, the Indian prisoners began to die. . . .
In the year 1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died en route. The rest arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale. . . .
“This growing movement across the country to rid our shared spaces of symbols that represent hate, genocide, and bigotry illustrates that it is past time for all cities to stand on the right side of history moving forward,” said NCAI President Fawn Sharp.
NCAI also strongly supports the recent actions taken by United States citizens and the international community calling for proper law enforcement reforms and the recognition of basic human rights for the African American community and all communities of color. We are humbled that these voices are including Indian Country’s perspectives. NCAI encourages local governments and their citizens to seek mutual understandings of their diverse perspectives and to develop peaceful solutions that are mindful of all human beings and our rich distinct and shared histories. Together we can build the tomorrow our children deserve to lead.
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About The National Congress of American Indians:
Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country. NCAI advocates on behalf of tribal governments and communities, promoting strong tribal-federal government-to-government policies, and promoting a better understanding among the general public regarding American Indian and Alaska Native governments, people and rights. For more information visit www.ncai.org
I had been thinking of the people I would LIKE to see memorialized and recognized. Others are thinking as well. Here's a view from Indian Country:
Indian Country Today: 10 people whose statues should replace Columbus by Mark Trahant (THAT guy...)
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/16/indian-country-today-10-people-whose-sta.aspAs I read this, I kept thinking "YES! That person is amazing" and yet, no statue. It's time. High time.
A tune for your listen pleasure while you read:
https://youtu.be/O6ChfsU2tfs
For me (Jill W still), this story on Indigenous artists telling their OWN stories is just what is needed. Stop asked what to do and demanding things be explained to you in ways you are familiar with. Listen to what people are saying. Check out the art in the community you are wondering about. It's OK not to get it right away. For me that's true of all art. I never quite get it. But I keep looking and listening.
Check out the story:
Indigenous artists turn to technology to tell their stories
Five art projects explore the impact of climate change using VR and other mediums.
Speaking of Native Artists:
https://youtu.be/iUkgfSCjfN0
And now for COVID!
Sally sends a deep dive into the facts (remember facts? They still matter...MFMA! Make Facts Matter Again!)
Understanding the Dark Matter of the COVID-19 Pandemic — Why Detecting Asymptomatic Cases Matters
https://empathy.guru/2020/04/Here's something to listen to while you read that! Please read the whole thing. It's good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Sally says: Moscow kid, Mike Wilson (now Oregon, but....) son of Maria Maggi. Interesting version of the old Buffalo Springfield song. I especially liked his commentary at the end.
(If the image won't play the vid, please click the link. blogger is crankier than I am today)
POEM
‘Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown writes for the Book Review about life during the pandemic.
Sally says: I'm not usually a poetry fan, but this one caught me.
MUSIC BREAK:
https://youtu.be/U7AVeI9Ol-4
Jill M notes that the world is watching the US response to coronavirus and they are not impressed:
Published on
by
'Heartbreaking,' Say Global Experts, Alarmed at Signs US Has 'Given Up' Fight to Stop Covid-19
"I can't imagine what it must be like having to go to work knowing it"s unsafe," said one expert in New Zealand. "It's hard to see how this ends."
by
Covid-19 is global and Brazil is also not doing well with it. Jill M found this for us:
Published on
by
Arara People of Brazilian Amazon 'Very Worried' as Vulnerable Tribe Faces Highest Known Covid-19 Infection Rate in Region
Wood heaters too dirty to sell are clean enough to give to tribes, says EPA
Stoves that produce pollutants known to make people sick can be donated to tribes and Appalachian communities
Great way to kill 2 birds, and lots of people, with one stone! Still profit from the illegal poisonous gas emitting woodstoves AND try to convince Indians you're doing them a favor! While we're at it! Here are some crappy stoves for you too, Appalachia! (smell the sarcasm? Snarky aside brought to you by Jill W)
Sherry and I were both looking in to how Indigenous and First Nations are dealing with covid-19.
Sherry looked at First Nations in Canada:
How First Nations are finding ways to keep COVID-19—and outsiders—at bay
While local and provincial governments loosen lockdowns, vulnerable Indigenous communities across the country say they’re fighting an uphill battle to safeguard their residents
https://youtu.be/C9-VTggwePA
I (Jill W) looked at how the covid and systemic racism collided to harm Indigenous mothers and infants in the US. Knowing a bit about the history of the Indian Health service and women, this is beyond appalling. It made me sick.
New Mexico In Depth: Hospital separated newborns from Native mothers
State Investigating Hospital With Coronavirus Policy That Profiled Pregnant Native American Mothers and Separated Them From Newborns
Remember the children and mothers separated at the border in the before times? Well, it wasn't a new US policy and it's not one we're going to be done with any time soon.
The Navajo Nation is in the midst of re-instating a lock down to try to keep colonialists, well, their descendants, from bringing an epidemic back to the rez for round 2:
Navajo nation reinstates lockdown as Covid-19 cases surge near reservation
Tribal leaders fear rise in coronavirus infections in neighboring states including Arizona and Utah threatens to undo progress
And the Indigenous folks in South America are not faring better than those in Northern version of the continent
Paulinho Paiakan: Amazon indigenous chief dies with coronavirus
Meanwhile...other things than unrest over systemic racism and other things than the covid are happening in the world! SOME of those things are not super depressing!
The first one though, is pretty depressing.
From Sally
Scotland votes to end export of tear gas, rubber bullets, and riot gear to the United States
Really Scotland? "Since 2010, the UK has sold roughly $7.53 billion worth of munitions to the United States, including over $1 billion in firearms, $22 million in less-lethal rounds like tear gas and rubber bullets, and more than $2.5 million in riot shields." Thanks for stopping!
(well Sally, what goes around, comes around. We are the arms seller to the world to help other powers keep their people oppressed. Why wouldn't someone use this opportunity to profiteer? I guess "buy American" doesn't happen when you really really need those rubber bullets RIGHT NOW to suppress much needed social change) (snarky aside by Jill W)
(well Sally, what goes around, comes around. We are the arms seller to the world to help other powers keep their people oppressed. Why wouldn't someone use this opportunity to profiteer? I guess "buy American" doesn't happen when you really really need those rubber bullets RIGHT NOW to suppress much needed social change) (snarky aside by Jill W)
Jill M sends us news about the Middle East
News about Lebanon and Syria
And from Palestine
I wonder who sells the bullets and bombs to Israel for these sorts of things....OK, I don't REALLY wonder (snarky aside by Jill W)
News about Lebanon and Syria
US Caesar Act could bleed Lebanon for years to come
Analysts say sanctions against Assad regime will worsen Lebanon's economic crisis by fuelling illicit trade with Syria.
And from Palestine
Palestinians fear displacement from an annexed Jordan Valley
Palestinians fear they will be forced from their land if Israel goes ahead with annexation plans for occupied West Bank.
I wonder who sells the bullets and bombs to Israel for these sorts of things....OK, I don't REALLY wonder (snarky aside by Jill W)
Lastly from Jill M
Poor People’s campaign
Published on
by
Poor People's Campaign to Host Weekend Digital Gathering to 'Challenge Poverty and Revive Democracy'
"Those whose backs are against the wall are pushing this whole nation towards justice."
by
I, Jill W, found the following NOT covid or US social change/unrest articles interesting:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53107764
In Montana, Indigenous people did pretty well during the elections!
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/16/native-sun-news-today-native-american-ca.asp
And remember that guy who knocked up your mom? It's his special day!
Happy Father's Day.
Here's how it plays out for one man in Indian Country:
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/17/tim-giago-reflections-on-fathers-day.asp
Books and Movies usually round out the pre-Miriam portion of the radio show but honestly I've been too busy to watch movies and not in the mood much. I've seen a few and will try to get reviews together for next time. Maybe I'm still mourning the loss of the Video Co-op.
Sally sent this link to a problematic trope in many mainstream US films about race/ism:
white savior. we've all seen this movie.
I (Jill W) have found this sort of thing in film, it's in books too, gross for quite a while. I walked out on "Dances With Wolves" because I just didn't believe that Kevin Costner was the best Indian in the west and that the right lady Indian for the best Indian in the west, was conveniently also white. Gross.
Of course white people control most of the film industry and they like to see themselves as really cool people.
And in a blog update! Sally sent this timely book review:
And in a blog update! Sally sent this timely book review:
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
I was kind of afraid to read this book until now, but am out of escapist stuff and the library's still closed for browsing, so there it was on my shelf, waiting for me. My friend, Lydia, recommended it, and I attended a book talk about it – struck by the fact that there were only 2 people of color there (Lydia and one other) and much of the time was spent by a young white man who was very comfortable being center of attention. Because I had not read it, I didn't participate, but the conversation didn't give me much of a hint about the power of this book or the impact it would have on me.
So, as a white reader this was one my the first thoughts: what's white rage all about? This book helped me get it. The horrific descriptions of the whippings that happened so much made me feel physically sick. As I read, I started to realize in a very organic way my heritage as a white person. If there is generational trauma from the recipients of this horrible violence, there's also generational trauma from the perpetrators of this. We did this to other human beings. People we deemed less than. We let it happen. (the fact that we benefited and still do is another issue, of course.)
For years I've had the Bishop Tutu quote on my refrigerator: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
We are the elephants with our feet on the tail of the mouse. And we've got to tell ourselves that the mouse must have done something wrong. Otherwise, we would have to look squarely at ourselves and acknowledge our evil. Our sin. Our cruelty and violence.
And we have not done that.
In short, if this book does not make you FURIOUS you've got a heart of stone.
Plus, Butler's a really good storyteller. Her genre is sci-fi, and as one of the first, or maybe the first, women of color in a field dominated by white males, her contribution is immense and paved the way for N K Jemison to emerge a few decades later. This is a time travel story and the main character travels from 1970's California to early 1800's Maryland and as a black woman married to a white man she experiences race in two different contexts. Generally she “travels” alone, but once with her husband, and the dynamics of their relationship have to be explained as master and slave and for safety they need to act accordingly. Huh.
Anyway, read this. Learn from her. This is an excellent way for us white people to continue learning about the experiences of people beyond the comforts of our safe “neutral” communities.
Watch a movie or read a book that makes you uncomfortable.
Read the poem Sally linked above and then read the rest of the author's stuff.
Keep doing this sort of thing until you are comfortable with your discomfort.
Here's some transitional music from an artist much missed, the late great Jim Boyd
Time for Miriam!
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MIRIAM'S STUFF
Yesterday was Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
Remember the "Look it up club"?
What is the difference between Solstice and Equinox?
Today's blog...hard conversations,
A hard riddle game,
& an easy snack!
FAMILY TIME
Hard discussion: Inspired by NPR Morning Edition 6/16/20
Kids and Racism with Renee Watson Ibram Kendi.
--books are good conversation starters (as a former educator, I know there are wonderful books for all ages)
--pick an activist and learn about her or him
--use historical context for talking with olders
--bottom line: "teaching them to be kind"
Easy storytelling: "Poodle, Puddle, Paddle"
To do this storytelling technique, a child tells the adult 3 things the child wants in a story and the adult builds a story including all 3 things the child chooses.
(As a teacher I used this for birthdays. We laid in the dark with swedish candle chimes in the room making shadows and when the bell started ringing I started telling the story)
HOME LEARNING
Writing and Art
--Book of blank paper (or lightly lined) for each child
--For journaling, drawing, collage of memorabilia (look it up?), etc
--Encourage personalizing cover
Biography
Encourage each child to pick a heroine or hero and learn about them and draw them or make an art piece to share in a family circle.
POEM
Funny poem from Beastly Poetry by Ogden Nash... from my friend good friend Peter Basoa, of the Radio Rider fame.
The Lamb
Little gamboling lamb,
Do you know where you am?
In a patch of mint.
I'll give you a hint.
Scram,
Lamb!
(As a vegetarian, to continue our theme, I didn't really get the joke for a very long time! That's a hint!)
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLE
Corn!
ALPHABET RIDDLE GAME
(a favorite from my childhood we still play today)
FUNEX
SVFX
FUNEM
SVFM
FUNET
SVFT
OK
LFMNXNT
Here's a hint: When you get it, it's funner with 2 different voices or 2 people, better yet.
MK PICKS
Book: Girls Who Walked the World: Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes. By Amelie Welden
"...many stories of women and girls have been left out of traditional 'history' that gets recorded and taught"
To be in the book, a girl had to achieve something extraordinary under the age of 20 and there had to be recorded information about the girl and her life.
Song: We Are Family from Kids Dance Party CD, Volume 3
to buy the CD www.bmgsp.com
Author: Jan Brett.
I missed it, but author illustrator Jan Brett visited Moscow! WOW! Check out the article about her, "Curiosity quells the nap"
I recommend her book "The Mitten"
To see article:
OLD MOVIE: The Whale Rider (Book fabulous too)
It's about indigenous New Zealanders, a whale and a girl.
SNACK: An MK Original!
"Tortilla Cinnamon Toast"
You need: corn tortillas, butter, cinnamon, and sugar
You do: mix cinnamon and sugar (with adult help), next heat the corn tortilla on one side, turn over, heat second side. Put it on a plate, butter it and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. Roll it up and eat!
Peace out,
Miriam.
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