[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” status=”published” publish_date=”” class=”” id=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_blend_mode=”none” video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” border_radius=”” box_shadow=”no” dimension_box_shadow=”” box_shadow_blur=”0″ box_shadow_spread=”0″ box_shadow_color=”” box_shadow_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” background_type=”single” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_image_id=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_blend_mode=”none” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” filter_type=”regular” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″ last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] How can we honor International Women’s Day with the Afghani women? I can say to the Bosnian, Serb, Croat women, ‘Ma sretna ti zena’, as well as to the Eastern European women. How can we honor International Women’s Day to the Syrian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab and African women that will let them know I have worked hard to honor women, heal trauma and that I feel for them and all of their children? How can we honor International Women’s Day with a one-day Western holiday begrudgingly given to the Asian-Pacific Islanders? How can we honor International Women’s Day to the mothers taken at the southern border of the USA? To Central America, South America, the Caribbean Islanders? – Danica Anderson, Founder and Clinical Program Director [/fusion_text][fusion_section_separator divider_type=”horizon” divider_position=”left” divider_candy=”top” icon=”” icon_color=”” bordersize=”” bordercolor=”” backgroundcolor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” /][fusion_title title_type=”text” rotation_effect=”bounceIn” display_time=”1200″ highlight_effect=”circle” loop_animation=”off” highlight_width=”9″ highlight_top_margin=”0″ before_text=”” rotation_text=”” highlight_text=”” after_text=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” content_align=”left” size=”3″ font_size=”” animated_font_size=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” margin_top_mobile=”” margin_bottom_mobile=”” text_color=”” animated_text_color=”” highlight_color=”” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”#961b1e”] History and Meaning of International Women’s Day [/fusion_title][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] March 8, International Working Women’s Day, with a 110 year history in commemorating women’s political struggles insisting on her primacy to author her destiny, and promoting the fight for equal rights, and progress. The founding of International Women’s Day was birthed through women collaborating, inspired by each other’s public political struggles for women’s rights and liberation across the world. In Chicago, 1908 U.S. socialist women celebrated a Women’s Day giving rise to solidarity from international women collaborating on the horizon. In Germany 1910, Luise Zietz and Clara Zetkin were inspired by their foresisters, and proposed at the International Women’s Conference, a proclamation to establish an annual International Women’s Day, endorsed by women from over 17 countries. A day for commemorating working women’s struggles both personal and political, at home and life at large – stressing the need to advance history for all with demands including equal pay in the workplace, and equal rights in law, all of which we still battle to this day. The meaning of International Women’s Day of recognition took a turn from it’s roots upon the United Nations recognition of International Women’s Day in 1977 when it became a day for cards and flowers and spa days in the U.S. for your sister. Let us never forget the struggles women have fought and we continue to face today, and the fierce fierce women poured into the streets this weekend to keep in tradition of 110 years ago. 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[/fusion_text][fusion_code]W2NvbnRhY3QtZm9ybS03IGlkPSI4OTMiIHRpdGxlPSJNYWlsaW5nIExpc3QgU2lnbi1VcCJd[/fusion_code][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” status=”published” publish_date=”” class=”” id=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_blend_mode=”none” video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” box_shadow=”no” box_shadow_blur=”0″ box_shadow_spread=”0″ box_shadow_color=”” box_shadow_style=”” background_type=”single” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_image_id=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_blend_mode=”none” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” filter_type=”regular” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″ last=”no”][fusion_title title_type=”text” rotation_effect=”bounceIn” display_time=”1200″ highlight_effect=”circle” loop_animation=”off” highlight_width=”9″ highlight_top_margin=”0″ before_text=”” rotation_text=”” highlight_text=”” after_text=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” content_align=”left” size=”3″ font_size=”” animated_font_size=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” margin_top_mobile=”” margin_bottom_mobile=”” text_color=”” animated_text_color=”” highlight_color=”” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”#961b1e”] Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons [/fusion_title][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] Elinor Ostrom (b. 1933- d. 2012), the first and only woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009, for her myth-busting esteemed research and fieldwork on the commons and social collective action, relied upon a epigenetic and collaborative social collective backbone in alignment with the Kolo Self Trauma Care Protocol. Ostrom devoted her life to the power in people’s every day small acts to evolve how we manage the commons sustainably by evolving our collective self-governance. Both The Kolo: WCCC and Elinor Ostrom’s bodies of work instruct us to collaborate in social collectives, heal trauma and confront the greatest crises of our times where violence
Sins of the Father: The erasure of Females’ capacity for Epigenetics and freedom from violence.
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[Hence my book and research about bioculinary and biosemiotics]Tomatoes, for example, pass along chemical markings that control an important ripening gene (2). But, over the past few years, evidence has been accumulating that the phenomenon occurs in rodents and humans as well. The subject remains controversial, in part because it harks back to the discredited theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a nineteenth-century French biologist who proposed that organisms pass down acquired traits to future generations. To many modern biologists, that’s “scary-sounding”, says Oliver Rando, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, whose work suggests that such inheritance does indeed happen in animals (3). If it is true, he says, “Why hasn’t this been obvious to all the brilliant researchers in the past hundred years of genetics?”. One reason why many remain skeptical is that the mechanism by which such inheritance might work is mysterious. Explaining it will require a deep dive into reproductive biology [especially the female biology and how the father’s DNA is the carrier of many diseases- not the mothers’] to demonstrate how the relevant signals might be formed in the germ line, the cells that develop into sperm and eggs and carry on, at a minimum, a person’s genetic legacy.’ Essentially we are reaping what our fathers- the patriarchs have sown. And its not good. My Kolo Informed Trauma work across the globe has provided the substantive evidence of intergenerational, transgenerational trauma incited by violence. Let me condense it down to a twitter feed; sins of the fathers. I have written and posted many times about women as creators of culture due to their reproductive biological processes. I have written of the mitochondria, where the genetic information is passed unbroken from mother and daughter for thousands and thousands of generations. I have lamented in my research the same cry that is stated in the study, “Why hasn’t this been obvious to all the brilliant researchers in the past hundred years of genetics?”. Dr. Lynn Margulis’s work on symbiosis evolved the genetic research but she talked about the all male sciences and their trained incapacities- the sins of the fathers. I am often asked why is the unbroken mitochondria so important to understand? I ask why isn’t it obvious in the sciences to the rule of law? There are many epigenetic and humanitarian reasons for female biology, her DNA and mitochondria. First off, the most needed reason is to survive. However, her female biology filled with sweet neuropeptides (hormones) – look at the bonding hormone-it is about evolving a genetic legacy of humanitarian values. Its’ the capacity to have the survival memories throughout the generations paired with epigenetically shaped memories for physical safety and freedom from violence. And its’ physical safety and freedom from violence for all her children and all of life. You have to ask yourself what happened; sins of the father. The sins of the father according to this study states its’ the germ line of sperm and the epigenetic inheritance from the fathers. The sins of the fathers is the epigenetic violence eradicating women’s capacity to evolve humanitarian culture and to heal trauma. I have been to many libraries of research and museums where there was not a single book on the evolution of female biology mentioned in studies. The ostracizing of the great works of Dr. Marija Gimbutas, Monica Sjoo/Barbara Mor, Winifred Milius Lubell’s Baubo – anthropological evolutionary- epigenetic resources – by the various sciences, religious and philosophical fields is another example of the sins of the fathers. It was Monica Sjoo/Barbara Mor who wrote, “ Woman is not comprehended as an evolutionary creatures. She is treated rather as an auxiliary to a male dominated evolutionary process… He evolves and she follows: he revolutionizes, she adjusts” [p.7]. Additionally, Monica Sjoo/Barbara Mor understood the female epigenetic process continues to be the target by patriarchy so as to do the “evolution/revolution of the female body into a capacity for non-reproductive sex” [p.11]. This is the opposite of female biological and culture healing capacities for a constantly evolving humanitarian environment. I have witnessed in Bosnia and across the globe how their refugee status, victims of conflict-wars was all about servicing the internationals instead of implementing the women’s humanitarian projects to improve the lives of their families and communities. Note how women’s creation of an evolving humanitarian environment as the culture healers are now about adjusting to the catastrophic impacts of violence against her. Sins of the father are easily evidenced and at the same time avoided and denying of female realities borne from living in a world of violence for over 5,000 years. Look at the statistics worldwide on refugees about 60 million is estimated and its mostly women and children. Look at the global conflicts in almost every region of the planet. We are certainly a military industrial complex. (MIC). And everything is for the mega corporations and the elite who are 1% of the population but have 99% of the world’s wealth. We need to face the
Dreams Heal Trauma-Holocaust
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” status=”published” publish_date=”” class=”” id=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_blend_mode=”none” video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” border_radius=”” box_shadow=”no” dimension_box_shadow=”” box_shadow_blur=”0″ box_shadow_spread=”0″ box_shadow_color=”” box_shadow_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” background_type=”single” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_image_id=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_blend_mode=”none” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” filter_type=”regular” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″ last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] Kolo Self Informed Trauma Care involves female social collective, the creators of culture with corresponding oral memory traditions, a ritual science. According to many of the women elders [wise women] I worked with across the globe report dreams are the best therapists for healing PTSD. In my kolo trauma care, dreams and cup readings with Bosnian women war crimes and war survivors are cited as the source of tacit knowledge. Biosemiotics state tacit knowledge is the” biology of perception” where epigenetic (we shape our environment and the environment shapes our DNA) inheritance via feelings states and experience. The male dominated sciences are just now supporting the women’s tacit knowledge about dreams. The recent study on traumatic dreams of former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners published in the Journal dreaming, shows dream are a source of knowledge and heal PTSD. According to the study, “ Only 26% of the dreams were dreams about Auschwitz — and most of these dreams occurred after they had left the camp. While they were in Auschwitz, the survivors reported dreaming more often about things they had been forced to leave behind, such as their homes and their relatives. “In the camp, I dreamt about being free. Nowadays, I sometimes dream about the camp,” one survivor explained.” Unsurprisingly, the dreams about Auschwitz were more terrifying than other dreams. Fear and apprehension were the overriding emotions in most.” In fact, the study with Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners according to the authors cite “ the main goal of this study was to test the hypothesis—based mainly on Hartmann’s (2001a, 2001b, 2011) theory—that even such terrifying nightmares can have adaptive and healing potential. This hypothesis has been confirmed: The dreams about the camp have therapeutic potential, as they weave in new material into the dreamers’ traumatic memories, and especially the so-called “comeback dreams” (those in which the dreamers are aware that they come back to the camp for at least the second time) seem to have adaptive effects, mainly because of their near-lucid character “. In 2010, I was in Haiti six days after the earthquake, with an international trauma response team with the Jamaican. Digicel the largest employer of Haitians employed my kolo trauma care during the day and in the afternoons I was among the Haitian survivors. One Digicel employee spoke up in the group stating, he had just saw the movie earthquake and thought this was a dream, the movie asking me to please wake him up. While others in the group smirked and thought this man was nuts, I understood his dream and movie was his source of healing. Years later, the digicell employee is doing well and promoted many times. However, in his group of 9 male employees he is the only one still employed. 4 are deceased and 3 have according to his input are dealing with serious drug abuse issues. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Restoring Women to Cultural Memory
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Is there only silence for our daughters?
Is there only silence for our daughters? Republish from 11-18-2007 In excavating motherhood, it is startling to realize how celebratory ancient matrifocal systems were, and that there was no lag time in responding to the needs of the female gender. In “Old Europe” (7th to 3rd Millennia B.C.E.) Slavic peoples held reverence with Moist Mother Earth. In cognitive archeology, this reaffirmed the motherhood concept and its evolving symbolism that is threaded through the generations of daughters descending from our first mother in Africa. Just as a female’s mitochondrial DNA remains unchanged through thousands of generations, motherhood at this time was defined by daughters and mothers who could not be diluted and rendered useless. The social configuration characteristic of a Great Mother society was an era of great peace and absent of violence directed at females. Our daughters were esteemed and valued. Geneticist Bryan Sykes researched the same ancient eras and peoples whose clan mothers provided the maternal DNA (mitochondria) which evolved into our modern day species. Described by Sykes, clan mothers are defined as having two daughters in order for the random mutation to occur in mitochondria DNA. Sykes addressed how female biology evolved in the Paleolithic era and then again in Neolithic era, but pointed to how the “real power of mitochondrial DNA is that it is not diluted by distance.” (Seven Daughters of Eve, p.67) Since then, we have not evolved, and evolution appears to be stuck in the muck of violence while motherhood is now defined by patriarchs. Having manifested culture and communities, mothers and daughters knew that the earth, their homes, and how they lived their lives would be the womb that accelerates evolution. Motherhood and evolution was conceptualized in the Paleolithic and Neolithic era, which was strewn with many Great Mother Goddess figurines and round bellied stoves and hearths. In excavating motherhood, it is startling to realize how celebratory ancient matrifocal systems were, and that there was no lag time in responding to the needs of the female gender. When future scientists research statistics and articles about our daughters’ earthwide, I wonder how our generation of daughters will reflect Mother’s day. Their story would reveal an epidemic of violence against their female sex. The archeological ore of modern day would pose a violent symbolism for future archeologists. This Mother’s Day I am met with one daughter from Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai, the slender 32 year old who was ganged raped by men in her village as a reprisal against her 13 year old brother who had sexual relations with a member of their tribe. The rapists were released and her relatives, whose advice was to accept money and not go to court, smugly felt vindicated. Her uncle was reported to have confronted her with the fact that not even the courts could protect her. Where are the mothers to protest this sanction, not only for Mukhtar Mai, but for the thousands of years it took for blaming and shaming the daughter to become the accepted cultural attitude of our modern world. Is there only silence for our daughters? The lag time is impossible to comprehend when it concerns the female sex and daughters. As in the case of Mukhtar Mai’s and that of 300 Mexican women murdered in Warez, there has been no swift justice and the perpetrators have been wandering free for many years. A raging war in the Balkans elicited an international War Crimes tribunal law stating that rape is ‘now’ a war crime and yet the Bosnian mothers shrug their shoulders when met with another story of sexual abuse, sexual harassment at the hands of boyfriends, fathers, and in one case the director of a high school. Lag time is a result of apathy. It came to my attention and that of a Bosnian mother whose own two daughters went to the same high school, that there was a besieged Bosnian female teenager who was molested by the high school director in central Bosnia The Bosnian mother grew excited when I presented to her the dire situation. Thinking she would respond quickly and mobilize a movement with other mothers to finally oust and hold this school director accountable, I initially mistook her feverish delight as a celebratory embrace towards mothering but instead it was simply about being able to point out to me, “See how we live.” The beginning of ‘lag time’ started ticking for this besieged Bosnian teenager and for other sexually assaulted Bosnian teenagers that attended the same high school. They were forced to swim in an ocean of inaction and frank apathy with each new rape. Interestingly, one group of women in the same Bosnian village marched for regular garbage pick up but did not march for the protection of their daughters or to hold males accountable. Does this mean this daughter who spoke her story of sexual abuse from the high school director is less then garbage? Mothers are so busy with the religious cries that beseechingly point out, “see what we have to live with and put with,” that they do not cry out for the safety of their daughters. The energy expended in living out patriarchal values certainly halts any evolving and defining motherhood by daughters. Sanctions on daughters are stated as ‘abortion is murder’, or adultery and rape are the fault of the female sex. Heaping blame on to women/daughters appears to be a luxury women cannot hold on to since religious sanctions are the arsenal in gynocidal measures and its consequences. The espoused mighty moral causes which kill daughters and kill any random chance of the biological evolution that happened twice in eras that were termed as primitive by patriarchs, are promoted by the mothers themselves as sanctions and in androcratic systems. Mothers according to the worldwide statistics are apathetic to life threatening violence towards their daughters. Or else how would 60 million women/daughters go missing (Amnesty International)? As with Mukhtar Mai, the gang of male rapists is not held accountable in the resulting
UN PeaceKeepers Involved in Congo War Atrocities
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The mass rapes in Congo DRC continue unimpeded by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. “YOU WILL BE PUNISHED” – REPORT Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo This 183-page report documents in detail the deliberate killing of more than 1,400 civilians between January and September 2009 during two successive Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. The UN writes its own report and barely outlines in detail which of its PeaceKeepers committed the war atrocities with Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. Link to Full Human Rights Watch Report UN peacekeepers made important efforts to protect civilians in this complex and difficult terrain, Human Rights Watch said. But the peacekeeping force’s role as a joint player in the military operations, providing substantial support to the Congolese army, has implicated peacekeepers in the abuses and undermined the mission’s primary objective, which is to protect civilians. Some victims were tied together before their throats were, according to one witness, “slit like chickens.” The majority of the victims were women, children, and the elderly. The FDLR first raped the mother and inserted a large stick in her vagina causing serious injury which led to her death. When the young girl cried out in distress, the FDLR raped her as well. Commentary Many UN Security Council ambassadors have visited Congo and expressed outrage at the massive sexual violence,” said Van Woudenberg.” Faced with another UN proclamation and with what constitutes torture, gang rape, enforced sexual slavery of Congolese females, the UN provides a 183 page document that tries to distance the useless organization from any possible repercussions of its involvement and lack of involvement. In fact the UN spokesmen stated in the report: “”Many UN Security Council ambassadors have visited Congo and expressed outrage at the massive sexual violence,” said Van Woudenberg. “Yet rape is increasing – not decreasing – in eastern Congo. That outrage needs to be translated into bold and effective action to help protect these women and girls.” The 183 report by the UN is titled UN peacekeepers made important efforts to protect civilians in this complex and difficult terrain. Nothing can be so far from the truth. I have been in the Eastern part of the Congo and witnessed the world of the Congolese female and children. Fear does not shed light on the violence. Moreover, it is not a test of truth: false ideas, faking humanitarian efforts such as the UN are rolled into the rule of law, UN charters and so-called UN Peacekeepers who participate or are bystanders to the most violent sexual abuse towards women and children. January 2009, under the supposed UN expert group called peacekeepers- an oxymoron- with the Congolese and Rwandan government are doing a joint military operation known as Umoja Wetu and Kimia II is still being conducted. But the report itself states: “”The Security Council needs to provide UN peacekeepers in Congo with clear and concrete direction,” Van Woudenberg said “Sending a group of experts and making clear to the Congolese army the conditions under which the peacekeepers will work with its troops can play a crucial role in ending abuses and ensuring that UN peacekeepers are not implicated in future atrocities.” The inhumanity by the UN chartered to prevent and help the affected populations which are mostly women and children needs to be center point of our outrage. The amount of paper declaring whatever needs to be declared so as to look like they are earning their high salaries, elaborate environments or what is mostly covering their butts from any legal repercussions constitutes an extraordinary example of unconscious hatred towards women and children. It is incomprehensible for Van Woudenberg to appeal for the need of the security council to have a clear and concrete direction in ending abuses and ensuring Un peacekeepers are not implicated in future atrocities. I ask where was this clear and concrete direction before the brutalities committed and point to the infinite abyss of UN proclamations, charters, councils, to UNIFEM sections of the UN. The violence dynamics show up not only at the macro-level of the species-mind but in the smaller, transient groups or sections of the UN. Please lodge a protest to the UN Security Council and appeal to know the names of each individual peacekeeper involved and ultimate head of the operations to learn if any consequences were given. Write a letter to the International Criminal Court and ask for an investigation of War Crimes. Danica Anderson http://www.hrw.org/node/87151 CONGO – “YOU WILL BE PUNISHED” – REPORT Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo This 183-page report documents in detail the deliberate killing of more than 1,400 civilians between January and September 2009 during two successive Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda Source: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/12/un-act-end-atrocities-eastern-congo December 13, 2009 ( New York ) – The United Nations Security Council should urgently act to protect civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from further atrocities by government and rebel forces and ensure peacekeepers are not implicated in abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today. The 183-page report, “‘You Will Be Punished’: Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo,” documents in detail the deliberate killing of more than 1,400 civilians between January and September 2009 during two successive Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The report is based
Bird Killing 300 Mile Coastal Toxic Algae Bloom & South Slavic One Species Mind
The toxic algae bloom has armed scientists with a new theory. In place of observations or what we can learn from Mother Nature on how to immediately respond, scientists armed themselves, against the forces of the natural world fixating on having the right theory. The adjustment to sciences’ storehouse of theories has the asteroids as the main factor in the extinction of dinosaurs but now point to the toxic algae bloom as a probable factor for the extinction. Scientists, novices in observation of Mother Nature, are just beginning to evaluate the blooms of a single-cell, saltwater algae species, the Akashiwo Sanguine in the Northwest Puget Sound. Thousands of bird carcasses mark the area of what is known as the Pacific Northwest pristine waters and land. On the sand near the algae-generated foam on Klipsan beach, the north end of the Long Beach Peninsula of Washington State, a red-throated loon convulses from its immersion in the lethal 300 mile toxic bloom. It takes closer inspection to see the red color on the throat of the loon in the soap like foam. The saltwater algae damage the bird’s natural oils that protect against hypothermia in cold waters. The failures of the birds’ oiled feathers, somewhat, equivalent to surfers’ with their tight waterproof and warm manufactured skins, have, also, succumbed to illness. Like the thousands of birds falling from the skies or unable to fly again, the surfers’ pseudo skin cannot protect against sickness that coats the bird feathers like an oil spill. Eventually touching all into a single field of being, what happens to the birds happens to you. What does not register with the surfers or kayakers, just as with certified scientists, is the degree of how we learn something about the mechanisms of Mother Nature operating at the micro playground but reflecting the over arching cosmological playground. If we are to accept our separateness and segmentation from the greater whole as science demands for Mother Nature, we cannot crystallize Mother Nature’s diverse species mind that link all together. The death of thousands of birds in the Northwest Marine waters and the diseased human skin from exposure to the Akashiwo Sanguine, saltwater algae species, articulates an overarching example of the single fabric (Mother Nature) organized into the natural order which, intensively, harbors the one species-mind. It is an archetypal architecture that consciously undresses Mother Nature by emptying any notions of control, theories, or science’s longitude studies. The archetypal architecture of the one-species mind is threaded in most tribal peoples. Significant patterns within the tribal peoples when facing horizon events evokes an immediate period of intensified learning, as a means of responding. While the science field has, at points, incorporated intensified learning applications, study is not synonymous with the one species- mind. Studies can go on for centuries having no validity within the ability to respond or act in a “timely” fashion. Responsiveness is participation immersed in the one species-mind as opposed to science’s and other modern day institutions’ reacting with each horizon events. Constantly reacting in the aftermath of such catastrophes has implemented cement like structure of reacting ranging from fire departments, toxic clean-up protocols, peace keeping armies or mandatory inoculations. Questioning is least found among the plethora of manuals and procedures that could lead to learning environments as the one species mind responsiveness. Note that the one species mind responsiveness is both the thousands of deaths of birds and illnesses of humans playing in Mother Nature’s oceans and that of the flock of birds rising in synchronicity on long distance flights without maps or flight control monitors. What comes up is the solidarity evoked in the one species mind for both the massive deaths and that of life searching avian migrations but, elegantly responsive pro-actively and in the moment consciousness. In the South Slavic and Russian female culture and female humanities, tens of thousands of years older than any scientific longitude study or holy books written by men-it is pure science undivided. We have only to survey the evidence of Slavic science found in the thousands of archeological figures of zoomorphic Bird Goddesses and Fish Goddesses. Our ancients without computers or metal technologies observed avian and marine species, to thread social memory via intensified learning response practices. As a science of observation and witnessing all of life, for the Slavs, the birds are, essentially, the witches/angels’ (wise living feminine) capacities to respond with solidarity. What this indicates is the application of the one species mind when the need arises, the Slavic triple aspect of before, interim and in the aftermath of life events. Modern archeomythological renditions have more or less submitted to the idea of angels across many patriarchal or father sky god religions as an appeasement that submerges their fear and deep suspicions of witches as evil. For the Slavs, Mother Nature is the iconic Baba Yaga, translated as wise woman and Yaga the term for Pelican and ‘fright.’ Frequent subjects of sainthood in Catholic worship or Orthodox churches, angels are fully dressed and resplendent with avian wings to proclaim active participation in superordinate circles of the archetypal architects of Mother Nature one species mind. For the Slavs, the archetypal architect is navigated by Slavic Baba Yaga, the first witch that continued into the Greek and Roman Métis, Fates and both the warrior angel and saint. The social memory for the witch-Baba Yaga-Mother Nature is her ability for prophecy, seer, or wisdom which is in reality her ability to remain within the connection of one species-mind. Flying the skies in her mortar and pestle (represents her bio-agricultural and botany for healing) according to the folk tale, Baba Yaga’ s one species mind sees- feels, while, intuitively and rationally has an immediate knowing for the vast connections in being one family. But, how do we see the fullest connection to the past into our present moment of climate change? In modern day the South Slavic women’s linens and kilms/rugs attests to the legacy of social memory revolving around the