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“New York Pride: Huge crowds attend New York Pride march”

“Hundreds of thousands of people have attended this year's WorldPride in New York.

The march, one of the largest LGBT celebrations, took place 50 years after the Stonewall riots in the city, which helped energise the fight for gay equality.(...)” (Lido em: BBCNews 2019-07-02)

dia mundial do refugiado

“São mais de 30 milhões de pessoas sem país. Perseguidas. Os seus costumes liberais tendem a ser amordaçados por regimes autoritários. Vivem como se fossem eternos refugiados: eis a história do “Curdistão”, uma mancha entre a Turquia, o Iraque, a Síria e o Irão. Esta quinta-feira é Dia Mundial do Refugiado e esta quinta-feira eles vão continuar sem Estado...” (Transcrição de texto do Expresso, em boa hora enviado por mão muito amiga)

"Pride sale Celebrating 50 years since Stonewall”

“To mark WorldPride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Swann Galleries in New York is holding a Pride sale, which explores and celebrates the art, influence and history of the LGBTQ+ community. Books, manuscripts, photographs, archives, art and objects from the last two centuries will be auctioned (...)” (Lido em: The Guardian 2019-06-19)

“This June will be a month of celebration in New York, as the city ushers in the sixth edition of WorldPride. The timing is especially powerful because 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall uprising, the precursor to the contemporary pride parade as we know it.(...)” (Lido em: CNN 2019-05-30)

“Brasil: “o corpo está explodindo” contra a repressão de Bolsonaro”

“Os movimentos de resistência “feminista, negro e LGBT” estão em foco no projecto de Filipe Ávila. Esta sexta-feira assinala-se o Dia Internacional contra a Homofobia e Transfobia.(...)” (Lido em: Público 2019-05-17)

boa lição de americanos com bom senso

“Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro abruptly cancels US visit after protests”

[Por:]”Dom Phillips”

“Climbdown by far right leader, who was due to receive prestigious award, called ‘a very big embarrassment’

Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters

Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has abruptly cancelled a US trip to receive a prestigious award following a storm of protest over his history of homophobic, racist and misogynist remarks and plans to erode environmental protections in the Amazon.

The cancellation, announced suddenly on Friday, came after the original venue ditched the event, the mayor of New York City attacked his presence and major corporate sponsors pulled out. Bolsonaro’s spokesman blamed ideological attacks from interest groups and Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York.

“Financial Times pulls out of gala honouring Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro”

“The cancellation is a humiliating climbdown for Bolsonaro who idolises the United States and was feted by Donald Trump during a March visit to Washington. Analysts said it is a sign of the international reprobation his extremist views and anti-environment positions are beginning to spark around the world.

“It is a very big embarrassment,” said Paulo Baía, a professor of political science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

The annual Person of the Year award ceremony was due to be hosted on 14 May by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce. Alongside the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, Bolsonaro was to be honoured for “fostering closer commercial and diplomatic ties between Brazil and the United States” and his “commitment to building a strong and durable partnership” between both countries, the chamber said.

The gala event was originally due to be hosted at the American Museum of Natural History – but the museum pulled the event after criticism from LGBT and environmental groups. Last month Bolsonaro said Brazil could not become a “gay tourism” paradise and his government has come under fire for plans to dismantle Amazon protections and develop protected indigenous reserves.

“Jair Bolsonaro is a dangerous man,” tweeted de Blasio as he thanked the museum for its decision.

The gala event was moved to the Marriott Marquis hotel but then Delta Airlines and Bain & Company, a management consulting company, pulled out, CNN reported. (...)” (Lido em: The Guardian, 2019-05-04)

“This is the world's happiest country in 2019”

“Finland has a lot to celebrate.

Not only does it have a capital city bursting with gastronomic creativity, the spectacular Northern Lights and Santa Claus's year-round home (plus the reindeer support staff) in Lapland. It's also the happiest country in the world for the second year in a row, according to the latest World Happiness Report.(...)

The report ranks countries on six key variables that support well-being: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity. (...)

It's followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland and The Netherlands. (...)” (Lido em: CNN, 2019-05-01)

“Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people”(...)” (Lido em: CNNNews 2019-04-22)

“Após 70 anos, Simone de Beauvoir ainda mostra caminho da liberdade feminina”

“Para antropóloga, 'O Segundo Sexo' (1949) continua a ser a obra fundamental do feminismo (...)” (Lido em: Folha de São Paulo 2019-03-10)

brevivências 2019-03-09

- “Há muito tempo que não escrevo nada aqui. Preguiça ou outros interesses são a razão. Um dos interesses é, obviamente, a imprensa inglesa (The Guardian), americana (CNN + The New York Times + Washington Post), holandesa (De Volkskrant), francesa (Le Monde), brasileira (Folha de São Paulo), alemã (Die Zeit) que leio diariariamente on-line e a paleta de programas que diariamente vejo na televisão (Cnn + BBC +tv holandesa).

• Hoje é chamado mundialmente o Dia da Mulher. Chamar a atenção para a situação da Mulher no mundo é extremamente importante. Na nossa civilização ocidental (democrática, respeitadora dos Direitos Humanos) isso pareceria desnecessário. No entanto esta civilização não é a única no mundo, havendo milhões e milhões de mulheres (e não só!!!) que são, mesmo muito negativamente tratadas, desconsideradas, descriminadas.   É tempo de pensarmos nelas, a sua importância, na sua situação de pessoas de grande valor para o mundo, tanto ou mais do que os homens.

 - Bem vistas as coisas há maior número de mulheres no mundo do que humanos do sexo masculino!

- Nunca/ainda não percebi quem decide/escolhe a denominação de um Dia Mundial.