joined on 04/29/06
last updated 11/12/11
... or was it 8/1, Rosedale?
Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie, with surgeons' notes
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... if need be, fight for your AND their rights.
The designer is obviously blessed with a mountain-high IQ, EQ and RQ! Or is it river-deep?!
No, thanks! It's just a short walk home.
about me
- Life is delicious for everybody; so share it with your contemporaries and leave enough of it behind for future generations (Somali proverb);
- Resistance doesn’t begin with big words but with small deeds (Remco Campert, Dutch poet and writer)
Mystery intrigues me and arouses my interest. Creative, gentle, politely rude, humourous, sensitive people appeal to me. I’ve deep respect for socially conscious people, specially those who stand up for others. Environmental justice and ecological rights are for me as important as human rights; not just because of idelaism, but also for the simple selfish reason that damage to nature heralds the end of human life. I get literally sick of injustice, indifference, materialism, power-hungry, fear-mongering populism..
I approach life lightheartedly and take it, where need be, seriously. Am an urban nomad; have had the privilege of living in 5 countries and visiting many more in 4 continents; Oceania refuses as yet to be conquered. Would like to visit yet more places. I enjoy life and feel at home in my new country (the Netherlands; come originally from Somalia). I dream though of living one day as a real nomad in the middle of the (Sahara) desert with a drum, guitar, harp, flute, (Somali) traditional instruments...; am planning to take lessons to learn playing some instruments (who needs food, water...?!)
Don't have enough space and time to state a fraction of my shortcomings; you could ask though if you're interested and could spare a few days.
! Rumi,
*Activists*,
+ALL+ART+GALLERY+,
A Guide to The Great Outdoors,
Acoustic Guitar Forum,
Africa,
African Contemporary Art,
African Music Tribe,
afrobeat,
Amnesty International SF,
Ancient Egypt,
Animal Rights,
Anthropology,
Asylumseekers and refugees,
Blues,
BuildingMan,
Clean Energy Activists*,
Cultural Anthropology,
Djembe and Dunun/ djun-djun,
Dynamic Discourse,
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Ecosia: an eco-friendly search engine
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"Save rainforest with your internet searches"
Ecosia is an eco-friendly Internet search engine backed by Yahoo, Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). It basically works like any other search engine but, unlike others, Ecosia gives at least 80% of its advertising revenue to a rainfore...
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recommendation posted on Thu, March 4, 2010 - 12:15 AM
Help people and nature just by clicking on a button
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"It's all free"
At the top of this site, you’ve a nr. of sponsered sites on which you could click every day for free to help people and nature. The sites included are concerned with hunger, breast cancer, child health, literacy, rainforest and animal rescue. For ...
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recommendation posted on Wed, December 13, 2006 - 3:45 PM
Stop detaining refugee children now!
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"Stop detaining refugee children now!"
Website above is for UK. For the Netherlands: www.geenkindindecel.nl/---------------------------------------------------
More and more refugee children are being detained in different countries in the European Union. The UK governme...
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recommendation posted on Sun, October 1, 2006 - 3:35 AM
Website
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"Stop Detaining Refugee Children Now!"
Websites:
UK. www.noplaceforachild.org/
Netherlands: www.geenkindindecel.nl/
More and more refugee childeren are being detained in different countries in the European Union. The UK government, for example, currently detain...
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recommendation posted on Sun, October 1, 2006 - 3:29 AM
A tribe for refugees and asylumseekers
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"A tribe for refugees and asylumseekers"
A tribe for refugees and asylumseekers has recently been created. Please feel free to visit the tribe, join it and post relevant topics. Comment appreciated. Thanks!
recommendation posted on Fri, September 15, 2006 - 6:27 AM
New Tribe!
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"http://tribes.tribe.net/refugees-and-asylumseekers"
A tribe for Refugees and Asylumseekers has recently been created. Please feel free to visit the tribe, join it and post relevant subjects. Comment appreciated. Thanks!
recommendation posted on Fri, September 15, 2006 - 3:50 AM
Tribute concert to Ali Farka Touré
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"Tribute concert to Ali Farka Touré"
A tribute concert in honour of Ali Farka Touré took place in Milan on 4 May 2006; concert report on the sitelink above. Although hastily put together, the line up still included Toumani Diabaté & the Symmetric Orchestra, Tinariwen and Robert Pl...
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recommendation posted on Mon, September 11, 2006 - 1:45 AM
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recommendation posted on Mon, September 11, 2006 - 1:43 AM
Empowering Women
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"Empowering Women: Starting a cycle of progress"
You can help a woman, forced to flee tragedy, start a small business to support her family. And you can help her protect herself and her rights.
War tears communities apart, and women are the first to suffer. In the chaos of war, women are targ...
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recommendation posted on Fri, September 1, 2006 - 3:20 AM
Clearing unexploded ordnance In Lebanon
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"UN agencies unite to clear unexploded ordnance endangering Lebanese returnees"
TYRE, Lebanon, August 30 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has signed a formal partnership with the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) for the rapid clearing of unexploded munitions scattered across southern Lebanon. The ordnance is proving ...
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recommendation posted on Fri, September 1, 2006 - 3:09 AM
Michael Franti's Yell Fire! & I Know I'm Not Alone
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"Bravo!"
Franti and the Spearhead perrfomed a couple of days ago at the Lowlands Festival (Nethrelands). I wasn’t there, but I saw his interviews with Dutch TV and read the reports in the newspapers. His courage, selflessness and commitment to human right...
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recommendation posted on Wed, August 23, 2006 - 3:25 AM
A womans Blog from Iraq
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"A must for the hibernating pro-war fellows"
I read the blog from time to time. It's riveting, informative, painful and yet sometimes humourous. Bush and co. should read it on daily basis (I assume they CAN read).
recommendation posted on Wed, August 23, 2006 - 2:53 AM
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