Free Running Gaza"In the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, Mohammed and Abdallah have found a way to distract themselves from the overcrowded tenements and squalid alleyways. Both young men have trained for years to become Gaza's leading practitioners of parkour.
As much a life philosophy and an art form as an athletic discipline, parkour is the traversing and scaling of obstacles and barriers through running, jumping and vaulting. Parkour is set apart from political and religious factionalism, from violence and militancy. For Mohammed, Abdallah and the latest generation of young Palestinians to have grown up in the camp under-educated and unemployed, it is the ultimate means of escape. The essential definition of parkour is "finding your own way" and Artscape journeys around Gaza in the company of Mohammed and Abdallah to experience what this is like." "When we practise [parkour] we free ourselves," explains Mohammed. "It is as if we're transported to another world." http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/artscape/2011/06/2011619123857973866.html ___ TAQWA 17AGOSTO2011 |
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SURFERS FOR CETACEANS (S4C)
Dave Rastovich, mais conhecido como Rasta, é um surfista profissional que
decidiu abandonar uma carreira competitiva para se dedicar ao free surf, ou
seja, é pago para andar a surfar as melhores ondas do planeta, tirando fotos e
fazendo vídeos a promover os seus patrocinadores. Até aqui nada de
novo...
O que distingue o Rasta dos outros, e que me levou a escrever isto é a sua dedicação à defesa da natureza, e mais propriamente à defesa dos oceanos. Como surfista, acho que quem faz do deslizar em ondas um prazer único, mágico, incomparável, algo que só quem passa por isso o percebe ("only a surfer knows the feeling" continua a ser das melhores frases de sempre), para alguns até um estilo de vida, deve ter, intrinsecamente, o maior respeito pelo mar, pelos seres que nele habitam, e pela natureza em geral. Rasta é o melhor exemplo disso!
Utilizando a sua notoriedade da melhor forma, Rasta foi o responsável pela criação do 1º fato de surf "amigo do ambiente", o Billabong Platinum B9, que é feito através de material reciclado, utiliza menos energia para a sua confecção, etc, etc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTDIjzXmLE).
Também foi ele que desenvolveu a parafina (wax) Sticky Bumps (http://www.stickybumps.com/) que é composta exclusivamente por produtos naturais, nomeadamente soja. Não utiliza derivados do petróleo na sua composição e o rótulo é impresso com tintas de soja em papel reciclado. Normalmente as parafinas amigas do ambiente são muito más em termos de qualidade (derretem facilmente e não agarram à prancha) mas eu estou neste momento a usar a Sticky Bumps e estou super satisfeito =)
O Rasta é também membro da Sea Shepherd tendo inclusivamente participado em campanhas nas Ilhas Galápagos e Taiji (Japão) e entrado no documentário The Cove. Mais uma vez foi responsável pela parceria entre a Futere Fins e a Sea Shepherd para a criação de umas quilhas (http://www.futuresfins.com/fin-detail.php?id=173).
Mas a verdadeira razão de estar a escrever este texto deve-se à outra organização que ele co-fundou, a Surfers For Cetacians. A S4C, é uma organização sem fins lucrativos com base na Austrália que visa mobilizar surfistas de todo o mundo, e todos aqueles que, de alguma forma, se relacionam com o oceano, contra o assédio, captura e matança de cetáceos e outros mamíferos marinhos, e para a conservação das zonas costeiras e marinhas. A S4C pretende difundir a sabedoria e a alegria dos cetáceos através da compaixão, consciencialização, educação, campanhas nos mídia e em intervenções específicas. A S4C pretende ser uma voz unívoca e defensora dos nossos parentes nos oceanos.
Aqui fica um texto da história deles que se pode encontrar no site (http://www.s4cglobal.org/):
Surfers For Cetaceans was co-founded by professional surfer Dave Rastovich and ocean artist/activist Howie Cooke in 2004. The group was formed to mobilise surfers and the surf media against whaling and dolphin kills. As S4C established itself in the conservation world, it became apparent that more was needed from the group, and that simply informing the surfing community was not bringing enough results.
In 2006 the Humpback Whale Icon Project was co-created by IFAW, The Oceania Project and S4C. The project sees towns all along the coastline of Australia adopting specific Humpback Whales that pass by each town twice a year. The acknowledgment of individual whales which are identified by their unique body markings has seen Australia celebrate their migration and be able to identify their history and personalities. They are no longer just another whale. They are Venus, adopted by Sydney, Yumbalehla adopted by Byron Bay and so on.
Feeling the need for more direct action and through establishing links with American conservation group, the Ocean Preservation Society, S4C embarked on a front line expose of Japans annual dolphin drives.
In October 2007 Surfers For Cetaceans held two peaceful ceremonies in the 'Killing Cove' in Taiji, Japan. Whilst the first ceremony was held when no dolphins or whales were being killed, the second ceremony was held in the blood-stained waters of the bay as the fishermen slaughtered a pod of twenty-four Pilot Whales. With international media present the group of surfers and celebraties attending managed to slow down the kills and expose this brutal reality to millions of people world wide. And perhaps of more immediate impact, helped expose the truth that dolphin and whale meat is highly toxic and unsuitable for consumption. This has seen local schools and supermarkets remove all dolphin meat from their menus.
Along with the Whale Icon Project and Taiji Dolphin campaigns S4C has held protests outside Japanese Embassies In Australia, educated children in Australia through school visits, and brought the issue of whaling and dolphin kills to millions of surfers worldwide through print, film, radio, and internet mediums.
Surfers For Cetaceans acknowledges the many imbalances and issues our oceans face, though focuses on the cetacean issue due to the fact that our global surfing culture has such an intimate human and cetacean relationship. We share the inter species bond of riding waves for the sheer joy of it. The surfers love for dolphins and whales is one born of direct interaction in the ocean waves, and creates a feeling of compassion and kinship with cetaceans.
The sky is blue
O que distingue o Rasta dos outros, e que me levou a escrever isto é a sua dedicação à defesa da natureza, e mais propriamente à defesa dos oceanos. Como surfista, acho que quem faz do deslizar em ondas um prazer único, mágico, incomparável, algo que só quem passa por isso o percebe ("only a surfer knows the feeling" continua a ser das melhores frases de sempre), para alguns até um estilo de vida, deve ter, intrinsecamente, o maior respeito pelo mar, pelos seres que nele habitam, e pela natureza em geral. Rasta é o melhor exemplo disso!
Utilizando a sua notoriedade da melhor forma, Rasta foi o responsável pela criação do 1º fato de surf "amigo do ambiente", o Billabong Platinum B9, que é feito através de material reciclado, utiliza menos energia para a sua confecção, etc, etc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTDIjzXmLE).
Também foi ele que desenvolveu a parafina (wax) Sticky Bumps (http://www.stickybumps.com/) que é composta exclusivamente por produtos naturais, nomeadamente soja. Não utiliza derivados do petróleo na sua composição e o rótulo é impresso com tintas de soja em papel reciclado. Normalmente as parafinas amigas do ambiente são muito más em termos de qualidade (derretem facilmente e não agarram à prancha) mas eu estou neste momento a usar a Sticky Bumps e estou super satisfeito =)
O Rasta é também membro da Sea Shepherd tendo inclusivamente participado em campanhas nas Ilhas Galápagos e Taiji (Japão) e entrado no documentário The Cove. Mais uma vez foi responsável pela parceria entre a Futere Fins e a Sea Shepherd para a criação de umas quilhas (http://www.futuresfins.com/fin-detail.php?id=173).
Mas a verdadeira razão de estar a escrever este texto deve-se à outra organização que ele co-fundou, a Surfers For Cetacians. A S4C, é uma organização sem fins lucrativos com base na Austrália que visa mobilizar surfistas de todo o mundo, e todos aqueles que, de alguma forma, se relacionam com o oceano, contra o assédio, captura e matança de cetáceos e outros mamíferos marinhos, e para a conservação das zonas costeiras e marinhas. A S4C pretende difundir a sabedoria e a alegria dos cetáceos através da compaixão, consciencialização, educação, campanhas nos mídia e em intervenções específicas. A S4C pretende ser uma voz unívoca e defensora dos nossos parentes nos oceanos.
Aqui fica um texto da história deles que se pode encontrar no site (http://www.s4cglobal.org/):
Surfers For Cetaceans was co-founded by professional surfer Dave Rastovich and ocean artist/activist Howie Cooke in 2004. The group was formed to mobilise surfers and the surf media against whaling and dolphin kills. As S4C established itself in the conservation world, it became apparent that more was needed from the group, and that simply informing the surfing community was not bringing enough results.
In 2006 the Humpback Whale Icon Project was co-created by IFAW, The Oceania Project and S4C. The project sees towns all along the coastline of Australia adopting specific Humpback Whales that pass by each town twice a year. The acknowledgment of individual whales which are identified by their unique body markings has seen Australia celebrate their migration and be able to identify their history and personalities. They are no longer just another whale. They are Venus, adopted by Sydney, Yumbalehla adopted by Byron Bay and so on.
Feeling the need for more direct action and through establishing links with American conservation group, the Ocean Preservation Society, S4C embarked on a front line expose of Japans annual dolphin drives.
In October 2007 Surfers For Cetaceans held two peaceful ceremonies in the 'Killing Cove' in Taiji, Japan. Whilst the first ceremony was held when no dolphins or whales were being killed, the second ceremony was held in the blood-stained waters of the bay as the fishermen slaughtered a pod of twenty-four Pilot Whales. With international media present the group of surfers and celebraties attending managed to slow down the kills and expose this brutal reality to millions of people world wide. And perhaps of more immediate impact, helped expose the truth that dolphin and whale meat is highly toxic and unsuitable for consumption. This has seen local schools and supermarkets remove all dolphin meat from their menus.
Along with the Whale Icon Project and Taiji Dolphin campaigns S4C has held protests outside Japanese Embassies In Australia, educated children in Australia through school visits, and brought the issue of whaling and dolphin kills to millions of surfers worldwide through print, film, radio, and internet mediums.
Surfers For Cetaceans acknowledges the many imbalances and issues our oceans face, though focuses on the cetacean issue due to the fact that our global surfing culture has such an intimate human and cetacean relationship. We share the inter species bond of riding waves for the sheer joy of it. The surfers love for dolphins and whales is one born of direct interaction in the ocean waves, and creates a feeling of compassion and kinship with cetaceans.
The sky is blue
RBG Fit Club
RBGFITCLUB is a healthy lifestyle & fitness blog founded by Khnum “Stic” Ibomu of dead prez. RBG FIT CLUB’s mission is to encourage healthy bodies and minds one person and one day at a time.
What does the letters RBG stand for ? Reaching Bigger Goals. The Liberation colors red, black & green. And other acronyms.
RBG FIT CLUB general membership is FREE.
This is about families living healthier lives.
This is about useful info and motivation.
This is about taking action and being the change we want to see.
Our health is our greatest Wealth!
http://www.rbgfitclub.com/
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TAQWA7/11/2011
What does the letters RBG stand for ? Reaching Bigger Goals. The Liberation colors red, black & green. And other acronyms.
RBG FIT CLUB general membership is FREE.
This is about families living healthier lives.
This is about useful info and motivation.
This is about taking action and being the change we want to see.
Our health is our greatest Wealth!
http://www.rbgfitclub.com/
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TAQWA7/11/2011