BREXIT - The Full Length Film

Published on May 12, 2016

The full-length Brexit: The Movie - the crowdfunded film making the case for Britain to LEAVE the EU on June 23rd.

Segments of the film available on this channel and at:  

http://www.brexitthemovie.com/#!the-movie/c2sa

THIS IS MY LAND - A Song by Sofia Jannok

Published on March 22, 2016

Reclaiming the land.

Song: This Is My Land (Sápmi)
Music & lyrics: Sofia Jannok
Producers: Sofia Jannok & Henrik Oja
Director: Sofia Jannok
Edit: Mattias Andersson
Photo Romsa (Tromsø): Matti Aikio
Photo Paris: Ayşe Gürsöz John E Utsi, Dan Jåma
Photo Svalbard: Marcus Krogtoft
Photo collage from all over Sápmi: Nila Jannok, Mats Berg, Pávva Pittja, Ina-Theres Sparrok, Emma Charlina Graméus, Ánne Márjá Guttorm Graven

Most thanks to Indigenous Environmental Network for clips from Paris during the direct actions around COP21, Dec 2015. Stay posted at www.ienearth.org
www.sofiajannok.com

LYRICS

Introduction:

“The State is of the opinion that the claim put forward by the Sámi reindeer herding community with regards to their long tradition of being engaged in reindeer husbandry, hunting and fishing in the area is of irrelevance to the case. In order to be eligible to claim immemorial prescription, said claim has to be based on a 90 years long use of an area. Any additional use for a longer period of time is of irrelevance to the legality of the claim.”
“Because of the claim that it is of importance that the Sámi have been using this area, the State is of the opinion that it is of utmost importance to define what is meant by the term Sámi, and how specific such a definition really is.

This is what the following material is meant to do.”

(Excerpts from the State Attorney’s intervention during the hearing in the court case between the Sámi reindeer herding community Girjas - from whence Sofia Jannok’s grandmother came - and the Swedish State. Gällivare Lapland District Court, June, 2015.)


Song lyrics:

This is my land, this is my country and if I’d be the queen you’d see that I’d take everyone by hand and sing it so it’s out there
that we’ll paint this land blue, yellow, red and green

If you say that this girl’s not welcome in this country, if she must leave because her face is brown

Well, then I’d say you go first ’cause frankly this is my land and here we live in peace, I’ll teach you how

This is my pride, this is my freedom, this is the air that I breathe and you’ll find no kings, no queens, here everybody’s equal - men, women and all who are in between

This is my home, this is my heaven, this is the earth where I belong and if you want to ruin it all with big wounds in the mountains then you’re not worthy of listening to this song

This is my land, this is my country, these lakes, rivers, hills and woods If you open up your eyes you’ll find someone is lying

I’ve always been here, welcome to my hood

Sameland is the area in yellow.

The Incredible Healing Effect of Mother's Touch by Eleni Roumeliotou

The Incredible Healing Effect of Mother's Touch

by Eleni Roumeliotou

Green Med Info.         8 May 2015

Skin to skin contact between the mother and her new-born baby can have impressive healing and even life-saving effects for the infant. 

The human body is not just a dynamic sophisticated biochemical and genetic system; there are strong energetic, emotional and psychological aspects that interact decisively with the physical counterparts of the body and can make a very measurable difference in our physiological functions.

A valid proof of this comes from the neonatal Kangaroo care method (K method), which requires skin to skin contact between the mother and the newborn baby. While this simple intervention provides superior support for preterm, low-weight babies, in comparison to conventional practices, such as the use of incubator, it is rarely included in official hospital policies or recommended to mothers by mainstream experts.

Pediatricians have expressed fears that keeping a preterm baby outside of an incubator during the Kangaroo interaction, may expose the infant to cold with subsequent loss of body heat and lower body temperatures, which can be critical to the survival and wellbeing of weak babies. Research however shows that the exact opposite is happening during the K care method. A study involving low-weight preterm babies (less than 1.5 Kg) and their mothers, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found that the body temperature of the newborn actually rises when the infant is skin to skin in touch with the mother's chest.

Perhaps the most remarkable story that was brought to the public's attention is the miraculous revival of premature baby boy Jamie Ogg, who, following his birth was pronounced dead by doctors after 20 minutes of resuscitation efforts. His mother put him on her chest and held him for 2 hours, when he suddenly started to gasp for air and was soon breathing normally.

Apart from such dramatic recoveries, clinicians have recorded impressive positive impact of the K method on a variety of physiological and behavioral parameters on newborns. For example, doctors from the Pediatric Department in New Delhi hospital in India conducted a randomized control trial of the effects of the Kangaroo mother care method. 28 mother and low birth-weight baby dyads (baby weight less than 1.5 Kg at the time of birth) were assigned either to the control group (incubator or standard open care) or the K group, where the mother kept the baby in touch with her skin for at least 4 hours per day in no more than 3 sittings. 

The authors concluded that:

To read the entire article, please click on the link provided below:

Green Med Info.

Look Within - A Poem by David Carse

Look within

Look within

Unimginable, perfect beauty

In the still, silent heart.

The one perfect blazing radiant Jewel

All that is

What you Are  
True Self

Look and see in the Brilliance.

Nothing to do to know this:

Do not think, and this is known.

When the mind is still

When the mind is not other than the heart

Still, silent, radiant heart.

Look within

Don't miss this!

Don't live a life not seeing, not knowing

This ultimate blinding beauty

Look and be

Do not think - look within - you will know

Who you Are.

David Carse

A Blessing For Peace from John O'Donahue

A Blessing for Peace

 

As the fever of the day calms toward twilight

May all that is strained in us come to ease.

 

We pray for all who suffered violence today,

May an unexpected serenity surprise them.

 

For those who risk their lives

each day for peace,

May their hearts glimpse providence

at the heart of history.

 

That those who make riches

from violence and war

Might hear in their dreams

the cries of the lost.

 

That we might see through

our fear of each other

A new vision to heal

our fatal attraction to aggression.

 

That those who enjoy

the privilege of peace

Might not forget their

tormented brothers and sisters

That the wolf might lie down

With the lamb,

That our swords be beaten

Into plowshares

 

And no hurt or harm be done

Anywhere along the holy mountain.

 

~ John O'Donohue ~

 

I Love You Because - A Guest Post by Pam Bickell

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Notes Along The Path Blog

One Mind, One Body, One Spirit - A Discourse by Christina C. Conti

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Songstress Syren G+