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Russlands Griff nach Afrika – wo der Kreml überall Soldaten hinschickt https://www.watson.ch/!811216168

Graffiti spotted in Quebec City

Good Idea: Turn Banana Stems into Period pads.
https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-021-01265-w


The focus is always on regular bananas for ripening as a fruit and some varieties such as plantain are ignored yet they are feeding people globally and are a great source of fibre and vitamins

What do we usually do with banana stems?
we can turn these banana stems into high value, highly sought products with great social impact.
Research says that an average medium to large sized stem can
produce 3000 period pads! So instead of letting these fibers go to waste, we can use it as another ressource stream.

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On this day, 20 April 1939, US jazz singer Billie Holiday released the song "Strange Fruit." The song was originally written as a poem by a Jewish songwriter, Abel Meeropol, who wrote it in protest and response to the photo of the lynchings of J. Thomas Shipp, 18, and Abraham S. Smith, 19 in Marion, Indiana.Meeropol performed this poem under a pseudonym, Lewis Allan, with the name "Bitter Fruit" and eventually published this work in a teacher’s union publication under the noscript "Strange Fruit." Meeropol got it handed to a nightclub owner who showed Billie Holiday.Holiday was affected by these lyrics growing up as a Black woman in segregated United States with a father who was killed by the US medical institution for being a Black man after turning him down for lung treatment, eventually killing him at 39.Before a studio release, Holiday performed this song as a finishing piece for her sets at the Café Society Club - the first racially integrated nightclub in NYC. She would sit on a stool with only a mic and spotlight on her as she sang. She would perform no encore and leave the stage for the audience to remember her last words. Holiday performed this to stand against racism in the US knowing the possible result of singing these words.While this song rose her to national prominence, it also made her a target for racist institutional holds to follow her through her life. She was targeted, pursued, and eventually arrested in 1947 on possession of narcotics charges. After being imprisoned for a year, she was barred from ever receiving a cabaret performer’s license. Through all this, "Strange Fruit'' resonates for those personally affected and holds a reminder for listeners of the racist history in the United States and the trauma brought on by this racism that continues today.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12659/strange-fruit-releasedTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo

Good idea: paint against malaria

https://good-search.org/about/en/project/plastic-2-paint/

Most people in West Africa do not get their drinking water from the pipe at home but buy water packaged in “sachets”, thin plastic bags. After use, the sachets end up in the garbage – or the countryside. The student-led social startup P2P from the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria tackles this problem. They use plastic as a raw material to produce a high-quality wall paint – Plastic to Paint. This reduces the environmental impact and makes efficient use of scarce raw materials.

The student founders go one step further: They add a natural insect repellent made from orange peel. That is truly innovative. The additive is unlikely to provide protection forever. But the students could prove its effectiveness already for at least 6 months.

TIL from 2014 to 2019 Flint, Michigan was exposed to contaminated water, leaving 12000 children exposed to lead, 79 lawsuits, 12 deaths, 4 firings, 4 resignations, and one conviction in which the convicted was given just one-year probation. [source, comments]

Song of the Day 🚫🐐: https://song.link/d/128095829

TIL that there are over 20,000 species of edible plants in the world, but only 20 make up 90% of humans' food. [source, comments]