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Sex workers are taking part in the International Women’s Strike (IWS), with women in over 40 countries participating. Read the A declaration from English Collective of Prostitutes and Empower Foundation, endorsed by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP.ORG) issued which puts forth some of the reasons why sex workers are striking:
“On March 8, in the spirit of solidarity as part of the International Women’s Strike, sex workers will strike against poverty, criminalization and stigma, whether by refusing to go to work, charging double rates or by any other action possible.”
The Women’s March on Washington is calling for a ‘Day without A Woman’ on March 8 too, International Women’s Day. The contingent is part of the IWS march in Oakland.
Bring Your Red Umbrellas! :-)
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A woman worker at a construction site in India
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"Bar U cattle literally fed the world. The ranch fed workers building the first transcontinental railway and waves of immigrants flooding to a new land.
It fed Canada’s first Indian reservations, the first patrols of Northwest Mounted Police, our nation through the Great Depression and our soldiers through two World Wars. Bar U Percherons, “the work horses that powered North America,” built our cities and roads and pulled our trolleys and fire wagons, from New York City to Victoria, British Columbia.
One of the first, most successful, most enduring large scale cattle ranching operations in Canada, the Bar U in its hay day ranged 30,000 head of cattle on 160,000 acres of grassland, and was world renowned for its stock of 1,000 purebred Percherons.
Located deep in the southern Alberta foothills, on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, the Bar U, from 1882 to 1950, was a force to be reckoned with. While other large Alberta ranches succeeded for a time only to go out of business, especially after the killer winters of 1886 and 1906, the Mighty Bar U persevered to eventually become a kingpin in a business empire that included a variety of ranches and farming enterprises, as well as meat packing plants and flour mills."
www.friendsofthebaru.com/bar_u_legacy.htm
On 27 September 2020, it was a beautiful, sunny fall day. Three days earlier, I had done a fairly similar drive, but extremely strong winds had forced me to cut short my drive and hasten back home.
There was a reason I really wanted to get down south again yesterday. At the Bar U Ranch, it was time for the Stoney Nakoda camp to be dismantled for the season. This was going to include a ceremony in the afternoon, giving a final blessing before the tipi was taken down, carefully packed up and loaded on to a waiting horse. It was so interesting to witness each stage of this event. The Stoney Nakoda have had a longtime connection with the Bar U Ranch.
"The Stoney Nakoda were absolutely essential to keeping foothills ranches going. In the early part to the 20th century Stoney families would come down and camp at various family ranches and work right alongside the ranch families.” From an article in OkotoksToday, on Jun 29, 2020, describing the setting up of the tipi, and giving other interesting information.
www.okotokstoday.ca/wheels-west/bar-u-ranch-exhibit-pays-...
It took me longer to get down south this time, as I took a wrong turn at one of the new overpasses that are part of the new massive Ring Road around the city. Just a confusing mess. Eventually, I found myself on a familiar road and headed off in such beautiful scenery. On the way home after my Ranch visit, I decided to take a completely different route home, in order to avoid that overpass intersection. It worked well and, as a bonus, I found a few 'new' barns to photograph.
While at the Ranch, I took a number of video clips of the various stages of the tipi ceremony. I will gradually add a few of them, partly because I have always loved the sound of the drums.
The ceremony began with smudging the inside and outside of the tipi. Some of the members entered the tipi and sat in a circle to begin the smudging.
"Although Indigenous nations have their own culturally specific smudging traditions, they typically share certain teachings. For example, all smudging ceremonies require some sort of vessel to carry the medicinal herbs, such as a special container, shell, smudge stick or ball. Burned in small amounts, the herbs contained in the vessel produce smoke that is said to have healing powers and carry the prayers of the people to the Creator. The smoke is wafted over the face and body of the person being smudged, either by a feather (ideally an eagle feather) or by hand. The person guides the smoke towards their body with their hands, inhaling as it comes their way."
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/smudging
After the smudging of the tipi itself, the women removed and bundled up the covering. The poles were then removed. The empty tipi ring on the ground was also smudged. The bundled up covering was lifted on to the back of a waiting horse and taken away. Afterwards, a pleasant wagon ride (carefully socially distanced) led us through the woodland surrounding the empty camp area.
I have always remembered how my father had respected First Nations people. A drawing he did many, many years ago, when I was either a child or a teenager, included a First Nations man in full feather headdress. After my parents and my brother had died, my amazing friends in England sorted through all their belongings and shipped them off to me here in Canada. I kind of hoped that this drawing could just be amongst all the papers, etc. It was! Couldn't believe my eyes.
Like on my visit last year, I enjoyed a chat with Lewis Martin Pederson. He showed me a beautiful leather book cover and an engraved(?) leather picture he has been making for a family member.
Workers on the Melbourne Main Sewer Replacement project celebrate the tunnel boring machine's first break through at the Swallow Street shaft site. The $220 million project will replace a century-old sewer under Melbourne's inner suburbs.
Caption: Armenian industrial workers at Aleppo Barracks.
Citation: Silas and Anna Weaver Hertzler Papers. Middle East Photographs, 1919-1920. HM1-197 Box 19 Folder 2. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
there was this guy just sitting there not working. it wasn't break time
forgot to put the autofocus back on, but it looks pretty cool out of focus.
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The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name of this volcano resembles that of a different volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, also known as Gunung Merapi; there is also a third volcano named Marapi in Sumatra. The name "Merapi" means "fire" in the Indonesian language.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is low-paid and very onerous. Workers earn around $5.50-$8.30 (Rp 50,000 - Rp 75,000) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Pultuding valley to get paid.
Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an east/west-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 metres (1,184 ft), a surface of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).
In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.
Parti gadael Raymond Jones a Keith Willimas yn y Bryn Arms Gellilydan 1995
Raymond Jones & Keith williams ` leaving party at the Bryn Arms Gellilydan 1995
A construction expansion joint on the new flyover being prepared for completion late at night. The Petronas Twin Towers in the background a few kilometres away. A road construction worker on a mid-night shift, completing the expansion joint of a new river bypass and elevated road. The roads are now open and causing a bottleneck around my apartment......the more it justifies for me to get back on the bike.
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A health worker, who has received training under the MCHIP programme, carries out consulations with new and expectant mothers and weighs newborn babies in Marere Hospital in Nampula, Mozambique Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (Kate Holt/MCSP and Jhpiego)
Worker on a ship construction site. Port of Genoa, Italy.
September 2008
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This is a section of a new memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum and is dedicated to railway workers, this is part of the rear panel and the picture is etched on to marble. © All Rights Reserved.
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Deuteronomy 24:19
When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
More than 2,500 essential service workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic have been referred to open child care spaces through the Province’s new child care matching process.
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Veteran migrant worker and his wife camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma
Photographer
Russell Lee
Created
June 1939
Location
Wagoner, Oklahoma
Library of Congress photo
Sex workers are taking part in the International Women’s Strike (IWS), with women in over 40 countries participating. Read the A declaration from English Collective of Prostitutes and Empower Foundation, endorsed by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP.ORG) issued which puts forth some of the reasons why sex workers are striking:
“On March 8, in the spirit of solidarity as part of the International Women’s Strike, sex workers will strike against poverty, criminalization and stigma, whether by refusing to go to work, charging double rates or by any other action possible.”
The Women’s March on Washington is calling for a ‘Day without A Woman’ on March 8 too, International Women’s Day. The contingent is part of the IWS march in Oakland.
Bring Your Red Umbrellas! :-)
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