Spanish dictator Franco’s mass graves uncovered


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This video says about itself:

Exhumations, Memory, and the Return of Civil War Ghosts in Spain

21 May 2014

Francisco Ferrandiz, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Since 2000, the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and the Post-War years, mostly involving the largely abandoned graves of civilians killed in the Francoist rearguard by paramilitary groups, has become a central element in contemporary social and political debates in the country about the nature of the armed conflict and the dictatorial regime following it. Although exhumations have become a crucial tool for symbolic reparation and have triggered claims for justice for the crimes committed and now unearthed, the social process unleashed by their opening is way larger, and relates to the emergence of a fragmented and heterogeneous political culture focused on the memory of the defeated in the war. This emergent political culture is expressed in multiple…

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Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Any Different – YOU MATTER


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Some people want to remain fools because the truth requires change.


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Tribute to Every Human Working to Create Peace


 

 

 

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PEACE

 

Quiet yourself.

Reach out with your mind’s skillful hand.

Let it go inside of me

and touch God.

 

Don’t

be shy, dear.

Every aspect of Light we are meant

to know.

 

The calm hand holds more

than baskets of goods

from the market.

 

The calm soul knows more

than anything this world

can offer from her

beautiful

womb.   — St. John of the Cross

 

 

 

 

keep people in your life who

 

 

THE SUMMONS

 

“Each moment from all sides rushes to us

The summons of Love.

Do you want to come with us?

This is not the time to stay at home

But to go our and give yourself to the garden…    —Rumi

 

 

 

 

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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”   —Amelia Earhart

 

 

 

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always


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I did not carry you in my womb

nay, you are not from me

yet you are of me

let my love be mother’s milk to you

take the offered nourishment

and as it strenghtens you

it strengthens me

love and acceptance

always

~Melanie Blackwell

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