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Die Kontroverse um das Schicksal der ältesten Schweizer Wölfin

Der Kanton Graubünden will die älteste Wölfin der Schweiz dem Bündner Naturmuseum in Chur zur Verfügung stellen.  F07 ist von öffentlichem Interesse und entsprechend der Öffentlichkeit mit Eintrittsgeld zugängig zu machen, argumentiert der Kanton. Die Wolfshirten finden, dass die Wölfin Akbara (F07) etwas Besseres verdient hat, als seelenloses Wesen in einem Museum zu versauern, insbesondere da…

[dduane]

A YouTube thought

I've been binging this gentleman's videos for some days now. If you like train travel, or ferry travel, this is for you.

It's quiet travel. You won't hear Kuga's voice and you won't see his face. But you will see where he goes and what he sees, and what he eats and drinks. The subtitles reveal quiet enthusiasm about just about everything, a dry wit, and a gentle sense of humor.

My favorites so far: the Stove Train—a tiny Japanese "nostalgia`' service running on a little local train line somewhere out in the back of beyond, where they'll grill your dried squid on a coal-fired stove—and a luxury sleeper train running through snowy country. (There's also a much longer version of this. Extremely restful.) Kuga also travels on international trains in the US and Canada, and in Europe.

Very soft-spoken (so to speak) virtual tourism: highly recommended.

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Marìa Reina. Las letanìas Lauretanas nos lo explican

 María, como es Madre del Rey, la honramos como a la Reina Madre. Continue reading Untitled

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I.8.6 What did the agricultural collectives accomplish?

Most basically, self-management in collectives combined with co-operation in rural federations allowed an improvement in quality of rural life. From a purely economic viewpoint, production increased and as historian Benjamin Martin summarises: “Though it is impossible to generalise about the rural land take-overs, there is little doubt that the quality of life for most peasants who participated in co-operatives and collectives notably improved.” [The Agony of Modernisation, p. 394] Another historian, Antony Beevor, notes that ”[i]n terms of production and improved standards for the peasants, the self-managed collectives appear to have been successful. They also seem to have encouraged harmonious community relations.” [The Spanish Civil War, p. 95]

More importantly, however, this improvement in the quality of life included an increase in freedom as well as in consumption. To re-quote the member of the Beceite collective in Aragón: “it was marvellous .. . to live in a collective, a free society where one could say what one thought, where if the village committee seemed unsatisfactory one could say. The committee took no big decisions without calling the whole village together in a general assembly. All this was wonderful.” [quoted by Ronald Fraser, Blood of Spain, p. 288] As Beevor suggests, “self-managed collectives were much happier when no better off than before. What mattered was that the labourers ran their own collectives — a distinct contrast to the disasters of state collectivisation in the Soviet Union.” [Op. Cit., p. 95] Here are a few examples provided by Jose Peirats:

“In Montblanc the collective dug up the old useless vines and planted new vineyards. The land, improved by modern cultivation with tractors, yielded much bigger and better crops … Many Aragón collectives built new roads and repaired old ones, installed modern flour mills, and processed agricultural and animal waste into useful industrial products. Many of these improvements were first initiated by the collectives. Some villages, like Calanda, built parks and baths. Almost all collectives established libraries, schools, and cultural centres.” [The Anarchist Collectives, p. 116]

Gaston Leval pointed out that “the Peasant Federation of Levant … produced more than half of the total orange crop in Spain: almost four million kilos (1 kilo equals about 2 and one-fourth pounds). It then transported and sold through its own commercial organisation (no middlemen) more than 70% of the crop. (The Federation’s commercial organisation included its own warehouses, trucks, and boats. Early in 1938 the export section established its own agencies in France: Marseilles, Perpignan, Bordeaux, Cherbourg, and Paris.) Out of a total of 47,000 hectares in all Spain devoted to rice production, the collective in the Province of Valencia cultivated 30,000 hectares.” [Op. Cit., p. 124] To quote Peirats again:

“Preoccupation with cultural and pedagogical innovations was an event without precedent in rural Spain. The Amposta collectivists organised classes for semi-literates, kindergartens, and even a school of arts and professions. The Seros schools were free to all neighbours, collectivists or not. Grau installed a school named after its most illustrious citizen, Joaquin Costa. The Calanda collective (pop. only 4,500) schooled 1,233 children. The best students were sent to the Lyceum in Caspe, with all expenses paid by the collective. The Alcoriza (pop. 4,000) school was attended by 600 children. Many of the schools were installed in abandoned convents. In Granadella (pop. 2,000), classes were conducted in the abandoned barracks of the Civil Guards. Graus organised a print library and a school of arts and professions, attended by 60 pupils. The same building housed a school of fine arts and high grade museum. In some villages a cinema was installed for the first time. The Penalba cinema was installed in a church. Viladecana built an experimental agricultural laboratory. [Op. Cit., p. 116]

Peirats summed up the accomplishments of the agricultural collectives as follows:

“In distribution the collectives’ co-operatives eliminated middlemen, small merchants, wholesalers, and profiteers, thus greatly reducing consumer prices. The collectives eliminated most of the parasitic elements from rural life, and would have wiped them out altogether if they were not protected by corrupt officials and by the political parties. Non-collectivised areas benefited indirectly from the lower prices as well as from free services often rendered by the collectives (laundries, cinemas, schools, barber and beauty parlours, etc.).” [Op. Cit., p. 114]

Leval emphasised the following achievements (among others):

“In the agrarian collectives solidarity was practised to the greatest degree. Not only was every person assured of the necessities, but the district federations increasingly adopted the principle of mutual aid on an inter-collective scale. For this purpose they created common reserves to help out villages less favoured by nature. In Castile special institutions for this purpose were created. In industry this practice seems to have begun in Hospitalet, on the Catalan railways, and was applied later in Alcoy. Had the political compromise not impeded open socialisation, the practices of mutual aid would have been much more generalised … A conquest of enormous importance was the right of women to livelihood, regardless of occupation or function. In about half of the agrarian collectives, the women received the same wages as men; in the rest the women received less, apparently on the principle that they rarely live alone … In all the agrarian collectives of Aragón, Catalonia, Levant, Castile, Andalusia, and Estremadura, the workers formed groups to divide the labour or the land; usually they were assigned to definite areas. Delegates elected by the work groups met with the collective’s delegate for agriculture to plan out the work. This typical organisation arose quite spontaneously, by local initiative … In addition … the collective as a whole met in weekly, bi-weekly or monthly assembly … The assembly reviewed the activities of the councillors it named, and discussed special cases and unforeseen problems. All inhabitants — men and women, producers and non-producers — took part in the discussion and decisions … In land cultivation the most significant advances were: the rapidly increased use of machinery and irrigation; greater diversification; and forestation. In stock raising: the selection and multiplication of breeds; the adaptation of breeds to local conditions; and large-scale construction of collective stock barns.” [Op. Cit., pp. 166–167]

Collectivisation, as Graham Kelsey notes, “allowed a rationalisation of village societies and a more efficient use of the economic resources available. Instead of carpenters and bricklayers remaining idle because no wealthy landowner had any use for their services they were put to work constructing agricultural facilities and providing the villages with the kind of social amenities which until then they had scarcely been able to imagine.” [Anarchosyndicalism, Libertarian Communism and the State, p. 169] Martha A. Ackelsberg sums up the experience well:

“The achievements of these collectives were extensive. In many areas they maintained, if not increased, agricultural production [not forgetting that many young men were at the front line], often introducing new patterns of cultivation and fertilisation … collectivists built chicken coups, barns, and other facilities for the care and feeding of the community’s animals. Federations of collectives co-ordinated the construction of roads, schools, bridges, canals and dams. Some of these remain to this day as lasting contributions of the collectives to the infrastructure of rural Spain. The collectivists also arranged for the transfer of surplus produce from wealthier collectives to those experiencing shortages, either directly from village to village or through mechanisms set up by regional committees.” [The Free Women of Spain, pp. 106–7]

As well as this inter-collective solidarity, the rural collectives also supplied food to the front-line troops:

“The collectives voluntarily contributed enormous stocks of provisions and other supplies to the fighting troops. Utiel sent 1,490 litres of oil and 300 bushels of potatoes to the Madrid front (in addition to huge stocks of beans, rice, buckwheat, etc.). Porales de Tujana sent great quantities of bread, oil, flour, and potatoes to the front, and eggs, meat, and milk to the military hospital. “The efforts of the collectives take on added significance when we take into account that their youngest and most vigorous workers were fighting in the trenches. 200 members of the little collective of Vilaboi were at the front; from Viledecans, 60; Amposta, 300; and Calande, 500.” [Jose Peirats, The Anarchist Collectives, p. 120]

Therefore, as well as significant economic achievements, the collectives ensured social and political ones too. Solidarity was practised and previously marginalised people took direct and full management of the affairs of their communities, transforming them to meet their own needs and desires.

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Haldensteiner Calanda 2805m

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La rompida de la hora

This custom, which translates to "the breaking of the hour" is an Easter tradition in many towns and villages of the Bajo Aragón. It consists of people gathering at the town square with drums, and at a certain hour of the day, everyone plays them.

This commemorates the death of Jesus Christ, and it's usually done on the night from Thursday to Friday, except for in Calanda and L'Alcora (Valencian Country), which is done on Friday at noon.

Here is a video from 2017 on this tradition:

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Luis Buñuel, el visionario surrealista.

Luis Buñuel Portolés, nacido el 22 de febrero de 1900 en Calanda, España, fue un director de cine español que, tras el exilio de la guerra civil, se nacionalizó mexicano y que ha sido considerado por muchos críticos, historiadores y directores como uno de los cineastas más grandes e influyentes de todos los tiempos. Fue el primogénito de siete hermanos. Su infancia y adolescencia transcurrieron…

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Calanda. MILAGROS EUCARISTICOS. Exposición Internacional del Beato Carlo...

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Tamaulipas entre los 10 Estados más seguros

  Según los datos de las Mesas Ciudadanas de Seguridad y Justicia, Tamaulipas se ubica entre los diez estados mas seguros de México Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas.- El Coordinador Estatal de Mesas Ciudadanas de Seguridad y Justicia en Tamaulipas, José Calanda Montelongo, señaló que actualmente Tamaulipas se encuentra entre los 10 Estados más seguros del país. “Estamos entre los diez estados más seguros…

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Le ciné-club du samedi  : Juan Luis Buñuel " Un chien andalou " 1929

Juan Luis Buñuel réalisateur et scénariste espagnol (naturalisé mexicain) est une figure emblématique du cinéma non seulement ibérique mais mondial ! Né le 22 février 1900 à Calanda, en Aragon, Espagne, il est un des des premiers cinéaste ” du mouvement surréaliste “. Ami de Dali il fait a connaissance de Lorca mais s’il est proche du premier, il n’aime pas le second : sa poésie comme son…

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Röviden: 😀😀😀

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Älteste Wölfin der Schweiz ist tot

Das Alter des Tieres wird auf 13 bis 14 Jahre geschätzt. Im Juni 2011 konnten erste Spuren von F07 im Oberwallis nachgewiesen werden. Seit Herbst 2011 lebte die Wölfin im Kanton Graubünden. Am Montag, 14. August 2023, musste die kantonale Wildhut ein ausgewachsenes, stark abgemagertes Wolfsweibchen, welches sich untertags in Siedlungsnähe aufhielt und bei mehreren Begegnungen mit Menschen keine…

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From Carlos Fuentes

[Virginia,] 11 September 1974

My dear Luis, Your congratulatory telegram gave us almost as much joy as the birth of our daughter. To you and Jeanne, our very profound thanks for such a kind gesture. Distinguishing features of the little one: Natalia, nine pounds, hair the colour of midnight, skin like a camellia. If she inherits her mother’s blue eyes, you should put her under contract right now for the film you’ll be making in 1994 (if cinema still exists, if the world still exists and George Orwell’s prophecies have not come true).

I hope you’ll be able to send me a few lines about The Phantom of Liberty. Over here, they’ve just started a Buñuel season in the American Film Institute at the Kennedy Center and I’m sending a cutting about it from The Washington Post (the paper that brought down a president!).

Yesterday, I got to the 1033rd page of the draft of the El Escorial novel. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel after seven years’ labour, and I’ll be back in Mexico in January with the finished draft. I really want you to read it before I hand it over to the printer and into unknown hands. After all (and I say this in the prologue), this vast tome was inspired by conversations I had with you and Gironella in the café at the Gare de Lyon. I’m very satisfied with what I’ve written: the novel is a true ghost of the eternal Spain, royal courts with tormented kings, mad queens, idiotic princes, flatulent dwarves, flagellants, heretics, inquisitors, scheming secretaries, monks racked with doubt, howling nuns, rebellious fantasists, hawks and Spanish bulldogs, and partial reincarnations of Don Juan, Quijote and Celestina, who never get to fulfil their destiny or write their books. You’ll forgive me if the most ‘positive’ character, or at least the most likeable member of that witches’ sabbath, is an Aragonese student and native of Calanda called Ludovico who is blind by choice: having decided to shut his eyes and keep them shut until the world changes.

Silvia and the children send kisses to you and Jeanne; and I send a hug full of my old and unwavering friendship from,

[Carlos Fuentes]

Jo Evans & Breixo Viejo, Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters

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Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro siglo XV

 Patrona de los Padres Redentoristas y cuyo icono original está en el altar mayor de la Iglesia de San Alfonso. Esta imagen recuerda el cuidado de la Virgen por Jesús, desde su concepción hasta su muerte, y que hoy sigue protegiendo a sus hijos que acuden a ella. Continue reading Untitled

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Indispensable la USJT para tener una buena policía: Calanda Montelongo

“El gobernador Américo Villarreal tiene un plan excelente en cuanto a salarios, prestaciones y reclutamiento para tener policías certificados”, dijo el coordinador estatal de las Mesas Ciudadana de Seguridad Agosto 16 de 2023 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. – El coordinador de las Mesas Ciudadanas de Seguridad y Justicia, José Calanda Montelongo, calificó como indispensable la función que realiza…