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What does this Indy do now?
Originally written: Sept 19, 2019 Updated: Jan 1, 2024 — The following words are evermore important as the world becomes increasingly more and more politically polarized “Stay independent of mind even if you work within a system. Learn to navigate through organisations without surrendering your youthful ideals. Always be sceptical of the declarations of those Continue reading
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Diane Walsh’s page – “Who I am & what I do”
Welcome to my Blog! …Well more like an overall info page about what you might like to know about me in the ‘reportage’ field. I am usually based on the West Coast whilst the Canadian political landscape remains an active hub for me. I have history in the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), (CAJ), (FPA) Continue reading
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Why did the Russians name this current vessel, “Keila” — currently off the Gulf of Finland?
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:2420192/mmsi:273353190/imo:8845250/vessel:KEILA Continue reading
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Ship KEILA – “tramp steamer” WWII
As my erudite colleague recounts: “Ship KEILA, what you would call a tramp steamer and ubiquitous for the time, but lovely all the same. Those ships went everywhere with everything imaginable.” KEILA was an early-20th-century steam cargo ship that carried several names and owners over its life. It was built in England in 1905 (as Continue reading
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Review of Short Story
Diane Walsh’s short story, “Random Train Love”, offers a reflective and poetic account of a solo journey aboard Amtrak’s Empire Builder, traversing the American landscape from the Pacific Northwest to Washington, D.C. The narrative unfolds through the lens of a traveler who finds solace and spiritual connection in the passing scenery, the rhythm of the Continue reading
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Salman Rushdie’s novel Quichotte (2020)
By Diane Walsh (c) mediageode …Quichotte, an aspiring writer, navigates a world where the reader is taken on a roller coaster ride through a technicolour of emotion in order to enable us to transform realities and thereby “reclaiming a space” (366). Continue reading
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Author Jordy Rosenberg’s bold take on an old legend — Jack Sheppard
By Diane Walsh (c) Mediageode Continue reading
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Public arts and media access
Feb 21 – 2024 Lack of press freedom at The Louvre Paris, France https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/28/we-wont-come-again-dazed-visitors-fed-up-with-overcrowded-louvre-paris Continue reading
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Merchant Mariners of WWII Congressional Gold Medal – my Grandad honored
John Myles Wilson, known as John M. Wilson #JohnMylesWilson #MerchantMariner hashtag on X @dwalshmedia #Keila Family Received: June 16, 2023 First Class Mail, containing, -Merchant Mariners of WWII Congressional Gold Medal for: “John M. Wilson” -Congressional Gold Coin – front & back (see image below) -Official letter in Blue envelope from U.S. Department of Transportation, Continue reading
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Veterans Affairs Canada – a wonderful day!
Veterans Affairs Canada, Charlottetown, PE April 18, 2023 CANADA records: I am incredibly proud to report today that I have received in the mail this full document (39 pages) from VA 🇨🇦 on -Merchant Mariner-John-Myles-Wilson-b.1914-06-24–d.1987-08-03 which commemorates my maternal grandfather’s life as a Merchant Mariner during WWII including his medals and career sequence (on file Continue reading
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FGM/C narrative (received Oct 22, 2019) Credit: Weta Pichu – Jacqueline
Posted publicly March 27, 2023 Name of receiver(s) upon request, with permission Transcription info available at the end of narrative Weta Pichu Jacqueline Sequence 2 01:00:00Start Tape 01:00:00Jacqueline I’m 16 years old. I come from Maasai community from Lodoklani. I come from Lodoklani, yeah in [indecipherable] 01:00:21Jacqueline I was in this school currently. And then Continue reading
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A look back at LIN through the years
An exceptional and inspirational human being, much loved – DW Dale’s 80th birthday celebrated at BCGEU Check out #LowerIslandNews on Twitter for original tweets – @lowerislandnews Blog is still up at lowerislandnews.com Archived – Project by Diane Walsh https://archive-it.org/collections/4656 Continue reading
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Archive – The suggestion of Jewish heritage
My Gélinas (Bellemare) Ancestral history Hortense’s ‘maiden’ name is (her father’s family name) Bellemare Hortense’s father was Joseph Onésime Bellemare (see archive below in Quebec Act). He signed off as “Joseph Bellemare” if you look at the end but in the text he is referred to by his full name. Hortense’s father, Joseph’s, mother’s name, Continue reading
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Activism Anthropology
You can find the neatest things on Reddit — Activism Anthropology — explained modestly well for the newcomer. Comment byu/mustCRAFT from discussion inAnthropology Oxford reference says, “The practice of collaborative research and action with (typically, but not always, socially marginalized) people involved in a political struggle”. Okay, let’s start there. Does this activism count? https://indydianewalsh.com/2015/12/10/the-belugas-culture-shock/ Continue reading
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Free Falling by anonymous — Sept 26, 2022 #mediageode (c) 2022
FREE FALLING by anonymous Suddenly our shifting shape Morphs into another arrogant ape And from our Alpine canopy Short falls become our destiny Mountains and jungles share common floors Where creatures poor and flightless lark And canopy heights are beyond the snark Of jealous eye and sabre tooth And newly fattened, the ape has fallen Ungenerous Continue reading
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Medal Listing – Merchant Marine
April 18, 2023 I am incredibly proud to report today that I have received in the mail this full document from VA 🇨🇦 on John-Myles-Wilson-1914-06-24 which commemorates my maternal grandfather’s life as a Merchant Mariner during WWII including his medals and career sequence. Plus John Myles Wilson’s Ship Movement Records, Convoy Operations during WWII #Keila Continue reading
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Anthropologist’s dream reading list
Biodiversity cries for TLC! There is current interest in the concept that biodiversity in cities amid sprawling development – needs space. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/flying-insects-have-declined-by-60-percent-in-the-uk-survey-finds It’s not trite to say it. Biodiversity needs green space. Biodiversity needs more green-space. How do we do that? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/25/butterfly-species-uk-vulnerable-extinction-conservation-red-list We must ask, “What are the influences determining the spacial relationships between humans Continue reading
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Keila Ship Records – WWI to WWII
For additional archives https://twitter.com/dwalshmedia/status/638372842841571328?s=21 Source: https://warsailors.com/convoys/ob288.html https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/keila.323449/ https://www.naval-history.net/WW1Book-MN2a.htm https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/mha_mercant/id/42165/ Continue reading
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#Keila (Br) – The Keila Ship Movements, 1939-1945
#Keila https://t.co/UDRwUfyOy5 pic.twitter.com/oAVgqAnanz — Keilaarchivist (@dwalshmedia) September 19, 2022 Continue reading
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#FreeHongKong – the path of Non-Violent Resistance
See below, scroll down – for the quotation I mentioned this week 11/10/19 on Twitter @dwalshmedia provided by a recent Hong Kong resident about protesters being criticized for disrupting worker commute. November 12, 2019 – At this time Hong Kong or HKSAR is understood to be Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC People’s Continue reading
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#AntiFGMGlobal updates and The Global Call to Action to End FGM/FGC endorsement
See All publications Tab on this blog for 2020- 2021 updates Mediageode endorses (page 10 of 18): “700 civil society organisations and activists from 79 countries endorsed our campaign letter calling on the leaders of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Gender-based Violence (GBV) to commit to ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child, early Continue reading
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Hiding the Horrible – Unwittingly eating horsemeat
Art by Diane Walsh Artistic depiction of horses destined for slaughter crammed in a pen When I was in the Marais district in Paris in early spring 2014 I ate ‘Steak Tartare’, accidentally ingesting horsemeat. I digested horse meat not realizing it – what a shock it was! Needless to say I was violently ill Continue reading
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My Favourite Anthropologists
Standing up for Perspectivism! DRAFT ESSAY Ontological_Turn_essay_Perspectivism_ Continue reading
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Dolphin Reflections – Perspectivism
https://tiddletaddle.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/dolphin-reflections-perspectvism/ Continue reading
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The Beluga’s Culture Shock
https://x.com/janischshane/status/1920837774845804550?s=12 They should be free, not forced to live in a tank and entertain people. #EmptyTheTanks pic.twitter.com/ZV2rKGKhJ3 — World Animal Protection US (@MoveTheWorldUS) April 7, 2023 The Beluga’s Culture Shock By Diane Walsh Seeing the world through the ‘Bubble’— Musings from East Scotland. Culture shock is something usually associated with a person feeling a sense Continue reading
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Notable anti-FGM policing work (UK, 2015)
West Midlands Police and Crime Panel Secretariat 0121 464 6871 westmidlandspcp.co.uk @westmidspcp U.S. based final document produced by Global Woman P.E.A.C.E Foundation (on X @1globalwoman) has international references. Continue reading
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Official support of HE. M. Moller – Director General of the UN at Geneva
In picture above – UNOG’s DG (middle), co-founders of the GAFGM Holger Postulart and Elizabeth Wilson (right), 2 GAFGM Goodwill Ambassadors Captain Christine de St Genois GA-FGM’s Ambassador to the United Nations, and Pat “Halfmoon” Bruderer GAFGM’s Ambassador in Canada (left). Pat is the first Aboriginal woman to step into the cause, she said. FGM Continue reading
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Battle lines and battle scars — FGM Education 101
May 1, 2015 – Dr. Morissanda Kouyate’s statement here. The last two weeks of April 2015 saw the ground break in the global fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The regressive and regrettable article in The Atlantic, entitled ‘Why Some Women Choose to Get Circumcised‘, is causing a major uproar on Twitter. From the hidden Continue reading
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Global Woman P.E.A.C.E Foundation connection and friendship 2014 – today
Awards https://www.gwpfnd.org/awards Annual Report 2021 https://globalwomanpeacefoundation.org/category/103018/ Continue reading
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We are the ones who can’t be ignored
Walkers took to the U.S. Capital to raise awareness about Female Genital Mutilation November 8 2014 By Diane Walsh – Washington DC A momentous event took place in the U.S. capital city last weekend which I can confidently describe as nothing other than ground-breaking. A first of its kind in the Washington DC area was Continue reading
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Are rail passengers getting fracked by Big Oil? By Diane Walsh, November 4, 2014
Amtrak is doing its best in the face of challenges presented by fracking boom in North Dakota. In Wisconsin there have been previous reports of freight train crews coming to the end of their shift and simply abandoning the train on the rail line. When they’ve finished their shift, off they go, but with Continue reading
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Twitter handle @dwalshmedia Tweet me there!
My X (Twitter) address to reach me: @dwalshmedia If you have any queries, story tips or would like to add a comment you can email mediageode AT yahoo DOT com and reach me directly. Continue reading
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February 6, 2011 International Day on Zero Tolerance
Say No! to Female Genital Mutilation Female Genital Mutilation is a heinous crime still perpetrated against girls. On February 6 2011, throughout the day, the entire world is being asked to chant in unison a resounding, “NO to FGM!” with all activists against female genital mutilation. This is the date marking the 8th International Day Continue reading
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Vancouver Observer – fave publication
Some oldies but goodies Continue reading
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“Here There but Nowhere”
By Diane Walsh Short Story / Prose Glittery décor on pink houses in small-town America…certainly not the dream anymore. Not April Swath’s dream life anyway. That much was clear to her now. Sometime near Christmas, a forty-something Middle American femme with her nose out of joint, sat upright at her marble kitchen island. Something has Continue reading
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Book: Private 411
Abortion Rhetoric: The Silence of Experience Continue reading
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Municipal wars
An Unusual Election Climate – Lower Island News, September-October 2008 (Print Edition) Continue reading
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Social schism, journalistic angst
2024 Posted to well-known job website Nov 27 2024 2023 The Guardian January 15, 2023 This preamble is a blog post about what happens behind the scenes to unpublished stories. Green Party leader speaks to Anglican same-sex issues from a human rights perspective This summer 2007 — on the heels of the Winnipeg Anglican Synod Continue reading
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The Tiger Lillies
A Radical Interview with MARTYN JACQUES OF THE TIGER LILLIES, Founder of the British Musical Trio Diane Walsh, October 12, 2007 FULL-LENGTH VERSION (c)Mediageode 2008 ⬇️ Diane Walsh: Vancouver Island-Canada has received many visits from The Queen. The Island is a favourite of hers. Has Victoria and the West Coast been a similar curiosity for you all? Martyn Jacques: I Continue reading
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