Elephant Sculptures Traveling Across Globe

CoExistence—an environmental art installation of 100 life-sized lantana elephant sculptures that are making their way into many countries.

A total of eight separate herds were on public display have been located in London. 

Hand-crafted by Indigenous communities in the jungles of Tamil Nadu, they carry a message that encourages people to change the way we live by coexisting with the wildlife and nature around us.

https://mymodernmet.com/coexistence-elephant-sculpture-herd/?fbclid=IwAR0BSR9ivnvjvjVN0KLf59h-1YSUCVLDqqPAXuogyir7IphjV6lTTTn-Isg

Sexist and Transphobic Actions at the Olympics

Inadequate childcare accommodations, rules and distractions and interference concerning attire, and testosterone limits highlight the extra-athletic hurdles that women are facing at the Olympics that men don't have to experience.

https://www.them.us/story/tokyo-olympics-sexism-transphobia?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=them&utm_mailing=THEM_Weekly_080721&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5d39db003f92a46d42c2277f&cndid=54218730&hasha=61c7940b8bbcceae11d31534b84d3d71&hashb=8294910e08199edd2867fb94e1f49e112d04f3b5&hashc=7d16152efcc93b32d8f7501161e84279f43904817f332acc76e9d7ecfd22bc36&esrc=tnv_swps_wildfang%3F&utm_content=Final&utm_term=THEM_Daily&fbclid=IwAR0jotwRxK4sESbnjAnShiYv8sb-gg4x_bAt45nO1d_HGb1jqVfESGtmZZI

McCarthy: Joke to Use Violence Against Women

In hierarchies, violence has always been a primary means to control lower groups.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is a perfect example of how hierarchical men view violence against women: as an option and a joke. 

He joked at a Saturday night event that it "will be hard not to hit" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the speaker's gavel if Republicans take control of the chamber in the 2022 midterms and he becomes speaker.

We all can surmise that he would not have said that if Nancy Pelosi were a male.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-nancy-pelosi-gavel/index.html 

Nez Perce Return to Homelands

On Thursday, more than 150 Nez Perce (Niimiipuu) people returned and blessed part of their homeland, a hundred years after the U.S Army drove them from the Wallowa Valley in eastern Oregon. 

In direct violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla, the Nez Perce in 1877 were forced from their 7.5 million-acre homeland to a 750,000-acre reservation in Idaho.

The Nez Perce tribe purchased a 148-acre property in Joseph, known as Am'sáaxpa, or Place of Boulders, in December but could not formally perform a blessing ceremony until Thursday due to COVID-19 concerns. 

Surrounded by the Wallowa Mountains, the property rights include the house near Airport Road built in 1884, barns, grassland and Wallowa River frontage where the Nez Perce would camp and catch sockeye salmon. 

It also includes the ridge where Chief Joseph once held council.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2021/07/29/oregon-nez-perce-tribe-celebrate-reclaimed-reservation-land-history-treaty-chief-joseph-amsaaxpa/5424269001/