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Here is the chart for Sanna Mirella Marin (Finnish pronunciation: [?s?n?? ?mirel?? ?m?ri?n]; born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Finland since 10 December 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), she has been a member of the Parliament of Finland since 2015 and briefly served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 6 June to 10 December 2019. Following Antti Rinne's resignation in the wake of the 2019 postal strike, Marin was selected as Prime Minister on 8 December 2019.

Taking office at age 34, she is the youngest person to hold the office in Finnish history,as well as currently the world's second-youngest state leader, after Giacomo Simoncini, who has been Captain Regent of San Marino since 2021. 

Early life and education

Sanna Mirella Marin was born on 16 November 1985 in Helsinki. She also lived in Espoo and Pirkkala before moving to Tampere. Her parents split up when she was very young; the family faced financial problems and Marin's father, Lauri Marin, struggled with alcoholism. After her biological parents separated, Marin was brought up by her mother and her mother's female partner.

Marin graduated from the Pirkkala High School in 2004 at the age of 19. Marin joined the Social Democratic Youth in 2006 and was its first Vice President from 2010 to 2012. She worked in a bakery and as a cashier while studying, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees in Administrative Science from the University of Tampere.

Early political career

Social Democratic Party

Marin's political career was described by the BBC as "beginning at the age of 20",[8] in the years following her high school graduation and beginning her affiliation with the Social Democratic Youth. She initially unsuccessfully ran for election to the City Council of Tampere, but was elected in the 2012 elections. She became chairperson of the City Council within months, serving from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, she was re-elected to the City Council. She first gained prominence after video clips of her chairing contentious meetings were shared on YouTube.

Marin was elected second deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 2014. In 2015, she was elected to the Finnish Parliament as an MP from the electoral district of Pirkanmaa.[18] Four years later, she was re-elected. On 6 June 2019, she became the Minister of Transport and Communications.

On 23 August 2020, Marin was elected chair of the SDP, succeeding Antti Rinne.

In December 2019, Marin was nominated by the Social Democratic Party to succeed Antti Rinne as the Prime Minister of Finland, but Rinne formally remained party leader until June 2020. In a narrow vote, Marin prevailed over Antti Lindtman. A majority of the ministers in her five-party cabinet are women, numbering 12 out of 19 at the time of the cabinet's formation. She is the third female head of government in Finland, after Anneli Jäätteenmäki and Mari Kiviniemi.

Upon her confirmation by Parliament at the age of 34, she became Finland's youngest-ever prime minister, and was the youngest serving state leader until Sebastian Kurz regained the title in January 2020.

During the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marin's cabinet invoked the state of emergency in Finland to alleviate the epidemic. When Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven could not attend a European Council meeting in October 2020 because of his mother's funeral, Marin stepped in to represent Sweden. In return, Marin asked Löfven to represent Finland at a Council meeting later that month.

On 25 May 2021, Finnish media reported that Marin and her family were paying about €300 per month for groceries with public funds as a part of the Prime Minister's tax-free housing benefits. The legality of the arrangement was questioned since the housing benefits do not explicitly include food provisions. Later, it[clarification needed] was found to be €850 per month.

In December 2021, Marin was criticised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case. She had been told that going out in public was permitted due to her having been vaccinated. Once she had been texted that this was not the case, she got tested and apologised on Facebook.
   
Personal life

In January 2018, Marin and her fiancé, Markus Räikkönen, had a daughter, Emma.] In August 2020, Marin and Räikkönen married at the prime minister's official residence, Kesäranta.Their permanent residence is in the Kaleva district of Tampere, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they have resided at Kesäranta. She has explained that, if it was up to her, she would move to the countryside.

Marin describes herself as coming from a "rainbow family", as she was raised by same-sex parents. She was the first person in her family to attend university.

Marin is a vegetarian.

In October 2020, Marin took part in a photo shoot for the Finnish magazine Trendi in which she wore a blazer with nothing underneath. It generated much public controversy, with critics accusing her of tastelessness and demeaning her office, and others defending her and accusing the critics of sexism.

Awards

Marin was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020. On 9 December 2020, she was selected by Forbes to rank 85th on the list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2020 she became a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Marin was selected for the cover of the prestigious Time magazine's "Time100 Next" theme issue, which showcases one hundred influential leaders from around the world.

Her natal Lilith is 28 Sagittarius, N.Node 14 Sagittarius, S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 19 Taurus, N.Node 22 Taurus, and the S.Node 22 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Vanessa Nakate (born 15 November 1996) is a Ugandan climate justice activist. She grew up in Kampala and became a celebrity in December 2018 after becoming concerned about the unusually high temperatures in her country.

Early life

Nakate grew up in the Ugandan capital, Kampala neighborhood. Nakate graduated with a business administration in marketing degree from Makerere University Business School.

Actions for the climate

Inspired by Greta Thunberg to start her own climate movement in Uganda, Nakate began a solitary strike against inaction on the climate crisis in January 2019. For several months she was the lone protester outside of the gates of the Parliament of Uganda. Eventually, other youth began to respond to her calls on social media for others to help draw attention to the plight of the Congolian rainforests. Nakate founded the Youth for Future Africa and the likewise Africa-based Rise Up Movement.

In December 2019, Nakate was one of a handful of youth activists to speak at the COP25 gathering in Spain.

In early January 2020, she joined around 20 other youth climate activists from around the world to publish a letter to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, calling on companies, banks and governments to immediately stop subsidizing fossil fuels. She was one of five international delegates invited by Arctic Basecamp to camp with them in Davos during the World Economic Forum; the delegates later joined a climate march on the last day of the Forum.

In October 2020, Nakate gave a speech at the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture urging world leaders to "wake up" and recognise climate change as a crisis, tying it to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence against women and girls. "Climate change is a nightmare that affects every sector of our lives," she stated. "How can we eradicate poverty without looking at this crisis? How can we achieve zero hunger if climate change is leaving millions of people with nothing to eat? We are going to see disaster after disaster, challenge after challenge, suffering after suffering (...) if nothing is done about this." She also called for leaders to "leave their comfort zones and see the danger we are in and do something about it. This is a matter of life and death."

Nakate started the Green Schools Project, a renewable energy initiative, which aims to transition schools in Uganda to solar energy and install eco-friendly stoves in these schools. As of now, the project has carried out installations in six schools.

On 9 July 2020 Vanessa Nakate was interviewed by Angelina Jolie hosted by time magazine about the power and importance of African voices in the climate justice movement. In August, Jeune Afrique magazine named her among the top 100 most influential Africans.  In August 2020, Vanessa Nakate joined former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Forum Alpbach to discuss climate activism.

In September, Vanessa spoke on a panel entitled "Sparking an Era of Transformational Climate Leadership" for the World Resources Institute; she talked of her perspective in "Conversations with Climate Changers" for Oxfam. Vanessa Nakate was announced by the United Nations as the SDG 13 young leader in 2020. Nakate was featured among OkayAfrica's 100 Women is an exclusive platform to pay homage to 100 women of excellence among the diaspora during Women's History Month. Nakate was mentioned among the most influential young Africans in 2020 by YouthLead. Nakate was a keynote speaker at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2021 on 16 March 2021 alongside other notable world leaders. Her delivery included criticism of the German Federal Foreign Office as organizers for screening the input from youth climate activists that was not applied to other invited speakers.

Writing in The Guardian in October 2021, Nakate argues that the countries and corporations largely responsible for greenhouse emissions should compensate African countries and communities for the loss and damage arising from climate change that they are now suffering.

In a 2019 interview with Amy Goodman for Democracy Now!, Nakate expressed her motivation for climate action: "My country heavily depends on agriculture, therefore most of the people depend on agriculture. So, if our farms are destroyed by floods, if the farms are destroyed by droughts and crop production is less, that means that the price of food is going to go high. So it will only be the most privileged who will be able to buy food. And they are the biggest emitters in our countries, the ones who will be able to survive the crisis of food, whereas most of the people who live in villages and rural communities, they have trouble getting food because of the high prices. And this leads to starvation and death. Literally, in my county, a lack of rain means starvation and death for the less privileged".
Political views

Nakate is on the council of the Progressive International, an international organisation promoting progressive left-wing politics. She has criticised capitalism, linking it to environmental degradation.
Omission from photo

In January 2020, the Associated Press (AP) news agency cropped Nakate out from a photo she appeared in featuring Greta Thunberg and activists Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Loukina Tille after they all attended the World Economic Forum. Nakate accused the media of a racist attitude. The Associated Press later changed the photo and indicated there was no ill intent, without presenting its apologies. On 27 January 2020, AP executive editor Sally Buzbee tweeted an apology using her personal account saying that she was sorry on behalf of the AP. Nakate responded that she did not believe the AP's statement or their apology, further responding: "As much as this incident has hurt me personally, I'm glad because it has brought more attention to activists in Africa. ... Maybe media will start paying attention to us not just when we're the victims of climate tragedies."

Awards

Nakate received the Haub law environmental 2021 Award in recognition of her citizen diplomacy in bringing the voice of her generation to global environmental campaigns and for her inspiring climate activism in Uganda and beyond.

Vanessa Nakate and Six Other Young Activists Honoured by 2020 Young Activists Summit During a Live Discussion on Post-COVID-19 World. Bringing together Over 8,600 People from Around 100 Countries.

Nakate was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020.

She was also on the list Time100 Next published by TIME magazine on 17 February 2021, and is featured on the cover of TIME's November 8/November 15, 2021 issue.

Her natal Lilith is 19  Virgo, N.Node 14 Sagittarius, S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 19 Pisces, N.Node 22 Taurus, and the S.Node is 22 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Luisa-Marie Neubauer (born 21 April 1996) is a German climate activist. She is one of the main organisers of the school strike for climate movement in Germany, where it is commonly referred to under its alternative name Fridays for Future. She advocates a climate policy that complies with and surpasses the outdated Paris Agreement and endorses de-growth. Neubauer is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens and the Green Youth.

Life

Neubauer was born in Hamburg as the youngest of four siblings. Her mother is a nurse. Her grandmother was married for some years to Feiko Reemtsma. She got involved in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, sensitized Luisa Neubauer to the climate problem and gave her her share of the taz cooperative. Two of her three older siblings live in London. Her cousin Carla Reemtsma is also a climate activist.

Neubauer grew up in Hamburg-Iserbrook district and completed her high school diploma at the Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium [de] in Hamburg-Blankenese in 2014. In the year after her graduation she worked for a development aid project in Tanzania and on a ecological farm in England. In 2015 she started studying geography at the University of Göttingen. She did a semester abroad at the University College London[1] and received scholarships from the German government and the Alliance 90/The Greens-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation. In 2020 she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Science.
Early activism

Neubauer has been a youth ambassador of the non-governmental organization ONE since 2016. She was also active for the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, 350.org, the Right Livelihood Award foundation, the Fossil Free campaign and The Hunger Project. With the campaign Divest! Withdraw your money! she forced the University of Göttingen to stop investing in industries that make money with coal, oil or gas.

Fridays For Future

As of the beginning of 2019, Neubauer became known as one of the leading Fridays For Future activists. Many media outlets refer to her as the "German face of the movement." Neubauer rejects comparisons of herself and other strike organisers to Greta Thunberg, saying: "We're building a mass-movement and reaching out quite far in our methods of mobilising and gaining attention. What Greta does is incredibly inspiring but actually relatively far from that."

Neubauer does not see the strikes as a means of directly affecting politics. More important is the work behind the strikes: "What we're doing is incredibly sustainable. We're creating structures and turning the events into educational experiences. And we're leading debates on the principles of climate protection."

Following the protests of Fridays For Future Germany against Siemens for a specific infrastructure project in Australia, Neubauer met Joe Kaeser in January 2020. On 13 January 2020, it was announced that Neubauer had turned down an offer by Joe Kaeser to sit on the Siemens Energy board. In a statement Neubauer said that "If I were to take it up, I would be obliged to represent the company's interests and could never be an independent critic of Siemens," she explained. "That is not compatible with my role as [a] climate activist.". Joe Kaeser stated that he did not offer Neubauer a seat in the companies' Board, but that he is open to have Neubauer on a Board on environmental questions.

On the day before Siemens announced that they will keep the contract with Adani to provide the rail infrastructure of the Carmichael coal mine in Australia. Neubauer told the news agency DPA: "We asked Kaeser to do everything possible to stop the Adani mine. Instead he will now profit from this disastrous project." She added that this decision was "so last century" and that Kaeser was making an "unforgivable mistake".

Her natal Lilith is 13 Gemini, N.Node 8 Capricorn, S.Node 5 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 9 Pisces, N.Node 17 Taurus, and the S.Node is 1 Sagittarius.

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Here is the chart for Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent, as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies.

Career

Early TV work

After leaving school in the late 1970s, Arnold got her first TV jobs as a dancer on shows that included Top of the Pops. She first came to prominence as an actor and television presenter alongside Sandi Toksvig, Nick Staverson and Neil Buchanan in the 1980s children's television show No. 73. This Saturday morning show on ITV, in which she played Dawn Lodge, had a similar premise to that of The Kumars at No. 42 in the way that the show was part sitcom, part chat show and based at a domestic residence. In addition to these parts, the show had the usual mix of music, competitions and cartoons that was in keeping to the formula of British Saturday morning children's TV of the 1980s. After a couple of years of experience in front of the camera, Arnold realized, "Television was great fun and I went along for the ride, but I never felt that comfortable in front of the camera".

In 1988 No. 73 had morphed into 7T3, with the set being moved from the Maidstone house (in fact in TVS studios in Kent) to that of a theme park. This revamp would only last the season, but Arnold would be seen for another two years in the same timeslot as part of the Motormouth presenting team. In 1990 she presented and wrote for the environmental awareness show for teens, A Beetle Called Derek. This also featured Benjamin Zephaniah and gave exposure to The Yes/No People of Stomp fame.

Directing

After retiring from her career as a television presenter, Arnold studied directing at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles and trained in screenwriting at the PAL Labs in Kent. Her early short films included Milk (1998) and Dog (2001). She won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Wasp, in 2004.

She was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. Also in 2003, she directed an episode of the Channel 4 series Coming Up titled "Bed Bugs", though she is sometimes erroneously credited as "Andrew Arnold" for the work.

Red Road is the first instalment of Advance Party, a planned set of three conceptually-related films by different first-time directors. Set on a housing estate in Glasgow, the revenge-themed story centres on a CCTV (security TV cameras) operator who develops an obsession with someone she observes, for reasons that become clear through the progress of the film. The picture has won the British director comparisons with established names such as Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier. Screen International critic Allan Hunter said the film was "likely to emerge as one of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film Festival (2006)." It went on to win the Jury Prize at Cannes that year.

She won the 2007 BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for directing Red Road. In 2008, Arnold was reported to be directing an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Sharp Objects for French production company Pathé, but the project never materialized. In 2011, she was reported to be working on a television project with writer Danny Brocklehurst called Dirty, but this project also failed to materialize.

Her 2009 film Fish Tank premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, where she once again won the Jury Prize. The film also went on to win the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film in 2010. In 2011, she completed shooting an adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, produced by London's Ecosse Films. The film was shown in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September where it won the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the film industry.

In 2015, it was announced that she would direct two episodes of the Amazon Studios series Transparent.

Wasp

Initially released in 2003, Wasp was a short (26 minutes) written and directed by Arnold. It stars Natalie Press as a struggling single mother determined not to let her four young children prove an obstacle in the pursuit of igniting a relationship with an old friend (Danny Dyer). Arnold's native Dartford is the setting. The film was commissioned by the UK Film Council and the Britain's Channel 4. It won the Sundance Short Film Prize in 2005, and won Arnold an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Red Road

Red Road was a 2006 film that is a part of a creative series proposed by the Advance Party of Filmmakers to create three films using the same characters, all directed by different new directors. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in Europe at the time they were built. It is shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light.

One rule was that if any of the directors decide to incorporate a new main character, then all of the other films must incorporate that character as well. All three directors cast together so they could all see who they believed would fit their film as well as the others. Arnold mainly used first-time actors, stating that "I always want the world that I create to be its own universe. When you have really famous people, I find that it is very hard to transcend that awareness. I am always aware of who they are. When you see someone for the first time, that universe feels even more real. I like the idea of working with either unknowns or people that haven't even acted before." Red Road cost $1 million to make and was shot digitally on a schedule of six weeks. The film was accepted into competition for the Palme d'Or in Cannes and received the Jury Prize.

Fish Tank

Fish Tank premiered in 2009 and was accepted into competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Jury Prize. In its initial production, distributor Artificial Eye had acquired the UK theatrical rights, while ContentFilm International handled the worldwide sales. The film was backed by the Limelight Fund, BBC Films and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. The film was shot entirely on location in the UK. Arnold was adamant about shooting the film in chronological order, so that the journey of the film would make sense to new coming actor Katie Jarvis. She would only give her a day's worth of script to study so that she could take it day by day. The film originally premiered on around 45–50 screens in Britain, making them less accessible to the general public. In regards to this, Arnold said, "I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them. I wish cinema [owners] could be braver, or had more money to help them show films like mine." The film cost around $2 million to make, which is still a relatively low budget for a feature-length film. Fish Tank won many awards including the best film award at the Evening Standard Film Awards. Fish Tank was released on 11 September 2009. The film and Arnold were honoured at the 20th Annual Women in Film and TV Awards in 2010.

Wuthering Heights

Arnold's third film was based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel and starred Kaya Scodelario and James Howson. This is the first film that Arnold has directed which she did not write herself, though she did co-write the screenplay. Originally, the film adaptation was set to be directed by Peter Webber, who directed Girl with a Pearl Earring, but Arnold was asked to take over and gladly accepted. The film was made in 18 months, which is half the amount of time Arnold used to make Red Road and Fish Tank. Oscilloscope Laboratories picked up the North American distribution rights to the adaptation, which won Best Cinematography at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, being praised for its visuals.

American Honey

Arnold's fourth film, American Honey, revolves around a group of young adults traveling across the country selling magazine subscriptions. The meandering plot focuses on the journey of the mag-crew kids as they drink, smoke, dance, joke around, and have various conversations in their van. The film had its world premiere and competed for Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It won Arnold her third Jury Prize. The film features a mix of both professional and non-actors, with all the non-actors being found through construction sites, parking lots, and on beaches. Out of the 15 youth actors cast, 11 had never acted before.[36] The lead Sasha Lane was spotted by Arnold on a beach during spring break. Arnold shot the film in chronological sequence, not telling her actors where they were going next. The film was released in the United States on 30 September 2016, and in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2016, by A24 and Focus Features respectively.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Arnold and https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/06/i-kept-saying-dont-worry-luma-we-see-you-andrea-arnold-on-her-four-years-filming-a-cow

Here natal Lilith is 16 Taurus, N.Node 9 Capricorn, S.Node 1 Gemini. Here natal Amazon is 13 Aquarius, N.Node 13 Taurus, and the S.Node 6 Sagittarius.

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Here is the chart for Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnian pronunciation:  born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for having written and directed Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.

Early life

Zbanic was born in Sarajevo on 19 December 1974 into a Muslim family. Žbani? went to local schools before attending the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where she got a degree. She worked for a time in the United States as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. In 1997, she founded the artist's association "Deblokada" and started making documentaries and short films.

Career

Zbanic went to the United States in order to work as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater. She also learned to act as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop.

She was one of the promoters of Serbian Radical Party, but she was expelled, because she rejected to eat pork meat after one of their rallys. After her return to Bosnia and Herzegovina, she founded the artists' association "Deblokada" (meaning "de-blocking.") Through Deblokada,  wrote and produced many documentaries, video artworks, and short films. Her work has been Zbanic seen around the globe, screened in film festivals and shown at exhibitions such as the Manifesta 3 in Slovenia in 2000, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel in 2004, and the Istanbul Biennale in 2003. Since then she has made well-received feature films.

Zbanic's 2006 feature film Grbavica, won the Golden Bear at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the International Feature Competition Festival in 2006, and was awarded the Best European Film and best European actress award in 2006. Her 2010 film Na putu (On the Path), which explores the relationship of a young couple living in Sarajevo, was screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.]

Zbanic's 2020 war drama film Quo Vadis, Aida? won the Audience Award at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Best International Film Award at the 2021 Gothenburg Film Festival, entered into the 77th Venice International Film Festival and also won the Best International Film Award at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards. Further more, in March 2021, the film was nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language and Zbanic was nominated for Best Director at the 74th British Academy Film Awards. On 15 March 2021, Zbanic's film was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.] At the 34th European Film Awards held in December 2021, Quo Vadis, Aida? won the Award for Best Film. Also, Žbani? won the Award for Best Director and cast member Jasna Djuricic won the Award for Best Actress at the same awards.

Themes and characters

Žbani? acknowledges that her films deal chiefly with the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She says that she uses film to explore problems and issues relating to her life. She knows that she is up against high standards of film in competition with the mass of other regional cinematography. Žbani? strives to create characters that are not just "black and white," as real people are not that simple. She does not create characters who are strict saints and heroes, but who might be weak and also brave and tolerant. In 2017, Žbani? signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmila_%C5%BDbani%C4%87 and https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/world/europe/bosnia-jasmila-zbanic-quo-vadis-aida.html

Her natal Lilith is 6 Virgo, N.Node 22 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 4 Cancer, N.Node 8 Taurus, and the S.Node 00:13 Sagittarius.

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Here is the chart for Mia Amor Mottley, SC, MP] is a Barbadian politician and attorney who has served as Prime Minister of Barbados since 2018 and as leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the eighth person to hold the office of Prime Minister in Barbados and the first woman to hold either position. She is also Barbados' first prime minister under a republic system.

Mottley has been the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Saint Michael North East since 1994. From 1994 to 2008, she held a succession of ministerial portfolios including the post of Attorney-General of Barbados becoming the first woman to be appointed as such. She is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.

Mottley was twice the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly of Barbados first from 2008 to 2010 then from 2013 to 2018. In 2018, the Mottley-led BLP won a historic landslide victory in the 24 May general election, securing all 30 seats in the House—making them the first party to accomplish this feat—in addition to winning 72.8% of the popular vote, which is the highest share ever achieved by a party in a general election.

She won a second term in office in a landslide victory at the 2022 general election, a snap election that she called.

Political career

Mottley first entered Barbadian politics in 1991, when she lost an election race in St. Michael North East against Leroy Brathwaite (a defeat of fewer than 200 votes). Between 1991 and 1994 she was one of two Opposition Senators in the Upper House, Senate of Barbados where she was Shadow Minister of Culture and Community Development. During that time, she served on numerous Parliamentary Joint Select Committees on areas including Praedial Larceny and Domestic Violence.

Following the BLP's victory in the 1994 Barbadian general election, Mottley was appointed as the Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture in September 1994, under Prime Minister Owen Arthur. At the age of 29, she was one of the youngest Barbadians to be assigned a ministerial portfolio. During her tenure, she co-authored the White Paper on Education entitled Each Child Matters, which draws the link between better education and job fulfillment.

She was elected General Secretary of the Barbados Labour Party in 1996. In that year and again in 1997, she was Chairwoman of the Caricom Standing Committee of Ministers of Education.

Mottley was appointed Attorney-General of Barbados and Minister of Home Affairs in August 2001 and is the first female (in Barbados) to hold this position. She is also the youngest ever Queen's Counsel in Barbados.] In addition to being a Member of the Privy Council of Barbados, she was the Leader of the House and a member of the National Security Council and the Barbados Defence Board. She is also credited with being the visionary behind the Education Sector Enhancement Programme, popularly known as "EduTech", which aims to increase the number of young people contributing to the island's sustainable social, cultural and economic development. This revolutionary programme involves the widespread use of information and communication technologies to assist in improving the quality of the teaching and learning process.

More information on EduTech can be found at https://mes.gov.bb/Departments/PCU/.

In Youth Affairs, Mottley directed the establishment of the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme and a National Youth Development Programme.

Two years later Mottley was the second female Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Social Council of Barbados and the Deputy Chairman of Barbados's Economic Council. She held the chairmanship of a number of key Cabinet sub-committees, notably on Telecommunications Reform and on oversight of the administrative and legislative initiatives to prepare Barbados for the advent of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy.

In a government reshuffle in February 2006, Mottley was appointed Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, a post she also held until 2008, where her responsibilities put her in charge of key economic agencies.

Following the BLP's defeat in the 2008 Barbadian general election held on 15 January 2008, and Owen Arthur's resignation as party leader, Mia Mottley was elected as BLP party leader in a leadership election on 19 January 2008 against former Attorney-General of Barbados, Dale Marshall (politician). She is the first woman to lead the party, as well as the country's first female Opposition Leader. Mottley was sworn in as Opposition Leader on 7 February 2008. She promised the people that the Barbados Labour Party would be a strong and unified Opposition that would fight for the rights of all citizens in the country.

On 18 October 2010, Mottley was ousted as Leader of the Opposition following a vote of no-confidence by five of her parliamentary colleagues. The five MPs placed their support behind former Prime Minister Owen Arthur, who assumed the leadership position that same day after another leadership election where former Prime Minister Owen Arthur defeated Mia Mottley.

In the February 2013 general election, the BLP was narrowly defeated, obtaining 14 seats against 16 for the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). A few days after the election, on 26 February 2013, the BLP parliamentary group elected Mottley as Leader of the Opposition, replacing Arthur.

Prime Minister

In the 24 May, 2018 general election the BLP won the biggest majority government in Barbadian history, winning over 70% of the popular vote and all 30 seats in the legislature. Mottley was sworn in as Barbados's first female Prime Minister on 25 May 2018. During her tenure as prime minister, she has held the additional portfolio of Minister of Finance.

In May 2018, Mottley disclosed previously uncovered financial obligations of the state, saying that the new government inherited a large debt. Disclosure of information about the current level of debt led to an increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio from 137% to 175% — the fourth-highest value in the world after Japan, Greece, and Sudan. Mottley announced that new government had no other choice than to ask the IMF to facilitate debt restructuring.[citation needed] A week later following the election, on 5 June 2018 Barbados failed to fulfill its obligation to pay the 26th coupon on Eurobonds maturing in 2035. This was the first time in history that a sitting government did not fulfill its obligation.

In the 2019 New Year Honours Mottley's father Elliott Mottley received a knighthood on the nomination of the Barbadian government.

Mottley addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 27 September 2019 with a 39-minute speech centred around climate change and its effects on Barbados and other Caribbean nations.

In 2020 Mottley served as the Chairperson of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) bloc, a rotating position held for 6 months.

In a September 2020 speech, Mottley announced a plan to abolish Barbados' monarchy, removing the British sovereign Queen Elizabeth II as the country's head of state, making Barbados a republic. She argued that after over 54 years of independence, it was time for Barbados to "fully leave our colonial past behind." Under her proposal, the country would retain a parliamentary system, with a mostly ceremonial president as head of state. The goal was to conclude the plan by 30 November 2021, the 55th anniversary of the country's independence. Whether the process could be completed by that time was "not clear", according to an investigation of the situation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in March 2021.

On 27 July 2021, the Day of National Significance in Barbados, Mottley announced that Barbados's cabinet had decided that Barbados would become a parliamentary republic by 30 November.]

On 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General of Barbados, Dame Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by Mottley and the leader of the opposition as candidate for the first President of Barbados, and was subsequently elected on 20 October. Mason took office on 30 November 2021 in a ceremony also attended by Charles, Prince of Wales.

Mottley addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 24 September 2021 with a short speech to support UN Secretary-General António Guterres' warnings that the world is moving in the wrong direction. She threw away her original script and instead gave a passionate post in which she called for global, moral leadership in the fight against climate change, economic and technological inequality, racism and unfair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Following her party's landslide victory in the 2022 election, Mottley was sworn in as prime minister for a second term on 20 January.

Her natal Lilith is 15 Cancer, N.Node 5 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 00.33 Scorpio, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node is 12 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Marie Françoise Gilot (born 26 November 1921) is a French painter, best known for her stormy relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist, notably in watercolours and ceramics, but her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity, and when she split from Picasso, he discouraged galleries from buying her work, as well as unsuccessfully trying to block her memoir, Life with Picasso.

Early life

Gilot was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to Émile Gilot and Madeleine Gilot (née Renoult). Her father was a businessman and agronomist, and her mother was a watercolor artist. Her father was a strict, well-educated man. Gilot began writing with her left hand as a young child, but at the age of four, her father forced her to write with her right hand. As a result, Gilot became ambidextrous. She decided at the age of five to become a painter. The following year her mother tutored her in art, beginning with watercolors and India ink. Gilot was then taught by her mother's art teacher, a Mademoiselle Meuge, for six years. She studied English literature at Cambridge University and the British Institute in Paris (now University of London Institute in Paris). While training to be a lawyer, Gilot was known to skip morning law classes to pursue her true passion: art. She graduated from the Sorbonne with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1938 and from Cambridge University with a degree in English in 1939. Gilot had her first exhibition of paintings in Paris in 1943.
School

Gilot's father Emile wanted his daughter to be just as educated as he, and as a result, oversaw his daughter's education very closely. Gilot was tutored at home, beginning at a young age, and by the time she was six years old, she had a good knowledge of Greek mythology. By the age of fourteen, she was reading books by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred Jarry. While her father had hoped she would go to school to become a scientist or lawyer, Gilot was frequenting museums in Europe to understand and gain an appreciation for the masters. When Gilot was seventeen, she attended the Sorbonne and the British Institute in Paris and had a baccalaureate degree in Philosophy. She received her English Literature degree from Cambridge University. During 1939, Gilot's father still wanted her to complete a degree in international law, and out of fear that Paris would be bombed during the war, Gilot was sent to Rennes, France, to begin law school. At the age of 19, she abandoned her studies in law to devote her life to art. She was mentored by the artist Endre Rozsda. In 1942, after abandoning law several times, and returning on the insistence of her father, Gilot studied law for a second year and passed her written exams, but failed her oral exams.

Picasso

At 21, Gilot met Pablo Picasso, then 61. Picasso first saw Gilot in a restaurant in the spring of 1943. Dora Maar, the photographer who was his muse and lover at the time, was devastated to learn that Picasso was replacing her with the much younger artist. After Picasso's and Gilot's meeting, she moved in with him in 1946. They spent almost ten years together, and those years revolved around art. He painted La femme-fleur, then his old friend Matisse, who liked Gilot, announced that he would create a portrait of her, in which her body would be pale blue and her hair leaf green.

It was believed by some art historians that Gilot's relationship with Picasso is what cut short her artistic career. When Gilot left Picasso, he told all art dealers he knew not to purchase her art, whereas Gilot herself has noted that continuing to identify her in relation to Picasso "does her a great disservice as an artist."

Picasso and Gilot never married, but they did have two children together because he promised to love and care for them. Their son, Claude, was born in 1947, and their daughter, Paloma, was born in 1949. During their ten years together, Gilot was often harassed on the streets of Paris by Picasso's legal wife, Olga Khokhlova, a former Russian ballet dancer, and Picasso himself physically abused her as well. In 1964, eleven years after their separation, Gilot wrote Life with Picasso (with the art critic Carlton Lake), a book that sold over one million copies in dozens of languages, despite an unsuccessful legal challenge from Picasso attempting to stop its publication. From then on, Picasso refused to see Claude or Paloma ever again. All the profits from the book were used to help Claude and Paloma mount a case to become Picasso's legal heirs.

Gilot's work

Françoise Gilot was introduced to art at a young age by her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother had held a party when Françoise was about five years old. A certain man caught Gilot's eye as being interesting, and she asked her grandmother who the man was. He turned out to be a painter, Emile Mairet. Gilot's father became close friends with the painter, and Françoise would often tag along to visit his studio. At age six, Françoise's mother began teaching her art, with the exception of drawing. Her mother believed artists become too dependent on erasers, and instead taught Françoise in watercolor and India ink. If she made a mistake, she would have to make it intentional to her work. By the age of thirteen, she began to study with Mlle. Meuge, which continued for six years. At the age of fourteen, she was introduced to ceramics, and a year later, she studied with the Post-Impressionist painter Jacques Beurdeley. At the age of 21, she met Picasso. Although Picasso had influenced Françoise Gilot's work as a cubist painter, she developed her own style. She avoided the sharp edges and angular forms that Picasso sometimes used. Instead, she used organic figures. During the war, Gilot's father attempted to save the most valuable household belongings by moving them, but the truck was bombed by the Germans, leading to the loss of Gilot's drawings and watercolors.

Her stature as an artist and the value of her work have increased over the years. In 2021 her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby's in London. As of January 2022 her work is on exhibit in multiple leading museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Personal life

From 1943 to 1953, Gilot was the lover and artistic muse of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children, Claude and Paloma.

Gilot married artist Luc Simon in 1955. Their daughter Aurélia was born the following year. The couple divorced in 1962.

In 1969, Gilot was introduced to American polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk at the home of mutual friends in La Jolla, California. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and a 1970 wedding in Paris. During their marriage, which lasted until Salk's death in 1995, the couple lived apart for half of every year as Gilot continued to paint in New York City, La Jolla, and Paris.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Gilot designed costumes, stage sets, and masks for productions at the Guggenheim in New York City. She was awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1990.

In 1973, Gilot was appointed art director of the scholarly journal Virginia Woolf Quarterly. In 1976, she joined the board of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where she taught summer courses and took on organizational responsibilities until 1983.[citation needed]

Gilot splits her time between New York and Paris, working on behalf of the Salk Institute, and continues to exhibit her work internationally.

In 2010, Gilot was awarded the Officer of the Légion d'honneur, the French government's highest honour the arts.

In August 2018, Gilot released three sketchbooks, these documented the journey she went on in Venice, India and Senegal.

In popular culture

Gilot is played by Natascha McElhone in the 1996 film Surviving Picasso, and by Clémence
Poésy in the 2018 season of Genius, which focuses on the life and art of Picasso.

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/style/francoise-gilot-it-girl.html

Her natal Lilith is 14 Aries, N.Node 16 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 18 Pisces, N.Node 17 Taurus, and the S.Node is 25 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990) is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. She has been cited by The Guardian as "the US's best young songwriter". Mitski self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. After graduating, she released her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014), through Double Double Whammy. She then signed with Dead Oceans in 2015, where she released her critically acclaimed albums Puberty 2 (2016), Be the Cowboy (2018) and Laurel Hell (2022).   
   
Early life

Mitski Miyawaki was born Mitsuki Laycock[9] on September 27, 1990, in Japan to a white American father and a Japanese mother. Her first language was Japanese, growing up in a small town in Mie Prefecture. She moved frequently while growing up due to her father's job at the United States Department of State, living in countries such as Turkey, China, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo before settling in the United States. She sang in a choir in high school and was 18 when she wrote her first song on the piano.

Career

2012–2015: Lush; Retired from Sad, New Career in Business; and Bury Me at Makeout Creek

After enrolling at Hunter College to study film, Mitski decided to pursue music instead and transferred to SUNY Purchase College's Conservatory of Music, where she studied studio composition. During her time at Purchase College, she recorded and self-released her piano-based first and second albums, Lush (2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), as student projects. While there, Mitski also met Patrick Hyland, who has produced each of her albums after Lush.

After graduating, she served as the vocalist for the short-lived prog-metal band Voice Coils and began work on her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, which was released on November 11, 2014, through Double Double Whammy. The album represented a sonic departure from Mitski's orchestral and classical piano background found in her first two albums, exchanging it for raw, impulsive guitar.[20] It garnered acclaim from numerous publications.

2015–2017: Puberty 2

On December 22, 2015, Mitski signed with Dead Oceans before releasing new music the following year. She announced her fourth studio album, Puberty 2, on March 1, 2016, and shared the lead single, "Your Best American Girl". She released another single, "Happy", before the release of the album on June 17. The album was recorded over a two-week period at Acme Studios in Westchester County, New York and was produced by longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland. The album received widespread acclaim from music critics. "Your Best American Girl" was named the 13th best song of the 2010s by Rolling Stone.

In a 2016 episode of the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time, her song "Francis Forever" was covered by Olivia Olson as the character Marceline the Vampire Queen.

On February 21, 2017, the Pixies announced US tour dates with Mitski as a supporting act. On May 1, a compilation album consisting of 100 songs by different artists titled Our First 100 Days was released. It includes Mitski's cover of One Direction's song "Fireproof". The compilation aims to raise funds for organizations that support causes threatened by Donald Trump's proposed policies. Mitski played a cover of the song in 2015, but that version has since been taken down. Mitski also covered Frank Sinatra's 1951 classic "I'm a Fool to Want You" for the 7-Inches For Planned Parenthood compilation album.[36] On October 4, 2017 Lorde announced Mitski will be an opening act for selected dates as part of her Melodrama World Tour. On November 1, a short film starring Mitski called Sitting was released.
black and white photo of a young Asian-American woman with shoulder-length black hair singing.

On April 20, 2018, Mitski teamed up with the experimental band Xiu Xiu on the song "Between the Breaths" for the soundtrack of the sci-fi comedy film How to Talk to Girls at Parties, based on the short story of the same name.

On May 14, 2018, Mitski's fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy, was made available for pre-order without prior announcement. The lead single, "Geyser", was released on the same day alongside its accompanying music video. The second single, "Nobody", was released on June 26, 2018, accompanied by the music video, and the third and final single to precede the album, "Two Slow Dancers", was released on August 9 alongside a lyric video. Be the Cowboy was released on August 17, through Dead Oceans. It was critically acclaimed and named the album of the year by publications including Pitchfork, Vulture and Consequence of Sound.

On tour in 2019, Mitski began incorporating choreography into her live performances inspired by Butoh, a form of dance theater developed in post-war Japan, in which "performers draw on chaotic internal emotions but depict them with precise, repetitive gestures." The approach reflected her wish to "give audiences something new" on her second headlining tour since Be the Cowboy's release, as well as a desire "to develop her own, idiosyncratic ways of maintaining a grip on an audience," since she'd learned "that the jumping around onstage, getting everyone pumped up, doesn't come naturally to me." Mitski worked with performance artist Monica Mirabile to devise the tour's "highly stylized, sometimes unsettling" movements. Butoh influenced choreography was also used in her music video for "Working for the Knife".

In August 2019 Mitski ended her hiatus from social media to post a statement denying allegations made by a Tumblr user that she had been involved in a child trafficking ring. In the statement Mitski stated "I don't know the accuser, and I don't know how or why they have come to associate me with their trauma."

In September 2019 at the final performance of her Be the Cowboy Tour in Central Park, Mitski announced that it would be her last indefinitely. She later talked about how she planned to quit music completely and "find another life." By early 2020, Mitski had changed her mind and decided to return to music, partly because she owed her label another album and partly for her herself. She described making the decision to continue, "What it came down to was, 'I have to do this even though it hurts me, because I love it [...]?This is who I am. ... I'm going to keep getting hurt, and I'm still going to do it, because this is the only thing I can do.'?"
2020–present: This Is Where We Fall and Laurel Hell

Mitski shared her new song, "Cop Car", in January 2020, a never-released piece from the soundtrack of The Turning. She was featured in the song "Susie Save Your Love" from Allie X's album, Cape God, released in February 2020.

On October 29, 2020, it was announced that Mitski will provide the soundtrack to the graphic novel This Is Where We Fall. The sci-fi Western story written by Chris Miskiewicz and Vincent Kings "unpacks themes of theology, death, and the after-life". Of the project, Mitski said "It was exciting to make a soundtrack for a comic book, It allowed me to work outside of my usual songwriting form and try to approach it like a score, but without any of the cues that come with working alongside a moving image, which ended up being both freeing and challenging. I hope the end result helps to immerse you in the story!" A country song called "The Baddy Man" was released as the first preview from the soundtrack on March 5, 2021. Z2 Comics released the album on cassette with the standard hardcover novel on May 5, 2021. A limited edition deluxe vinyl was also released. At the moment, Z2 has no plans to put the soundtrack on streaming services.

On October 4, 2021, Mitski announced on her social media that she would be releasing a new single, "Working for the Knife", the next day as the lead single to her upcoming sixth studio album. The song would later be named the 7th best song of 2021 by Pitchfork. Soon after the song's release, Mitski announced her 2022 European and North American tour. She followed it up with "The Only Heartbreaker" on November 9, 2021.The same day, Mitski announced her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell, would be released just before her European and North American tour, on February 4, 2022. On December 7, 2021, "Heat Lightning" was released as the third single from the album. On January 12, 2022, "Love Me More" followed as the fourth single from Laurel Hell.

Musical style

Mitski's lyrics often explore her anxieties and have been coined by some as 'sad indie girl music,' a category many women who write emotional lyrics are put into. E. Alex Jung described her as "an artist whose music feels like being ushered into a private opera house of melodrama" with lyrics full of "roiling fury, destructive impulses, humiliation, longing, heartache, and hunger". Angie Martoccio of Rolling Stone described her earlier albums as a "wry running commentary on twentysomething angst, raw desire, and often unrequited love". Lucy Dacus, a singer-songwriter who has at times opened for Mitski, described her music as "really visceral ... She's connected to a part in herself that wants to scream. Maybe you don't live in a space where you can scream, or maybe you don't have the words for what has happened to you. Mitski provides a space for that." Similarly, Mitski has described her music as a place where people "can put all of their feelings, their ugliness, that doesn't have a place in their own lives." As a result, Mitski has stated in interviews that she has an uneasy relationship with her fans because she finds their relationship to her and her music overwhelming. Her fanbase has been described as both "extremely online" and as rivalling "Taylor Swift and BTS in intensity, if not size." In an interview in 2022 she described the audience at one of her shows as "unrelenting. Everyone needed a piece of me... I was so overwhelmed by hands grabbing at me that I was crying."

Personal life

Mitski reflects her eclectic cross-cultural identity as "half Japanese, half American but not fully either", a feeling that is often reflected in her music, which occasionally discusses issues of belonging. She said that she uses the descriptor "Asian-American" mostly for the benefit of others but does not think of herself that way.

In a 2016 interview with The New York Times, Mitski expressed the tension of being a private person and her discomfort with the attention that comes with being in the public eye, therefore preferring to keep her personal life private.

Mitski lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She is vegan, likes horror films, and has pet cats.

Interview: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/04/mitski-us-best-young-songwriter-im-a-black-hole-where-people-dump-feelings

Her natal Lilith is 26 Capricorn, N.Node 4 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 00:31 Pisces, N.Node 10 Gemini, and the S.Node 11 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.   

Life and career

Estés was born in Gary, Indiana, to Emilio Maria Reyés and Cepción Ixtiz, who were from Mexico. She is a certified senior Jungian analyst. She earned her doctorate, from the Union Institute & University [1981], in ethno-clinical psychology on the study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. She is the author of many books on the journey of the soul. Beginning in 1992 and onward, her work has been published in 37 languages. Her book Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of The Wild Woman Archetype was on the New York Times' best seller list for 145 weeks, as well as other best seller lists, including USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.

Estés began her work in the 1960s at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois. There she worked with World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War soldiers who were living with quadraplegia, incapacitated by loss of arms and legs. She has worked at other facilities caring for severely injured children as well as shell-shocked war veterans and their families. Her teaching of writing, storytelling and traditional medicine practices continued in prisons, beginning in the early 1970s at the Men's Penitentiary in Colorado; the Federal Women's Prison at Dublin, California; the Montview Facility for Youth in Colorado; and other institutions.

Estés served as a board member of the Maya Angelou Minority Health Foundation (now called Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity) at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Estés served as appointee by Colorado governors Romer and Owens to the Colorado State Grievance Board of the Department of Regulatory Agencies (D.O.R.A.) from 1993 to 2006. She was elected as chair and for thirteen years worked with the state of Colorado Attorney General's lawyers, as well as a board of legal experts and helping professionals, to focus on public safety regarding mental health practitioners. She has been an advisory board member for the National Writers Union, New York; and an advisory board member of the National Coalition Against Censorship, New York. She is an advisor to El Museo de las Americas, Denver, Colorado, and a contributing editor and storyteller-in-residence for The Bloomsbury Review.

Estés debuted in spoken word performance at Carnegie Hall, New York (2000), along with Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Together the author-poets wrote lyrical song-poems for a libretto of woman.life.song..

Estés is managing editor for TheModeratevoice.com. She has written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Publishers' Weekly and The Denver Post. Estés' Guadalupe Foundation has funded literacy projects.

Estés was a recipient of the Keeper of the Lore Award, a Gradiva Award (from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis), a Catholic Press Association award, the Book of the Year Honor Award, American Booksellers Association, and Colorado Authors League Award. She received the Las Primeras Award, "The First of Her Kind", from the Mexican American Women's Foundation, Washington D.C. She is a 2006 inductee into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame which recognizes women who are of international influence. Estés is the recipient of the President's Medal for Social Justice.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Pinkola_Est%c3%a9s

Her natal Lilith is 17 Libra, N.Node 1 Capricorn, S.Node 25 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 6 Aries, N.Node 3 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.

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Here is the chart for Jayanti Buruda born July 1, 1989 in Serpalli, India. She is a  Adivasi girl from the indigenous Koya tribe. She is actively working for the equality of women in the context of an intense patriarchal area of India: Odissa. She became a journalist and is now seeking a political office that she hopes will facilitate her desire to help women.

Here is her story. 

                                                  The girl from Serpally who conquered journalism
April 7, 2018
NWMi: Network Of Women In Media India

Jayanti Buruda, recipient of the first NWMI Fellowship (2017-18), describes her challenging journey from a village in the remote Malkangiri district of Odisha to becoming the first Adivasi girl to study and become a journalist. She feels the NWMI Fellowship recognised her potential and allowed her to follow her dream.

My name is Jayanti Buruda. I am an Adivasi girl from the Koya tribe. My life started in Serpally, a small village in Odisha's Malkangiri district. Since my childhood, it was a dream to pursue education somewhere outside but my father used to say if you have the desire to study, you can do so in any place. In the school that I studied there were hardly any teachers or any competition among the students, which was quite discouraging for me. But, anyway, with the guidance of my teachers I passed my tenth standard exam – the only student to pass, out of the 11 students in my class.

I was born on July 1, 1989. Since my childhood, I have always felt different from others. I used to see and understand the world and people differently from other children of my age. My mind was always filled with questions about life and living, but I never got any answers from others. Rather, they found my attitude strange. However, I got a lot of solace being with nature. Although I never received my answers from nature, I always felt the trees, forests, moon and the stars understood me and my feelings.

I was always empathetic to the problems of others in my village and was also a favourite among the villagers. Everyone in my village was proud of me and expected that I would achieve something great. My biggest supporter and source of strength was my mother,who gave me self-confidence. She would jump to my defence and support me in every little thing, even when my brother used to tease me about my dark complexion.

This is how I completed my schooling in my village. I went to Malkangiri town for my college education. I had never left my family and, in fact, had not stepped out of my village earlier. But going to the town to pursue my education was exciting. I made new friends and my teachers supported me in my studies. College was a good platform which enabled me to learn many things, discover my purpose. I went through a transformation there which I had never imagined was possible in my life.

On becoming a journalist

However, everything changed with the death of my mother in 2007, when I was doing my graduation. I was 19 years old, and my life turned into a battlefield. The twists and turns in my life thereafter took me far away from everyone and I became quite alone. I involved myself in social work and was recognised for it but I became distant from the people close to me. I took all my decisions myself but drifted away from other people.

Soon after my graduation, my friends helped and supported me in seeking admission to the post-graduation course at the Central University in Koraput, about 150 km from Malkangiri. I did my Master's in Journalism and Mass Communication at the university from 2012 to 2014. I faced a lot of harassment and discrimination while at the university, both as an Adivasi and as a young woman. I was completely lost in many ways, but my friends helped me regain a sense of purpose and revive my hopes. It was then that I seriously started thinking of becoming a journalist. I felt the profession would help me build not only my own identity but also that of my community.

After completing the course, I had to do an internship in Bhubaneswar. I again faced problems because I didn't have any place to stay in the city. However, I was fortunate to come across a veteran media person from Odisha, Mr Biren Das. He took me under his wing and taught me the nuances of media and journalism. While working with him, I was proud to be known as an Adivasi girl. Since my childhood I have seen Adivasis being humiliated and tortured. I always wondered if being born Adivasi was due to a mistake that we had committed. I worked in his media house for two years and gained new perspectives as an Adivasi girl, as a person and as an Adivasi journalist.

Soon after that I got an opportunity to work at Kalinga TV. I returned to Malkangiri because I wanted to report about my district and my people. I didn't know that working as a female journalist in Malkangiri would be so tough. There was hardly any co-operation from my seniors and I faced what I now recognise to be sexual harassment at the workplace. My will power was about to take a dent when I got the opportunity to meet a few people who taught me to understand media in a way which was not possible earlier. I met CG Net Swara's Shubhranshu Chowdhury, who had come on work to Malkangiri. He invited me to participate in a media workshop in Raipur where I met several other people and learnt many things.

It was here that I met Vasanthi (NWMI member Vasanthi Hariprakash), who was a godsend for me. She helped me to understand myself and my work better. With her help, I got a sponsorship that allowed me to attend a workshop in New Delhi, conducted by international media person Christopher Kent. I was the only journalist from Odisha at the workshop. I got the golden opportunity to interact with Christopher, who explained to me about narrative journalism. Over coffee one day, Christopher also enlightened me about journalism, media and several other things, all of which were quite valuable for me.

All these people I met at various points in my life not only understood me but also made me understand certain things. This was something I had always looked for in my life earlier. I consider myself truly fortunate that, despite being from a remote place like Malkangiri, I was able to meet such people.

The NWMI and I

I came to know from Vasanthi about the NWMI and was happy to discover that so many women journalists were part of the network, a platform that embodied a sense of sisterhood. I was even happier when I got the chance to attend the NWMI national meeting in Hyderabad in November 2016. The journey of about 550 km took two days. I went by bus from Malkangiri to Motu End and crossed the border of Odisha by boat. From there, I took an autorickshaw to Konta, where the borders of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh meet. An overnight bus ride took me to Hyderabad. I was amazed to meet so many women journalists from different parts of the country and hear about their work. It was exciting to get an opportunity at the meeting to freely speak about myself and my own work. Ever since then I have been a part of the network through the Yahoo group and WhatsApp group, and keep in touch regularly, more so with some members.

Later, after I went back to Malkangiri, I was overjoyed to find out that I was the first recipient of the NWMI Fellowship, which was launched after the Hyderabad meeting. It was like a dream come true as I had never thought that I would ever receive such a big and prestigious award.

The Fellowship that I received for one year starting from April 2017, meant a lot to me. It connected a girl from the obscure Malkangiri district to the whole world. It was the NWMI that recognised and encouraged this identity of mine. People only know Malkangiri as the home of Maoists. But now they know it also has girls like me who have dreams of their own and who want to establish their own identity; who want love, peace and happiness and harbour the hope of connecting with the world.

There are several young people like me who are in search of such opportunities and do not want to be known as 'Maoists.' I was once questioned by the police as a Maoist suspect because I was an Adivasi girl who knew several languages and who was educated. I was questioned for a long time in the police station for this. We do not want 'Maoists' to be the only identity of Adivasis. We also want to create our own identities with dignity and as a right. This is something I was able to get from the NWMI Fellowship. It supported me both financially and professionally at a time when I was almost broken due to various adversities and it gave me the strength to continue on my chosen path. I was also delighted to be awarded a travel grant to attend the NWMI's 13th National Meet in Chennai in January this year and reconnect with network members.

I did not have a laptop or a camera of my own and had to depend on others for such essential equipment while working. Seeing my problems, the NWMI family presented me with a new laptop through which I could work from my home. With the Internet connection I was able to accomplish a lot of things. Earlier I did not have any means of conveyance of my own, but with part of the Fellowship amount, I was able to buy a scooter which again has helped make me independent and my work easier.

The laptop helped me in filing stories, writing scripts and editing visuals. For the first time I am able to plan and do my stories without depending on anyone else. During the Fellowship period, I was able to report on several issues which are close to my heart. Among them were stories on women farmers, a village where there are no roads or drinking water, and health issues in Malkangiri. I also wrote about an elderly couple who contemplated suicide because their only son, who had migrated for work, went missing; about the destruction of forests in Malkangiri due to forest fires; about child labour; and about the rising temperature in the district due to various reasons.

The laptop is also my gateway to the world, enabling me to learn to speak and write English well. I am trying to improve my English through various websites and channels. This is an important step forward for me. Learning English will help me to connect with the outside world better.

The NWMI Fellowship is a beacon of hope for young people like me from far-flung, conflict-ridden, tribal areas, and especially for women journalists who are far away from the mainstream. I hope the NWMI Fellowship will support more young women journalists like me in the future and give them an opportunity to make their dreams come true. My sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the NWMI for the Fellowship and for welcoming me into the network community.

For more: https://www.orissapost.com/odisha-panchayat-polls-journalist-and-social-worker-koya-tribe-woman-jayanti-buruda-now-eyes-politics/ and https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/how-baby-mrutyunjay-was-born-in-malkangiri/

Her natal Lilith is 10 Scorpio, N.Node 12 Sagittarius, S.Node 26 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 29 Scorpio, N.Node 3 Gemini, and the S.Node is 7 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Chloé Zhao, born Zhao Ting  born 31 March 1982), is a Chinese-born filmmaker, known primarily for her work on independent films. Zhao's debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Her second feature film, The Rider (2017), was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director.

Zhao gained further success with Nomadland (2020), which attracted international recognition and won many awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and numerous Best Picture awards. Zhao won awards for directing at the Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards; at each body, she was the second woman to win. Earning four Academy Award nominations for the film, Zhao won both Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the second woman in history to win the latter after Kathryn Bigelow in 2010,[6] and the first woman of color to win the category. The film has not received a theatrical release in China, with speculation that it was due to her past comments on the nation, and news of her Best Director win at the Academy Awards was also censored.

Zhao's latest film is the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals, which she co-wrote and directed, and was released on 5 November 2021.   

Early Life

Zhao Ting (??; Zhào Tíng) was born on 31 March 1982 in Beijing. Her father Zhao Yuji was an executive at Shougang Group, one of the country's largest state-owned steel companies. After amassing significant personal wealth, he later moved on to real-estate development and equity investment. Yuji was tied to a number of offshore companies during the Panama Papers leaks. Zhao's mother was a hospital worker who was in a People's Liberation Army performance troupe.

In an interview with Vogue, Zhao described herself as "a rebellious teen, lazy at school" who drew manga-influenced comics and wrote fan fiction. She loved films growing up, especially Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai. From an early age, Zhao was drawn to influences from Western pop culture. After her parents separated, her father married comic actress Song Dandan, whom Zhao had grown up watching on television.

Although Zhao was still learning English at the time, her parents sent her to Brighton College, a private boarding school in the United Kingdom at the age of 15. She later moved to Los Angeles by herself, living in a Koreatown apartment in 2000, and attended Los Angeles High School. She next attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she majored in politics and minored in film studies, graduating in 2005. Bartending and working odd jobs after graduating helped her realize that she enjoyed meeting people and hearing about their lives and histories, giving her the push to attend film school. A Vulture article reported that "Four years was enough to turn her off of politics...she found herself drawn more to people than to policy". Following up on her undergraduate film minor, she next joined the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Graduate Film Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While attending Tisch, Zhao studied under director Spike Lee, who has directed popular films such as Malcolm X (1992) and Old Boy (2013). She told USA Today that she appreciated Lee not sugarcoating anything, saying that "he will just tell you as it is", something she that she claims she needed. After enrolling in the Graduate Studies film program at NYU in 2010 she made her first short film Daughters.

Career

Chloé Zhao's first work is her 2009 short film The Atlas Mountains, the story about Helen Thomas who develops a brief yet passionate relationship with an immigrant worker who comes to fix her computer.] She also released a second short film titled Daughters, a film about a 14-year-old girl Maple, living in rural China, who is forced into an arranged marriage and leads to her taking a dangerous path in order to try and break free. This short won First Place Student Live Action Short at the 2010 Palm Springs International Short Fest and Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Cinequest Film Festival.

In 2015, Zhao directed her first feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. Shot on location at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the film depicts the relationship between a Lakota Sioux brother and his younger sister. An already existing reservation, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has approximately 2.1 million acres, around 46,855 member, and occupies the Oglala Lakota, Jackson, and Bennet counties. In Zhao's film, the brother Johnny plans to leave home and move to Los Angeles with his girlfriend when he graduates high school, but struggles with the thought of leaving his sister Jashaun at home with their troubled mother who is grieving the loss of their father. Focusing on the real lives and struggles of the surrounding community, the film is able to showcase the realness of people and problems they are faced with. In a Filmmaker article, Zhao stated that her rebellious years in her childhood is what pushed her to leave China and study abroad, helping her connect to the plot of the film which focuses on a character struggling in this environment. Half improvised, around 100 hours of footage was collected as Zhao worked with the real residents of the reservation to draw inspiration from their lives and personalities in order to help shape her story. She was able to utilize the natural landscape around her in this film in order to create a place of revelation, where people can be closest to God. Using wide and long shots, she created a documentary-like film that feels authentic, the desolate beauty of the Great Plains creating a story that depicts both freedom and hopelessness. It premiered in 2015 as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival. It later played at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Director's Fortnight selection[36] and was nominated for Best First Feature at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards.

In 2017, Zhao directed The Rider, a contemporary western drama, which follows a young cowboy's journey to self-discovery after a near-fatal accident ends his professional riding career. The film was executive produced by her father, Yuji Zhao. As with her first feature, Zhao engaged a cast of non-actors who lived at the filming location, in this case on a ranch. Her inspiration came from Brady Jandreau—a cowboy she had met and befriended on the reservation where she shot her first film—who suffered a severe head injury when thrown from his horse during a rodeo competition. Jandreau would star in the film, playing a fictionalized version of himself as Brady Blackburn. According to an Indiewire article, this film discovers a new side of the Western theme, revolutionary because a Chinese immigrant changing the nation's "oldest genre". The article stated that the film became "the type of film it is because of a man and a woman, because the two of us wanted to work together and understand where we were coming from".

The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight selection and won the Art Cinema Award. It earned her nominations for Best Feature and Best Director at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards. At the same ceremony, Zhao became the inaugural winner of the Bonnie Award, named after Bonnie Tiburzi, which recognizes a mid-career female director. The film was released on April 13, 2018, by Sony Pictures Classics and was critically acclaimed. Peter Keough of The Boston Globe wrote: "[The film] achieves what cinema is capable of at its best: It reproduces a world with such acuteness, fidelity, and empathy that it transcends the mundane and touches on the universal."

In 2018, Zhao directed her third feature film, Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. The adaptation from Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century was shot over four months traveling the American West in an RV with many actual nomadic workers. Bruder's book revolved around characters that can be found in the film, such as Linda May, a 64-year-old living in her van and scrounging for jobs in order to buy land for a permanent home. Other characters, such as Bob Wells, a nomad vlogger of CheapRVliving YouTube channel and website and in charge of the annual nomad meet-up featured in the film, are real people that Bruder encountered when writing her book and Zhao included in her movie. The film tells the story of a widow who lost everything in The Great Recession and decides to travel in her van across the American Midwest, beginning a journey of self-discovery. Starring Frances McDormand, the actress and Zhao formed a strong bond quickly and McDormand became a huge element of the filmmaking process and its success, her and Zhao finding inspiration within one another. They met a day before the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards, where McDormand was nominated for Best Actress and Zhao received a $50,000 grant for women directors, both showing excitement at the event and hinting at their future project together. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim and won the Golden Lion award, and subsequently played at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film was released on February 19, 2021, by Searchlight Pictures. Zhao won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Nomadland, making her the first woman of Asian descent honored,[ and only the second woman to win a Golden Globe for directing since Barbra Streisand in 1984. In April 2021, Zhao won the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the second woman to do so (Kathryn Bigelow being the first).

In September 2018, Marvel Studios hired her to direct Eternals, based on the comic book characters of the same name. The film follows the events of the 2019 Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, featuring a new team of superheroes that must reunite in order to fight an ancient enemy of the human race, the Deviants. Zhao was heavily influenced by Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) and Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook (2004) in crafting the MCU film. It was released on November 5, 2021. Zhao is both the director and one of the four writers of the film, the other being Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo. After its release, Eternals began receiving mixed reviews, The New Yorker stated that Zhao's style of directing dialogue scenes "reveals the absurdity of the script", saying "it might as well have been done via green screen, for the little tangibility and texture that it offers the characters and viewers alike". The article also claimed that the film has reportedly been banned in Saudi Arabi and Kuwait due to the relationship between two male characters, Phastos and Ben. Although the film has received a fair amount of negative reviews, it still made $161.7 million opening weekend and became No. 1 at the box office.

On February 15, 2021, Variety reported that with "34 awards season trophies for directing, 13 for screenplay and nine for editing, Chloe Zhao has surpassed Alexander Payne (Sideways) as the most awarded person in a single awards season in the modern era."[needs update] In 2021, she appeared on the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%c3%a9_Zhao

Here natal Lilith is 14 Pisces, N.Node 9 Capricorn, S.Node 00:19 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 18 Virgo, N.Node 12 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.

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Here is the chart for Kira Oleksandrivna Rudyk born 14 October 1985) is a Ukrainian politician and current leader of the political party Voice and since 2019 a member of the Ukrainian parliament.

Biography

Born on 14 October 1985 in Uzhhorod,[6] Rudyk graduated in 2008 from the Faculty of Informatics of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Information Control Systems and Technologies. She worked in several IT companies in Ukraine and the United States, and went from being a tester to a top manager.

In 2005 she started her IT career as a software tester at Software MacKiev and in 2010 she moved on to leading functions at MiMedia (2010—2013, Rudyk worked in the US for 8 months) and TechTeamLabs (2013—2016).

In 2016 she became the chief operating manager of Ring Ukraine. Rudyk served as COO of Ring Ukraine,[8] a division of Ring Inc. purchased by Amazon in 2018.

Rudyk participated in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election and was elected as a deputy, contesting the election placed third on the election list of Voice.[7] After Svyatoslav Vakarchuk stepped down as the leader of Voice on 12 March 2020, Rudyk was elected to replace him.

At the 29 July 2021 Voice party congress seven of the party MPs were expelled from the party. Five of them had already written statements to leave the party. These five were dissatisfied with, according to them, the "cementing of Kira Rudyk's control over the party."

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'We are resisting' - Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik says her country will fight as 'we are the good guys'

Ukrainian MP, Kira Rudik, has told ITV News that she will bear arms and fight for her country.

Rudik is the leader of Ukraine's Voice Party, the opposition to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party which is currently in power.

The MP joined Ukraine's political spectrum in 2019, championing the right for the country to be a state for the people, peace and security.

Once a critic of Zelenskyy's politics, Rudik says she now firmly stands behind him as he is doing 'what a president should do'.

She spurred international reaction overnight on Friday, after posting a picture of herself holding a Kalashnikov rifle on Twitter.

Speaking from Kyiv, Rudik told ITV news that she is 'afraid' of the current situation in Ukraine, but most of all is angry at Putin and the Russian invasion.

"I'm so angry right now. I'm a woman, I have to bear arms and fight the tyrannies of those who want to take what is ours.

"That they would come and try to throw me away from my house, that would scare my family and then change the way that my country works - and when you are very angry, there is no place for the fear.

"When you are very angry, there is no place for the fear, I will be afraid afterwards. Right now I will have to get very strong, train and make sure that we have all of the supplies we need."

When asked about whether she will use her rifle, Rudik said she will use it 'if she has to'.

"I'm training to use. I will use it if I have to. This is what most Ukrainians do. We are getting ready to resist and we are resisting.

"Putin thought he could take Ukraine in just one day. We look at that. He was not able to take any major cities. There are 3 thousand Russian soldiers that are down right now and we will be fighting back as hard as possible.

"We will not retreat, we will show the world what the Ukrainian nation is capable of."

Her words come as skirmishes broke out in Ukraine's capital this morning, with street fighting breaking out as russian troops near Kyiv.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy echoed similar thoughts this morning in a recorded video in downtown Kyiv.

"We aren't going to lay down weapons. We will protect the country." He said. "Our weapon is our truth, and our truth is that it is our land, our country, our children. And we will defend all of that."

Rudik added that she firmly believes Ukraine are ' the good guys'.

"In the story about bad guys and good guys, we definitely know that we are the good guys.

"And I hope, and I believe that the good guys always win. So that is what our plan is, to win. Because we are the good guys."

Rudik warned other nations that the change that is happening is 'not just about Ukraine'.

She urged world leaders to pay attention to Putin's actions, asking them to take him seriously.

"Is there any force in the world right now that can stop Putin?

"I thought that this force would be the United States, Britain, Germany and maybe, France. But what I know now is that this force is Ukraine. We will fight him back to Russia, and then a little further, just to make it even for the children who are learning what the sirens mean." 

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The Extraordinary Leadership of Ukrainian Parliament Member Kira Rudik

"It was own decision to stay here and not to flee.  First of all, because I'm a politician and I'm representing my people and they didn't go anywhere." – Ukrainian Parliament member Kira Rudik

As leaders we pray for the peace and safety of the Ukrainian people during this time of the horrific and senseless Russian invasion.  God, please help them.

Crisis does not make a leader, it reveals one.  Last night, I witnessed one of the most extraordinary acts of leadership I have ever seen.  Appearing on the The Sean Hannity Show, Ukrainian Parliament member Kira Rudik discussed the reasons why she chose to arm herself and stay in Kyiv and defend her family, city, and country from the Russian military.

Earlier in the day, she posted the following image on social media:

    I learn to use #Kalashnikov and prepare to bear arms. It sounds surreal as just a few days ago it would never come to my mind. Our #women will protect our soil the same way as our #men. Go #Ukraine! 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/UbF4JRGlcy

    — Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) February 25, 2022

An Extraordinary Leader

At the 24:24 in the video below, mark Hannity asked about her safety and willingness to remain in Kyiv.  Rudik said, "It was own decision to stay here and not to flee.  First of all, because I'm a politician and I'm representing my people and they didn't go anywhere."

What an extraordinary statement from an extraordinary leader!  As she and countless others bear arms to protect their city, the following are just several of the many lessons we learn Rudik followed by supporting comments:

    Leaders are responsible for their own decisions.  They take ownership of the outcomes they have influence over.
    Leaders must be courageous and make hard decisions.
    Leaders engage issues and conflict.  They do not run from them.
    Leaders represent and serve the people.
    Leaders must pay a greater price than those they are called to serve.
    I wrote earlier this week The 3 Greatest Abilities A Leader Must Have.  They must be reliable, dependable, and available.  Rudik and many other Ukrainian leaders are the embodiment of these virtues.  She didn't go anywhere.

Leaders Always Point To A Brighter Tomorrow

While things appear in dire straights, Rudik did what all great leaders do.  She provided hope for her people and country and pointed to a brighter tomorrow.

Rudik said, "Second, because I woke up, I looked at all of this and was thinking why would we do this?  Why would we go away?  He's coming to relent with his forces (and) we are able to fight him back.  We are actually doing it very good.  In two days, he lost like 3,000 men which is probably the most he lost in the latest wars he was fighting throughout the world.  So the Ukrainian army is fighting him very, very hard and we are resisting in the best ways of the Resistance.  So I believe we'll be able to fight back."

Notice the phrases she uses:

    "Why would we go away?"
    "We are able to fight him back."
    "We are actually doing it very good."
    "The Ukrainian army is fighting him very, very hard"
    "We are resisting in the best ways"
    "We'll be able to fight back"

Just three hours ago at the time of this writing, she even posted the following:

    I planned to plant tulips and daffodils on my backyard today. Instead, I learn to fire arms and get ready for the next night of attacks on #Kyiv. We are not going anywhere.

    This is our #city, our #land, our soil. We will fight for it. So next week I can plant my flowers. Here. pic.twitter.com/TCMGogKVt5

    — Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) February 26, 2022

Our prayers are with the people of Ukraine.  Our prayers are for God's protection and peace.  Our prayers with Kira Rudik and all leaders like her.

May all our countries have leaders like her.

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Her natal Lilith is 17 Sagittarius, N.Node 7 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 26 Taurus, N.Node 6 Gemini,and the S.Node is 15 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Natalya Vladimirovna Sindeyeva born June 11, 1971) is a Russian journalist, founder, main owner and chief executive officer of the Dozhd media holding, which includes Dozhd TV channel, the Republic.ru online magazine and the Big City [ru] magazine. Co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station, founder of the Silver Galosh [ru] anti-award. Three times laureate of the "Media Manager of Russia" prize, honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio.

Early life and education

Natalya Vladimirovna Sindeyeva was born in Michurinsk into the family of a military dentist. From the age of three, Natalya was transferred to the care of her grandparents. As a child, she was fond of sports, graduated from a ballet school, studied music and folk dances. After school she received a specialty "teacher of elementary grades and mathematics" at the Michurinsk State Pedagogical Institute (MGPI).

Career

After graduation in 1992 she moved to Moscow. In the beginning, she worked in an Italian clothing company and on a project for a night show on the water in the Chaika pool. Working as a promoter at one of the exhibitions, Sindeyeva met with producer Pavel Vashchekin and later became his personal assistant. At that time, she established contacts with future key figures in the media market: Sergei Kozhevnikov [Wikidata], the founder of the Russian Media Group [ru], radio producer Mikhail Kozyrev [Wikidata], Andrei Wolf [Wikidata] and Otar Kushanashvili. In 1993, she moved to the 2x2 TV channel, where she worked her way up from secretary to producer of the Thousand and One Nights TV show.

While working on 2x2, Natalya met her future husband Dmitry Savitsky [ru] and together with him started creating the FM radio station Silver Rain. While working on the radio, Sindeyeva met a Russian businessman and restaurateur Jamil Asfari, who became her second husband. In 2002, the couple had a son, Luca.

In 2005, at a match of the Chelsea[9] football club, Sindeyeva met the banker Alexander Vinokurov [ru], who was then the head of the investment bank KIT Finance [ru]. In 2006, she graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics Russia, course of business development Entrepreneur Essential 4. In 2006 Sindeyeva and Vinokurov married and in 2009, their daughter Alexandra, was born. Together with Vinokurov, who became the main investor, Sindeyeva created the Dozhd media holding.

On February 2, 2020, Sindeyeva announced on air of her own programme that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Silver Rain, 1995-2009

Together with her first husband Dmitry Savitsky, Sindeyeva created the Silver Rain FM radio station. The first broadcast took place in 1995. Savitsky became the general director, and Sindeyeva became the general producer of the station and organizer of the anti-award for dubious achievements Silver Galosh [ru].

Many well-known journalists were brought to work at the radio station. In addition, Silver Rain gained popularity due to its availability via the Internet and the concept of "music non-stop" introduced by Sindeyeva.

From 2002 to 2009 Natalya served as commercial director of Silver Rain, while retaining the position of general producer. After leaving the radio station, she remained its co-owner.
Dozhd media holding, 2007-present

Since 2007, Natalya Sindeyeva has been developing the Dozhd media holding, which includes the channel of the same name, as well as the Republic.ru publication and the Big City [ru] magazine. Aleksandr Vinokurov is an investor in all three projects, but legally Sindeyeva alone owns the Elephant and the Big City; in the Dozhd channel she has 95% (another 5% for Vera Krichevskaya [ru]). The exact amount of investment in the holding has not been disclosed, but by mid-2013, according to some estimates, the total investment in the channel alone could have reached $40 million.

In 2012, the total revenue of the holding amounted to 433 million rubles, according to Russian Accounting Standards. The TV channel accounted for almost 66% — 285 million rubles, the Slon.ru portal (created in 2009) — 20%, the rest – the magazine and website Bolshoi Gorod (acquired in 2010). No resource brings operating profit. In June 2014, plans were announced to combine all projects into one holding company and bring it to an IPO on the Moscow Exchange.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/defiant-to-the-last-moscows-media-star-takes-aim-at-putins-brutal-clampdown

Her natal Lilith is 28 Virgo, N.Node 21 Sagittarius, S.Node 20 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 18 Libra, N.Node 29 Taurus, and the S.Node is 11 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and opinion columnist with The Washington Post. She is author of the investigative book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
       
Background and family

Rana Ayyub was born in Mumbai, India. Her father Mohammad Ayyub Waqif, was a writer with Blitz, a Mumbai-based magazine, and an important member of the progressive writers movement. The city witnessed riots in 1992–93, during which time the family moved to the Muslim-dominant suburb of Deonar, which is where Rana largely grew up. Ayyub is a practising Muslim.

Career

Rana's worked for Tehelka (lit. "commotion/uproar"), a Delhi-based investigative and political news magazine. Rana has previously been critical of the BJP in general and Narendra Modi.[8] By her own account, a report done by Rana Ayyub was instrumental in sending Amit Shah, a close associate of Narendra Modi, to jail for several months in 2010.

At Tehelka, Rana worked as an investigative journalist and her big assignment was to carry out the sting operation upon which her book Gujarat Files was based. At the end of the sting operation, the management of Tehelka refused to publish any story written by Rana or based on the data collected by her. Rana continued to work with Tehelka for several months more. In November 2013, her boss Tarun Tejpal, the editor-in-chief and major shareholder of Tehelka, was accused of sexual harassment by one of his journalist subordinates. Rana Ayyub resigned from Tehelka in protest against the organisation's handling of the charge against Tejpal. She now works independently. In September 2019, Washington Post hired her as its contributing writer to the Global Opinions section.

In October 2020, HarperCollins India published an open letter written by Ayyub, to protest the controversial appointment of Actor Gajendra Chauhan as the Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), as part of the book Inquilab: A Decade of Protest which contains speeches, lectures and letters said to "capture the most important events and issues of the past ten years."

The Gujarat sting operation

As an investigative journalist working with Tehelka, Rana Ayyub took up a project to conduct a prolonged sting operation aimed at snaring politicians and government officials of Gujarat and get them to reveal any potential cover-ups regarding the Gujarat riots of 2002. Rana Posing as Maithili Tyagi, a filmmaker from the American Film Institute, and set about befriending her intended targets. She spent around ten months in disguise, and got paid a regular monthly salary from Tehelka during this period. However, at the end of the exercise, the management of Tehelka felt that the recordings which she had made over the months did not provide any new or sensational information, that the data gathered by her was of inadequate quality, and that they could not publish any story on the basis of the new data.

The book

In her book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, Ayyub documented the verbatim transcripts of recordings, made using a concealed recording device, of many bureaucrats and police officers of Gujarat. The recordings were made in the course of an undercover investigation to reveal the views of bureaucrats and police officers on the post-2002 Gujarat riots and Police encounter killings. Ayyub had been posing as 'Maithili Tyagi', a student of the American Film Institute, having an ideological affinity for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's beliefs, to enable her to make the recordings.

Dispute with Tehelka

Tarun Tejpal and Shoma Chaudhury have disputed Ayyub's claim that her story on fake encounters in Gujarat, which was the result of an eight-month long undercover investigation, was dropped by them. According to Tejpal, Ayyub's story was "incomplete". According to Chaudhury, Ayyub's story "did not meet the necessary editorial standards." Ayyub has responded to Tejpal and Chaudhury's assertions by noting that:

    I must say I am not the only one to complain about dropped stories in Tehelka, the list is fairly big... Shoma Choudhury and Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka cited editorial decisions and gaps. The book is a bestseller and is getting rave reviews for its content. Let the reader be the judge.

Reception

Historian Ramachandra Guha had called Ayyub's Gujarat Files "a brave book." Jyoti Malhotra has noted that many journalists have privately applauded Ayyub's courage in authoring Gujarat Files. Priya Ramani has commented: "The abuses from the paid foot soldiers on Twitter bounce off her spiral curls smoothly." Reflecting on the procedure used by Ayyub in composing Gujarat Files, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay has observed: "Going undercover and interviewing many who had been in the thick of gruesome extra-constitutional operations required bravado and this must be appreciated."

Ayyub's investigation of the alleged Gujarat fake encounters has been listed by Outlook magazine as one of the twenty greatest magazine stories of all time across the world.[35] In 2018, Ayyub was awarded the "most Resilient Global journalist" by Dutch non-profit Free Press Unlimited for resisting attempts to stifle her work.
Criticism

In the Haren Pandya murder case, the Supreme Court of India dismissed Rana Ayyub's book, stating that "it is based upon surmises, conjectures, and suppositions and has no evidentiary value.". Ayyub termed the court's comments "puzzling", stating that the CBI had used her work as evidence in other related cases, and noting that no officer or bureaucrat had denied her claims or taken her to court.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/rana-ayyub/

Her natal Lilith is 22 Virgo,N.Node 6 Capricorn,and the S.Node 8 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 14 Aquarius, N.Node 19 Taurus,and the S.Node is 27 Scorpio.

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Hi All,

This week we will honor Oksana Baulina who was an independent news reporter from Russia  who went to Ukraine to see and report on the actual reality, truth, of this war for the Russian people.

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Russian reporter killed in Kyiv shelling is fifth journalist to die in conflict

Oksana Baulina was killed with another civilian while reporting for the independent Russian news website the Insider   

Rachel Hall
Guardian
3/26/2022

A Russian reporter has died after coming under Russian shelling while she filmed destruction at a shopping centre in Kyiv, becoming at least the fifth journalist to a month since Moscow's invasion on 24 February.

Oksana Baulina, who previously also worked for the Russian opposition leader Alexander Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, was killed alongside another civilian on Wednesday while reporting for the independent Russian news website the Insider.

Two other people in the group were wounded in the attack which took place in the Podolsky district of Kyiv, the outlet reported.

"The Insider expresses its deepest condolences to Oksana's family and friends," it said.

The publication added: "We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling of residential areas which result in the deaths of civilians and journalists."

Baulina, 42, began her career working for lifestyle magazines including Time Out Moscow and In Style, but after a decade she shifted to more political work, becoming a producer for Alexander Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.

She was briefly jailed when Russian police stormed the group's headquarters where she was coordinating a live broadcast from a national rally.

Baulina left Russia after authorities declared the Anti-Corruption Foundation an "extremist organization" in 2021 but she continued to report for the Insider and Coda Story.

After Russia invaded Ukraine a month ago, Baulina filed several reports from Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine for the Insider.

Sergiy Tomilenko, head of the Ukranian journalists' union, confirmed the death in a statement on Facebook, saying that Baulina was reporting on the aftermath of a shelling when she was hit by fresh fire.

    Oksana was funny, dedicated and extremely brave. She was putting a new life together in Warsaw after having to flee Russia due to Navalny links and determined to do important journalism. Another victim of this awful senseless mess. https://t.co/fHUYm9PCQA
    — Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) March 23, 2022

Alexey Kovalev, the investigations editor at the Latvian-based Russian news website Meduza, paid tribute to Baulina's "phenomenal sense of moral clarity".

"Oksana ditched a successful career in glossy magazines (I first met her at Time Out Moscow in 2006 where she edited the fashion section) to become an opposition activist, human rights campaigner and then full time reporter. Arrested several times, her org declared 'extremist'," he tweeted.

Anastasia Karimova, a program director at Foundation for Democratic Development in Washington, tweeted: "The Russian army has killed one of Russia's best people."

Vladimir Milov, who worked with her at Navalny's group, vowed to avenge her.

"I will never forget her and to all those who are responsible for her death I promise that they won't get away with (only) a trial and a verdict," Milov said on Twitter.

"What an unbelievable horror," wrote Lyubov Sobol, another prominent member of Navalny's team.

At least four other reporters have been killed during the conflict: Brent Renaud, an American film-maker, Evgeny Sakun, a cameraman with Kyiv Live TV, Irish cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova. Television news crews have described being shot at even when they have identified themselves as journalists, prompting speculation that they were targeted on purpose.

More: https://mixedarticle.com/oksana-baulina-age

Her natal Lilith is 7 Libra, N.Node 11 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 2 Taurus, N.Node 29 Taurus, and the S.Node 19 Scorpio.

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