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The Coda #46: It’s gonna be all right Bill McKibben on songs that make a difference

When @billmckibben.bsky.social starts to feel overwhelmed in the fight to save the planet from climate catastrophe, he listens to two songs that tell him it's going to be all right - find out what they are! #climate #humanrights strengthandsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-coda-4...

Fantastic, Nate!

Poem by Gabeba Baderoon: Out of time I have nothing of yours I can keep only your words to me the way we place hands over faces close each other's mouths time a hollow bone that draws us like breath out of time

#sealeychallenge Day 1 - Gabeba Baderoon's 'A hundred silences.'

Years of dreaming, research & consultation followed by months of collective work with the broader Afghan civic community & here we are: launching the first People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan @rawadari.bsky.social

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Automated surveillance, targeted killings, and AI warfare in Gaza: A conversation with legal scholar Khalil Dewan From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.

From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.

The image posted (since i don’t think i can add alt text at this point) is simply a black and white photo of the text of De Kok’s poem “For now” copied from p180 of the journal ‘Illuminations’ no.40.

apologies and thanks for the reminder!

Bonus: a rare chance to write an actual paper check, put it in a paper envelope, write the address with a pen and drop it in a mailbox! Copies $10, send check made out to Illuminations to Simon Lewis, Department of English, 66 George Street, Charleston, S.C. 29424 #snailmail

Another beauty from Illuminations #40: Ingrid De Kok’s “For now” - a quiet invitation to set grief down, for this one night at least. #lifttothesky #poetsofbluesky

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Ten THOUSAND (10,000!!!) meters of elevation! Support @natematias.bsky.social's incredible challenge with a donation to @globalvoices.org! The community, especially the Nepal team incl @sankuchy.bsky.social, are working on a playlist for him, which we will share so you can listen along!

Alex De Waal knows famine - it's his subject. Not that this situation requires any technical expertise. Every actual human knows what they are looking at in Gaza and has long understood, ever since Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant promised, October 9,2023 a "total blockade" on food and water.

Sample from the just-dropped Illuminations #40 - Saint Lucia poet John Robert Lee’s ‘Migrant’ with a stark question-as-epigraph from Darwish.
#poetsofbluesky #poem #poetry #lifttothesky

Sadly #40 may be the last! Copies $10, send check made out to Illuminations to Simon Lewis, Department of English, 66 George Street, Charleston, S.C. 29424

Poets, check out Illuminations #40, ed. Simon Lewis (Charleston College) – nearly 100 wonderful US and global poems. At random - Ingrid de Kok, John Robert Lee, Georgia Tiffany, Jim Tilley, new Neruda translations...riches! www.facebook.com/illumination... #LifttotheSky #poetsofbluesky

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some rapper who may be discredited in general but remains memeable saying no to billionaire-backed news media, but definitely yes to community-backed independent multilingual news media

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"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies." - Shaharzad Akbar

"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies."

- Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social

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#Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid

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During the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, I was a volunteer journalist at Global Voices. I had no budget, but I can promise you that I platformed more Palestinian journalists and activists in that month than the NYT had that entire year.

We were complaining about the NYT a decade+ ago. No one listened.

Danish coach Trine Christensen in a white sweater with brown hair and glasses quoted as saying, 'It's not whether we'lll burn out, but when.'

Latest ep. of Strength&Solidarity takes a look at the accelerating incidence of burn-out in the human rights and social justice fields and asks why we aren't intervening at scale to try and stop - or at least slow- the train? #humanrights #burnout
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Great food for thought from Murat and -as always- a joke at the end!
#humanrights #turkiye #turkey

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do.
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
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