Zackie Achmat

Property power.

“One in a thousand year riot costs.” #NoKingsProtest

@adamtooze.bsky.social finds out what the insurance industry has to say.

#OtD 7 Jun 1954 mathematician and AI thinker Alan Turing, who had helped the Allies win WWII by cracking Nazi codes, died after being sentenced to chemical castration for homosexuality. Officially ruled suicide, but some suspect other explanations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1071...

Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry <article data-history-node-id="423591" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-hospitals-only-have-enough-fuel-three-days-health-ministry" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-hospitals-only-have-enough-fuel-three-days-health-ministry" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza’s Health Ministry has announced that its hospitals only have enough fuel to last three days, according to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>“The obstruction of fuel supplies to hospitals threatens to stop them from operating, as they rely on generators to power vital departments,” the Health Ministry said in a statement reported by Al Jazeera.</p> <p>This comes a day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-health-system-collapsing-world-health-organisation-says">announced</a> that Palestinians in Gaza will lose all access to healthcare if the last two functional hospitals are not saved.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-hospitals-only-have-enough-fuel-three-days-health-ministry

Leila Soueif risks imminent death.

#FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll

Global Fund is $6-billion short and may have to cut life-saving programmes US has cut funding and it’s not clear if other donors will meet their pledges

US @GlobalFund cuts will destroy lives and fuel new epidemics of HIV, TB and Malaria in more than 100 countries.

Trump Always Chickens Out#TACO when whipped by the stock market. But, he is happy to let millions die.

groundup.org.za/article/glob...
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social

"A funny thing is that I tend to give all my novels the same title to begin with — Wrestling with God. Then while I’m writing, I realize, Oh, that’s not quite it..."

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in this excellent @theparisreivew.bsky.social interview by Namwali Serpell

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

Lydia Nabirye - FORSAKEN I told her there's still time for everything. It's a long life. I told her she would not be neglected.

This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later: forsaken.life/orals/lydia-...
@unaids.org @asia-ilse.bsky.social

Video: HIV activists disrupt Parliament They are calling for government to take action in response to cuts in US funding for vital services

We cannot let Trump win. Where is the South African government?

Our duty is to avoid conflict and the Global HIV Treatment Coalition wants to assist in building a people’s health service to deal with the systemic crises in the public and private health systems.

groundup.org.za/article/hiv-...

Anna Stavrianakis outside the High Court this morning as Al-Haq and @glanlaw.bsky.social challenge the UK government over the continued export of arms making their way to Israel. The judicial review spanning four days will focus on the carve-out for F-35 jet parts.

Let the youth who understand justice lead.
#India #Pakistan
#Kashmir -
Neither terror nor war but a mass anti-fascist front.

We @ukstoptrump.bsky.social are building a demonstration to show Trump what we think of him when he comes!

We’ll bring baby blimps & big, beautiful crowds - please donate to help us here: stoptrump.org.uk/donate/

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The @apha.org is correct. Robert F. Kennedy Jnr will cause harm to US health services, research and global health.

We lived with denialism, pseudoscience and misinformation for almost a decade resulting in millions of people become infected and ill with HIV and then dying. Kennedy is worse.

As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez We are not victims, there is no genocide. This rhetoric shows that the US administration doesn’t understand my thriving country, says Max du Preez, founding editor of the Vrye Weekblad newspaper

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "... we are a genuinely open society with free speech and media that many other democracies, especially Trump’s America, can be jealous of."

My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.

On March 27, Donald Trump ordered collective bargaining rights revoked for more than 1 million federal workers. Trump and DOGE are waging a war on the working class.

Join the Federal Unionist Network on April 5th to fight back: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

[How Things Work Now]

- Trump: Announces Plans for Every American to Eat 60 Lbs of Horse Shit

- NYT: In Controversial Move, Trump Doubles Down on Farm Based Strategy

- Democrats: While Americans appreciate free meals, …

- Republicans: Eating Shit is Patriotic

- Trump’s Approval: 47%

Yes. @betoorourke.bsky.social is correct. Fascism cannot be fought with collaborators.

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers

This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

This is the nation of free speech, of the law, of respect the blue, of doing good, of working hard, of opportunity, of freedom, apparently.

The whole thing is such a disgusting lie. Racism is such utter evil.

The economy has lost confidence in Cabinet

Why PEPFAR has bigger problems than reauthorization Even if its authorization is allowed to expire tomorrow, PEPFAR will survive. Instead, the program faces a much bigger problem as a result of cuts to USAID, which administered the majority of PEPFAR s...

PEPFAR's congressional authorization is all but certain to expire tomorrow without renewal. Yet, that is nowhere near the biggest challenge facing a program that has saved 26 million lives: www.devex.com/news/why-pep... w/ insights from
@jenkatesdc.bsky.social and @egpaf.bsky.social

‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science (Gift Article) Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

#Trump & #Kennedy prepare
America’s Lysenko moment.

The pseudo-science peddled under Stalin and the restrictions on scientific research enters a new phase qualitatively more dangerous than the Soviet one.

Solidarity with US scientists @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and life-saving research. www.killthecuts.org

we will not let people die
we must defeat #Trump & fascism

20 million people living with #HIV on death row. #USAID
What do you say?

groundup.org.za/article/will...

@stephanienolen.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

Political will needed to save lives amid USAID funding cuts, say activists “We will not let our people die” says Zackie Achmat

HIV activist @zackieachmat.bsky.social met with several civil organisations at Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town, on Wednesday night to discuss the looming health crisis caused by the USAID funding cuts.
"We will not let our people die” he says
groundup.org.za/article/will...

#Resistance is our answer. Beginning small but going deep into our communities and building the broadest coalitions. #HIV #USAID #Pepfar @gregggonsalves.bsky.social