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No, I was there during the peak of Covid.
Being uncomfortable seeing other people struggle doesn’t give you a right to criminalise and harm them, and to threaten their safety. Maybe if you don’t like the look of homelessness in our country you should stop gutting the supports for people to live well. Jerks.
Absolutely vile. I remember a lot of problems in the years I was living in the Auckland CBD and this was absolutely not one of them. The only time I saw things escalate were when cops or asshole passers by antagonised homeless people who are just trying to get by.
Yesterday with your help, we paid the rent for five Minneapolis immigrant families in need. Rent’s coming up, donations are down, and there’s still so much need here. Let’s help as many as we can today!
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Please share and give if you can! Thank you!
Abolish ICE is the floor, not the ceiling.
You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down.
Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
I’m sure much more educated people than me have already thought about these things so I will have to read up on it but something in that video just connected dots in my brain and now I’m even more terrified. Thoughts sparked by: vt.tiktok.com/ZS5T2xYHS/
And if in just a few years we’ve gone from being able to more or less trust video evidence (even if not the cutting & framing around it) to having to ask “Is that cute cat video actually AI?” then how easy will it be for people to believe that fascist violence is again too unbelievable to be true?
So in conjunction with trying to control social media platforms and the algorithm, it also makes sense for fascist regimes to support technology that makes people think twice about what they see online.
But it struck me when she asked them about the camps and they said that people believed they were just false rumours because it was so horrifically inhumane it was hard to believe.
We’ve been seeing genocide live-streamed for years now and this has mobilised millions of people around the world.
I just watched a TikTok of a German woman in the US who had the opportunity to talk to her great grand parents and ask why people voted for AH. They responded with a lot of the same reasons people say they voted for DT. The playbook is undeniably the same.
AI generated content is horrible & I often wonder how these companies are so resourced & enabled by govts to develop esp off the back of copyrighted materials.
It occurred to me that it’s a lot easier to get away with fascism if people are accustomed to having to ask if an outrageous video is AI 🫤
I’m so scared. I’ve been wanting to leave the US for years as I’m BLACK, DISABLED, and a LESBIAN! I just want to be safe and heal.
Please if you can donate to my GoFundMe. I have friends in a few places that can help me get settled. I still have medical needs as well like acupuncture & my tooth.
Yay! Glad you are in the clear!
Come work with me! 🎉
If you’re a DPA member and have thought about joining the National Executive Committee please get your nominations lined up as it closes this weekend!
If you have been thinking about it but need a nominee please let me know ☺️
Great vibe in the room as the Belém Gender Action Plan is gavelled through with no objections! Woohoo! #COP30 #GAP #BelémGAP
It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special.
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
Your wellness routine should include taking precautions to avoid multiple covid infections that damage your immune system, hope that helps. 🌟💕
Note the invitation to complain to the HRC about "discrimination on the ground of sex, including gender identity, gender expression and innate variations of sex characteristics" at the end.
I will certainly be doing so.
happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
'My mana reignited': Attendees leave world's largest indigenous education conference feeling inspired
One of the things cis women have long fought for bodily autonomy with are cries such as "get your laws off my body" & "my body, my choice" ... trans folks are no different.
This is why the ban on puberty blockers for trans folks is so incredibly stupid and ideological.
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We were in a hotel literally in the COP security perimeter - so literally right next to the venue entrance - and still we had to pull SO many strings to eventually be allowed to deliver the statement virtually.
And people were not pleased about having to accommodate that. It’s wildly inaccessible.
But having any inputs virtually almost never happens which is terrible. I remember at COP26 for example, my partner Jason was meant to deliver a high level statement for Disability Caucus. Then we found out we had been a close contact for another delegate that got COVID so had to isolate.
Including live-streaming more than just the main plenaries but even that has been a challenge to get across the line consistently. Some years yes, other years no, other years yes in policy but in practice the internet doesn’t sustain it.
Please don’t apologise at all! They’re all totally excellent points. The current set up IS discriminatory, absolutely and they are super resistant to change.
It’s just a shame there is currently no full solution. Many have been pushing to make them much more virtual than they currently are.
Thankfully in some spaces (like global Indigenous Peoples Caucus) there is now a concept of language justice (having interpretation so not only English dominant) but also time zone justice (so multiple streams to ensure Pacific included, or taking turns at which time zone will be best).
But in adjacent spaces - so not official UNFCCC meetings, but like civil society calls, international working groups etc there are lots of zooms and they always end up being 3am for us and it is horrific.
I am extremely pro virtual in every other situation (I WFH and normally don’t do crowds bc of immune issues) but virtual COP would mean only the big players get more power. So much of what happens here is because of chance meetings on the side outside of the televised plenaries.
