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😠 RCMP, community safety teams raid 4 cannabis shops in K’ómoks First Nation
This isn’t the first time they’ve showed up to bully us, to harass us to kind of follow their orders,
“This is unceded land, we never surrendered this land so they have no right to be here. This is out of their jurisdiction.”
He said all the product at Cedar Bark Dispensary has been boxed up and taken, but he doesn’t know where.
#News #Indigenous #Legal #HumanRights #Police
https://globalnews.ca/news/10295570/raid-comox-first-nation-cannabis-shops/
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Iran's women vow resistance against "misogynistic" regime.
"On International Women's Day, @dw spoke with Iranian rights activists who shared stories about women who face daily threats and harassment, but continue demanding the right to expression and self-determination."
#Iran #Women #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #Politics #HumanRights
Hi Fedi Family,
In 2008 Californians voted for Prop8 that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the California constitution. While this was defeated in courts this draconian Prop8 language is still in the California constitution. Justice tHomas and the right wing SCOTUS is openly hinting at destroying precedent and trampling rights. If they overturned Obergefell - the Prop8 language in the California Constitution will act as a “trigger law”, raining havoc on queer families like mine across California.
Please spread the word to vote “YES” to repeal Prop8 (2008) from the California constitution in Nov 2024. Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about it.
Boosts appreciated.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Right_to_Marry_and_Repeal_Proposition_8_Amendment_(2024)
#lgbt #lgbtq #California #marriageequality #Prop8 #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #queer #nonbinary #enby #HumanRights #Politics #USpol #scotus #lgbtqia #indivisible #equality #trans #love #sfba
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“This is really its own illness, lots of times affecting young, healthy people.”
Millions of Texans have already come down with long #COVID symptoms, and many more could be at risk in the future if we don't make changes. For this @TexasObserver magazine feature, I interviewed both sufferers and medical experts about solutions we can take: https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/
#news #politics #USpol #healthcare #health #disability #HumanRights #Texas #Austin #pandemic #science
“I was trying to prioritize my physical health because I couldn’t lift things; I couldn’t open things. I didn’t understand why I was getting weaker.”
Even a single #COVID infection can destroy the lives of young, healthy Texans, as my feature from @TexasObserver magazine, out today, reveals: https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/
#LongCovid #health #news #politics #USpol #disability #HumanRights #Texas
#Netanyahu Resists U.S. Plan to Bring Sanctions Against Israeli #Military Unit
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After months of inaction, Secretary of State Antony #Blinken is poised to bar U.S. aid to an #Israeli unit accused of human rights abuses.
If you're an American born after 1969, you've never lived under a liberal-leaning U.S. Supreme Court.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected in 2016, that could have changed.
The U.S. could be much different.
Roe would still be the law of the land.
Justice and equality could move forward, not backward.
The Supreme Court, and federal courts, are reason enough to vote for Democrats.
[SLOWCLAP]
"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by #FacialRecognition tech...'
"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.
"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.
"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."
Amnesty International was founded in London #OTD in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson.
In what he called "The Forgotten Prisoners" and "An Appeal for Amnesty", which appeared on the front page of the British newspaper The Observer, Benenson wrote about two students who toasted to freedom in Portugal and four other people who had been jailed in other nations because of their beliefs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1961/may/28/fromthearchive.theguardian
“Of all people, you have a #disability so you can relate, I hope.”
Out today from Austin Free Press: Disability rights activists protested outside the Governor's Mansion, for the "liberation" of more people from institutions, marking the anniversary of a key #SCOTUS decision:
https://austinfreepress.org/wheres-abbott-austin-disability-activists-picket-one-of-their-own-at-governors-mansion/
#news #politics #activism #health #HumanRights #disabled #protest #GregAbbott #USpol #politics #law #CivilRights
Our top story: As the researchers proceeded to search for textiles, they realized they had stumbled onto a crime scene. A massive theft of pre-Columbian art reveals troubling truths about Texans’ role in the illicit antiquities trade. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-heist/
#history #culture #HumanRights #Indigenous #Texas #politics #USpol #news
Please boost. Thanks, in advance ❤️🙌❤️
For those new to following me here, here's the #speech I delivered in #solidarity with #Gaza #Palestine in #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland in front of #BCgovernment legislature buildings
I call out the #farce of self declared true #democratic states in my speech & how our #governments tell us there ain't enough funds to help citizens but they can find billions to fund #EthnicCleansing of Palestinians.
https://youtu.be/ojlAbsd8x5Q?si=VgZ15m2sNRtkyMHH
#WarSurvivorsForCeasefire #BoycottIsraeliApartheid #HumanRights #StopWarMongers #ArrestWarCriminals #WarSurvivorsForPeace #ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael #AsianMastodon #USVietnamInvasionSurvivor #HelpRefugees #TootSEA #VietnamWarSurvivors
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#Trump spreads #violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should be pitted in fights for entertainment.
During a speech to #Christian #conservatives on Sat afternoon, & AGAIN at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed he told his friend Dana White, pres of the UFC, that he should start a spinoff competition featuring migrants, as part of his riff on restricting #immigration.
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Dehumanization #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/22/trump-christians-migrants-violence/
How ‘#ProLife’ Lost all #Meaning
The #AntiAbortion movement may have won the battle 2 yrs ago w/ #Dobbs, but they’re losing the war—& turning an entire generation away from their cause.
By Charles Sykes
#law #UnitedStates #abortion #RoeVWade #ReproductiveHealthCare #ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth #BodilyAutonomy #freedom #CivilRights #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/06/how-pro-life-lost-all-meaning/678784/
(1/2) Ep 27: Space Exploration, Civil Rights and Governance #WisdomWithWes
https://youtu.be/yUP-ZK3z8Y0
#Hope #future #HealOurCulture #HumanRights #ConCW #SpaceEd #nasa
Some reflections on connections between our reignited drive to explore the heavens, return to the moon and set foot on Mars, the struggle for civil rights and human rights, and our drive to improve our systems of governance to support representative democracy, the rule of law, and a just society for all.
I’m Wes Fryer of Charlotte
After unprecedented protests swept #Cuba, a huge wave of people fled. A journalist shares his saga of being smuggled to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The cover story to our magazine, presented in partnership with NAHJ's palabra.
https://www.texasobserver.org/cuba-journalism-border-immigration-asylum-texas/
#immigration #politics #USpol #border #news #Mexico #HumanRights #refugees
“The South really did not lose [the Civil War] when it came to maintaining this form of free labor.”
New from @josephinelee and Michelle Pitcher in our magazine, tracing two centuries of forced labor in Texas: https://texasobserver.org/texas-prison-plantations/
#prison #slavery #history #news #politics #HumanRights #labor #WorkersRights
Predictive policing is UNJUST.
It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.
With 16 other civil society groups, we say:
BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime.
Read our open letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SafetyNotSurveillance-open-letter-Jul-24.pdf
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Please read & share my latest article, “Dehumanization is Wrong” posted to my blog as well as Medium:
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2024/08/06/dehumunization-is-wrong/
https://medium.com/@wfryer/dehumunization-is-wrong-2492623c5bbe
In the article I address ideas in the 2024 book “Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)” by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec.
#ethics #HumanRights #dehumanization #unhuman #politics #polarization #election #election2024
Add #AlsuKurmasheva to the list of American #journalists jailed in #Russia
The #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty editor was detained in 2023. Her husband & daughters came to Washington to raise awareness & ask for help.
#InternationalLaw #law #Putin #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #HumanRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/07/29/alsu-kurmasheva-journalist-russia-detained/
WTF!! Canadian police are taking the lead from Americans?!!
'I need justice': Community rallies around 28-year-old father killed by police
"At the time, police said he matched the description of a driver who had walked away from a single-vehicle rollover"
NO GUN
👉 On Friday, EPS confirmed the officer who shot Mathios had returned to active duty after completing a "peer-driven" reintegration program.
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SCOOP from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas Department of Public Safety is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI #surveillance tool that can track cell phones without a court order. (🧵 1/2) https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #police #tech #privacy #HumanRights #activism #AI
Not Pollution. Not Global Warming. Not Corruption. Not Corporations that won't pay taxes.
It's migrants who are at fault for all the troubles in your life. Since you're not man enough to shoulder life's responsibilities, your start picking on a vulnerable group, like migrants, and you start bullying them, like a coward. Try helping people for a change!
#MigrantsRights #HumanRights #Pollution #CorporateGreed #DirtyPoliticians #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming