Most of my posts focused #humanrights and #ruleOfLaw in the #US are posted on a separate account. And that’s where I primarily follow American commentators. If you want to know where this account is, feel free to indicate below by “liking,” making a comment, or sending a private message, and I’ll send you the name of the account privately.
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“This is the most massive secrecy grab in #Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.”
Our top story, from Michelle Pitcher: A move to "standardize" #police personnel files could have devastating consequences for transparency. https://www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-file-police-records-texas-legislature/
#politics #USpol #HumanRights #journalism #media #TXlege #news
"What Are Human Rights?
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination." #HumanRights https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20126487822&gbraid=0AAAAAD9kiAc5P0U_ubTz3hqOmgS6XHVPQ
It's unbearable. The Free Software community can no longer remain silent about the #genocide in #Palestine.
As the author and project leader of @gnuhealth , I ask any freesoftware project to join forces and publicly condemn this atrocity. Our values must go beyond coding. ❤️
#GNU #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #HumanRights
A useful list of all the products coming out of Israel of which to #Boycott
“This is the most massive secrecy grab in #Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.”
New today from Michelle Pitcher: A move to "standardize" #police personnel files could have devastating consequences for #transparency. https://www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-file-police-records-texas-legislature/
#news #politics #USpol #fascism #TXlege #journalism #HumanRights #news #democracy
Introducing the September/October 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover art by Adrià Volt, and stories by Michelle Pitcher, Julie Poole, Francesca D'Annunzio and more.
Become a member to get our magazine 6 times per year: https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/
#journalism #media #HumanRights #healthcare #Texas #politics #USpol #news #disability #nonprofit
Yesterday: He survived the treacherous Darien Gap to come to the U.S. Then #ICE agents called him a member of Tren de Aragua. No criminal record, no gang tattoos, he was deported over the sneakers he wore. https://www.texasobserver.org/a-venezuelan-was-detained-as-a-documented-gang-member-by-ice-which-refused-to-provide-proof/
Latest comic on prison labor in the US food supply chain
Going to protests works 
Contacting your representatives works 📬
Building alternative platforms works 
Creating supportive networks works 
Advocating on social media works 🗣️
Stop telling people their action doesn't work, and pick one that works for you.
We need all of this and more to win.
Learn to fight together 💚
#HumanRights #Democracy #Protest #NoKings #USpol #UKpol #EUpol #CanPoli
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Triggerwarning for death-by-neglect and murder-against-females-because-of-patriarchy (=femicide)
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Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.
#HumanRights #Uyghurs #police #government #dissent #PredictivePolicing #DigitalPoliceState #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
“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
Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the #Trump admin to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors in #immigration proceedings.
“Terminating funding for direct #LegalRepresentation for unaccompanied #children, without any plan to ensure continuity in representation, potentially violates Congress's express directive….”
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Constitution #RightToCounsel #6thAmendment #CivilRights #HumanRights
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.447078/gov.uscourts.cand.447078.33.0.pdf
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The U.S. is trying to blackmail Australia much the same way it did Japan recently
"Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state"
Well, let me be the first Australian to say F*ck right off DT! and keep on F*cking off. 👍
#RemoveTrump #AntiFascism #AntiCorruption #News #USPol #AUSPol #HumanRights
🇨🇦 👋 40 Ways to Fight the Far-Right: In Canada
This guide offers ideas for people of all backgrounds, identities, and skill levels. While we encourage people to show up in person, there are also many options for people who aren’t able to do that.
Together, these actions present a variety of tactics which raise the cost of participation in far-right movements and, we believe, will keep communities safer.
#Canada #Resist #Extremism
#Community #Cdnpoli #HumanRights #SocialJustice
20 minute documentary “How to erase a people“
on why settler-colonialism is an aboslute evil, how a people and their culture co-exist and evolve with nature, how their language is specific to their way of life, and how their way of life is shaped by the land on which they live. Ultimately, uprooting a people, forcing them to move to another land, necessarily destroys their way of life and erases their culture.
#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Genocide #HumanRights #SettlerColonialism
80 minute documentary film “Israelism“ (by Vice, on YouTube)This film makes very clear what motivates Jewish pro-Palestinian people in the US to protest, and how their Jewish faith makes their conviction in peace and humanitarianism so powerful.
#USPol #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #Judaism #SimoneZimmerman #IfNotNow #Documentary
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I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.
But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.
Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.
This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.
It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW ✊
There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.
Democracy dies in silence.
Everyone: Learn more here
Everyone: Spread the word on social media
Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your local media NOW
Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your MEPs NOW
The final vote is on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.
#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli
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Our top story: Three of her children left for the birthday party at a rented Airbnb. María wouldn't hear from them for the next three days—and the next six months of her life would be turned upside-down. https://www.texasobserver.org/officials-tren-de-aragua-party-attendees-differ/
#ICE #immigration #HumanRights #police #Texas #CentralTexas #politics #USpol #news
#Madagascar's president fires the government following days of deadly #GenZ #protests
The #UN #HumanRights office said Monday that 22 people had been killed. The UN blamed a “violent response” by #SecurityForces. >100 people also have been injured in the protests, the agency said.
#Protesters & #bystanders were killed by security forces, but some of the deaths also came in violence & looting by gangs not associated with protesters, the UN rights office said.
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.
“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
(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
“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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