Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.

“Malaysia plans to send non-recyclable plastic back to the countries that sent it to there, said its environment minister on Tuesday.

“Developed countries must be responsible in what they send out,” Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia’s minister of energy, technology, science, climate change and environment told Reuters. She added that some of the waste sent to Malaysia was in contravention of the Basel Convention, an international treaty drafted to regulate the export of waste to developing countries.

The Southeast Asian country became the top destination for plastic waste in 2018 after China stopped accepting imports, according to Reuters, with plastic waste imports jumping to 456,000 tonnes between January and July 2018 compared with 316,600 tones in all of 2017 and 168,500 tonnes in all of 2016.”

‪Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged (1957)‬

Not to be an anarchist on main but we should all have free time and space to make things and be creative

An Indigenous leader confronted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a fundraiser in Vancouver on Wednesday, calling him a “weak leader” while criticizing his government’s plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Trudeau was speaking at a Liberal Party fundraiser when Will George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver stood and began to question him, asking whether he planned to push the pipeline project through.

“You’re a liar and you’re a weak leader,” George said. “Climate leaders don’t build pipelines.

“We say no. No means no.”

George is a member of Protect the Inlet, an advocacy group opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The prime minister was speaking onstage at a downtown hotel about the need to take “real action” on climate change and to move forward on reconciliation when George questioned him.

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“It is absurd to tell women to love themselves in a world that alienates them from their own flesh. No amount of one-quarter-moisturiser soap can wash away the knowledge of what your female body means to others: sex object, breeder, wank fodder, window dressing, on-set extra. The distress women feel when confronted with image after image of extreme thinness cannot simply be characterised as “I want to look like that so that men love me.“ A woman might actually be thinking “women are supposed to look like that because men do not like us at all.” Or “I want to look like that so that my body will be less fleshy, less female and less real.“ Women starve, binge and purge because they feel trapped in bodies that are not “theirs”. The trouble is, there is never a female body that fits.”

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No More Skinny is a campaign to redirect the objectification of women, not fight it

Class

“Appalachia is not poor, then, but its people are. They rarely own and scarcely benefit from the area’s wealth. Instead large, absentee, corporate land and coal owners do–increasingly multinational conglomerates which also own and deliver much of the rest of the energy of the nation and of the world. In 1965, Dun’s Review of Modern Business wrote, ‘for all their small numbers … these coal royalists hold what may be one of the most lucrative investments in all of America’, while a government-sponsored study also pointed out that despite the War on Poverty, about twice as much capital flowed out of Central Appalachia as into it in 1967 and entered ‘the financial markets centered around New York’ and other metropolitan centres. Not even in the energy boom of the 1970s, did the wealth produced from Appalachia go to its people.”

— John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (p. 35)

Breastplate and bracelets of Amenemope

Hawk-shaped gold breastplate and bracelets, part of funerary objects of king Amenemope. Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Amenemope, ca. 1001-992 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

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