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liberaljane · 2 years

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In solidarity with the women of Iran who are protesting the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini and for the right to bodily autonomy.

As the government tries to shut down access to the internet and protests, several artists have decided to take a stand to raise awareness Thank you Aria del Sole for inspiring me to join in. From the artists who started this online protest: What is happening in Iran right now: On 16th of september 2022, Mahsa "Jina" Amini died after being detained and beaten by the Iranian morality police for breaking hijab rules. She is not the first or last Iranian woman to encounter this. They are at the frontline of a revolution, fighting the regime, risking their lives by taking off their hijab publicly. Join us in our online protest; supporting those who are protesting but also those who want to wear it. This is a fight for freedom of choice, standing strong for women's equal rights, everywhere in the world. We want to show our solidarity with this artivism; drawing one big banner and the women who stand behind it.

Digital illustration of an older Iranian woman. She is staring at the viewer with a tired but hopeful expression. She has long flowing hair and is wearing a red scarf with a photo of Mahsa (Jina) Amini clipped on. There's text that reads, 'I stand with the women of Iran.'

#art #feminism #iran #iran protests #mahsa amini #feminist #global human rights #bodily autonomy #protest

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intersectionalpraxis · 3 months

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48 million people in Sudan still can not contact their families across the diaspora. They're cut off from the internet, which includes their online banking services as well. Thousands of displaced Sudanese people were also recently turned away as asylum seekers:

This continues to be horrifying. Please keep talking about Sudan.

#feminist #social justice #sudan war #sudan crisis #sudan genocide #eyes on sudan #free sudan #keep eyes on sudan #sudan #world news #global news #rsf #human rights violations #liberate sudan #telecommunications blackout #telecommunications

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mahoganygold213 · 4 months

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#joél leon #signal boost #humanity #human rights #common sense #common decency #colonialism #imperialism #war crimes #genocide #crimes against humanity #free palestine #free sudan #free congo #free oppressed people globally #congo #sudan #palestine

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mostlysignssomeportents · 24 days

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Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff.

Sure, there are some prisoners for whom money is no object – wealthy people who screwed up so bad they can't get bail and are stewing in a county lockup, along with the odd rich murderer or scammer serving a long bid. But most prisoners are poor. They start poor – the cops are more likely to arrest poor people than rich people, even for the same crime, and the poorer you are, the more likely you are to get convicted or be suckered into a plea bargain with a long sentence. State legislatures are easy to whip up into a froth about minimum sentences for shoplifters who steal $7 deodorant sticks, but they are wildly indifferent to the store owner's rampant wage-theft. Wage theft is by far the most costly form of property crime in America and it is almost entirely ignored:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees

So America's prisons are heaving with its poorest citizens, and they're certainly not getting any richer while they're inside. While many prisoners hold jobs – prisoners produce $2b/year in goods and $9b/year in services – the average prison wage is $0.52/hour:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

(In six states, prisoners get nothing; North Carolina law bans paying prisoners more than $1/day, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution explicitly permits slavery – forced labor without pay – for prisoners.)

Likewise, prisoners' families are poor. They start poor – being poor is a strong correlate of being an American prisoner – and then one of their breadwinners is put behind bars, taking their income with them. The family savings go to paying a lawyer.

Prison-tech is a bet that these poor people, locked up and paid $1/day or less; or their families, deprived of an earner and in debt to a lawyer; will somehow come up with cash to pay $13 for a 20-minute phone call, $3 for an MP3, or double the Kindle price for an ebook.

How do you convince a prisoner earning $0.52/hour to spend $13 on a phone-call?

Well, for Securus and Viapath (AKA Global Tellink) – a pair of private equity backed prison monopolists who have swallowed nearly all their competitors – the answer was simple: they bribed prison officials to get rid of the prison phones.

Not just the phones, either: a pair of Michigan suits brought by the Civil Rights Corps accuse sheriffs and the state Department of Corrections of ending in-person visits in exchange for kickbacks from the money that prisoners' families would pay once the only way to reach their loved ones was over the "free" tablets:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/jails-banned-family-visits-to-make-more-money-on-video-calls-lawsuits-claim/

These two cases are just the tip of the iceberg; Civil Rights Corps says there are hundreds of jails and prisons where Securus and Viapath have struck similar corrupt bargains:

https://civilrightscorps.org/case/port-huron-michigan-right2hug/

And it's not just visits and calls. Prison-tech companies have convinced jails and prisons to eliminate mail and parcels. Letters to prisoners are scanned and delivered their tablets, at a price. Prisoners – and their loved ones – have to buy virtual "postage stamps" and pay one stamp per "page" of email. Scanned letters (say, hand-drawn birthday cards from your kids) cost several stamps:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

Prisons and jails have also been convinced to eliminate their libraries and continuing education programs, and to get rid of TVs and recreational equipment. That way, prisoners will pay vastly inflated prices for streaming videos and DRM-locked music.

The icing on the cake? If the prison changes providers, all that data is wiped out – a prisoner serving decades of time will lose their music library, their kids' letters, the books they love. They can get some of that back – by working for $1/day – but the personal stuff? It's just gone.

Readers of my novels know all this. A prison-tech scam just like the one described in the Civil Rights Corps suits is at the center of my latest novel The Bezzle:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Prison-tech has haunted me for years. At first, it was just the normal horror anyone with a shred of empathy would feel for prisoners and their families, captive customers for sadistic "businesses" that have figured out how to get the poorest, most desperate people in the country to make them billions. In the novel, I call prison-tech "a machine":

a million-armed robot whose every limb was tipped with a needle that sank itself into a different place on prisoners and their families and drew out a few more cc’s of blood.

But over time, that furious empathy gave way to dread. Prisoners are at the bottom of the shitty technology adoption curve. They endure the technological torments that haven't yet been sanded down on their bodies, normalized enough to impose them on people with a little more privilege and agency. I'm a long way up the curve from prisoners, but while the shitty technology curve may grind slow, it grinds fine:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The future isn't here, it's just not evenly distributed. Prisoners are the ultimate early adopters of the technology that the richest, most powerful, most sadistic people in the country's corporate board-rooms would like to force us all to use.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

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#pluralistic #prison #prison-tech #marty hench #the bezzle #securus #captive audiences #St Clair County #human rights #prisoners rights #viapath #gtl #global tellink #Genesee County #michigan #guillotine watch #carceral state #corruption

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totallynotcensorship · 3 months

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tags update: free palestine, palestine, gaza, free gaza, yemen, lebanon, middle east, human rights, united nationsm and jerusalem are trending

edit: yemen, lebanon, human rights, middle east, and united nations stopped trending? they are still in the "featured tags" on trending tho-

edit2: they are back to trending

with free palestine at 1st place on the page

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE

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queerqwertyto · 13 days

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APRIL 15 STRIKE FOR GAZA

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butterfly-95 · 5 months

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I think people need to realize that it was sheer luck that they have been born in developed countries with decent living conditions, away from the threat of war or civil conflicts. It is by pure coincidence at times that you end up being a citizen of a developed country, rather than one with an impoverished population experiencing man-made (because it is man-made in this day and age) famine, diseases that have been long eradicated or war (be it a civil conflict or due to selfish interests of developed nations who profit from these, at the cost of civilian lives). You could have been born into these conditions.

The point is: NO ONE should ever be made to witness the horrors of war, famine, poverty, disease or any other trauma inducing situation in which they have no free will or say about its outcome.

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kaapstadgirly · 3 months

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Today at South Africa's Global Day of Action for Gaza, the Gift of the Givers Foundation handed out roses as part of their Roses For Palestine Campaign. Each Rose had a message on for a martyred child of Gaza and a QR code on the back to donate to this campaign.

This was my rose. I understand all of us are not able to donate to this campaign, but just sharing is enough.

Here's the link, too.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #free west bank #gaza strip #israel #genocide #social justice #human rights #south africa #southafrica4palestine #global day of action #middle east #jerusalem #tel aviv

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alwaysbewoke · 4 months

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As we are inundated daily on social media with receipts of savagery perpetrated against Palestinian people, let us also amplify the voices of the unheard persecuted people of the #Sudan #DRC #Congo #Rwanda. Listen now to @poet_ktwo in his own words. Power to the people. #weoutchea #gullah #geechee refugees_easthorn @refugees

#Sudan #DRC #Congo #Rwanda #Stand With Sudan #DRC Struggles #Congo Crisis #Rwanda Resilience #Listen To Survivors #Human Rights Heroes #Global Solidarity #Refugees East Horn\

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stardustmuseum · 5 months

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‼️ GLOBAL STRIKE FOR DECEMBER 11th 2023 ‼️

Here are the details for the strike, what to avoid, and what to do instead. Please share with everyone. Thank you!!

#gaza #palestine #free gaza #free palestine #human rights #social justice #global strike #call to action #take action #direct action #solidarity

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she-is-ovarit · 3 months

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Sign the petition: Stop forcing women and girls into sex for water!

Imagine being so desperate for water, you’d do anything to get it. Anything. Experts estimate that tens of thousands of women and girls around the world -- and maybe many more -- face this situation every single day. And corrupt water vendors in Kenya are taking advantage in the worst possible way, forcing them into sex for just a few litres. Children are being abused, women’s lives shattered. They have no choice. But here’s the really crazy thing: since there’s no law against this vile exploitation, it’s completely legal! We could change that. Kenyan women’s rights groups say the government is considering a law to make this abuse illegal – and that massive show of global pressure could make all the difference. They’re asking the Avaaz community to help – let’s lend our voices to some of the poorest, most vulnerable people on Earth, and demand an end to sex-for-water abuse. When our call is huge, we’ll deliver our voices to Kenya’s government. Photo Credit: Mariella Furrer Posted: 12 January 2024

#women's rights #children's rights #sex-based oppression #violence against women #kenya #exploitation #poverty #feminism #female liberation #activism #human rights #global feminism #signal boost #water is a human right

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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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#feminist #social justice #current events #current news #global news #global politics #keep eyes on sudan #eyes on sudan #sudan crisis #sudan #sudan genocide #free sudan #human rights violations #humanitarian crisis #sudan war #rsf #hunger crisis #signal boost

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wooshmc · 3 months

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"but im just one person, what can I do?"

I hear this echoed a lot- mostly in my offline experience, -but there's millions of "just one person"s out there! you can help! if not financially, by spreading the word of what's happening!

talk to your government officials, spread the word-

Do not stop talking about Palestine!

keep Palestine trending! spread the word- speak the names of those martyred. Do not let them forget.

Palestine is not something we look back on in time and see they were innocent, Palestine is something that will be freed!

Please search for Palestinian content, reblog, share, boost, and do all you can to keep Palestine trending, even past this Global Strike.

the world must unite to help save Palestine. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

#wooshgoesoff #wooshgetsserious #free palestine #palestine #global strike week #free gaza #social justice #human rights #I'm not the best at tagging #so if i tagged incorrectly please let me know.

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troythecatfish · 1 month

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1st April - global strike for Palestine. Block the roads, block the embassies. Block the weapons. Block the businesses supporting Israel....

No more life as normal, while genocide is happening

If there is to be an end to this horror, it's on us to stop it. Let's do this ✊🇵🇸

freepalestine

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thefirsthogokage · 5 months

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Global strike for Palestine tomorrow! Don't forget to keep posting!

#palestine #israel #human rights #collective action #strike #global strike #global strike for palestine #palestine solidarity #free palestine

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noballoonsinspace · 5 months

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As of December 2023:

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