girl my country is in the hands of fascists. actual moustache-twirling fascists. 700k dead in their belts fascists. GENOCIDAL FASCISTS. i don’t know how else to stress how desperately sad and tragic it is to be brazilian tonight. they won. they actually fucking won again. i mean. lula had the majority of votes, it was like over a 5 million difference, so there will be a second round for presidents, but they still won PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE. please please pay attention to what’s going on in brazil for the next 28 days. we’re desperate. we’re dying. people are being brutally murdered because of bolsonaro’s fanatics. there are people who have been stabbed to death for over 70 times. a pregnant woman was assaulted and beaten in the middle of the fucking STREETS. it’s so ugly already and it’s only gonna get worse for us. please pray for brazil yall.

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Quick post on what's happening in Atlanta right now

So there's this beautiful trail in Atlanta called the South River Forest Trail. As we all know, Atlanta Georgia is renowned for their tree cover and historic forests. 

The City of Atlanta and corporations like Delta, AT&T and Amazon are funding a massive police training center that will destroy the forest.

Dubbed ‘cop city’ by many protesters, this will cost about $90 million  to build. This will be used to further militarize Atlanta’s police leading to more incidents of police brutality in the city. 

On January 18th indigenous activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran was shot and killed by the police for defending this historic forest from destruction. Their reason? “He did not comply” (Tort went by They/them/it but report said “he”). Many protests have been going on in Atlanta to defend this forest.

Since Tortuguita's death, the situation has quickly deteriorated

This forest is very dear to me but I am unable to physically protest at the moment, so I am handing this off to Tumblr to spread awareness. Rebloging this may help this tragedy become part of national news instead of just an Atlanta problem.

Donation and petition links to stop cop city

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stoptheswap2020

https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-cop-city-atl/

https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/solidarity

Jason, after being arrested at Disneyland: I was a political prisoner.

Bruce: How were you a political prisoner?

Jason: I punched a giant mouse in the face. Do I have to draw you a diagram?

I will never forget Biden for telling a person a few days ago that he understood their "passion" for wanting a ceasefire in Gaza.

Passion...

While US-made bombs are being dropped into Gaza and are slaughtering tens of thousands of people. While 97% of the water is unconsumable in Gaza. While millions of people still don't have adequate access to medical care, food, electricity, fuel, and shelter -and half a million (meaning 1/4 person in Gaza) is STARVING... while over 1000 Palestinian children's limbs have been amputated without anesthesia. While Palestinian people are being sniped at near hospitals, roads, and areas deemed 'safe.' While white phosphorus has been and is being dropped -tearing into the flesh and in some cases exposing bones in some patients...

Passion...

You understand her passion...

No, Biden -you're the passionate one. Passionately a genocidal apologist. Passionately complicit in mass genocide -just like you, your entire administration team and every single person intending on voting for you -especially those in the room that shouted "4 more years." The one's most passionate about refusing to ceasefire for months now because it doesn't align with your US imperialist agenda... ya'll are the passionate one's, and for that I hope you NEVER see peace.

Paris, yesterday (03/23/23). This is an excerpt from a video by journalist Amar Taoualit posted on twitter

This is what they’re doing to a peaceful, registered-with-the-proper-authorities march.

You can hear protesters shouting “children! there are children!” and “that’s my grandfather! my grandfather is on the ground!”

I think some families felt safe going because traditionally, union-backed, “registered” marches are peaceful and the riot police waits until they officially end, when only the more radical protesters are left, to attack. Not saying that is fine, but there was a tacit agreement for peace during the first hours of a protest. (That’s exactly what happened in Lyon yesterday, and there were also a few kids among protesters. It ended up being fine but it made me very anxious to see them, and it looks like I was right to worry.)

Things turned extremely violent in the night. I don’t feel like chronicling it, but suffice to say there were more that 900 fires in Paris. I don’t know what to think of the overwhelming silence from international media on the subject.

Anyway, I know that in principle we should all be able to protest and the police shouldn’t attack, and we’re supposed to be a democracy and we shouldn’t bow down to wanna-be autocrats that want to suppress our voices, etc.

La réalité c’est que pour quelques temps en tout cas, il faut laisser nos enfants à la maison, et que si vous êtes âgé, malade (asthmatique !), déjà blessé, personne handicapée, etc. il vaut peut-être mieux passer votre tour pour ces manifs-là. Il y a d’autres façons d’agir.

Notamment, je suis sûre que les syndicats ont besoin d’aide logistique et d’argent, et LFI, dont les députés sont sur le terrain, sur les piquets de grève, a certainement toujours besoin de plus de militants (j’ai pas ma carte chez eux pour être claire, mais je pense que c’est le parti qui soutient le plus sincèrement le mouvement).

Les députés LFI Louis Boyard (au centre) et Carlos Martens Bilongo (à droite), dans une manifestation le 20 mars. Photo de @teamroscoes (merci !!)

La député LFI Mathilde Panot au piquet de grève des éboueurs de Vitry-sur-Seine le 16 mars (photo de son twitter)

^ these are pictures of lawmakers from the leftist France Unbowed party participating in protests.

Canada's intelligence agency is warning that extremists could "inspire and encourage" serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a threat the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says almost certainly will continue over the coming year. CSIS's comments come as provincial policies on gender-affirming surgeries and pronoun preferences are being hotly debated across the country. "CSIS assesses that the violent threat posed by the anti-gender movement is almost certain to continue over the coming year and that violent actors may be inspired by the University of Waterloo attack to carry out their own extreme violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community or against other targets they view as representing the gender ideology 'agenda,'" said CSIS spokesperson Eric Balsam in an email to CBC News.

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"There's fifty senetors right now who refuse to vote on HR-8, which is a background check rule that the house passed a couple of years ago, it's been sitting there for two years. And there is a reason they won't vote on it:

To hold onto power."

Steve Kerr speech following school shooting in Uvalde, Texas leaving 19 children and 2 teachers dead.

The former president's supporters invaded our National Congress and causing chaos and depredation after the former extreme right president lost the elections and left Brazil to hide in the U.S. the act is clearly inspired in the capitol's invasion after Biden won. Many of them came to the capital of Brazil, Brasilia, in November, set fire to buses, cars, have been camping outside army headquarters asking for the army to take over power in a military coup.

Those supporters also planned to blow a bomb at the international airport, going so a far as to set it but the police intervened. They came over in caravans last night planning on attacking the city today, the national congress being public patrimony that is representative of the democratic power in Brazil, and those people are trying to incite o violent coup. The local government of Brasilia is already being accused of not taking enough measures to keep those violent anti democratic protesters out of the area. So far, it seems there is no police there yet, the cavalry seems to be on their way.

Please don't support these people claiming the elections were fraudulent. We have one of the best electoral systems in the world to avoid fraud. The ex president was from the extreme right, defended torture during our past military dictatorship and was in favor of said dictatorship. He is already being accused of one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the country. He lost the elections fairly because of his extremism, corruption and incompetence as president.

Also remember the former president has left the country and all his supporters to hide in the US. As said, he is already being accused of several corruption crimes, including regarding the pocketing the money that should go towards buying of covid vaccines and letting 700k people die while the health system collapsed.

Translation of the cnn headlines: "just now: protesters invade the national congress".

For now I can't find sources in English because this just happened now at the beginning of the afternoon of this Sunday, January 8th, but as soon as there are, I'll post them.

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In a country evoked by fear and hate while armed with too many guns, this is our reality.

There have been reports after reports of gas poisoning at girls schools in mostly Qom, a religious city that is important to the regime. The weird thing is that the poisoning is only happening in girls schools (students are separated by gender at school). Many believe it might be intentional and the regime is trying to keep girls from coming to school by making it unsafe for them.

Erika Rothenberg 

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Members of the British Labour Party were chanting, “For the many, not the few,” whilst dismembering me. Such wild times I live in.

Why Are Indigenous Women Disappearing Across Canada?

The formation of 'residential schools' in Canada was and remains a cultural genocide. Canada -a current white settler nation -has a responsibility to take accountability for the continued disproportionate amount of violence that Indigenous women face in this country, as Indigenous women are 4 times more likely, compared to the national average in Canada, to be victims of violence.

Since 1980, thousands of Native women have gone missing and have been murdered, and their cases have been either entirely dismissed or under-investigated. I have spoken about this on my page before, and although this short piece by Vice does not delve into the history of the RCMP -there is rampant anti-Indigenous racism in their ranks.

These issues are ongoing and epidemic, and we must always keep raising awareness about and talking about MMIW. This is only one of many videos on some of these issues, but I wanted to share this today.

I just watched the new Nimona movie, and one thing I noticed after it was finished was that I found it paradoxically very basic/cliche and very impactful. And then I thought what the messages of the film were:

Most systems that claim they're there to protect us are just here to reinforce the status quo and find justifications for oppression.

Being different is cool, and the vilification of different people is just a way for the system to redirect the hate of the masses towards the innocent, rather than the system itself.

Better to be yourself and die than comply, lose individuality and not live.

Killing cops isn't that bad, actually. It can even be fun if done as a group activity!!

And none of those are basic, it's just me who held them already, but it could be really eye-opening for someone who doesn't.

Anyways, it was great, and it currently holds third place on my "Media That Makes Me Want To Burn Down A Police Station Even More Than I Usually Do" list.