Poet & New Media Writer, Conscientious Coincidence Collector, Constellation Dancer, Dreamer & Dandelion Lover
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Nancy Sendler retweeted
Corporate greed is killing us.
$281 billion. That’s how much these oil giants have made in profit since the start of the Ukraine war — while scaling back their 'climate goals' and driving households deeper into crisis.
Their profit = our loss.
ALT Screen grab of Guardian news article shows logos of 5 fossil fuel corporations Shell, Total, Chevron, BP, Mobil under the headline: World's largest oil companies have made $281bn profit since invasion of Ukraine. Sub header reads: Global Witness says the five 'super-majors' are the 'main winners of the war' while many struggle to heat their homes.
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Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.
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Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children.
And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights.
I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."
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Today's Poetry Thread: HOPE
Here's a lovely poem by Katy Luxem (@bluejayway). Feel free to add poems.
ALT How to Have Hope There must be something wrong with me. In the fall, the neighbors spray their eaves, with poison dripping like a soft rain. They’d kill for a weedless lawn, a pest-free porch. But I sit outside thinking the light is honey for us all. I’ll leave the sunflowers until they freeze, and let my many-legged thoughts go. Part of me is always hurting for the smallest among the living. I can’t help how I open, instead of shut before winter. I leave a crack. I invite the spiders in. —Katy Luxem
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Anna Brown Ehlers, master weaver of the Tlingit tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #UnravellingWomensArt
Nancy Sendler retweeted
A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income due to the cap on the payroll tax.
In fact, they stopped paying into SS last week.
Meanwhile, the typical worker pays SS taxes on 100% of their income for the entire year.
It's time to scrap the cap.
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PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ will hold public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by #SouthAfrica in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024. Watch live on @UNWebTV
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Muhammad Muharram is a wheelchair user living in #Gaza. He speaks about the terrors of daily life.
During conflict, people with disabilities face life-threatening challenges—difficulty in evacuating, shelters out of reach, and little access to healthcare and even food, water, and toilets.
WHO calls for access to health services for all, including vulnerable people who may need specialised care.
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We are Jewish elders, bubbies, tetas, and grandmothers chaining ourselves to the White House, demanding the US stop funding and arming genocide against Palestinians.
@POTUS, ceasefire NOW. This is not complicated. Never again means never again for anyone.
Nancy Sendler retweeted
We are devastated by the UN Security Council’s failure to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza—blocked by a solitary veto from the United States.
“By vetoing this resolution, the US stands alone in casting its vote against humanity.”
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What future for a country that is educating neither its girls nor its boys? #Afghanistan
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53 journalists and media workers were killed since October 7 in #Gaza, #Israel, and #Lebanon. They were not numbers.
Know more about their stories in @pressfreedom's documentation:
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Nancy Sendler retweeted
West Bank Update: Attack on health care in Jenin
In the early hours of November 17, Israeli forces surrounded hospitals across Jenin, including MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital, while the military forces were conducting incursions into a refugee camp in the city. An explosion and shooting were heard from the hospital compound.
The MSF team inside the emergency room of Khalil Suleiman Hospital was unable to receive and treat any casualties from the camp, as ambulances were blocked by Israeli forces.
Around 6 AM, the Israeli forces ordered through megaphones everyone inside the hospital to come out; the staff did not leave the hospital out of fear. They then withdrew an hour later.
"Attacks on healthcare personnel and facilities have become a routine across the West Bank, and intensified since October 7.
Healthcare workers are regularly being attacked by the Israeli military while ambulances cannot move freely to reach the injured and ill. These attacks must stop now.” -Renzo Fricke, an MSF Head of Mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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“If not, then the moral architecture of western liberalism will cease to exist. It was always hypocritical, we know. But even that provided some sort of shelter. That shelter is disappearing before our eyes.”
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Today & every day, we advocate to #EndSolitaryConfinement. Solitary is a form of torture & causes long lasting irreparable harm to confined individuals, the majority of whom are Black & Brown.
We must pass the End Solitary Confinement Act to ban this practice once and for all.
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While the world’s eyes are on Gaza, Pakistan quietly expels 1.7 million people back to Afghanistan, a country gripped in a humanitarian crisis, where Taliban are systematically violating the rights to education, employment, and much more for women & girls.
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"Too often, we forget the power of movements that are sustainable, that consist of people doing small, meaningful actions […], that enable simple rituals to spread person-to-person and community-to-community."
Does your tiny, insignificant protest matter?t.ly/nwc2D