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workersolidarity · 3 months

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[ 📹 Protests rage across Europe and the world as South Africa's genocide case against Israel moves forward with hearings at The Hague in the Netherlands.]

🇺🇳⚔️🇮🇱 🚨 GLOBAL SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE AS PROTESTS SPREAD THROUGHOUT EUROPE

People across the world protest Israel's genocide of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with thousands of people demonstrating throughout the globe in solidarity with occupied Palestine.

In excess of 23'700 Palestinians have been killed in Zionist bombing and shelling of the Gaza Strip since October 7th, with upwards of 60'000 Palestinians wounded in the bombardment of the enclave.

On Saturday, dozens of protestors gathered in front of the United States embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, calling for a ceasefire in the occupied territories.

Meanwhile, on Friday, hundreds gathered waving flags and banners in rejection of the United States and United Kingdom's aggression against Yemen, along with Yemen's efforts to hinder Israel's war in Gaza by blocking trade with the occupied territories through the Bab el-Mandeb straight in the Red Sea.

In the Netherlands, crowds gathered in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague to rally in support of Palestinians, chanting pro-Palestine slogans and waving flags and banners.

Protests were also recorded in both Chile and South Africa, with crowds demanding an immediate end to Israel's genocide and calling for a ceasefire as South Africa's case against Israel for genocide proceeds with hearings at The Hague.

Protests are also ongoing in Berlin, Germany as well as the City of London, in the United Kingdom, where large crowds chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and waved the flag of Palestine along with banners.

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decolonize-the-left · 7 months

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""This is directed at world leaders," said Mitzi Jonelle Tan, a climate activist with youth movement Fridays for Future in Manila, the Philippines.

"The fossil fuel industry's time is up. We need a just transition, and we need to phase out the fossil fuels causing the destruction of our environment," she told Reuters.

"We're taking to the streets to demand that African leaders phase out on fossil fuels and focus on investing in community-led renewable energy, to meet the energy demand for the 600 million Africans who do not have access to electricity," said Eric Njuguna, a climate activist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Organisers said they would call on governments to immediately end subsidies for oil and gas and to cancel any plans for expanding production.

Governments spent a record-high $7 trillion in subsidies to oil, gas and coal last year, according to an IMF analysis

The demonstrations take place two months before this year's U.N. COP28 climate summit, where more than 80 countries plan to push for a global agreement to gradually phase out coal, oil and gas.

[...]A U.N. report last week warned that the world was on a dangerous track toward severe global warming, and said more action was needed on all fronts, including a drastic drop in coal-fuelled power use by 2030.

The report also urged a massive boost in financial investment to developing countries for both clean energy and measures to adapt to rising heat, worsening storms and other consequences of the warming climate, the U.N. said.

Use the link to find a protest near you

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counterintuitivecomics · 2 months

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MASK UP FOR GLOBAL LIBERATION

Protect your community by wearing N95s and KN95s when meeting indoors or in crowds! The more of us mask up, the less we get sick, the harder it is for police to surveil us, and the safer we make our shared spaces for our disabled and immuno-compromised comrades and loved ones.

Get started by finding local mask resources on the global COVID Action Map (you can also submit groups to be added). If you have the means, donate masks and tests to your local orgs and encourage accessibility so we can ALL join the fight (bringing in interpreters/translators and medics, ensuring accessibility for wheelchairs/mobility devices, offering child care, filtering the air indoors, setting up virtual options etc).

UPDATE: Download this 8.5"x11" poster for free on itch.io to print and distribute! Includes files suitable for color, black and white, and risograph printing. Any donations will go to printing costs, or buying masks for my local mutual aid groups.

Pandemics have no borders, and all our struggles are united!

#covid 19 #covid isn't over #free palestine #free sudan #free haiti #free the congo #free tigray #free puerto rico #global liberation #community care #covid cautious #protest resources #illustration

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pwh3 · 7 months

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Climate Change March & Rally in New York City, September 17th, 2023.

#nyc #original photography #new york city #new york #photographers on tumblr #climate change #climate crisis #climate emergency #climate action #climate protest #global warming #fossil fuels #environment #protest #end fossil fuels #climate and environment #the lorax #lorax

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bug-bytes · 3 months

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images from @wizard_bisan1 on instagram. The people in Gaza are calling for another strike.

What to do: Don't go to school. Call out of work. Don't grocery shop. Find actions near you. USPCR keeps a running list of protests happening. Put your money where your mouth is and buy esims. Donate to mutual aid groups near you helping protestors who have been arrested. Watch the news, videos, and images coming out of Gaza. Call, email, and write your reps (uspcr is great for that as well as the 5calls app)

#most importantly talk about it #be so fucking annoying about it #izzy speaks #gaza #free palestine #palestine #boycott #protest #global strike #strike #tel aviv #jerusalem #free gaza #gaza strip #freepalestine #global strike week #ceasefire #ceasefire now

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ceevee5 · 8 months

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#global warming #climate protest #just stop oil #fossil fuels

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hope-for-the-planet · 1 year

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From the article:

“Leading barristers have defied bar rules by signing a declaration saying they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters or act for companies pursuing fossil fuel projects.

They are among more than 120 mostly English lawyers who have signed a declaration vowing to “withhold [their] services in respect of supporting new fossil fuel projects and action against climate protesters exercising their right of peaceful protest”.

Noting that climate breakdown represents ‘a serious risk to the rule of law’, the so-called ‘declaration of conscience’ calls on legal professionals ‘to act urgently to do whatever they can to address the causes and consequences of the climate and ecological crises and to advance a just transition’.”

#environmental activism #climate crisis #law #environment #protest #lawyer #global warming #hope #inspiration #fossil fuels #climate change #good news #climate anxiety #ecoanxiety #environmental anxiety #environmental grief

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intersectionalpraxis · 26 days

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ecopunktranny · 10 days

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PLEASE SIGN! IT TAKES 20 SECONDS!

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moonsfireflies1993 · 6 months

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Why Panama is on Strike

From afar the Panama protests look like maybe a bunch of hypersensitive eco-fools or maybe like those people who think throwing paint on museums is making any difference instead of going directly to the companies.

The reality is that Panama is protesting way more than just the “contract”. But, let's start with the contract.

First, the company can own Panama by owning land property of the Panama state" inside or outside the 17,000 hectares from what was licensed.” This means that the ANATI (the National Authority of Land Administration) HAS to give it to the mining company with no setbacks.

The mine puts danger around 8 countries of Centroamerica with already reported 200 environmental damages

If the company wants to own private lands that are located inside or outside of hectares of the land that was licensed. The company can own the land and pay nothing in exchange, with no questions.

The contract was done with random permits without the proper process of acquisition.

The contract promises to give Panama a very small quantity of payment to Panama when Panama already spends millions of dollars on the state. This means the company will give Panama less money than what Panama already invests in the country. So we are selling parts of Panama for less than what we already invested.

Panama's government is allowing a foreign company to NOT pay 70% of their taxes during the first 10 years of copper extraction.

The community of Donoso (where the mine is located) says they see tons of copper trucks going out every week and at the same time they complain they haven't seen improvements in their community. Ejm: railroads, electricity.

The company threatens with an international lawsuit of millions of dollars if Panama doesn't sign the contract. But if the company fails to comply with the contract, claims it will only pay 70 million dollars (Which is less than what they make extracting copper from the mine).

The contract has a clause that makes an actual law. The contract will reign according to the laws of Panama, except if a law looks inconsistent. In other words, if Panama makes a law that prohibits mining or a law that obliges them to pay taxes, because of their contract it will not apply at all because of that clause.

The joke was that the president signed the contract in less than 3 hours.

Now, going to the other complaints of the population. Panama already has tons of issues and complaints that are not resolved. These issues have put the whole country on the verge of exploitation.

In September, there were massive protests in several parts of the country because of the sexual assault of the minor Madeleine at the hands of the National Juvenile Assembly. To keep it short. Every year the country makes a national juvenile assembly and this kid was from outside the city representing her district. She ate and drank with each political party and told a classmate to check on her because her water tasted like medicine. The kid hours later was attended by an ambulance with no notification of this to her mom. After this, the kid was behaving erratic and paranoid with a location on her phone that wasn't at the hotel in Panama where all the kids were. The other claims of the event were that all the minors had those dinners with the political parties representatives and on those tables were "Gringos" (foreign European or North American people). Why those kids were sharing tables with gringos in the first place?

When the kid arrived from the trip, she was in a catatonic state and with constant PTSD attacks. There's still no justice or any trace of who were the ones who committed those crimes, and even no accountability by the MEDUCA (The Ministry of Education of Panama).

It is not the first time since such an event happened at the hands of the state. In 2021, we had another state scandal when it was reported that one of the deputies ( Arquesio Arias) of the national assembly raped several women in the indigenous Kuna Yala region. Of course, you can imagine he was dismissed from the charges and when that announcement was published, one of the victims tried to kill herself and got into the ER.

Then there are the deputies who name some of their relatives to the state payroll and don't even work in the state but take tons and tons of money monthly. Meanwhile, the oncologico hospital keeps getting shortages of injections and gloves.

Panama is considered an international hub, one of the richest countries of Latin America and still we struggle with poverty and access to vital things for the population, why? Because people of the state and international companies steal the money, they sometimes build roads and bridges and the costs are higher to the price from the real costs of those constructions, for example, the Odebretch scandal. They charge lots of money, so they can bribe some of the money to both parties (the construction company and the one who is soliciting the construction.

But then again bribing is part of the panamenian culture as we say "juega vivo", bribing the police, the hospital, and the system is all about money and taking advantage of situations as they come even if it is illegal.

Is funny we are all fighting for water, Well my friends here where I am with the famous "Panama Canal" that provides us with most of our income as a nation while having lots of rivers and geographically we are surrounded by both the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, having all of that I get shortages and cuts of water for more than 6 times a month.

This week, the IDAAN (the company that provides water to the whole nation), has been making shortages all week. My family and I have been saving water tanks each day because of the shortages. I keep joking internally that I have a toxic relationship with the IDAAN since we kind of got used to this and the irony is that while the entire country struggles with the shortages they still sign a contract that will even affect the water flow to the Panama Canal in the long term.

The protests are not just because of the damage to nature is that the government sold us to a foreign Canadian company that has shareholders from the US and China to exploit us leaving us with nothing.

My biggest worry right now is that our current president is sick, the whole country knows he has cancer and during his last speeches, he has been looking like a corpse with now rumours of him leaving the country to intern himself to a hospital in Houston Texas. If he dies then probably the vice president has to take charge, but he has been missing since the protests and people HATE him. So yeah, Panama is on the brink of chaos and if that happens .. well

#panama #latam #latinoamerica #canada #world news #protests #global news #panama canal #panama city #corrupción #curruption #mining #climate change #environment #nature #united states #latino america #police brutality

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