Celeste Burgess sentenced to 90 days prison b/c she took abortion pills when she was 17 y.o.
charged with removing, concealing or abandoning a human body; concealing the death of another; & false reporting, after burying her miscarriage w. her mothers help
I am devastated by the news that Naomi Wu aka SexyCyborg has been silenced by the Chinese authorities.
She represents so many things that the world desperately needs: competence, confidence, ability to communicate, ability to cross cultures and languages, shattering of old stereotypes, a positive view of the future, and much more.
The repressive old guard should put itself away instead. In China and here because similar people are coming for the Naomis here, too.
@J12t The article by @hackingbutlegal is terrific — and chilling, as is what appears to have happened to Naomi Wu. I'm not sure what there is that any of us can do outside of 🇨🇳 either as individuals or collectively (not much, sadly, I'm afraid), but raising awareness through hashtags here on Mastodon seems right. I don't know what the #HumanRights community is like on here.
#China#PoliceState#Dictatorship: "China is proposing to restrict internet access to minors and children. The move is intended to curb internet addiction.
Tech sector regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on Wednesday that people under 18 will not be allowed to access the internet via a mobile device between 10pm and 6am each day.
The regulator will introduce a graduated system where young people have different amounts of internet access depending on their age. Those under eight years old will be limited to 40 minutes per day. Those age between 16 and 18 will have a maximum of two hours access per day.
Additionally, content must be age-appropriate. And youngsters will be reminded to take breaks every 30 minutes."
Covert Conservative strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the #EU ban to keep AI out of public spaces.
All the more reason for #Scotland🏴 to regain its independence and #ReJoinEU
#Amazon#Ring#SmartDoorBells#Surveillance#PoliceState: "Multiple members of WIRED's Gear team have spoken to Ring over the years about this feature. The company has been clear it's what customers want, even though there’s no evidence that more video surveillance footage keeps communities safer. Instead, Neighbors increases the possibility of racial profiling. It makes it easier for both private citizens and law enforcement agencies to target certain groups for suspicion of crime based on skin color, ethnicity, religion, or country of origin.
We have been concerned about this issue since Ring started partnering with police departments to hand out free video cameras. Via the Neighbors Public Safety Service (NPSS) within the app, law enforcement can create Requests for Assistance, and Neighbors can contact camera owners directly for footage.
We believe this feature should not exist. When we interviewed Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friars on steps the company was taking to reduce racial profiling, Friars cited the work of Jennifer Eberhardt, a Stanford professor whose work on the psychological associations between race and crime won her a MacArthur Genius grant."
a french policeman shoots a teenager dead. he comes from a non-white immigrant family.
people take to the streets to protest this reasonless murder. they protest HARD.
the narrative from the right says that "uncontrolled immigration" is causing chaos in France.
right-wingers from other countries in the EU take that narrative and one-up it, suggesting "is our country safe from that?" or even asserting "our country is next".
fascism is not "on the rise", IT IS HERE RIGHT NOW!
The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The entirety and trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.
"You have the fight against environmental defense. You have the fight for racial equality. You have the fight against capitalism. And of course, you have the fight against police militarization or the fight for police abolition," said Matt Scott, a journalist w. the Atlanta Community Press Collective
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Stop Cop City Activists Are Facing 20 Years in Prison for Distributing Flyers
Stop Cop City activist Charley Tennenbaum was charged with felony intimidation for flyering about the officers who shot an organizer 57 times
After months in prison, Tennenbaum spoke to Jacobin about Georgia’s crackdown on civil liberties https://jacobin.com/2023/08/stop-cop-city-activists-prison-free-speech-police-brutality
Because basically all those shooters were white heterocisbinary men, we should outlaw them instead, as those are the prime source of lethal violence in the USA by a long shot!
Today in Labor History June 16, 1836: The London Working Men's Association was formed, launching the Chartist movement. The Chartists took their name from the People's Charter, which demanded universal suffrage for men, regardless of social class. The movement appealed to skilled workers, not the masses of unskilled laborers. They followed the utopian socialism of Robert Owen. The movement lasted from 1838 to 1857. America’s first cop, Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Secret Service & persecutor of the Molly Maguires, was a radical participant in the Chartist movement before becoming the bulldog of capitalists. While the Chartism was primarily a constitutional movement, there was a radical, insurrectionary wing. Pinkerton was a part of this wing. He fought cops, destroyed property and set fires.
Today in Labor History June 15, 1917: President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act into law. The law targeted leftist, anti-war and labor organizations, especially the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which was virtually destroyed because of the arrests and deportations of its members. When Eugene Debs spoke against the draft in Canton, Ohio, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He ran for president from prison in 1920, winning nearly 1 million votes (3.4% of the total). The government used the law to arrest anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and deport them to the Soviet Union. They used the law against the Rosenbergs, whom they executed. They also used it against Daniel Ellsberg, whose “Pentagon Papers” were published by the NY Times 50 years ago this week. The Espionage Act is still on the books and was used recently to prosecute Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
When I was younger, I learned about how the authorities persecuted civil rights leaders in the '60s. Especially some of the earliest lessons, which might even have been in high school, came with the flavor of "of course this was wrong, and we've revised government so this doesn't happen anymore."
Bullshit. The #StopCopCity arrests are more of the same, like COINTELPRO and the FBI going after MLK.
It’s striking to read an article about a 11yo being shot in the chest by a cop unprovoked (cop is on paid leave pending investigation) versus an overactive cop at a Buc-ees who puts a white guy in cuffs for a few minutes will likely result in immediate firing of the cop.