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dgar, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

We’re in the final hours of voting in #Fedivision2024!

Have you voted for your favourite three #Fedivision entries yet?

KarenWyld, 2 days ago to random

Today is Sorry Day in so-called Australia. "Sorry" does not refer to apologies. It's based on Indigenous practices of Sorry Business; a collective process in times of grief & loss.

It's a day of remembrance for the 10000s of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families: the Stolen Generations. Taken between late 1800s to early 1980s, the children were placed in church-run institutions or (later) put up for adoption without parental consent.

Up until the late 1950s, the children were trained for domestic servitude and unpaid labouring and sent to white businesses and households. The abuse and neglect in the institutions and elsewhere was rampant. Many died in these places; not everyone who survived found their families; and most have passed away without seeing any justice.

Every Indigenous family has one or more members that were part of the Stolen Generations. And the trauma of this particular act of genocide is intergenerational.

Sorry Day was one of the recommendations of a royal commission - the Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Which was tabled with the Australian
Parliament on 26 May 1997.

Another recommendation was a national apology, and that occurred on 13 February. Otherwise, very few of the 54 recommendations have been actioned.

In more recent years, in addition to commemorating the Stolen Generations and advocating for their rights, this day is also for fighting for the rights of Indigenous children who are being taken away in record numbers.

Today, I think of my family members who were stolen by the government, and forced into servitude as children. Fuck the government, churches and others who participated in this race-based cruelty; who used Aboriginal blood, sweat and tears to build a white nation on stolen Blak land. Yes, Sorry Day is also a day of anger.

For more information, resources and testimonials, visit the Healing Foundation website > https://healingfoundation.org.au/stolen-generations/

This video is good (narrated by the late Uncle Jack Charles) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlqx8EYvRbQ

And a fact sheet > https://healingfoundation.org.au/sorry-day-factsheet/

#SorryDay #Indigenous #Genocide #StolenGenerations #ChildRemoval #Missions #ChildLabour #Aboriginal

peternoahthomas, 2 days ago to Meme

Mosquito trap. I'll try it!

#Meme #Mosquito #Funny #Camping #Hiking

Geri, 1 day ago to random

Rachel Johnson.

"We need #NationalService because we have not got enough people to pick our fruit ."

There you go folks, half an hour into the #TrevorPhillips show

wxcafe, 2 days ago to random

lmao this makes me want to die

Jinjirrie, 2 days ago to Israel

Solidarity with protesters across Australia today, rallying to #StopArmingIsrael and drop charges against people calling for ceasefire. https://cityhub.com.au/thousands-of-pro-palestinian-protestors-rally-at-docks-across-australia/ #GazaGenocide #BDS #Israel

jbburd, 2 days ago to Palestine

"Israel is brazenly flouting an order of a court it appeared before. It is indiscriminately killing civilians seeking refuge. This is a flagrant violation of the rule of law and a war crime. It is time the international community put sanctions on Israel as it did to South Africa."

• Don Davies, Member of Parliament, Vancouver Kingsway, Canada

#gaza #palestine #israel #cdnpoli

tregeagle, 2 days ago to random

I just read this talk by @Mer__edith - I had not realised how deeply AI technology is supporting the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.

“Instead of serving ads, Lavender automatically puts people on a kill list based on the likeness of their surveillance data patterns to the data patterns of purported militants – a process that we know, as experts, is hugely inaccurate. Here we have the AI-driven logic of ad targeting, but for killing.”

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

skinnylatte, 3 days ago to random

When we first moved here, 45 made it impossible for foreign spouses to work. So my wife went back to school and today, she’s graduating with her Bachelors in Psychology. Next stop: grad school! (Thankful for California’s excellent public universities system, and resident tuition!)

Sabrena felt she got an excellent education at SF State, and is looking forward to start the clinical psychology masters program to be your friendly multilingual culturally relevant therapist in a few years

Polynomial_C, 2 days ago to ai Catalan

The US "government" ’s #AI Safety and Security board.

https://qz.com/sam-altman-jensen-huang-ai-government-safety-board-1851437593

#EnjoyCapitalism #EnjoyDemocracy

mapache_tico, 2 days ago to random Spanish

How to respond to

“What about October 7th?”

video/mp4

jmeosbn, 2 days ago to random

This term Netanyahu and his apologists are pushing now, ‘the new antisemitism’, seems to mean that which is not antisemitic but is critical of Israel’s actions; especially that which demands accountability.

— ‘Netanyahu said … “This is exactly what the new antisemitism looks like. It has moved from the campuses of the West to the court in The Hague."
…
Smotrich … said the decision was "a display of hypocrisy and Jew-hatred" that "we haven't seen since Nazi propaganda."’

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-20/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-new-antisemitism-has-moved-from-campuses-of-the-west-to-court-in-the-hague/0000018f-96c3-da35-a3af-d7eb474a0000

Toastie, 3 days ago to washington

1924: an #Indigenous man hunts a deer on treaty-reserved land. Gets criminally convicted.

The ruling said tribal nations are not sovereign or independent, "the Indians being mere occupants of the land.”

The hunter died decades ago. The family member who continued his case died in 2007. But a tribal attorney kept pushing to get the unjust, demeaning conviction reversed.

On Thursday, nearly a century later, the #Washington state Supreme Court admitted it was wrong.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wa-supreme-court-reverses-century-old-yakama-decision-an-injustice/

dougiec3, 2 days ago to FreeSpeech

"(CNN) reported that his mother had bragged about his role in the attack on Facebook, but later denied that he had been present."

And if his mom hadn't shot her mouth off, he likely would have.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/ucla-arrest-man-assault-demonstrators-palestine
#Fascism #FreeSpeech

Adam_Cadmon1, 2 days ago to random

The sun rises everyday and the wind is always blowing somewhere.

There's enough. And more. Always has been.

There's just not enough for greed to be satisfied.

shio, 2 days ago to random

My boyfriend apparently befriended a tiny little spider in our downstairs bathroom, which will dangle down from its web and then scurry up when he walks in. He talks about it like it's a little pet he has.
This is genuinely part of why I love him, his heart is so pure and full of whimsy.

DrALJONES, 2 days ago to Israel

Analysis

Reed Brody, former war-crimes prosecutor, on why this week's ICJ ruling on Israel matters

https://aje.io/94x0rm?update=2924555

11.30 GMT MAY 25 AJ UPDATES

#ReedBrody #ICJ #Israel #Gaza ..

Indyposterboy, 2 days ago to random

If Labour knock on your door, or you meet rep at hustings, meetings, whatever, the key question to ask is “Why are you too scared to put the Union Jack on your Scottish placards?” Then post their reply on mastodon.

JackTheCat, 2 days ago to random

Hundreds of children under 10 subject to stop and search in England and Wales.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/25/children-under-10-stop-and-search-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

CdnCurmudgeon, 2 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BANk3zpoQ
It’s time to talk about the real threat to free speech these days: the “vengeful dipshit billionaires,” as the Onion CEO put it. Because their lawsuits — no matter how frivolous — can silence the reporters who hold them accountable. The Media Matters for America staff deserved better.

clarinette, 3 days ago to random

https://forward.com/news/615961/theodor-meron-international-criminal-court-amal-clooney-netanyahu-khan/ This 94-year-old Holocaust survivor recommended arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders

Much has been said about Amal Clooney’s role on the ICC’s panel on war crimes, but less attention has been paid to Theodor Meron

Indyposterboy, 3 days ago to Scotland

If you want just one good reason why not to vote either Tory, Labour or LibDem in Scotland, this is it - they all oppose rejoining the EU whilst more than 69% of Scots recognise the astonishing economic and cultural damage that Brexit has done and want to rejoin. #ge2024 #Scotland #IndependenceIsNormal

joxean, 3 days ago to random Basque

This week, international arrest warrants were requested against the top Israel political leaders by the International Criminal Court due to extermination and using hunger as a warfare method; 3 more European countries recognised the State of Palestine; and the International Court of Justice ordered the State of Israel to stop the attack in Rafah, keep the crossing open, and apply measures for the protection of Palestines in the whole Gaza.