Notices by Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu), page 5

Musk pours $75m into pro-Trump group, underscoring influence on US election https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/16/musk-gave-seventy-five-million-to-pro-trump-group-underscoring-influence-on-race

Notes from the US: Countdown to dictatorship? https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/16/notes-from-the-us-countdown-to-dictatorship/

Jewish-Led Protesters Storm Wall Street, Demanding Arms Embargo on Israel https://truthout.org/articles/american-jews-storm-wall-street-demanding-arms-embargo-on-israel/

Spotted on a wall in Sheffield. #FreePalestine #EndTheGenocide @RadicalGraffiti

Here's a random one for you: despite its disproportionately high popularity and impact on the web in the mid to late nineties, there seems to be very little documentation on the development of professional wrestling websites at that time. I've been researching this, and have found hardly any historical coverage of that phenomenon. (The old WCW and WWF websites for example, even in their crude form in their infancy, were incredibly popular for those early days of the web - yet little documentation of that seems to exist) #AskFedi #AskMastodon #ProWrestling #wrestling #WorldWideWeb #InternetHistory #InternetArchive

Finally some decent journalism from the BBC: "Why is there poor care for ME?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn03pxk1g4xo

Acclaimed Palestinian Journalist Motaz Azaiza on Photographing Genocide in Gaza https://truthout.org/video/acclaimed-palestinian-journalist-motaz-azaiza-on-photographing-genocide-in-gaza/

I'm excited for the first time I spot this at some random zine fair or event, as these things tend to go!

@scotfot My mother literally knew a Rosie Bonnet back in the 1980's.

Trump, GOP Push Misinformation on Hurricanes as Climate Crisis Intensifies https://truthout.org/video/trump-gop-push-misinformation-on-hurricanes-as-climate-crisis-intensifies/

UK Workers Rights Bill and the spectre of capitalism https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/10/uk-workers-rights-bill-and-the-spectre-of-capitalism/

Calling all students in the US, UK, France, and Germany! 📣

Tag a friend in need of these back to school deals: https://proton.me/blog/proton-student-discounts

Secret Recordings Capture the Ugly Reality Inside a Denver Slaughterhouse https://theintercept.com/2024/10/09/lamb-slaughter-ban-superior-farms-denver-ordinance-309/

Trans Youth Impacted by Anti-LGBTQ Laws Share Their Stories in New Book https://truthout.org/articles/trans-youth-impacted-by-anti-lgbtq-laws-share-their-stories-in-new-book/

@rybson Haha totally!

The people of Mastodon have spoken!

Report: Blinken Signed Off on Israeli Policy to Attack Humanitarian Aid Trucks https://truthout.org/articles/report-blinken-signed-off-on-israeli-policy-to-attack-humanitarian-aid-trucks/

"So incredibly threatened states are by such programmes’ potential to de-legitimise, undermine, and even replace the state itself. It’s why the rise of fascistic right-wing violence is generally greatly ignored. It’s why, instead, peaceful campaigners can be called 'domestic extremists,' cute bookstores can be considered 'hotbeds for terror plots,' an activist can be imprisoned simply for attending an 'anti-state dinner,' an urban farm can be raided for 'conspiring' to provide compost toilets and a wheelchair track to a peaceful climate camp, and it’s why the free breakfasts provided by the Black Panthers were considered a 'security threat.'" https://www.mediaactivist.com/manifesto/

I've stated this repeatedly, but nation states are absolutely terrified of peace-promoting mutual aid initiatives that threaten their hierarchies and all the power and geopolitical posturing and conflicts that come with them. Food Not Bombs activists arrested in Russia: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/07/food-not-bombs-activists-arrested-in-russia/ #FoodNotBombs #MutualAid

Massive respect to all the activists who (very understandably) want to protect their identity, online and elsewhere, as is your right. As my website documents, the genie was out of the bottle decades ago where I'm concerned, as a result of my enthusiasm for the web and my guerrilla video work and numerous film screenings all over the bloody world! (I was also listed as an enemy by that old fascist website "Redwatch"). If you have a chance to operate under the radar, more power to you!