Notices by msquebanh (msquebanh@mstdn.ca), page 2

I have had to start telling people, straight up, that inviting me to #unmasked, #unsafe indoor events/gatherings that include a lot of strangers is showing me that they don't care about my #immunecompromised state or have listened to my valid #health concerns, that they lack #compassion for the fact my Dad died in June from #LongCovid & they're participating in plague spreading events - knowing people like me & my family are still suffering from public acting like #covid is over when it's not.

#EastJerusalem #GeneralStrike in support #solidarity with #Gaza 🍉

https://youtube.com/shorts/i1ZthQrAJ98

#VOAnews #Ceasefire #ApartheidIsrael #Palestine #Israel #Jerusalem

Dozens of #students were #arrested at #BrownUniversity on Monday after they staged a sit-in demanding the school #divest “its #endowment from #Israeli #MilitaryOccupation” amid the war in #Gaza.

41 students were arrested after the #BrownDivestCoalition organized a sit-in at University Hall that began Monday morning. The students were charged with “willful trespass within school buildings” by Brown’s Department of Public Safety.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4356194-students-arrested-palestine-israel-brown-university

#SolidarityWithPalestine #Ceasefire

The power #Israel disproportionately wields here, notably across a number of Western democratic states, is staggering. It is manifested in moves to not publish material critical of the country’s assault on #Gaza, and, in some cases, directly target #journalists who dare violate such injunctions.

#Censorship is a manifold beast. The conventional approach is that of the blanking redaction: the “nothing to see here” school of regulation.

https://theaimn.com/censoring-israeli-violence-western-media-outlets-capitulate

#PressFreedom #CensoredMedia

Incense blessings sent up to my deceased ex partner. He was an incredibly intelligent, undiagnosed, neurodiverse, bipolar person, who never received the support he needed to survive well in this harsh society.

Depression took its final toll on his life. I'm sad that he died, feeling so alone, helpless & desperate. I didn't know he'd moved back & isolated.

I hope government funds mental health services because so many people need access to help & can't obtain it in time to save their lives.

December 10th is the birthday of an ex whom I spent 13 yrs of my life with. He committed suicide the day before my Dad died, this past June. I am lighting memorial candles for him today. I am unable to describe my feelings at this moment.

I don't need any advice and am not in a bad spot. Just taking time to remember someone whom I loved.

https://youtu.be/jFg_8u87zT0

Did anyone else get a fake #ElonMusk follow request today?
Screenshot from what I got today.

#Indigenous advocacy leads to largest #DamRemoval project in #UShistory.
4 dams are being demolished along the #KlamathRiver in northern #California, as #salmon populations plummet.

For thousands of years, the Klamath River has been a cornerstone of #Yurok culture, providing its people with a bounty of #chinook salmon, #coho salmon & #steelhead trout.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/12/4/indigenous-advocacy-leads-to-largest-dam-removal-project-in-us-history

#NativeLand #Landback #WatersBack #SaveWildSalmon #NativeStewardship #Nature #SalmonHabitat #KeystoneSpecies

*GOOD! Doctors like her are #dangerous to patients!*

#BritishColumbia #doctor who was #fired after refusing to be #vaccinated against #COVID19 has lost her bid to get her hospital privileges back.

The #HospitalAppealBoard has found that Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak's #refusal of the shot in 2021 amounted to neglect of her obligations as a #hospitalist at #RoyalInlandHospital & the decision to take action on her privileges was appropriate.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/theresa-szezepaniak-bc-hospital-appeal-board-covid-vaccine-1.7046988

#Kamloops #AntiVaxxer #HealthCare

As #COP28 prepares to pave way for massive expansion in the market for #CarbonCredits, campaigners have warned that they now represent “as big a threat to #IndigenousLands as logging and mining.”
#IndigenousRights org #SurvivalInternational said: “COP28 could be the “Blood Carbon COP”, when governments, big business & conservation NGOs work together to boost the carbon credits market, rather than seriously address real causes of the #ClimateCrisis.

https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2312/S00016/carbon-credits-fever-now-as-big-a-threat-to-indigenous-lands-as-logging-and-mining.htm

#Greenwash #Ecocide

["It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on #Spotify this year,” #WeirdAlYankovic said in his video. “So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice #sandwich at a restaurant.”

He added, “So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.”]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weird-al-yankovic-spotify-wrapped-video-criticism-1234905887

#FuckSpotify #PayMusicians #Canadian #CorporateGreed

@AdrianRiskin @Mary625 @RickiTarr It helps a lot, to have conversations with both active & former sex workers.

Almost 1 million #Vietnamese & #Laotian peoples have been #killed from 1974 til now. From leftover #USA #WarMunitions still left all over #Vietnam.

One of my #Indigenous Uncles was blown up by #landmine in 1981. One of my nieces was blown up by landmine in 1999. There's still thousands of landmines & war munitions to remove.

War is #hell & #PostWar is also hell.
#Civilians still suffer, decades after.

#WarSurvivor #USwarCrimes #AsianMastodon #StopFundingWar #StopUSWarMachine #PeaceNotWar

Don't trash #activists for fighting for #SocialJustice & #EcoJustice.
Pretty much ALL the #HumanRights & #environmental protections we have now are due to longtime acts of targeted #CivilDisobedience.

Thank activists who aren't paid (huge myth!). Don't be thanking fucking politicians for changes that benefit #humanity & environment. Govt doesn't change their toxic shit without facing lots of activism first - having #citizens rise up against their BS/harmful policies.

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#Documentary #filmmaker #JohnPilger returns to the #WestBank & #Gaza, asking the question why Palestinians are locked in limbo - being #refugees in their own land, controlled by #Israel - despite their right to self determination being affirmed by the #UnitedNations over 50 years ago. '#Palestine is Still the Issue' examines the #Israeli #Palestinian conflict to highlight some of the issues that continue to plague the region.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/palestine-is-still-the-issue

#WatchAndLearn #educational #Ceasefire

#Archaeologists in #Japan have #unearthed a massive stash of about 100,000 #coins in #Maebashi, a city about 60 miles northwest of #Tokyo.

The hoard was found during #excavations ahead of the construction of a factory, reported #TheAsahiShimbun, a newspaper in Japan. Only 334 of the coins have been examined so far, with the oldest one originating from #China and dating to 175 BC & most recent coin dating to AD 1265, the newspaper reported.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/hoard-of-100000-centuries-old-coins-discovered-in-japan

#AsianMastodon #History

2022 #documentary film that I watched last night. #HighlyRecommend it.

Directed by #AlonSchwartz & team of #IsraeliFilm folks.

The #DocFilm examines one village, #Tantura & why #Nakba is considered #taboo in #Israeli society.
In 1948, hundreds of #Palestinian villages were #depopulated by force. #Israel called it War of Independence. #Palestine citizens called it, the Nakba.

https://www.tantura-film.com/

#Educational #IsraeliFilmmakers #FreeToWatch #EthnicCleansing #MiddleEast #history #massacre