Notices by Ms. Que Banh (phoenixserenity@beige.party)

I am foolishly idealistic enough that I still believe in the power of the peoples. I am OK with this type of unseen faith in humanity.

The history of domestic implementation of Canada’s international human rights commitments is disappointing, particularly when it comes to economic and social rights. Many countries struggle to live up to these obligations, but few position themselves as a global human rights champion the way Canada does. Over the past 75 years, Canada has neglected to build the necessary legal foundations, government structures, and political will at home to institutionalize human rights and provide accountability to rights holders. We need a new national framework for international human rights implementation.

To support this broad goal, Maytree’s report examines Canada’s national, sub-national, and intergovernmental mechanisms for the domestic implementation of our international human rights commitments.

Countries around the world are establishing new or improved standing structures for human rights implementation known as “National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting and Follow-up” (NMIRF). Maytree’s report documents how Canada’s #NMIRF currently functions, how it is falling short when compared to the best practices identified by the UN, and what specific changes are needed.

The way forward will require political leadership, particularly from the Forum of Ministers Responsible for Human Rights #FMHR. Maytree hopes this report will help spur them to action.

https://maytree.com/publications/in-search-of-political-will/

#CDNpoli #PoliticalWill #HumanRights #CanadianLaw #InternationalLaw #MaytreeReport #UNDRIP #Legal #Canada

Another churchly #ChildKiller retires behind smoke and mirrors: The Case of #JustinWelby.

Raping a child and protecting those who do is as Christian as crucifixion. So no doubt the world is emitting a big yawn today as Justin Welby resigns as #Archbishop of Canterbury after being caught covering for his sadistic child-torturing friend John Smyth.

After all, #Anglican and #Catholic clergy are required by their standing policy of #CrimenSollicitationas to do precisely what Welby did and protect #ChildRapists in their church.

In its typical facile, dissimulating manner, the media has treated Welby’s protection of the brutal child-rapist John Smyth as a one-time, episodic event. In fact, Archbishop Welby is himself a notorious repeat offender who has blood on his hands. The malfeasance of this former #oil company executive turned Anglican #cleric goes way back.

During the first accredited excavation of children’s #MassGraves at the murderous Anglican #Mohawk #ResidentialSchool in #Brantford, #Ontario during 2011, Archbishop Welby ordered all the school records and gravesites destroyed.

During the summer of 2014, Justin Welby was named as a co-conspirator in #ChildTrafficking and killing by a #Brussels based #CitizensTribunal and found guilty of #CrimesAgainstHumanity. Part of the evidence presented to the Tribunal concerned Welby’s participation in a #CatholicAnglican child sacrificial #cult known as the #NinthCircle that operated extensively in the #Canadian ‘Indian #ResidentialSchools and implicates British, Dutch, and Belgian ‘royalty’.

The complicity doesn’t end there. It involves the world’s second biggest #mining company and a close associate and funder of Donald #Trump: Rio Tinto, whose biggest investors include the British royal family. Justin Welby’s ties to #RioTinto Mining and to more murder cropped up in September of 2022, when Tinto and its Canadian subsidiary, #StarDiamondMining, dealt with some “troublesome Indians” on the James Smith #Cree reservation in eastern #Saskatchewan.

After refusing to allow Rio Tinto to begin diamond mining on their land, ten members of the James Smith tribe were #murdered in one night. The alleged killer was a drug addict and drifter who conveniently died in #RCMP custody the next day. Six of the ten murdered people were relatives of Rio Tinto’s biggest opponent among the James Smith Cree natives, Chief Wally Burns.

https://murderbydecree.com/2024/11/13/another-churchly-child-killer-retires-behind-smoke-and-mirrors-the-case-of-justin-welby/

#CanadianCrimes #TrueCrime #ChurchCrimes #ChildAbusers #CanadianConnection

These #InternationalStudents Wanted #Citizenship. #Canada Killed That Dream.

As Canada tries to staunch an overflow of temporary #immigration, tens of thousands of international students and recent grads may be forced to leave the country. Here are their stories.

https://macleans.ca/society/these-international-students-wanted-citizenship-canada-killed-that-dream/

#CDNpoli

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Magnificent #OldGrowth red #cedar #tree 😍

#AncientTree #ElderTree #Wsanec #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VanIsle #VictoriaBC #YYJ #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #Trees #Nature #SaveOldGrowth #CarbonSinks #AncientForest #ProtectForests #WorthMoreStanding #StopDeforestation #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ClimateChange #Ecology #ecosystems #Environment #forest #BCForestryReform #CedarTreeOfLife

@persagen Similar work is happening with Wsanec First nations 🙌

According to the report #Africa #GamingMarket Size (2024–2029) by #MordorIntelligence, a consultancy and #MarketResearch firm, the video game market in Africa is estimated to be worth over USD 2.14 billion in 2024. This figure could reach USD 3.72 billion by 2029.

#VideoGames have strong appeal among #AfricanYouth — of the continent’s 1.6 billion inhabitants, over 400 million are between the ages of 15 and 35. #Gaming is not merely a pastime; it can also be a real profession, known as esports, which includes its own rules, tournaments, prize money, and international competitions, like the Olympics Esports Games set to be held in Saudi Arabia in 2025. To explore the significance of this industry, #GlobalVoices spoke with Kofi Sika Latzoo, a #Togolese expert based in #Senegal.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/11/15/togolese-expert-kofi-sika-latzoo-explains-the-video-game-industrys-impact-on-the-african-economy/

#GlobalSouth #AfricanEconomy #GamingIndustry #AfricaNews #WorldNews

#AntiWar #Activists in #Wichita, #Kansas, 1967.
Protesting the US war on Vietnam (& Cambodia).
Credit: U.S. National Archives.

#UShistory #AmericanDissenters #AntiUSImperialism #PeopleForPeace #60s #Humanitarians #AmericansAgainstWar #protestors #VietnamWar #USWarOnVietnam #AmericanHistory

2024 feels like dejavu to many folks who remember the 60s/70s #AntiWar #protests in USA that was a part of the international citizens' #GlobalResistance movements.

Opposition to the #VietnamWar was not limited to the United States. Throughout the world, people demonstrated their #resistance to the war, and in some cases offered their #solidarity with the #Vietnamese.

Pictured:

1. Demonstrators against the Vietnam War display banners in a #Paris street, 1967.
AFP/AFP/Getty Images.

2. Musicians Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström, and Gösta Cervin participate in an anti-Vietnam war march in #Stockholm, #Sweden, 1965.
Wikimedia Commons.

3. Demonstrators in #Havana, #Cuba, May 1971.
Keystone-FranceGamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

4. In #China, demonstrators call for the United States to stay out of Vietnam, 1965.
Wikimedia Commons.

#WarSurvivorsForPeace #HumanRights #60s #AsianMastodon #StopColonialViolence #USWarOnVietnam #USATerrorism #geopolitics #warmongers #USAThreatToHumanity #AmericanTerrorism #USAGenociders #historical #MassMurderers #GlobalDestabilization #perpetrators #EndlessWars #ProxyWars #Murica #TootSEA #PeaceActivists #FrenchActivists #monochrome #WorldHistory #SocialHistory #HistoricPhotography #HistoryInPhotos #WarDissenters #HumanHistory

Countless #BlackAmericans had openly opposed the #VietnamWar. As early as 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced a statement that unequivocally lambasted the war, and said that no Black American should “fight in Vietnam for the white man's freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi."

Still, thanks to the draft's implicit #RacialBias , Black Americans disproportionately served in Vietnam. This is largely because then-college students — the majority of whom were white men — could defer enlistment. As such, the burden of enlistment fell more on non-college educated men, particularly non college-educated #BlackMen. As a result, by 1967, 64 percent of all eligible Black American males had been drafted. Only 31 percent of eligible white men had.

Photo from Life Magazine archives.

#BlackAmericanHistory #SystematicRacism #WhitePrivilege #USA #KKKAmerica #MilitaryDraft #RacistUSA #AsianMastodon #StopAllWars #WarIsHell

The list of offences is long: an American tourist in his 60s was arrested for graffiti at Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu shrine; four Sri Lankans were questioned in connection with the theft of 220 cars; a Chinese woman was accused of running an illegal brothel; a British man is linked to a 13 million yen (US$83,200) theft; and a Chilean woman was filmed doing pull-ups on a shrine’s “torii” gate.

This growing backlash over these misdeeds is not only coming from the Japanese public but also from long-term foreign residents, who worry that these incidents may lead locals to view all outsiders as troublemakers, jeopardising the livelihoods and relationships they have built in their adopted country.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3286789/japan-foreign-tourists-misdeeds-stir-outrage-debate-who-does-something?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage

#BadTourists #Japan #Tourism #ForeignTourists

By the time the USA had entered #WorldWarII, #poster #PSA messaging shifted toward how you, as a non-enlisted citizen, could help the country and your community. So, posters about carpooling to save resources became commonplace (re: the image is saying that you’re helping Hitler win if you don’t rideshare), as did posters instructing women to save cans for ammunition or kitchen grease for explosives.

1. When You Ride Alone, Weimer Pursell, 1943.
2. Save Your Cans, McClelland Barclay, 1943.

#VintageAmericanAds #VintagePosters #40s #WWII

My, how times have changed. Now, we are dealing with parents who refuse to #vaccinate their children.

Parents of Earth, Designer Unknown, c. 1977
Image: US National Library of Medicine.

By the time we hit the 1970s & 80s, #PSA posters were everywhere and covering a variety of social concerns, from everybody’s favorite bear telling you how to prevent forest fires to #StarWars characters reminding you to vaccinate your children. This is also the moment when the idea of celebrity or pop culture entering into the PSA space really takes hold. Remember when at the end of GI Joe cartoons you’d see a “knowing is half the battle” clip or when there’d be a “very special” episode of a popular teenage show, typically discussing issues of domestic violence, teen pregnancy, or drug use? Using familiar, beloved characters to get a message across proved very, very effective and started to dominate the PSA genre.

#VintagePosters #SocialMarketing #MediaPsychology #70s #Advertising

▶️ A large number of #protesters took to the streets of #Kyoto #Japan, to show #solidarity with #Palestine, condemning #Israeli #genocide in #Gaza.

@presstv

#AsianMastodon #JapanesePalestinianSolidarity
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael

The discovery of 27 cases of #scurvy in a northern #Saskatchewan community is raising concerns about #GroceryPrices and access to fresh food as #IncomeInequality worsens.

Earlier this year, a doctor in #LaRonge had a hunch that a patient was suffering from scurvy, a #disease caused by #VitaminC deficiency. The test came back positive and it raised questions about the prevalence of scurvy in the community.

The #LacLaRongeIndianBand partnered with Dr. Jeff Irvine and the Northern InterTribal #Health Authority to investigate. Irvine is a physician in La Ronge and works with Northern #Medical Services, an off-shoot of the University of Saskatchewan college of #medicine.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/la-ronge-scurvy-study-food-security-1.7384721

#CDNpoli #SKpoli #Canada #CanadianHealthCare #FoodInsecurity

Three daughters of #MalcolmX have filed a $100 million #WrongfulDeath #lawsuit against the #CIA , #FBI, and #NYPD , accusing the agencies of involvement in the 1965 #assassination of the #CivilRights leader and of concealing their roles. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, alleges that a coordinated effort between government agencies and Malcolm X’s assassins enabled the killing and that evidence of their involvement was actively hidden for decades.

Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was fatally shot on February 21, 1965, as he began speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York. The lawsuit claims law enforcement actions contributed to his vulnerability, including the NYPD’s arrest of his security detail days prior and the removal of officers from the venue during the event. The court filing also asserts that undercover agents from federal agencies were present at the ballroom but failed to intervene during the attack.

Read full article on tmj.news

#USpoli
#USALaw
#BlackMastodon
#Justice
#Legal

I forgot my 2nd anniversary of being on Mastodon was on November 13. It's my only real social media now. I post vids on my YouTube but don't use it as social media interaction much. I engage on Fediverse regularly. I'm uninterested in going back to bigger corporate social media & don't care how popular they are. Facebook is still super popular with many folks - many are hooked on it.

📰 Ben & Jerry's is back in court again, and this time it's #suing its parent company #Unilever over accusations that it silenced the #IceCream maker's attempts to express support for a #ceasefire in #Gaza and support #Palestinian #refugees.

In a #lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Ben & Jerry's said Unilever breached the terms of a previous agreement that gave the ice cream company responsibility over its "social mission".

Despite this, Ben & Jerry's said it was #silenced four separate times when it tried calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, advocating for halting US military aid to #Israel, supporting university #students #protesting against Israel's war on Gaza, and supporting the safe passage of Palestinian refugees from Gaza to the UK.

🔗 Read more:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-jerrys-accuses-unilever-silencing-its-pro-palestine-stances

Post lunch stress relief therapy -> Chucking dry peanuts in shell all over backyard & watching squirrels & crows grab them.

The tragic irony is that this piece of music is from #JohnWilliams score for #SchindlersList which addresses the #genocide committed in Europe against European Jews during WW2.

Here is a Lebanese musician, playing his cello, amidst the bombed out ruins in the southern suburbs of #Beirut - November 2024.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Y_K3vn6Pc

From @ stayfreeworld on Telegram.

#EthnicCleansing
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#USAFundsTerrorism
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#MusicTherapy
#cellist
#cello
#Lebanon
#SanctionIsrael