Notices by Gigi 🥚 (gigi@kolektiva.social)

Ho lee shit.
The AP has found that the number of deaths caused by the police in the US is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than thought because they're not always reported as being "officer-involved."

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The investigation found that between 2012 and 2021, more than a thousand people died after police use physical force that was not intended to be lethal. That includes batons, stun guns, physical restraints, and chemical agents. The oldest victim was 95 and the youngest 15.

Only 28 of the officers were charged.

The Police role was only cited in about half of the cases, meaning that many more Americans have died at the hands of the police than was previously known.
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Watch the PBS segment here
https://youtu.be/5rrMUfbGVlM?feature=shared

#PoliceBrutality #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle

@VinesNFluff

Yep.
"Whiteness" is proximity to power.

It's about who is given the freedom to behave certain ways.

I may have added the "shitty white people" bit.

Skyler Williams (Landback Lane among many other thing) kicks off panel two by dropping some serious knowledge by pointing out that people lived on Turtle Island for THOUSANDS OF YEARS without fucking cops.

Derecka follows up on the point by saying that these assholes came over here from a culture where there were HOMELESS PEOPLE, precisely because POVERTY IS AN INVENTION that requires police TO ENFORCE IT.

She also correctly points out that the answer is Anarchy. Actual Anarchism, not what shitty white people have labelled "anarchy" in order to discredit the concept that people can exist without their back-assward concept of "civilization".

Dalia from PYM is taking it forward talking about how Zionists have taken the European shitshow to Israel.

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Abolitionist #AbolishThePolice

Very much looking forward to the sold out event getting ready to start:

Building Justice with Derecka Purnell

Join the CJC for a discussion on abolition and liberation for all peoples with lawyer, writer, activist and scholar Derecka Purnell.

By Community Justice Collective

Not a lawyer, so I don't get the PD/PE points, but still very much a topic of interest.

#KnowledgeIsPower #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #Abolitionist

Annoyed to have to type this, but:

🔳 ⬜️ 🔲 ◽️ ▫️

If whiteness was about skin colour, you wouldn't have groups of people who experience "conditional whiteness".

▫️ ◽️ 🔲 ⬜️ 🔳

Say it out loud.
Say it until you ACTUALLY understand it.

Irish. Italian. White-passing.
All should clarify to you what "whiteness" is.

#whiteness #Wypipo #WhiteWomening #WhiteFragility

White nationalist Canadian finally gets labeled a terrorist, flipping the usual dynamic.

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The case was unusual because prosecutors alleged Veltman’s far-right white nationalist and anti-immigrant views constituted an ideology that motivated the murders, fitting the definition of terrorism.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/london-ont-truck-murders-were-terrorism-judge-rules-in-landmark-first-for-white-nationalist-violence/article_436eb748-d0ec-11ee-9dde-23011107f425.html

#FashWatchCanada

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So anyway, back to how laws are unequally applied in Canada, even the ones that ostensibly are designed for the occasion.

Like: You would think hate crime laws are meant to protect minorities, right?
Not so fast.

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Amidst an exponential surge in anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim racism, “anti-hate” infrastructure has mobilized to criminalize Palestine solidarity. In January 2024 alone, Toronto Police Service (TPS) laid at least four charges against Arab protesters in relation to hate investigations. TPS announced that one of these arrests was allegedly “for displaying [a] terrorist flag” – the flag of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – an act they themselves have previously stated is legal. Instead, they charged the arrestee with the rarely-used offence of “public incitement of hatred.”
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My favourite part of the article comments on a certain group with skin as fragile as pork rinds:

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Reports by Hamilton’s hate crime unit from the late 2000s list “police” as a victimized group alongside identities such as “Jewish” and “Black.”
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Yeah, that's right. To them, saying "fuck the police," is as distressing as dropping the n-bomb.

You should read the article for a whole lot more eye-opening information, like how Black and Indigenous people are disproportionately having hate laws used against them.

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/anti-hate-the-new-face-of-political-policing

#FuckThePolice #LawFedi #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FreePalestine

Say it loud:

#GenocideIsNotDefence #GenocideIsNotDefense
#FreePalestine

Lots of actions throughout the GTA today, most of them at MPs offices.

It's all part of the Neighbours Unite for Palestine Day of Action

A lot of work went into organizing MDC coverage this week. I'm at the Scarborough Rouge Park location watching cop cars go back and forth.

#FreePalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow #LOLife

Getting little attention, and the numbers of dead are over 300 since this article was published a few days ago.

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A state of humanitarian emergency has been announced in the Republic of Congo, following flooding caused by heavy rains that's been pouring for over a month.

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"This year, to illustrate, the erosions were barely where you see the pipes so from November, here we are on January 02, so barely 2 months of rain, the erosions are already at 150 meters" says a flood victim. "The wish of the population is that now that they have the means, that they arrive. Many parents have lost their lives here because of this erosion" he added.

More than 360 villages and 36 districts were flooded throughout the country, affecting more than 320,000 people. At least 17 people have died and 6 remain missing. Urban planners are concerned by the scale of the disaster, and have called for collective responsibility.
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https://www.africanews.com/2024/01/03/congo-declares-state-of-emergency-over-devastating-floods-and-landslides//

#Floods #Africa #DRC #HumanitarianCrisis

Meanwhile in New York:

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Hundreds of Jewish Americans being arrested at Grand Central Station in what might be the biggest mass civil disobedience that NYC has seen in two decades.
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- from Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
https://x.com/ASE/status/1718054658290127053?s=20
#GenocideIsNotDefence

Tonight's action outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto was in response to the complete shutdown of communications out of Gaza.

https://youtu.be/Tmv98fOUMfE

#TorontoActions #GenocideIsNotDefence #Gaza

Paris:

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BREAKING: SPONTANEOUS GATHERING IN PARIS AGAINST THE GAZA GENOCIDE

People can’t sleep they have come to the streets.

There is humanity
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From Sulaiman Ahmed
https://nitter.net/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1718036386735849826

#GenocideIsNotDefence

Oh wow. My (near-)daily BirdChan check-in is certainly something. 🫣

The racist-assed white women that comprise #KarymasKarenKrew are mostly up in arms over Definitely-Not-Audrey's latest shenanigans, designed, if I were to hazard a guess, to regroup their shitty selves into a cohesive unit once again.

Leading the #WhiteWomening are Staph and sTanya. (Yes, yes, we know: you're only ⅞ths white and deeply resent being called that. Tough shit.)

Anyhoo, Staph seems to have forgotten the memes she posted about a literal baby, which I believe remain in her feed to this minute, and sTanya seems to have forgotten about the time she maliciously posted that faildox, gleefully tying in family members who have nothing to do with anything.

They're definitely still shrieking about how bad things happened for "no reason other than just minding their business worshipping #CarymaNgo" — absolutely feeling that they were in their rights to harass people and that absolutely nothing should have befallen their klansheet white asses as a result (yes, yes, we have heard all about your ancestry; bad me for continually pointing out that your only personal experience of racism is perpetrating it).

I guess that means they're at least momentarily NOT screeching that certain people are only "targeting women", ignoring the fact that 98% of the shitty people I had to deal with because a certain Brown Muslim Palestinian* woman's flying monkeys were WHITE WOMEN, to the point that I had mockingly nicknamed them the "white Dora Milaje" BEFORE I met any of these PARTICULAR witless wonders.

#ThisIsCarymastan #KarymasKarenKadre #Carymastans

For the record, "Shitty, Racist White Women" is a category you SELF-SELECTED into. Ain't no one feeling sorry for your asses.

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* I'm sure it will become "Brown Muslim Indo-Palestinian woman" the second it becomes convenient, considering how long she was totally fine with letting her jackhole followers think she was Black.

#blackfishing

@KatTapestry

My "favourite" part of their terminal shittiness, is how categorically Every, Single, One. of them completely lacks self-awareness. To an almost hilarious level.

If I wanted to, I am absolutely certain I could find a screenshot of them doing every thing they have ever accused anyone else of doing.

sTanya is a bog-standard Karen, but Staph is a particularly malignant example of all of the above, and honestly, I would be fascinated to learn exactly how much of it is fronto-temporal damage from her brain injury, and how evil she was to begin with.

I think she actually, GENUINELY blames me for "making her" attempt to use dead ancestors to deflect from her REPEATED racist behaviours. 🤦♀️

I don't even understand how what's left of her brain even works.

And I don't think she realizes that NOTHING SHE HAS DONE has changed my opinion of her as a racist-assed cunt. Nor is there anything she could do at this point to alter that opinion.

She may as well have just left herself entirely forgotten, but some misfiring set of synapses makes that impossible for her.

@Cherrycola @KatTapestry

I just want to know: Is that the brain injury or has Staph ALWAYS been that fucking evil?

It's pretty clear that Tanya has always been an entitled Ur-Karen who hits all the bogstandard problematic behaviours, but Staph seems to have some weird residual memory of being a better person than she is now.

@AnthonyJK

Oh wow.

This, at least, is good news. I can't believe how fucked up Society is sometimes.

Imagine forcing people to jump through these hoops just to literally live.

@AnthonyJK @AnarchoNinaWrites

See, I just consider that a sign of a lack of commitment to making shit better.

If people can't even stick with it through social media being "too difficult", what does that say for navigating out of CAPITALISM?

@AnarchoNinaWrites

I have a bluesky account.
Got my invite early.

I abso-fucking-lutely refuse to use a platform that allows "n*ggrk*ller88" as a username, and you can bet your ass I'm looking askance at "friends" who do