[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

[bigpunjaban]

So…white people who were previously actively involved in propagating hateful agendas who have now “reformed” or learned are “exhausted” at being judged based on their past selves. Hmmm…isn't that interesting. White people or people who have solely existed in a single intersection their whole lives are asking not to be judged despite the fact many of y'all literally did or said things that resulted in the continued brutalization and dehumanization of those on the margins. You want a pat on the back for learning how to sympathize? What I have learned from these individuals is that they still have the gall, the audacity, and the ignorance that plagued them when they were at their worst. When you diminish the true impact of your calls to violence as simple “ignorance” as “mean words” it tells me exactly where you are at. People die because of words. People have died because of the agendas you perpetuated. You ask for grace and a second chance. The people who you brutalized, dehumanized, and hurt. Do they get one too? If not you, they hear it elsewhere. For the rest of their life. You have the audacity to turn on your cameras and film yourselves fucking crying that people are judging you for things you fucking did. Forgive me, if I don't coddle you. Forgive me if I don't revere you when you extend allyship. Forgive me if I side-eye your conviction. My life, my body, my being has been under scrutiny since birth. You want your pat on the back? You're not getting it over here.

[bigpunjaban]

He was convicted. Let's not forget that

[gogomrbrown]

People crying about immigrants not paying taxes, which most of them do. Yet don’t care when billionaires and corporations hardly pay a damn thing.

[liberalsarecool]

When billionaires and millionaires do not pay their fair share, we create a political dynamic where basic needs and services MUST BE CUT because “we don’t have the money to pay for them”. This is not true. 

We have the money, we choose to give it to the uber-wealthy as tax cuts, tax loopholes, and salary caps on income.

Ex: we do not tax Donald Trump’s income above $118,500 for social security, then we say we will have to raise the retirement age for everyone else. Bullshit. Tax Trump at 1% , not .0027% [still well below the 6.2% we all are taxed below $118K], and we could pay for everything easily.

[bigpunjaban]

I was going back in my likes and saw this. I was 14 in 2016. A decade ago I had the empathy to be able to discern and recognize the vile rhetoric that this man spewed. A decade and I still hold the same perspective and even more so. I was 14, some of y'all are three times that and still hold not an ounce of empathy nor exist outside your white-imperialist-patriarchal rhetoric. Fuck y'all.

[wetheurban]

“I don’t do politics” is a slap in the face to every community that never got to opt out because their very existence is political.

[bigpunjaban]

Claiming "apolitical" is a privilege for those who have never had their humanity challenged because of it. Those who have existed within the margins and those who have been forced to exist within the intersections of disparity have always had to inherently exist within a political framework. White people in America are seeing the state of affairs in this nation and are acting appalled when this has been a known and expected reality for the masses. Fuck your claim as apolitical.

[bigpunjaban]

The unfortunate reality due to the state of affairs in this nation is that even with attempts at mobilization, if I am killed in the process, it won't matter. White-supremacist-imperialist-patriarchy is the agenda that reverberates in the seams of this administration's playbook. I understand what the sentiment may be from those outside the nation asking "Why don't you fight?" However, the reality is that my sacrifice would warrant no change and my name would die with those who love me. Those with privilege are integral to this fight more than ever. As crass as it sounds, white bodies are necessary to protect those on the margins. They shot a white woman. She wasn't the first they killed, there was Keith Porter on New Years, but she was the first person who received the attention at such a scale. That. Is what I mean. They are going into peoples homes without warrants. They are kidnapping those who voice dissent. History parallels itself.

[endykelopaedia]

forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

[endykelopaedia]

Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.

[bigpunjaban]

American Imperialism is always alive. It's just not as inconspicuous anymore.

[figuring-421]

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If mailing date matters to you, go inside the post office and request a hand-stamped postmark.

USPS postmark shake-up could cost you big — property tax payers warned of surprise late fees

A new USPS postmark rule may cause property tax payments to look late even when people mail them on time. The change can create surprise lat

This will invalidate votes too

[seymour-butz-stuff]

This will invalidate votes too

ding ding ding ding ding

[liberalsarecool]

White mediocrity can't process they will never be wealthy. A total lack of humility.

[depsidase]

[bigpunjaban]

RFK Jr literally looking like he's deteriorating is the highlight of this photo

[bigpunjaban]

Just something to rehash as Fire and Ash is now out

[bbyxdarlinnnn-deactivated202602]

it’s fuck ice, fuck ice agents, and fuck trump everyday around here

[cavalierzee]

Gaza Colonization Plan

“Not since the UN partitioned Palestine in 1947 against the will of the indigenous people, setting the stage for 80 years of Nakba, has the UN acted in such a baldly colonial way, and trampled so recklessly on the rights of a people.”

Craig Mokhiber,

International human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official

Cartoon by: Carlos Latuff

[closetscorpio]

[i-add-sources]

USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online

Since Monday, a group of 15 USC student, alumni and faculty volunteers have already received thousands of calls for help on open immigration

this is true

edit to add additional sources under cut

Hotline helps immigrants move hearings online to avoid arrest at court

A group of students, alumni and volunteers from the University of Southern California are banding together to help people with upcoming immi

[unluckycloverboy]

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

The bill still needs to pass the Senate and then either be signed into law by President Trump… or have a veto overridden by 2/3rds of each house of Congress.

Trump — who has already been implicated by the portion of the files already released to the public — reversed course over the weekend and started supporting the bill after lobbying against it for months. The change came after it was clear that the bill had the votes to pass.

[bigpunjaban]

Time for a whole bunch of [REDACTED] J [REDACTED] but what else is new when the administration is facist 🤷🏽‍♀️

[espanolbot2]

Link to the article itself.