Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”
West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.
“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.
“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.
“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”
still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.
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Brainfucking... I bet it feels good as fuck to be a mouthy little brat till a cock penetrates your ear and literally fucks the thoughts out of you.
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What do you think it would feel like to have cum leaking from your eyesockets and your ears and out of your mouth. Do you think it would feel good. Or would it be more of a "no longer capable of using words" situation.
Brainfucking is like, hands down the best imagery there is. Eyes rolling back. Nosebleeds. That cartoonish, gooey cum oozing from places where it should never go. Speech stuttering in time with the thrusts. Drool. Even just as a metaphor, your cock penetrating a girl's brain, her very identity! All of her memories and thoughts and everything she is, serving as a hole for you to fuck. Her skull filling up with you, her brain swimming in it, drowning in it, so much of it that it begins to overflow. It's really good.
I mean this is complete sincerity and honesty. Mice girls are the absolute pinnacle of brainfuck bait. There is no better. It's the ear size, it's the ear shape, it's everything. I have really strong feelings on this topic and I won't apologize. You NEED to brainfuck that mousegirl. You must!!!
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i know money is tight all around but if there's anything you can do..my venmo is @Sistercara. any bit helps
idk, when the history of the word femboy is that it was created specifically to replace "trap", when it's used as a slur exclusively for trans woman, when it's used to represent the idealized version of the tranny—someone who looks feminine but has no agency and demands no respect to be treated like a woman, when you look up the word femboy and are blasted with ai generated images of women with penises...
its not a word that tmes can reclaim. it never has been.
what a wild fucking thing to say about fucking "femboy" art emphasizing a characters penis to show they are "biologically male" even with obvious signs of feminizing hrt.
is it fucking "bioessentialism" to look at art that clearly eroticizes puffy nipples and limp small penis on a character who will be referred to with feminine terms while being categorized as ultimately male and saying the character is obviously a fucking trans woman?
personally i think the real bioessentialism with regards to this kind of art is how the penis is used as an indication of unchangeable maleness no matter how much evidence the character is on estrogen or how much the character is portrayed enjoying being referred to with female terms. but what do i fucking know. i havent considered the feelings of men enough i guess
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