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“To move towards the abolition of jails, prisons, and detention centers and to build in their stead just and equitable systems that advance public health and well-being, APHA urges federal, state, tribal, territorial, and municipal governments and agencies to:

Immediately and urgently reduce the number of people incarcerated in jails, prisons, and detention centers, regardless of conviction, especially in light of pressing concerns related to COVID-19 transmission;

Immediately and urgently develop, implement, and support existing community-based programming interventions, including by using emergency funding, to address the medical and social needs of people who have been harmed by the criminal legal system, including those transitioning from incarceration, particularly those being released in response to COVID-19;

Re-allocate funding from the construction of new jails and prisons to the societal determinants of health, including affordable, quality, and accessible housing, healthcare, employment, education, and transportation;

Remove policies and practices that restrict access to stable employment and housing for formerly incarcerated people, including immediately investing in housing for quarantine purposes after release from carceral settings;

Meet patient rights requirements to be in the least restrictive environment for care, by redirecting funding and referrals from jails, prisons, and involuntary and/or court-mandated inpatient psychiatric institutions to inclusive, community-based living and support programs for people with mental illness and substance use disorder;

End the practice of cash bail and pretrial incarceration;

Develop, implement, and support non-carceral measures to ensure accountability, safety, and well-being (e.g., programs based in restorative and transformative justice);

Decriminalize activities shaped by the experience of marginalization, like substance use and possession, houselessness, and sex work;

Restore voting rights for all formerly or currently incarcerated people to ensure their basic democratic right to participate in elections.

Further, APHA urges that Congress, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to:

Fund research on the effectiveness of alternatives to incarceration (e.g. transformative justice);

Fund research on policy determinants of exposure to the carceral system, with a particular focus on policies that disproportionately target marginalized communities;

Put forth a set of recommendations that will decrease the population within carceral settings based on the principles of human rights and health justice.

Lastly, APHA calls on state and local health departments to:

Provide accurate, timely, and publicly available data on incarcerated and released populations at the state and facility-level, as well as COVID-19 testing, positive and resolved cases, and mortality.

Advocate for and support decarceration and defunding of all carceral facilities and systems.”

From the American Public Health Association, 10/24/2020.

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

send help my partner is too busy having opinions about piccolos to let us run the lesbian pirate talent show in this fucking game

dungeonmastersconsortium

NO.

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

please do not start your discourse on my posts

dungeonmastersconsortium

It’s not my fault that a piccolo isn’t pleasant to listen to

ruffboi-mags

excuse YOU, piccolos can be quite sweet as long as the person playing it isn’t making it SCREECH.

cleverclovers

Which is really fucking easy, speaking as a woodwind player

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

please, my notes, i don’t know music shit, i just mentioned a tin whistle

ryanlewisandclark

Would you like them to give it a rest?

antifainternational

October 25 + 30, Berlin - Querdenken den Kampf ansagen

anarchist-art

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nihongogogo

‘For years, there’s only been one passenger waiting at the Kami-Shirataki train station in the northernmost island of Hokkaido, Japan: A high-school girl, on her way to class. The train stops there only twice a day—once to pick up the girl and again to drop her off after the school day is over.It sounds like a Hayao Miyazaki film. But according to CCTV News, it was a decision that Japan Railways—the group that operates the country’s railway network—made more than three years ago. At that time, ridership at the Kami-Shirataki station had dramatically fallen because of its remote location, and freight service had ended there as well. Japan Railways was getting ready to shut the station down for good—until they noticed that it was still being used every day by the high-schooler. So they decided to keep the station open for her until she graduates. The company’s even adjusted the train’s timetable according to the girl’s schedule. The unnamed girl is expected to graduate this March, which is when the station will finally be closed.’

thecosmosowl

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mitsuyuki32

Dear my foreigner friends, Today I want to use my space to describe what is happening in Thailand, my country

You might have heard about the 2016 coup d’etat which the House of Parliament was seized by the military junta. More than 80 years have passed since Thailand first claimed to be a democratic country, yet it is hard to deny the existence of the influence of other powers on the politics. Indeed, during this 80-year period, 13 coups were succeeded. With our constitutional rights taken away, the junta exacerbates the situation by cheating in the 2019 election, controlling the media, interfering with the Justice System, and passing laws that favour their own faction–all of which raises the question of the competency of the government itself.

Then the pandemic happened; the people who could not withstand another management failure by the junta government started to call out for their right, hoping for the change. Their voice, however, seemed to be in vain. Not only that the junta ignored their demands, but the protestors were also threatened for their lives. Many have been arrested, yet many still stand up to challenge the regime. The protest that has been going on for months had been without violence, until yesterday.

On October 16th, the officials directly confronted the protestors who gathered in downtown Bangkok, many of which were high-school and college students. Facing the protestors holding just umbrellas, the police force used high-pressure water cannons to break up the protest. We saw the police, armed with armour and shield, assaulting the innocents. Ironically, it was the peaceful protesters who are framed by the media as the starters of the riots.

How could we, as a human, justify this brutality–the crime of state officials toward the people?

Today our Justice is corrupted. The law is nothing more than the government’s tool to silence the dissidents. The police and military are under the junta’s control, and, in turn, their abuse of power are overlooked.

All of these attempts, it seems to me, is to satisfy some groups of authorities who would never let go of their power. Their desire to remain in control is their one and only concern–regardless of the well-being of the people on the street nor the methods they have used and will use to achieve that goal, and regardless of how inhumane they have become.

What I told you here is only small part of the story. Please checkout the tag #whatishappeninginthailand or #restoredemocracyinThailand on twitter for more information.

So if you–friends who live in the country better than ours and are guaranteed the freedom and liberty I never have had–happen to see this message, I hope that you spread our stories. Please watch us. Please amplify our voices. Please let the world know the wicked crimes the Royal Thai Government has committed in the name of “peace,” the term that, as simple as it may sound, the junta will never understand.

mysharona1987

You ALL be regretting writing, or attempting to write, that book or script about the serial killer.

Prosecutor: “The defendant googled ‘How does a murderer clean up the scene?’ is that not highly suspicious?!”

Sobbing writer: “But it was for my pulp crime novel! And I still can’t get a publishing deal!”

grouchycritic7794

My worst fear has been realised.

goodzillo-deactivated20220127

I’m not saying this to be a mean stick in the mud, but this isn’t going to affect fiction writers lol. Researching your crime noire novel (or, let’s be honest, fan fiction) isn’t going to get you arrested. The case reported on had this used to create a profile of narrowed down suspects related to a vandalism, without needing a specific warrant. When this gets used further, it will be primarily to profile activists (especially black activists) based on who searched for organizing efforts related to certain protests, or some similar measure against dissent. It’s not going to be used directly against you in court unless a warrant is issued, which has been a factor for years now.

As with most privacy concerns these days, the issue isn’t so much what it will do to any one specific person, but how it empowers law enforcement to enact wider authoritarian controls on populations using such enformation. More invasive methods of monitoring become more widespread and ubiquitous reprisals.

Regardless, you should already be moving away from using google as your primary search engine.

livedpoetry-deactivated20230925

Stop using Google and instead use alternative search engines:

DuckDuckGo

Searx

Quant

Startpage.com

queeranarchism

Also

install the TrackMeNot extension, which provides a constant stream of fake input to pollute data to the point of making it unusable.

be extra extra careful when you’re looking for directions. Cops are all over travel planning apps and map apps, looking for people who drove to or looked for a bus to a protest sight. It’s a treasure trove of data and almost every site that provides travel planning shares their data with cops.

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no-gods-no-masters-tshirts

Hydroxychloroquine : la lettre au vitriol de Renaud Muselier à Olivier Véran

Le président LR de la région Sud Paca s'insurge contre la décision de l'Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament qui a retiré l'autorisati

This decision is appalling in more ways than one. As of Monday, the teams of this exceptional institute will no longer be able to treat patients according to the protocol applied since March 2020. Does this mean that you choose to deprive doctors of doing their duty, of treating their patients? ”Asks Muselier, reminding the minister that the doctors of the IHU "took the Hippocratic oath like the others" and "had more than 10 years of studies like the others".