#divest

[kropotkindersurprise]

EU citizens, go sign the European Citizens' Initiative to Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights

Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative

[antifainternational]

February 6 - Dockworkers Day of Struggle Against Genocide

"Dockworkers don't work for war!" Our struggle for justice and liberation in Palestine is inseparable from the global struggles against systemic racism, exploitation, oppression, and climate devastation. The BDS movement salutes the upcoming International Day of Action against complicity in wars, called for by Dockworkers on 6 February, and calls on trade unions and solidarity networks to join and support it. On that day, dockworkers and port workers from Italy, Greece, Euskadi, Turkey and Morocco will demonstrate and strike using all forms of peaceful actions to end the complicity of their ports with genocidal Israel. The BDS movement calls on all people of conscience to support the day of action by joining the dockers and port workers in their mobilization, posting photos, supporting the day of action on social media, and intensifying grassroots pressure on your government to impose targeted, lawful sanctions on Israel, including a comprehensive military and energy embargo. The genocide has not stopped and neither will we.

[saywhat-politics]

[un-soli-cited]

Imagine only being nice to people you wanna sleep with, and then wondering why people call you a predator. Ohhhh, you want a cookie for attempting to be a decent human being? Bffr

[hope-for-the-planet]

COP29: Christian institutions divest from fossil fuels

As COP29 unfolds, an international coalition of Christian organizations announced that 27 religious groups, including dioceses, have diveste

From the article:

For Brother Xavier Boutiot, treasurer of a Benedictine abbeyin central France, pulling the abbey's investments from fossil fuels was an obvious step. Committed to the “Green Church” initiative for four years, the Olivetan monks aimed for consistency in all aspects of their community life. “Financial investments have an ecological impact that is 25 times greater than our daily actions!” emphasized the treasurer. To embark on this ecological and financial transition, the abbey had to scrutinize its investments, which was not straightforward. “The financial world is so opaque for basic investors like us, who don’t have access to all the information,” explained Boutiot. “We called our banks that were not on board with this direction, explained our reasoning, and applied some pressure by saying, ‘Either you support us in this approach, or we’ll switch banks.’” [...] The reasons to divest from fossil fuels are not only ethical but financial: the International Energy Agency predicts fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 and then decline. Religious institutions, managing $3 trillion globally, have divested from fossil fuel companies more than any other sector, aligning their investments with their values.

[lucrezianoin]

Some non-US alternatives to big US companies

Purchases

steam (USA) -> GOG (Poland), I have been using it for years, it is without a doubt my favorite place to purchase videogames

Kindle (US, Amazon) -> Kobo (Japanese and Canadian) tho harder, it does not have all books, I tried to google a few of the rarest ones I have on kindle

Amazon -> Allegro or OTTO

ebay (US) -> medimops (Germany)

audible (US) -> storytel (Sweden)

streaming services -> filmin (Spain), but I am unsure if it is available outside Span and Portugal, as I have not tried it yet

music streaming -> Spotify (Sweden)

Technology

Any phone -> Nothing Phone (German)

Any computer -> Lenovo (China), this is actually my favorite laptop ever

Chrome/Firefox (US) -> Vivaldi (Norway)

google email/hotmail (US) -> Tuta mail (Germany)

Websites

google translate (US) -> DeepL (German, and so much better)

Google maps (US) -> Magic Earth (Netherlands)

google search (US) -> ecosia (Germany)

goodreads (US) -> storygraph (UK)

twitter (US) -> mastodon

I didn't add food/clothes as those are usually easier to check while shopping. Unfortunately it is hard to completely boycott US products especially websites and softwares (I am currently on tumblr, for example), but I want to try my best. I also have no intention of boycotting stuff that gives money to small business and single individuals (ex. paypal, smashwords, patreon, etsy) unless there is an alternative to be able to support the same small business/creators.

Some resources: subreddit BuyFromEU; European alternatives website

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[sainte666]

Disability Divest: We Demand the Disability Establishment End Its Relationships with War Profiteers (July 1, 2024)

Hi friends and comrades,

This Disability Pride Month, please read and sign onto this letter to the disability establishment to divest and end its partnership with war profiteers and complicity with genocide and colonialism.

Some of us are affiliated with organizations in the US disability advocacy space, and some of us are not.

Many disability organizations and their leaders have been silent about the mass disabling event and genocide that has been happening since last October. Silence is complicity.

Several US disability rights organizations, which advocate for equal rights and treatment for disabled Americans, accept funding and have fostered partnerships with major war profiteers and weapons manufacturers including Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen, Boeing, RTX/Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, and Google.

Disability rights organizations go even further than accepting money from war profiteers: they honor them with disability inclusion awards.

One example is the 2023 Disability Equality Index, presented by Disability:IN, awarded HP, Siemens, Barclays, Chevron, Intel, and 11 weapons manufacturing companies with the top score 100 of “Best Places to Work.” (All 16 companies are corporate partners with Disability:IN.)

Disability:IN is certainly not the only one doing this in the US disability establishment, and we see similar patterns with other national orgs as well. They take money from these war mongers and turn around and pay lip service to the idea of liberation and disability rights.

Read the full letter and sign: DisabilityDivest.org. All you need is a first and last name and an email address. The letter is being translated into ASL and a Plain Language version, which will be available at the top of the page once ready.

Please feel free to contact me @sainte666 if you have any questions.

We MUST do better as a community and work to stop genocide and mass disabling events.