How to help Sudan: 7 things you can do right now for a country in crisis
Call your member of Congress. Call 202-224-3121. State your zip code. When connected, tell them you support helping the people of Sudan or send them George Clooneyβs essay.
Use ResistBot to text your members of Congress. Text RESIST to 50409 and it will help you contact your elected officials and tell them to help the people of Sudan.
Give to UNICEF, which is working to help the children displaced by the conflict. Donate here
Donate to Save the Children, which has been working in Sudan since 1984. Donate here. If you prefer the International Rescue Committee, it has been in Sudan since 1989 fighting malnutrition and helping displaced families. Donate here
This Facebook campaign aims to raise funds for food and medicine for those in Sudan. Donate here Β
Sign this Change.org petition demanding that βThe UN must investigate the 3rd of June human rights violations in Sudan by the Military.β Sign here
This GoFundMe campaign out of the U.K. claims to be working with a Sudanese group to bring emergency medical aid to Sudan. Donate here. This GoFundMe campaign is dedicated to providing medical support for the group of non-violent protesters waging a sit-in. Donate here
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European Parliament: Stop the censorship-machinery! Save the Internet!
Please sign this petition. Article 13 going through would be awful. Not just for Europeans. Please share this. It going through would be a really really bad thing for everyone.Β
Articles 11 and 13 both approved by European politicians
[β¦] For advocates of the legislation, the directive will balance the playing field between US tech giants and European content creators, giving copyright holders more power over how big internet platforms distribute their content. But critics say the law is vague and poorly thought-out, and will restrict how content is shared online, stifling free speech in the process.
[β¦]Β Two parts of the copyright directive are particularly worrying to critics: Article 11, known as the βlink tax,β and Article 13, dubbed the βupload filter.β Article 11 lets publishers charge platforms like Google News when they display snippets of news stories, while Article 13 (renamed Article 17 in the most recent draft of the legislation) gives sites like YouTube new duties to stop users from uploading copyrighted content.
In both cases, critics say that these well-intentioned laws will lead to trouble. Article 13, they say, will lead to the widespread introduction of βupload filter,β that will scan all user content uploaded to sites to remove copyrighted material. The law does not explicitly call for such filters, but critics say it will be an inevitability as sites seek to avoid penalties. [β¦]
Hey, EU pals. I know things look shitty right now, but no matter what the outcome of Article 11 and Article 13 are going to be like, remember one thing:
GO. VOTE.
Get these people out of their seats. They donβt know what they are doing, they called protesters actors, said petitions were signed by bots and call everyone lazy and disinterested in politics - because they had their asses safe in the chairs in the parlament.Β
They donβt realize they are not just hurting creative outlets, but also free speech, social media and eCommerce. Livelihoods depend on the internet. Europeβs economy and cultural landscape will suffer from it, as will other parts of the world.
Remember this. Be angry. And no matter what happens after this now: Stay angry. And go vote.
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