No Board Games is an independent board game publisher but, above all,
it’s a project of reappropriation and radicalisation of board game culture.
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Year: 2020
Hell for refugees in Lesbos, Greece
From News Line daily in Britain today:
Abysmal conditions for thousands of refugees in ‘Moria 2.0’ camp
THOUSANDS of people are living in abysmal conditions in a new camp, which was built to replace Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, after it was destroyed by fire last month.
According to the Greek Council for Refugees and Oxfam, conditions are even worse than in Moria, with little or no running water, no sewage management or treatment, limited health facilities and woefully inadequate shelter.
Almost 8,000 people – most of them families with children – have been moved to the new camp, which has been dubbed ‘Moria 2.0’ by residents. Many are living in flimsy tents, some of which are pitched just 20 metres from the sea and have already been flooded and battered by strong winds.
The location of the new camp is on a former military shooting…
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Confirmed: Facebook now filters out left news from user feeds while leaving right untouched
By SKWAWKBOX (SW)19
Social media platform censors left-wing news publishers and relaxed fact-checking standards for right-wing pages
Revelations in the Wall Street Journal have confirmed what the SKWAWKBOX reported in 2017 and 2018: that Facebook knowingly biased its news algorithms against left-wing news sites in order to reduce their visibility in its users feeds and the amount of traffic sent to them from the social media platform.
The WSJ reports that Facebook bosses were worried that they would be accused of bias against right-wing sites (hardly a surprise, since right-wingers claim that even the Tory-run BBC News is too left-wing). So, in changes approved by Mark Zuckerberg, the platform updated its processes to hit left-wing sites hardest.
On Facebook Banning Anarchist And Antifascist Pages and The Digital Censorship To Come
PeterGelderloos@PeterGelderloos·Aug 19Gotta love our racist, Centrist overlords. F-book shut down pages of a few right-wing militias who have shot multiple people, and anarchist news sites like @IGD_News and @crimethinc, which share news articles, promote organizing against fascists or evictions, don’t murder ppl.
A Facebook spokesperson did not deny that the changes had been designed to affect left-wing sites more, but simply said no individual publisher had been targeted.
We protect Our Forests. How indigenous land victories can cool a warming planet..
from Grist , shared with thanks!!
“When we get full rights to our forests, we protect them, preserve huge stores of carbon, and help mitigate climate change.”
By Kynan Tegar
Kynan Tegar, 15, is an Indonesian photographer, filmmaker, and activist for Indigenous land rights.
You can see many more of his photos on Instagram @kynantegar.
How indigenous land victories can cool a warming planet..
Your country and mine are suffering from literal floods (1.5 meters of water in my home as I write this!) as well as a flood of bad news, so I want to share some rare good news: It’s about how a big step for my Indigenous community could become a giant leap for all of us.
Since I spend a lot of my time taking photos and making films, I’m going to show, not just tell. This story starts in 1973, just before my parents were born. A group of men representing a Malaysian logging company showed up in our hamlet, Sungai Utik, in Indonesian Borneo and offered our Dayak Iban elders rolls of cash to gain access to our pristine forests.
They knew our traditional lands contained abundant ironwood and other hardwoods as prized and overexploited as the Truffula trees in Dr. Suess’s book The Lorax.
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Good people don’t ….. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???.. toxic capitalism.
Filosofa’s Mind Meanderings
Posted on by jilldennison shared with thanks, illustrations added
I am in a pensive mood tonight, rather saddened and disgusted by what I see people doing. Y’know … Donald Trump is to blame for a lot … I could spend this entire post pointing out the things for which he should be held to account, but he isn’t responsible for our own behaviour … only we can be held to account for what we say and do, for how we treat others.
It is true that Trump has encouraged much of what is happening, has praised white supremacists, denigrated democrats, Muslims, Jews, women and a whole laundry list of others. But, at the end of the day, I am responsible for the things I have done … nobody else.
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Çiçek Kobanê, YPG volunteer in Rojava, tortured and kidnapped ..UPDATE, TURKEY ASKS LIFE IN JAIL
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ANF in URFA Thursday, 22 Oct 2020, 16:44
Turkey demands aggravated life in jail for YPJ member Çiçek Kobanê, after 1 year already in jail.
Third Hearing
Prosecutor demanded aggravated life sentence in the third hearing of the case against Çiçek Kobanê, who was arrested after being taken prisoner in the invasion attacks launched by the AKP-MHP fascist alliance and its gangs on Rojava on October 9, 2019.
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The trial against prisoner of war Çiçek Kobanê (civil name: Dozgin Temo) continued on Thursday at the 5th Heavy Penal Court in the province of Urfa, Turkey.
The YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) member is accused of disrupting the unity and integrity of the state, membership of an armed terrorist organisation and deliberate murder attempt in several cases.
Çiçek Kobanê was captured last October in the village of Mishrefa near Ain Issa in northern…
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Gas Looking Like Coal, Just before the Crash
Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair.
In 2008-9, Coal was supposedly on the verge of a huge new buildout.
It all went belly up much faster than anyone imagined.
I had lunch with a major utility executive around that time, who was planning a big new coal plant near me.
I told him I saw no need to oppose it, mainly because they had missed their window of opportunity, and if they did build it, the market was going to leave it a stranded asset very soon.
A few months later they cancelled. They’re now committed to solar, wind and efficiency.
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