This is an opportunity for Democratic politicians to promote the narrative that they are the ones who can reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in the United States, encouraging anti-racists to focus on state-led forms of social change.
It is also a chance to narrow the debate about public monuments to Confederate statues alone, when in fact the demand to remove Confederate statues is just one element of a much broader movement against all forms of structural white supremacy, memorial and otherwise.
The Lee statue is not coming down because law-abiding citizens participated peacefully in the democratic process until they succeeded in achieving a popular reform.
If those who desire to see the Lee statue and others like it removed had confined themselves to the democratic process, all of those statues would still be in place, because that process disproportionately centers the agency of wealthy white conservatives and liberal politicians whose approach to social change is based chiefly in appeasement and empty promises.
In neighboring North Carolina, after white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine Black people in 2015, the Republican-controlled state legislature prohibited the removal of “objects of remembrance” from public property.
Activists prepare to Stop the Arms Fair. DEFENCE AND SECURITY EQUIPMENT INTERNATIONAL (DSEI) will take place in London from 14-17 September at ExCel exhibition centre and the AOC event in Liverpool (11-13 October)
To JOIN IN.. uk/events …Stop The Arms Fair Twitter> @StopTheArmsFair …
UK is the 2nd biggest world death merchant. Military leaders, and authoritarian regimes are gathering in London 5 star hotels, wasting their citizens money in a mad scramble to get better murder weaponry than their neighboursand .
On sale also will be the latest cutting-edge tools to massacre any rebellion, as used in places like Yemen, occupied Palestine, and right here.
Despite Covid and Climate breakdown, according to SIPRI, global military spend reached almost $2 trillion in 2020. The top 10 countries represent roughly 75% of this figure, and have increased their spending by $51 billion this year.
Citizens and activists have already been busy trying to stop these activities in London. As armoured vehicles were being brought into the east London venue, one brave anarchist clambered aboard.
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Further evidence proving the Covid-19 vaccination programme is a huge failure has been released which confirms throughout the whole of August 80% of the people who allegedly died of Covid-19 had been vaccinated against the disease.
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C’est moi, le coquelicot sauvage, libre je vis, libre je fleuris.
C’est moi le coquelicot sauvage
On ne me cultive pas, on ne me parfume pas
J’ai élu demeure dans les steppes comme mes compagnes les biches
L’eau je la tiens de la pluie, loin des rives du ruisseau
Où l’on est trop à l’étroit
Au jardin, je ne pousse pas
C’est moi, le coquelicot sauvage, libre je vis, libre je fleuris
Si mes joues sont enflammées, c’est par le sang de mes veines
La beauté de mon visage se passe de tout artifice
Tête haute, ferme sur ma tige je n’ai besoin de personne
Ni de languir pour l’Aimé
Ni de me soucier du monde
C’est moi, le coquelicot sauvage, libre je vis, libre je fleuris
Vois-tu le feu de l’ivresse, couleur de ma robe pourprée
Et la blessure de l’Amour marque mon cœur brisé
Insouciante et libre, je…
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Facebook Is Spying on 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
When Facebook acquired WhatsApp, it promised to respect the privacy of its users. That hasn’t been the case, and the firm now employs thousands of staff to read supposedly-encrypted chats.
Social media behemoth Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising to keep the stripped-down, ad-free messaging app “exactly the same.”
End-to-end encryption was introduced in 2016, with the app itself offering on-screen assurances to users that “No one outside of this chat” can read their communications, and Zuckerberg himself telling the US Senate in 2018 that “We don’t see any of the content in WhatsApp.”
Allegedly, none of that is true. More than a thousand content moderators are employed at shared Facebook/WhatsApp offices in Austin, Texas, Dublin, Ireland, and Singapore to sift through messages reported by users and flagged by artificial intelligence.
WhatsApp to Share your Personal Data With Facebook
Based on internal documents, interviews with moderators, and a whistleblower complaint, ProPublica explained how the system works in a lengthy investigation published on Wednesday.
Por David Cobo Publicado el 2 Sep, 2021from Kaos en la Red shared with thanks translation TheFreeOnline
“We have received five fines today.” “We already have eighteen but we don’t know when it will stop.” “About twenty people have been fined for that eviction.” “At least forty more of us have been fined.”
These are phrases uttered by compas from four different housing groups in Barcelona to explain the outbreak of administrative sanctions they are receiving. They are not the only ones.
The fines refer back to the end of last year and since then many evictions have been opposed with the same tactic- blocking access to bailiffs until dragged away by police.. And you get identified by the police, in the Spanish State it’s illegal to be without your National Identity Card.. and possibly fined or charged months or years later.
According to TOT Barcelona, the administrative…
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