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The struggle for reproductive justice is about more than legal rights — it’s about bodily autonomy and access to care.
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More people are opting for telehealth and abortion pills, but both are under fire in the courts and state legislatures.
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Ex-Ald. Ed Burke was sentenced to two years in prison Monday, joining at least 34 other alderpeople who have been convicted of corruption charges since 1973.
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Deaths of babies under 28 days old increased by over 10 percent between 2021 and 2022.
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Attacked in the field, in the office, and at home, Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than any other conflict on record.
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After years of fighting extradition to the U.S. for revealing secret cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
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Trump further pandered to Christian nationalists in his keynote speech at an evangelical conference.
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The founder of Decolonising the Outdoors writes about the links between botany, UK conservation and deep legacies of colonialism.
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Rishi Sunak is still flogging his failed freeports initiative as a success. If they were to take off, the winners would be dodgy operators.
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The record industry has filed a list of thousands of songs it believes have been scraped without permission, and has recreated versions of famous songs using Udio and Suno.
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BBC concedes orange cornflour did "no visible damage" to StoneHenge.
As the last man standing, he was tasked with fixing-up all the AI-generated articles that once would've been composed by dozens of writers.
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Crossing state lines to access reproductive care can be nearly impossible for people on community supervision.
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The code is completely written in JavaScript, so all the code is readable if you look at the source, which is also available on the GitHub page. https://stablenarwhal.github.io/LemmyInstanceMover/js/script.js
It looks like it uses a Lemmy API endpoint to transfer account settings.
Runs entirely in js? https://github.com/StableNarwhal/LemmyInstanceMover
The French left is making the same wager it did before fascism gripped Europe. What will happen as the center collapses?
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CW: Discussions of Transphobia, Homophobia. Islamophobia and mentions of infanticide. Originally titled Combatting Queerphobia Hey folks this video will not be monetized, so instead go out there and support LGBTQ2IA+ creators, as they are some of the most amazing creators on this website, or simpl...
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Instead of cutting back production, the industry uses mathematical acrobatics to make recycling look like it's working.
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Making Our Bodies Ungovernable: An Interview with Chava Shapiro of the Hysteria Study Collective An interview with Chava Shapiro of the Hysteria Study...
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“Every Day There’s a New Apocalypse": An Interview with an Anarchist Medical Volunteer in Gaza What follows is an interview with Louis, an anarchist...
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@disguy_ovahea has no idea what he's talking about. He apparently attended a couple of protests and thinks he's now an expert on social change.
A horse race has about as much to do with women's right to vote as Stonehenge does with climate change, but that didn't stop Emily Davison's direct action at the 1913 Epsom Derby from being a watershed moment in the struggle for women's suffrage.
A successful protest reaches people outside of a cause, compelling them to learn more, in hopes that they ultimately become a supporter.
Performative radicalized protests are only compelling to those already behind the cause, and immediately discredited by those you need to reach.
That's not how any of this works.
A protests' success is judged by how much publicity it receives, and the disproportionate scale of the reaction from antagonists to the movement. Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem was a successful protest because he was a public figure and had a national stage, and the reaction of conservatives throwing fits over a symbolic gesture highlighted the racism typically hidden in polite white society. The police riot in Selma got national attention because of the graphic scenes of white police beating black folks in Sunday dress, and the scale of the police response to people engaging in peaceful protest revealed the violence inherent in Jim Crow apartheid.
Likewise, the Stonehenge protest was extremely successful because it received international attention, and the disproportionate outrage over harmless dust compared to the real threat of climate change puts a spotlight to the widespread apathy of society to the threat.
You think protests are supposed to reach you specifically, because you're sympathetic to the protests old enough to read about in history books. But your opinion of those protests is mediated by the society that those protests have already successfully altered. The moderate of the past would have considered those historical protests 'performative' and 'radicalized' as well. They would also be on the wrong side of history.
I really like her project, focus, and presentation. I appreciate that video makers need to have some kind of income.
Whenever BetterHelp is used to sponsor a video, I think this video (YT) should also appear.
I'm not calling for censorship of videos that use it as a sponsor, just spreading awareness of that vendor's reputation and history. I know that making content for YouTube is an extremely stressful job, and having a reliable source of income greatly reduces that anxiety. I hope Abby Cox continues to make great videos, I really appreciate her attention to detail and thoughtfulness and empathy for people who most of society has swept under the rug.
There were very similar conspiracies popular during the suffragette struggle, the civil rights era, and the gay rights movement. They were all just as embarrassing as this one is now.
This kind of spectacle activism has a long history of creating political change while minimizing violence. Pigeon-holing these brave people as pawns in some MAGA-style conspiracy de-humanizes them and makes it easier to ignore their serious message.
Thank you, Lisa Song, for cutting through the bullshit.
Does invidious work for you? https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s
As the effects of the crisis worsen, DeLay argues, inequality will rise, food prices will increase and police and border budgets will balloon. It will probably be people of colour, migrants, homeless people who will suffer the most, especially because when people see the hurricanes and the fires, they may believe in the climate crisis less, not more; politicians will turn up the barbarism and there will be something – or someone – else to blame.
He's right.
You really have to scroll down google results to find Just Stop Oil's social media due to the incredible publicity this action has generated about climate change resistance. Their Twitter account is https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil, and they're smashing their fund-raising targets via chuffed.
I don't see the questions as relevant or inevitable. No-one owes you answers. Perhaps you should elaborate why each or these questions are relevant, and someone else may be willing to engage with you.
These questions sound like someone trying to gish-gallop and not the kind one would expect from someone seeking to expand their mind.
Je ne sais pas. Demandez à @MTL_ATC.
In the 1960s black people were much more actively discriminated against on a systemic level, practically prevented from voting in many of the states in the southern United States. The president at the time was the Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, and was facing the much more racist Republican challenger Barry Goldwater.
While the black vote was suppressed in the south, there was a significant voting block in the north of black people and their allies whose main issue was civil rights. Civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, met several times with LBJ, who coaxed them to tone down the direct action protests and criticism until after the election, as he claimed to we willing to negotiate with them once the threat to his power was diminished.
Instead, civil rights protests increased. The leaders, probably correctly, determined that once the election was over, they would have less leverage. Even though losing the election meant having an enemy in the white house, having a 'friend' who continued to delay essential concessions did not further their cause. People were actively being murdered by the 'Jim Crow' apartheid regime, and delays and half-measures were not sufficient.
Thanks to the pressure of millions of people engaged in direct action and open criticism of the president, the Civil Rights Act was passed before the 1964 election. LBJ won by a landslide due to the popularity of the legislation, but suffered the severe political consequences Democrats were trying to avoid through their strategy of placation and delay. The 1964 election was the last where Democrats got the majority of the white vote, and electing politicians in the southern states became much more difficult for their party.
Palestinian Americans and their allies now face a similar situation. Democrats will continue to ignore the genocide in Gaza unless there are real political consequences to their actions. While Donald Trump would be a significantly worse candidate, the logic of a two-party system requires that they be willing to risk a worse political situation if they are to hold any political power at all.
Civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King are regarded as heroes today, but at the time, they were reviled by both Democrats and Republicans as a force of chaos that acted out of ignorance of the political system. If LBJ had lost the election to Goldwater, perhaps their legacy would be considered differently. But it would not change the fact that the cause they were fighting for was just, and they were able to wield political power in a system that was designed to marginalize them.
@ProdigalFrog and I run a documentary channel on PeerTube in collaboration with Kolektiva.Media
I shared this in a comment recently and I’m wondering if it led to this post.
Maybe. I got it from @Ephera@lemmy.ml