VeganAtheist1d ago
Petition!
#RemoveDonaldTrumpFromOffice
Decision Makers: Donald Trump +1
The Issue
Across the #UnitedStates, families like mine are #witnessing the #painfulrepercussions of the current administration’s actions. My neighbors are #disappearing; #individuals are #deprived of #essentialmedications and #medicalhelp. I hear of seniors skipping meals because they cannot afford both food and the medicine they desperately need. These are not isolated events; these are systematic failures that cause widespread human suffering and instill fear for the future in countless Americans
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Megaphone :verified:Jan 15
#Minnesota Governor Tim Walz delivered a stark address warning that what is unfolding across #Communities in his state is no longer a matter of #Immigration enforcement, but an abuse of #Power by the #FederalGovernment. Walz described thousands of armed, masked #ICE #Agents operating in #Neighborhoods, #Schools, #GroceryStores, and #TransitStops, stopping people indiscriminately, demanding #Papers from #Residents including #USCitizens, and carrying out #Detentions without #DueProcess.

From a #LGBTQ perspective, this moment raises urgent #Concerns. History shows that expansions of #Surveillance, #Policing, and #Enforcement disproportionately harm #Queer people, #Trans people, #Immigrants, #PeopleOfColor, and other #MarginalizedGroups. Walz framed the situation as a campaign of #StateViolence and #Authoritarianism, where #Fear and #Chaos are used as tools of #Control.

The governor also referenced the death of Renee Nicole Goode, criticizing the #TrumpAdministration for attacking the #Victim and her #Family instead of pursuing #Accountability. He noted the resignation of multiple #FederalProsecutors, citing threats to the #Constitution, #CivilRights, and the #RuleOfLaw. Walz warned that escalating #Rhetoric about #Retribution targets Minnesotans who exercised their #RightToVote.

Walz urged #PeacefulProtest, #Documentation, and #MutualAid, reminding residents of their right to film #ICEActivity to create a #Record and preserve #Evidence. He framed #CommunityCare, #Solidarity, and #Witnessing as acts of #Resistance.

What is happening in #Minnesota is a warning to the rest of the #Country. When #Democracy erodes and #Cruelty becomes #Policy, it rarely stops at one place. The question now is whether #People choose #Silence or stand up for #HumanDignity, #Justice, and #Freedom before this becomes the #Normal.
Pathway to Paradise MinistriesSep 29, 2025

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scholar_farmerFeb 1, 2025

"[O]fficial silence is another form of appropriation. It prevents public witnessing. It forges a secret history, an act of political resistance through keeping alive the memory of things denied.

The totalitarian state rules by collective forgetting, by denying the collective experience of suffering, and thus creates a culture of terror."

Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman, “The Appeal of Experience; The Dismay of Images" (1998): 17.

#suffering #representations #forgetting #witnessing #trauma

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#Witnessing The #Inevitable #Death of The #Andean Tropical #Glaciers : Medium

2024 Will Be the First Year to Exceed the 1.5-Degree-Celsius #Warming #Threshold : Sci Am

#NASA-Funded Study Examines #Tidal Effects on #Planet and #Moon #Interiors : NASA

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tools for commensality 🧿Oct 6, 2024

"The first live-streamed genocide in history"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A

Pairs hauntingly with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials

War crimes apologists will be blocked

#Israel #Gaza #MediaStudies #Witnessing #CollectiveMemory

Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations

This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos pos...

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Telecast IndiaAug 2, 2024

Bangladesh is witnessing the deadliest protests in its history

Activists want the autocratic prime minister to step down. #Bangladesh #witnessing #deadliest #protests #history

https://telecastindia.in/bangladesh-is-witnessing-the-deadliest-protests-in-its-history/

Bangladesh Is Witnessing The Deadliest Protests In Its History

Activists want the autocratic prime minister to step down.

Telecast India
@envplaneMay 10, 2024

OnlineFirst - "Feeling climate injustice: Affective climate violence, greenhouse gaslighting and the whiteness of climate anxiety" by Blanche Verlie:

#anxiety #anger #emotion #feminism #politics #whiteness #witnessing

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241252734

Show threadEstelle PlatiniFeb 23, 2024

@pvonhellermannn
The article pointed below may help.

Vashti published: "Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.”"

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness

#Aziza #JewishCurrents #socialMedia #shaheed #impotence #legibility #witness #witnessing #PalestiniansLivesMatter #mourning #grievability #news #israelGaza #GazaWar #warOnGaza #bias #information #coverage #violence #stateViolence #war #Gaza #israelPalestine #IDF

The Work of the Witness

Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?

Jewish Currents
SherBearethNov 8, 2023

Per #BBCScotland another sadder than sin story re protests in the #UK

“Ms Mumford said this is the biggest I've seen for a long time in #Edinburgh.

"It is growing as people are realising that we are #witnessing absolute horrific #warcrimes, the #bombingofrefugees, the bombing of #hospitals, the bombing of refugee #camps and #children.

"That is one of the most #powerfulthings about this #protest, the amount of children here talking about how #everychild should have a #right to life." 1