COVID is still killing 1000 Americans every week, but vaccine uptake is lagging amid widespread skepticism.

Part of the problem? There’s big money behind COVID misinformation and anti-vaccine sentiment.

My latest report highlights how a prominent COVID conspiracy dark money group actually saw its funding increase last year from 2021.

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/fueled-by-mystery-donors-covid-conspiracy

Anarchist News: **[Greece] Anarchists take responsibility for attack on French Consulate**

"From Act for freedom now From France to Greece… the flame of social revolt is their nightmare! On the evening of Thursday 6th July we attacked the French Consulate in Patras while it was being guarded by police forces. A group of comrades moved under the nose of the police guard, which was on the spot with a cage set up to prevent an attack on the consulate, and threw bottles of red paint at it. The police forces were right in front of the bu…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/greece-anarchists-take-responsibility-attack-french-consulate

#anarchism #bot

Organise Magazine: **Scratch a Transphobe: Pt 1| Opinion**

"I argue that the anti-gender and mainstream fascist movements are one and the same. The differentiation between so-called ‘TERFs’ and white nationalist fascists is effectively pointless and the muddying of the waters on this point has only served to help them spread their hatred. The post Scratch a Transphobe: Pt 1| Opinion appeared first on Organise Magazine."

https://organisemagazine.org.uk/scratch-a-transphobe-pt-1-opinion/

#anarchism #bot

In 2020 and 2021, the world’s largest agribusiness corporations made $53.5 billion in profit. Meanwhile, the UN estimates that a smaller figure, $51.5 billion, would be enough to provide food, shelter, and lifesaving support for the world’s 230 million most vulnerable people.

Davi Martins, campaigner at Greenpeace International, says...
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What we are witnessing is an enormous transfer of wealth to a few rich families that basically own the global food system, at a time when the majority of the world population is struggling to make ends meet.

The top 20 companies, the biggest in the sectors of grain, fertiliser, meat and dairy, could literally save the world’s 230 million most vulnerable people and have billions of profit left over in spare change. Paying more to shareholders of a few food corporations is just outrageous and immoral.

Just four of the companies – Archer-Daniels Midland, Cargill, Bunge and Dreyfus – control more than 70% of the world’s grain trade, but they are under no obligation to disclose what they know about global markets, including their own grain stocks. These corporations are so greedy they have pushed small scale farmers and local producers, whose purpose is to actually feed people, out of the system.

Governments and policy makers need to act now to protect people from the abuses wrought by large corporations. We need policies that regulate and loosen the grip of corporate control on the global food system, or the current inequities will only deepen further. Essentially, we need to change the food system. Failure to do so is costing millions of lives.
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READ MORE HERE -- https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/58426/food-security-agribusiness-rich-crisis/

#Poverty #Inequality #AntiCapitalism

As early as the 1970s, men in positions of power KNEW about the risk of global heating, about the dangers of catastrophic, irreversible climate breakdown. And they did nothing to prevent that.

Fifty years ago, these men knew. They had a full half-century to make changes, to do the right thing and they did not. In fact, they actively made it worse.

Again in the 1980s, they could have acted, and did not. They did nothing but cover it up and make the dangers much much worse.

Same thing in the 1990s. No action, only obfuscation. Criminal denial. Fatal delay.

In the 2000s and 2010s, they started pretending — these men (and a few women) in positions of power gathered year after year at luxury resorts to make promises they never intended to keep, their only goal to push real action farther and farther away so they could continue reaping the profits of burning coal and oil and gas, polluting the atmosphere and the oceans, poisoning the planet, sending thousands of entire species of plants and animals into extinction while actively murdering* millions of humans, and hoarding money for themselves.

*see comment below

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Pollution

Are you trying to find your contacts from Twitter on Mastodon?

There are online tools which can help with this, however Twitter is apparently going to shut them down by Thursday 9th February.

If you want to use these, now would seem to be your last chance:

🐦 Debirdify
https://pruvisto.org/debirdify

🔍 Fedifinder
https://fedifinder.glitch.me

A third tool, Movetodon, has already been shut down by Twitter.

#Twitter #Mastodon