“Am I scared of the state? Pretty silly not to be. I’m a brown person. I might be killed by the police for existing in certain spaces. [But] fear is the mind killer ... you can’t let the fear stop you from doing things, from living, from existing, from resisting.”
- Tortuguita
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/defendATLforest/status/1617406218842128385
““Am I scared of the state? Pretty silly not to be. I’m a brown person. I might be killed by the police for existing in certain spaces. [But] fear is the mind killer ... you can’t let the fear stop you from doing things, from living, from existing, from resisting.” - Tortuguita”
First time the USA leaves a Middle Eastern country so quickly
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/1599084648046657537
Sabotage and Civil Disobedience in France: The Fight Against Mega-Basins and Water Grabbing
Nearly 7,000 people gathered in the town of Sainte-Soline on Saturday, Oct. 29 and invaded a mega-basin development site to stop construction on the large water reserve despite a ban on protests and an unprecedented police presence.
For several years, a local opposition has been organizing against the mega-basin projects that have been flourishing in the area.
Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1596208534777397248
As the World Cup opens in Qatar, our thoughts are with the migrant workers who suffered to make it possible. We still recall how Qatar was the only government that was willing to host the next World Trade Organization summit after demonstrators shut it down in Seattle in 1999.
But rather than treating Qatar as exceptional, we should scrutinize the World Cup itself. Here's why our Brazilian comrades resisted the World Cup and its impact on their communities back in 2014:
On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @CrimethInc Twitter account.
Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter had nothing to do with “free speech”—it was a partisan move to silence opposition, paving the way for fascist violence. https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-bans-crimethinc-from-twitter-on-request-from-far-right-troll