Today is a national ICE OUT protest, so please consider not working, going to school, or making purchases in solidarity:
#peoplepower #boingboing #iceout #fascism #solidarity #ellsworthtoohey
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For those who need some uplift to start off 2026, the Year in Cheer: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/year-in-cheer-2025/
#reasonstobecheerful #goodnews #yearincheer #uplift #happiness #goodvibes
Happy Public Domain Day to you all. If you want to help out, I will be working on free culture and media via the Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_uploaded_for_Public_Domain_Day_2026
Younger adults in the United States find comfort in unprogrammed Friends meetings: https://apnews.com/article/quakers-worship-noisy-world-philadelphia-pennsylvania-6549d5f4560f9a068bc48a7803216502
I can attest to the same, as I started attending an unprogrammed meeting about a decade ago, in my mid thirties.
#quakers #quakerism #friends #ap #associatedpress #luisandreshenao #religionedpress
Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset a noisy world
There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia. Many of them are young people who are seeking respite from this noisy technological age in the silent worship of the centuries-old faith. For years, attendance at Arch Street was so low, and its historic 300-seat West Room felt so empty, that the few people present began to meet in a smaller room. But in recent years, they’ve used technology and social media to help teach others about Quakers and the meeting house that was built in the early 19th century and that is still one of the world’s largest and most important Quaker buildings.
In a gross act that violates international law and basic humanist values, a United Nations vote endorsed the Moroccan occupiers as providing a framework for indefinite legal and political status on stolen land: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/31/un-approves-resolution-supporting-moroccos-claim-to-western-sahara
The only solution is a free and fair referendum of the indigenous Sahrawis to choose their fate with no intimidation from the occupier.
#westernsahara #shame #un #unitednations #guardian #theguardian #internationallaw #occupation #ap #morroco #associatedpress
Veganism isn’t enough and we can help reduce the suffering of non-human animals with modest donations: https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-simplest-argument-for-veganism
I have never understood why so many apps exist for websites but Cory Doctorow explains that the reason is to avoid regulation:
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/
#lithub #literaryhub #corydoctorow #tech #technology #regulation #monopoly #trust #antitrust #smartphones #cartels #oligarchy #scams
On October 18, No Kings protests will have millions of Americans from every state, the federal district, and all but one of the territories (none planned in American Samoa), as well as several dozen internationally saying that they want democratic rule in the United States: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/no-kings-day-october-preview-trump/
#nokings #47 #thenation #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #johnnicols #us #usa #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica
As a ceasefire is implemented in the Holy Land, the Palestinians still need the help and support of the world: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-still-needs-you/
Please give if you can.
As an aside, it seems like there is some kind of typo about a number of 38 million persons; I believe this should be 3.8 million.
There will be another No Kings protest on October 18, please join the millions against plutocracy if you are an American:
#nokings #47 #politics #democracy #authoritarianism #plutocracy #oligarchy
