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Canadian city pulls bison sculpture in row over representation of colonialism

mercredi 7 septembre 2022 à 23:46

Artist Ken Lum made two sculptures, a bison and a bison hunter, to display in the city of Edmonton so as to provoke thought about the extermination of the bison. The city cancelled their display in the name of hyper concern for some people's hypersensitivity.

Hunters did not kill 100.000000 percent of the bison — the species still survives in some protected places.

Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says

mercredi 7 septembre 2022 à 23:32

Scientists conclude that parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Bolivia have already reached a tipping point, and will not regrow as forest if left alone.

We can't be sure just how big a disaster this will be, but it will be big.

The abortion rights movement can learn from the Aids activism of the 80s and 90s

mercredi 7 septembre 2022 à 23:32

Recommending that the abortion rights movement take inspiration from the 80s/90s organization Act Up, which campaigned for AIDS patients' rights and medical care.

You might think Starbucks is a ‘progressive’ company. You’d be wrong

mercredi 7 septembre 2022 à 23:32

Starbucks carefully cultivates a let's-be-kind-to-each-other image while treating employees like dirt and punishing them illegally for organizing.

I too stopped by the strike site at 874 Comm Ave, Boston, and I found out how the workers have been able to keep the picket going 24/7 for months: it's not just the workers! Volunteers from the community help out.

I wish I could post a link to more information, but that site won't show anything unless the visitor runs nonfree JavaScript code, and I will not direct people to such a site. Is there a web developer who would be interested in setting up a freedom-respecting site to show the same information? The strikers might be happy to adopt that site if some developers set it up.

Liz Truss to appoint cabinet of loyalists as she becomes UK’s next prime minister

mercredi 7 septembre 2022 à 23:32

The Tory Party has selected a plutocratist extremist as the new prime minister.

The nation mostly opposes her already. As most Britons are forced into poverty, her program is to cut taxes (a benefit for the wealthier Britons) and cut spending (more Tory cruelty).

Perhaps recognizing her unpopularity, she intends to delay elections as late as possible. Two years in power will allow her and the Tories to do no end of harm.

Identitarians may rejoice that, for the first time, none of the four principal ministers in the cabinet will be a white man. Perhaps being forced into poverty, and allowing the government to get away with mistreating people illegally, will hurt less this way than if white men had done it.