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Urgent: Don't extradite Julian Assange

mardi 27 août 2019 à 02:00

Everyone: call on the UK not to extradite Julian Assange.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Australia wants refugees in prison

mardi 27 août 2019 à 02:00

The Australian government put hundreds of refugees into prison in its client state, Nauru. When they get sick, Australia wants to keep them there till they die.

Pressuring Bolsonaro to curb fires

mardi 27 août 2019 à 02:00

France and Ireland are pressuring Bolsonaro to curb the burning of the Amazon forest.

University reparations for slave money

mardi 27 août 2019 à 02:00

Glasgow University will dedicate 20 million pounds to research on development, in conjunction with a university in Jamaica, as reparations for donated money obtained from slavery.

I support reparations for slavery (and, in the US, for the century-long subsequent legal discrimination against blacks). The reparations should be designed to correct the self-perpetuating damage that is now inflicted on the descendants of those who were legally discriminated against

I don't know what would be effective at making a long-term change, but I think it needs to be done at the level of society, not just by universities.

US legal system isn't effective at fair trials

mardi 27 août 2019 à 02:00

The US legal system is not effective at giving everyone a fair trial. When the US gets desperate about punishing a certain group, it has a tendency to railroad some of them. Hamid Hayat was convicted falsely of being part of a "terror network" that didn't exist at all.