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An African Union ruling finds that parts of a Congo national park should be returned to the Batwa people, who were evicted decades ago. Advocates say the ruling must be implemented and that the Batwa will need support to protect the park’s rare gorillas and other wildlife.

 

Joint press release: 15 aid organisations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel’s systematic aid obstruction

  • 83% of required food aid does not make it into Gaza, up from 34% in 2023.This reduction means people in Gaza have gone from having an average of two meals a day to just one meal every other day. An estimated 50,000 children aged between 6-59 months urgently require treatment for malnutrition by the end of the year. (...)
[–] solo@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 days ago

We must face the hard truth in Gaza: Israel has lost its moral authority - The Hill - 07/18/24

I reviewed thousands of incident reports and tens of thousands of individual data points from several dozen credible organizations, as well as the Israeli military itself, as a part of a nonpartisan task force analyzing Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

Our report, submitted to the Biden administration and briefed to Congress, establishes compelling and credible evidence of Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and U.S. military best practices, utilizing U.S.-provided munitions. It shows how the Israeli military has demonstrated a “systematic disregard for fundamental principles of international law, including recurrent attacks launched despite foreseeably disproportionate harm to civilians.”

 

“CCS is a technologically unsound and economically unviable scheme, perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry…”

 

Over the last five years, over 80 multimillion-dollar Cop City-like facilities have quietly rolled out across the US.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

It's the Zionists who are killing children, and what you say is totally antisemitic.

 

Palestinian history and geography were scrubbed from Israeli schoolbooks a decade ago, scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan says.

 

The latest death toll stands at 41,821 Palestinians and 1,139 people killed in Israel since October 7.

 

The current death toll in Gaza is close to 42,000, but experts believe that figure is likely a gross undercount.

 

Deaths have been reported in Romania, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

It seems to me you are missing the point.

This is a political suicide. I cannot say that I am for this approach but what I see is a form of protest (and maybe what I think about it is another topic). What is striking to me is that this US-backed Genocide is taking place for almost a year, and due to despair americans are even killing themselves as a form of protest.

And of course there are other forms of protesting. People try to influence politicians in so many ways so the US stops providing guns and arguments attempting to justify it.

 

The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023.

 

Join Karyn Sanders for a discussion of wildcrafting, harvesting plants from the wild, from an Indigenous perspective and listen to her invitation to re-think this practice. Originally aired 10.05.2017.

 

Nearly 40% of the Amazon's vital climate regions are unprotected, raising concerns about deforestation and the urgent need for preservation.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Looks like the article was removed. I suppose this is a great reminder why it's important to archive a link before posting it, and share the archived link as well.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Just finished the first episode and I find it very interesting. Crossposting it to Podcasts.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Partially archived link of the article

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

So you choose to ignore that Israel for almost a year has been committing Genocide towards Palestinians. That this Genocide takes place in OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), occupied by Zionists that is, for over 75 years. You choose to ignore that a huge part of this Zionist society is totally supporting the Genocide, and many of them even make fun of it on podcasts and social media while plenty of Israeli support this material.

Instead, you want to shift the topic from Genocide and the support it gets, to Hamas.

Please, don't overestimate the power of Hasbara / Zionist propaganda.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

This article does use more specific language than "southern hemisphere", so not too sure what you mean. It also includes several links for further reading in relation to this topic.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for pointing that out, this part really does not make any sense. Not to sure what I had in mind, so I thought of making an edit with a strikethrough so that the sentence does make sense.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

To be honest, I don't know who's in the right here, ...

The way I see things, it's pretty clear. In the global south are the countries that suffer the most from the economic activities (to say the least) that come from the global north. Giving these badges to the global south NGOs is important as an effort to balance out how underrepresented these part of the world typically are, even tho they are most affected by actions of others ~~,namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there~~. Admittedly, I don't expect too much out of this specific climate conference due to the intense lobbying that takes place there. I'd love to be wrong on this one and be pleasantly surprised, for sure.

...but the article definitely feels like it’s taking a side, and the editorialized title makes that bias worse.

I believe it is important to accept that all media is biased, even if they try to portray themselves as neutral or objective (an easy example would be fox's fair and balanced sloggan). So I don't think that bias is a problem by itself, but performing impartiality totally is, and mainstream media do that for several reasons.

Still, I think a journalist or an outlet can be trustworthy, and this relies on their processes. They need to be honest and meticulous in their research (and perhaps something else that I didn't think of right now).

Edit: The strikethrough

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

I see what you mean, so I need to make the following clarification.

My statement that you quoted is specific to the context of the anthroposcene topic. Not a general one, for all topics.

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