Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

You don't need to be an expert to know that there will never be peace in Israel/Palestine until there is recognition of the common humanity of both Israelis and Palestinians. Which is unlikely to happen as long as either Hamas or Netanyahu remain in power.

Anybody remember how hopeful everything looked with Rabin and Arafat and the Oslo Accords? What a high point that was. Will we ever see anything like that again? I hope so.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #FreePalestine #WestBank #Hamas

The World Food programme has suspended delivery of food aid to Gaza bc power and communications are down and there's no fuel for distribution. They say Gaza has received 10% of necessary food supplies and warn of imminent starvation and dehydration.

Siege warfare against civilians is a war crime, as is collective punishment.

#gaza #israel #warcrimes

2/ The Massachusetts governor signed a new reform into law that'll make prison phone calls, *and* other communications for incarcerated people, free.

A big milestone that took *a lot* of organizing. https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prison-jail-phone-calls/

Great water news. I argue in my new book, The Three Ages of Water, that we can move to a positive sustainable future for water that includes restoring rivers & aquatic systems.

Here is a new agreement to remove to two old, damaging dams on the Eel River, making the Eel California’s longest free-flowing river, reconnecting salmon and steelhead with almost 300 miles of cold-water habitat.

https://caltrout.org/news/pge-confirms-plan-to-begin-full-removal-of-eel-river-dams

Excited to share some bonkers maps I made for this @ProPublica story about Wisconsin's gerrymandered legislative districts: https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal

Measles rises globally amid vaccination crash; WHO and CDC sound the alarm https://arstechnica.com/?p=1984844

'So please – for the sake of Palestine and Israel, for the sake of the living and in the name of the dead, for the sake of the hostages being held by Hamas and the Palestinians in Israel’s prisons – for the sake of all of humanity – cease fire now.' - Arundhati Roy, speaking at the Munich Literature Festival

https://scroll.in/article/1059225/

#Ceasefire #Gaza

Contrary to what Republicans claim, the number of undocumented immigrants in the US was at its peak in 2007. Under Bush II.

Since then, it's fallen 14%, from 12.2 million down to only 10.5 million in 2021.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-undocumented-immigrants-report-rcna125447

#USpol #immigration #propaganda #FactCheck

#NorthDakota’s 2021 legislative redistricting plan violates the rights of two Native American tribes because it dilutes their voting strength, a federal judge ruled Friday. #legal #VotingRights
https://apnews.com/article/0faa6dc38763267d42af1b6c2ab301c0

Arundhati Roy: The siege of Gaza is a crime against humanity. The world must intervene

The text of the writer’s remarks at the Munich Literature Festival on November 16

"Are we going to once again watch a whole people being dehumanised to the point where their annihilation does not matter?"

#FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #ceasefirenow

https://scroll.in/article/1059225/arundhati-roy-the-siege-of-gaza-is-a-crime-against-humanity-the-world-must-intervene

The year I was born, there were 57,628 cases of polio in the United States. My childhood best friend was a polio victim who wore metal braces on his legs.

We lined up in the school gym to get polio vaccines -- first the Salk killed-virus version, then the Sabin weakened-virus dose.

Widespread vaccination works. The disease is now regarded as "eliminated" in the United States and indeed most of the world.

But it is not gone. It waits for us to be stupid.

"It feels like I'm not crazy." Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map

Let's all support the REI union, which is suing the "coop" owners for violations of labor law.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rei-accused-widespread-labor-law-violations-unionized-us-stores-2023-11-15/

The union wants publicity about this for now.

#union #retail #uspol #labor #lawfedi #lawsuit #nyc #stores

"Last year, the number of e-books the #BostonPublicLibrary [@bplboston] lent out…exceeded the number of physical books it circulated by more than five to one."
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/11/12/public-libraries-boston/

#Books #CDL #Libraries

“The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands.

“They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile strikes. The corpses are there, somewhere in the endless acres of destruction.” https://rb.gy/gso1x4 #palestine #gaza

@Teri_Kanefield
Someone made the point which I will paraphrase with "the jerks are the noisy ones." Wednesday I took M, a recently-arrived refugee from the war in Syria to take the drivers test. He passed; the tester was friendly, chatted w/me, told me what M needed to practice more. Then he thanked me for helping M.
I told M that, said the jerks are loud and the news talks about them a lot, but there are a lot more people like him not in the news.
Keep up the good work. We applaud quietly.

Incredible that such a statement needs to be said, and even more incredible that journalists saying risk the repercussions to their careers.
https://www.protect-journalists.com/

Jenna Ellis confirmed to prosecutors what many have said privately to reporters: That Trump never intended to leave office, no matter what the circumstances. Those are the words and actions of an authoritarian despot like Putin or Xi. No American president should ever be allowed to act that way.

According to The Daily Beast, not only did Speaker Mike Johnson fail to disclose any bank or investment account covering his many years in Congress, he also appears to have failed to disclose an all-expenses paid junket to speak at a conservative rally, or he used government funds to cover the expenses. Both are big no-nos. We need transparency. We need accountability.