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Environment: Governments like docile populations, that’s why they intimidate activists
Governments want you to feel powerless but the tools for change are in our hands. Australia’s economy is failing to decarbonise.Peter Sainsbury (Pearls and Irritations)
it's #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship and did you know that you can help keep people safer—people like freedom fighters, political dissidents, journalists, and regular people simply seeking medical information or services, like abortions, HRT, sex ed, therapy, or psychiatric medications—by becoming a @torproject Snowflake?
you can even run it in your browser or on your phone via @guardianproject's Orbot app
here's an explainer by @eff:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship
#Censorship #activism #organizing #MoSec #MovementSecurity #OPSEC #infosec #protest #TeslaTakedown #Gaza #genocide #StopCopCity #Climate #ClimateCrisis
Snowflake Makes It Easy For Anyone to Fight Censorship
Tor, the onion router, remains one of the most effective censorship circumvention technologies. Millions of people use the Tor network every day to access the internet without fear of surveillance and censorship.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Banks must stop funding illegal Amazon deforestation, Prosecutor says after Greenpeace Brazil report - Greenpeace International
The landmark decision follows a Greenpeace Brazil’s report which found that national and international banks had been using Brazil's rural credit system to finance thousands of rural properties that are driving illegal deforestation, invasion of Indi…Greenpeace International
This is sad. The #activism instance we've shared quality, important moments on is shutting down in early Oct due to no #donations. Years of collaboration soon lost.
We've not been able to donate $250 anonymously, so we're going to try a last #workingBee now.
If you NEED 10 HOURS VISUAL DESIGN done, we're taking offers ASAP for donations AUD$250+ to our instance. No email pls, DM only!
Pls BOOST. Help keep activism + get design(s) made.
The #OMN instances are based on the history of "offline" activism. #Activism is the crusty protest camp and #campaign, a #NGO office. #OMN value is that we "bridge" the two and keep this bridge in place
So protest camps have their share of "nutter" mess and the #NGO offices have the power politics mess. Let's try and get the two to compost this messy aproch to social change and challenge.
KDE's #sustainability initiative KDE Eco featured on the "KDE For Activists" page alongside many other excellent #FOSS projects!
https://kde.org/for/activists/
KDE. Made for activists, by activists.
Made for you, by you!
KDE is developed by a community of passionate people. We develop KDE for everyone, from kids to grandparents and from professionals to hobbyists. Join us:
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
#KDEEco #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FEEP #SustainableSoftware #Ecology #Activism
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emis…Verso
the fascist attorney general of Missouri has set up a tip site for complaints about gender transition, hope it doesn't get spammed by long, fake complaints over and over until he takes it down!
#trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #activism
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/court-restrictions-on-climate-protesters-deeply-concerning-say-leading-lawyers
The three – David Nixon, Amy Pritchard and Giovanna Lewis – were jailed after addressing the juries at separate trials to explain their motivation for taking direct action. #climate #protest #activism
Court restrictions on climate protesters ‘deeply concerning’, say leading lawyers
Three non-violent Insulate Britain activists have been jailed for telling juries why they were protestingSandra Laville (The Guardian)