buat merdeka

Singaporean. Pessimism of the intellect/optimism of the will. Turn tweets to action. Power to the people!

[buat merdeka @BuatMerdeka]

Despite last minute intimidation by authorities, ppl in Singapore persisted & organised for🍉yesterday. A group called Singapore for🍉claimed 2 Feb '24 National Day of Solidarity for 🍉. Hundreds from all walks of life protested in creative ways. They had 5 demands.

[8964 @promise__li]

Glad to have bought a copy of Malay Communist fighter Shamsiah Fakeh’s autobiography just in time a few weeks ago. Looks like it just got banned by the Malaysian government.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

[buat merdeka @BuatMerdeka]

Let the record state that getting the government to publish wealth inequality data took at least 5 years of making noise.

2021 was when then-DPM Heng Swee Keat came out to say that income inequality narrowed when many lost their jobs due to Covid while billionaires got richer.

[buat merdeka @BuatMerdeka]

According to the SG State, *income* inequality has decreased in 2020 despite real declines in average household income. But if you look closely, the former is because the data excludes the capital owning class. Billionaires in SG got richer during the pandemic, says Forbes.

[🏴 dari kampung dengan cinta dalam dada ada api @farhanazahan]

TW: Syaitan sangat Lans Koperal Faris @PDRMsia ni. Mangsa sexual assault buat report, Lans Koperal Faris buat sexual harrasment pula. How the fuck is our police trained on this? #1312

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

People need to see this. Israel has perpetrated over 80% of the cross-border attacks with Lebanon during the past year. Hezbollah has shown remarkable restraint.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Reading accounts of how nurses’ fingers were blown and off and their faces and eyes destroyed when their pagers exploded. In hospitals. Just horrifically evil.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

“Burnt alive in melting tents”

Children.

[buat merdeka @BuatMerdeka]

Today, let's remember 9/11.

Allende shot himself with the weapon gifted by Fidel Castro. It bore a golden plate engraved, "To my friend and comrade-in-arms, Fidel Castro."

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

On 9/11/1973, a US-backed coup overthrew the democratically-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile 🇨🇱, ushering in an era of fascism that it has still not recovered from.

Listen to Allende's final words broadcast live to the nation.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Chile, was deposed in a US-backed coup that installed the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

[buat merdeka @BuatMerdeka]

If he won't listen to research or anti-death penalty activists here, what about the Pope? 🙏

[Aaron Nagler @AaronNagler]

Still the greatest Liam video ever

[Transformative Justice Collective @tjc_singapore]

Two executions in one week - Singapore’s bloodbath resumes. 

On 2nd August 2024, the execution of a 45 year-old Singaporean man was carried out in one of the most chilling series of events we have witnessed.

[Charmaine Chua @CharmaineSChua]

At 1:30am last night, 75-90 police from multiple departments swept the last standing UC encampment at UCSB and arrested 5 students. Chancellor Yang seems to have flipped suddenly under UC Regent pressure, siccing cops on students just as negotiations were making headway. Shame.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

A new law under discussion in Israel:

If you are Palestinian in Israel, you can be imprisoned forever w/out being charged w anything ("administrative detention")

If you are a Jew in Israel, you cant.

Not so complicated after all. it's called apartheid.
https://t.co/gh1husKG8W

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

a compilation of Noam Chomsky exposing Western media class "journalists" for the depraved propagandists they are

[Joshua Clark Davis @JoshClarkDavis]

Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky at a press conference for the Committee to Defend the Panthers, October 20, 1970

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

This was expected, but still a huge blow. Noam (C) has just died. I will write about him at length but just to say that in a post Vietnam War world where dissent was gradually being restricted we missed Noam's voice in the New York Review of Books. He was not in the NYT that much anyway. Had he been based in London in the 80s 90s and early 2000's I have no doubt whatsoever that he would been writing regularly in The Guardian and interviewed on BBC Radio and TV. Now both sides of the Atlantic are very similar to each other. When we shared a platform, he would say 'I'll go first. If I speak after you they'll all go to sleep.' The never did, of course. They heard him in pin drop silence, except once we were speaking to a huge trade-union conference with simultaneous translation. Noam spoke first. After the event, sas we were walking off to dinner I said to him: 'Your translator was very boring. Most of these workers went to sleep. Thank God I was there to wake them up.' He laughed. In these last months he was greatly angered by the Israelis and the kicking fields and streets and beaches in Gaza. 'Israel should not exist' was an early reaction. Introducing him at a talk in Santa Fe many years ago I compared him to Bertrand Russell. Over supper he thanked me and said that was the nicest thing anyone could have said about him. 'I loved Russell and his picture was ever-present in my office.' Your picture, too, dear departed Noam will also be on many walls for a long time to come.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

This could be us but the fossil fuel industry is spending billions to stop it.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

"The only moral thing Palestinian civilians can do apparently is to die. The only legal thing the rest of us can do is to watch them die. And be silent. If not, we risk our scholarships, grants, lecture fees & livelihoods."

- Arundhati Roy