“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz
Injustice is not ordained.
Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law.
We can abolish the organization of difference.
Harsha Walia, Border & Rule.
Press Release
Devastating Border Deaths Intended Result of Immigration Laws
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Source:
Solidarity Across Borders
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@CollectifSJS
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“[Policing] actually makes everything less safe…One of the ways it does this is in how policing has not just colonized our imaginations in the way it has taken over the concept of public safety…it also shrinks the way we move through space.” https://t.co/vIHJuaqXVx
It was in the university that colonial intellectuals developed theories of racism, popularized discourses that bolstered support for colonial endeavours and provided ethical and intellectual grounds for the dispossession, oppression and domination of colonised subjects.
African countries are being forced to spend billions of dollars a year coping with the effects of the climate crisis, which is diverting potential investment from schools and hospitals and threatens to drive countries into ever deeper poverty.
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Seeing a lot of these graphics comparing the size of the flooded areas in Pakistan to the size of texas or relating the amount of those displaced to the populations of western countries. Why do we always have to qualify our pain to such extents just for people to care about us?
In wide-spread narratives, smugglers are often described as ruthless criminals who exploit the distress of people on the move for their own financial gain. The term "smuggler" is also broadly defined, so that also people steering the boat or activists are accused of smuggling.
We love these insights from @HarshaWalia on the neoliberal project to create an "anti-solidarity" society, and how it has impacted communities.
This and much more in the full episode! See https://t.co/zT3FxS2BTj
Native land back in native hands, we are not your sacrifice zones!
Indigenous-led blockade outside of the Department of the Interior demanding Biden declare a #ClimateEmergency and stop approving all fossil fuel projects, including leases, exports, plastic plants, and pipelines.
Canada burns more fossil fuels per capita than any G7 or EU country.
Approx 75% of world's mining companies are headquartered in Canada.
Canada spends 15x more on border enforcement than climate financing. Plus, govt bought $4 billion TMX pipeline violating Indigenous consent.