Many of the palm trees I see on the islands are not healthy. When I asked why, I was told, “At first, a white substance appeared on the palm trees, later turning into a black oily paste that drips onto other plants and spreads.” Sadly, it has already spread across the Maldives. The disease doesn’t only affect the leaves; it spreads through the trunk as well. This is deeply worrying for the entire coconut palm population, and it’s happening right before our eyes. The government must act.
“There’s one thing more powerful than a billionaire – and it’s a union.”
Hours before the 2026 Met Gala, which was sponsored by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, union organisers put on a ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ in New York, featuring Amazon delivery drivers, warehouse workers and campaigners.
“Working people are underpaid, undervalued and under-appreciated,” said co-host Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. “Let those billionaires uptown have their Met party – we’re going to have something way more fabulous down here!”
Big fat lie. Housing and flats aren’t for the poor. These policies structurally create inequality by directing billions of worker money into real estate & bank owners. With these policies, we accept chemical cages as the acceptable & only form of housing, creating sick societies.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur, has delivered a devastating account of Israeli policy.
'Greater Israel is a project of regional expansion. When said in 2024 what starts in Palestine will not stay in Palestine, two years later it's happening. Torture is not incidental. It has become central to a broader system of violence. It is institutionalized, enabled by law, shielded by courts, normalized in public discourse. Everyone has been beaten. Many have been raped with metal objects, knives, dogs trained to rape.
1.9 million Palestinians are corralled in 50 square kilometers of land, exposed to the elements, without basic hygiene, without food, without medicine, with rats attacking them day and night."
"I've received rape threats against my daughter, my husband has been fired, and my apartment has been seized, because I said that Israel is committing genocide."
❁ Francesca Albanese.
How much co2 is emitted to run the resorts & to bring tourists in and out? How much food is wasted? Most importantly how many islands and land have you stolen and dislocated from local communities?
You have stolen the environment from local communities.
In celebration of Earth Day, Sun Siyam Olhuveli unveiled its newest marine initiative, the Adopt A Coral Frame experience.
Learn more: https://t.co/DDlSej23Oa
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before the classrooms began speaking in another tongue. before english arrived as progress, there was a different kind of knowing. then in 1980, it was made official. english became the language of learning, and slowly almost politely a colonization of the mind took root.
Their entire world exists in this capitalist greed, and they are so scared this system might collapse. But I remind you, 1) not everyone lives in this reality; and 2) they do not care about peasants nor working class. All they care about is how to keep up this system of slavery.
Those in power forced & made us question our existence..submit to their modern agenda. It’s time to stop with this constant framing of people as “backward” & the desire to make us more “progressive”. This is critical to delink us from those in power & towards reimagined futures.
It is certain that we cannot protect the climate with epistemic superiority. It is the same superiority that is establishing structures of alienated attitudes towards our surroundings. Such education teaches us coconut trees, same time separates us from it. Quijano puts it nicely
Majeedhee magu on a Friday afternoon. Areas with trees and without trees.
The shades from trees help reduce the glare from the road and lowers ambient temperature.
Surely my life is not easy. But it is nothing compared to that of the Palestinians under Israeli Apartheid, who continue to be genocided and tortured.
With or without sanctions, I will not stop standing for justice.
Together we can and we will.
#UNA