I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
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1/ Veteran Hong Kong activist Koo Sze-yiu has died at the age of 80, local media have reported. HKFP revisits archive photos of the League of Social Democrats activist.
In full: https://t.co/GlVFjSxNzC
These kinds of vides from iran are so dehumanizing,
they usually imply:
“look how stylish people in iran are, therefore…women cant be oppressed there…and those protestors were Mossad”
@FY4Chan Wow, journalists being harrassed, possibly by the State? I bet western leftists would be all over this story, denouncing the stalkers and grandstanding about how the press must be free.
Oh wait.
"InMedia said it filed two police reports regarding the suspected stalking and harassment". What are the odds that the police will seriously investigate this matter?
Also, for context:
Reuters has compiled and verified detailed information on 238 of the 386 arrests under national security laws between 2020 and 2026. Just five of the 238 cases resulted in acquittals so far.
I love how it’s basically “no it’s completely different, Afghan women want REAL rights and are fine with patriarchal modesty, while Iranian women wanna be WHORES”. And of course there’s a complete ignorance of Iran’s patriarchal laws, which don’t stop at religious modesty.
@mkarolian BA.3.2 is either:
#1. Much better at infecting children than adults
or
#2. Is causing more severe disease in children than previous variants (since most sequencing outside of nursing homes is likely from hospitalized cases)
...or some combination of the two.
The Brutal Reality of 2009: The Massacre of Uyghurs in East Turkistan
This footage shows Chinese 🇨🇳 illegal settlers armed with weapons, searching for and hunting down Uyghurs in the streets of Urumqi during the July 2009 unrest. The Uyghurs who were caught by these mobs were brutally lynched in broad daylight. This is a clear depiction of the state-sponsored terrorism against the Uyghur people.
Since the occupation of East Turkistan in 1949, the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples have been facing a continuous genocide carried out by the Chinese government and government-backed illegal Chinese settlers.
Speaking up is too dangerous for me on account of transnational repression.
If you can speak about 1. more frequent wastewater draws, 2. better variant monitoring and data access, 3. the restoration of the RAT Kit Distribution Program, do so.
We can collaborate on a script.
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the replies are 100% worth a read
If you ever wonder why diaspora & dissidents don't speak up? Cause my replies are an example of the hostility & nastiness hauled at outspoken community members.
it seems a little strange to me that if you say "i have long covid what do i do" people earnestly suggest going back in time and not getting covid in the first place