"Beyond any differences, here at the Invictus Games we are grounded in mutual respect, competing fiercely, but believing in one another. Supporting one another. And rooting for one another."
Listen to our Patron, The Duke of Sussex's full speech from the Opening Ceremony of the #InvictusGames Vancouver Whistler 2025.
CONGOLESE ABANDONED BUT $1 BILLION RAISED IN 24H FOR NOTRE-DAME?
It is essential to recognise that the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been ongoing for some time. The M23 rebel group capturing wide swaths of eastern DRC territory this month, pushing about 500,000 Congolese off their land, is just the latest escalation in a foreign-instigated proxy conflict over natural resources that has dragged on for close to 30 years since Western-backed Rwanda and Uganda forces invaded Congo in 1996, destabilising the country.
DRC neighbours have since acted as a conduit for Western multinationals, like Apple and Tesla, that rely on the minerals extracted from eastern Congo.
In this clip from a 2024 round-table discussion with Pan-Africanist activist and fundraiser @Chakabars, he pointed out how the world has ignored the ongoing genocide in the DRC, in which we are all somehow complicit due to the devices we use. Yet, the West rallied to stump up $1 billion within days after Paris’ iconic Notre Dame Cathedral burnt down.
Cultural preservation is a wonderful and essential thing, but you’d have thought human life is—or rather, millions of human lives are—a more urgent priority.
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The face of #HindRajab and all the little children like her will haunt you all the way to hell. Those who murdered this child and those who enabled it, paid for it, covered for it. Whether you look at her or not, you WILL see her face...
This is Judge Loren AliKhan. She just blocked Donald Trump's unconstitutional attempt to freeze federal funding, including Medicaid.
RETWEET to thank Judge AliKhan for standing up for our democracy!
Abby Martin is a gold standard journalist‼️
“I'm very ashamed of my colleagues for their complicity and silence
especially in the wake of so many Palestinian journalists getting murdered” 💯
“I DO BELIEVE THAT THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE WILL BE IN OUR LIFETIME” @AbbyMartin
No messages of anger or disgust from Farage, Reform or Musk about one of the biggest child grooming gangs in UK who were sentenced yesterday.
It's almost like they don't actually care about keeping children safe but have an ulterior motive?
Hope those sentenced rot in prison.
How can a morally bankrupt man who groomed his own stepdaughter from the age of four, and then went on to have two children with her, now be the held in such high esteem by those in this country who claim to rail against the sexual exploitation of children?