UN Group of Experts (S/2024/969): https://t.co/y8K0NqdDnk
PDF: https://t.co/9vidR4GHIa
Reuters (Jan 2025): https://t.co/tllpbR5LYb
Reuters (on-site, 2025): https://t.co/uKkm6E82Uf
The Africa Report: https://t.co/6t5wsS9iAR
The tantalum in your phone may have passed through an armed group's tax booth. M23 has held Congo's Rubaya mine since April 2024. UN experts say it controls the trade in ~120 tonnes of coltan a month, taxing it at $7 a kilo for at least $800k a month.
At least 150 tonnes were smuggled into Rwanda and mixed with Rwanda's own production, which the UN calls the region's worst supply-chain contamination in a decade. Swapping who holds the mine doesn't change who digs it.
Who should decide over a mine: the diggers, or whoever has the guns?
ICE has a phone app that scans faces and fingerprints. DHS's own AI inventory lists it. Its privacy officers decided it needed no new privacy assessment, and records reviewed by WIRED say it isn't designed to reliably identify people.
An ICE privacy document says it may go to 1,000+ local police agencies under 287(g) agreements. An unaudited match, on people who can't opt out, by your local force.
When it gets someone wrong, who finds out?
Next, an ICE privacy document says the app may go to 1,000+ local police agencies under 287(g) agreements. An unaudited match, on people who can't opt out, by your local force. A bill, the "ICE Out of Our Faces Act," has been introduced. When it gets someone wrong, who finds out?
NEVER FORGET: Few months after this speech, Fred Hampton was brutally assassinated on his bed.
He was hit with over 90+ bull€ts while his pregnant partner was beside him. This is how Black revolutions across the globe were destroyed
"Socialism doesn't work."
Imagine you’re cooking a great meal for your house. It’s going perfectly. There’s enough for everyone. I barge in, demand ingredients to sell them to my neighbors. You say we won't have enough. I dump the pot on your family, beat you all with it and when you try to clean up, I scream: "See? Cooking doesn't work. You should just eat raw."
Did cooking fail? Or did I just ruin a better meal than I could ever make, because I couldn't stand seeing you succeed without me?
Capitalism doesn't prove collective care fails. It proves capital will burn the kitchen down before it lets us feed ourselves.
#Socialism #capitalism #SocialistSunday #anticapitalism #ClassStruggle
I like how this is still so patriarchal, this applies to all genders accross the board. Why focus solely on men, when the concept of spreading love to all makes more loving individuals without having to still cater just to men. Focus on collective growth, fuck genderism entirely.
@philosophymeme0 Liberation can never come when a group of anyone is placed above another as a dominant authority. Nothing disables liberation faster than just swapping out who oppresses who.