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  1. #usa #eu : #africa / #history / #humanrights / #slavery / #reparations

    „Slavery is not just a thing of the past. Its effects continue to be felt in #systemicinequality and #racism. This was reiterated on Monday by the UN Committee against Racial Discrimination ( #CERD ) as the world marks the International Day of People of African Descent.“

    news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1

  2. “The Empire strikes back… at Jameela Jamil!”

    by Nu’man Abd al-Wahid in AlMayadeen English

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    “The actress and social media influencer Jameela Jamil recently aroused the wrath of British Empire nostalgists and apologists following her appearance on an alternative media podcast. Jameela riled the apologists for two reasons. Firstly, for claiming that Brexit ‘paved the way’ for President Donald Trump’s electoral successes and secondly for stating that ‘British people are truly the most evil people in history’”

    english.almayadeen.net/article

    #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Britain #Empire #Reparations #India #Jamil #SettlerColonialism #Spectator #Attacks #AdHominem #RightWing #Trump #Brexit

  3. Here's a gift link about the Harvard Reparations Project. Unsurprisingly commentors are against reparations and their arguments are weak. "Why should we be accountable for things done centuries ago?" But it's not centuries ago. Stop prejudice. Stop redlining. Stop lynching. Stop all the things you do to hold black and brown people down. bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/met
    #history #race #reparations #slavery #geneology

  4. Slavery reparations: Why Ghana is leading the demand for compensation
    bbc.com/news/articles/cy0j2r15

    "He also wants individual institutions that benefited from the slave trade to be held accountable and pay compensation. Among these is the Church of England.

    In the 18th Century, the Church's missionary wing ran plantations and owned hundreds of slaves, which helped fund its work across the Americas and beyond."

    #Colonialism #Slavery #Reparations #Ghana

  5. @tuban_muzuru
    Certainly, Imperial Japan committed many civilian atrocities, especially in Manchuria, Korea and China where the Rape of Nanking stands out as only one of the worst kind.

    There is no denying that war, whether fought for justice and freedom or for the growth of an empire or out of fear will bring out the worst (and, ironically, the best) in humanity. The human condition is such, I regret to say, that war is a pestilence that will be visited on us as for as long as we survive as a specie. And if our planet has any say in it at all, we are not long from extinction.

    So depressing…

    #War #WarCrimes #Justice #Homosapiens #Reparations #HumanCostOfWar #MoralsAndEthics #Manchuria #China #Korea

  6. Des #américains malmenés, basanés la plupart du temps, évidemment, bousculés, menotttés, humiliés, maltraités par délit de faciès? Et menacés en cas de résistance ?

    Et les centaines de milliers de maltraitances aux #immigrés #latinos, dont certains ont immigré TOTALEMENT LÉGALEMENT aux #US ?

    On en parle d'eux ?

    #RÉPARATIONS & #JUSTICE

  7. The #Takanawa #Catholic #Church just called the police on me. The police were very nice and understanding and let me go after a brief talk.

    I have been seeking #Justice after being assaulted by the guards at Hope Services ( a catholic charity), in #Kona #Hawaii . Several other #homeless people had confided in me that they were being abused, but did not dare speak out, for fear of further violence. Also, they depend upon the charity for food.

    I approached the catholic leaders politely in Kona, and they did not take responsibility. Then I moved to #Tokyo seeking political asylum.

    I approached Mr. Takaii, a priest at the #Meguro Catholic Church, and asked for answers concerning the abuse. Mr. Takaii told me that he did not speak any English, though we had been talking in English for a few days, and he speaks English fluently.

    After persistently and politely raising questions with the Takanawa church, I kept being stonewalled. I still have questions about why they cannot feed me 3 meals a day, turning me away hungry, though they just held a fundraiser for #hungry people in the Philippines. The priest, Mr. Noguchi harshly told me to go back to America.

    Just now, I returned to Takanawa church from the police station, and Mr. Noguchi handed me a letter from Mr. Wataru Suematsu, the parish leader, banning me from church, and threatening police action.

    I intend to get justice for me, and for other people the Catholic Church continues to abuse.

    The Catholic Church is doing something shady with the money, as it is a lavishly constructed church, with a big attendance on weekends, and collects a lot of money.

    The Catholic Church is an organization by and for, old white men. They will always elect an old white man as #pope ( now available in American flavor ). A 39 year old Japanese woman will never be pope.

    The organization was funded by loot from #colonial #genocide, which it continues to hold on to, and continue as a big mind-manipulating business. Even as pope after pope apologizes for the atrocities of the church, the abuses continue.

    Pope Leo has called for #peace though he has not yet asked his followers to resign from the #military which would be a real follow through.

    People of the world, from countries that the church looted and impoverished, are rising up and demanding #reparations

    There’s so much blood on the hands of the church, that the pope’s crocodile tears are not enough to wash them away. Empty words are not enough. People demand to be made whole.

    Please boost this message, to hold the church accountable.

    rant.li/ashwin/why-i-am-also-n

    #Atheist #agnostic #secular #religion #corruption #SocialJustice #bible #christ #christian #jesus #christianity #abuse

  8. #Nantes #réparations #électroniques es-tu là ?
    Salut Nantes ! J'ai un NAS en panne qui a des symptômes très documentés en ligne et qui doit être facilement réparable par un quelqu'un de compétent.
    J'ai aussi une enceinte Sonos à diagnostiquer.
    Je peine à trouver en ligne des adresses qui ressemble à quelque chose.
    Si quelqu'un a un tuyau, je prends ! Merci par avance !

  9. The next sign that the #empire is beginning to fall will be the rise of national #liberation movements, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian MP, writes.

    "The first three republics to leave #russia get a discount on #reparations."

    #Ukraine #war #opinion

    newsweek.com/russias-empire-is

  10. I hope #phish fans in Savannah are thinking deeply about the history we are dancing on #blackisbeautiful #reparations

  11. 🔴 Le génocide de 80% des Héréros et de 60% des Namas de la Namibie perpétré en 1904-1908 par les Allemands : leur histoire et la situation de leurs descendants
    Par Clotilde Ravel, Le Monde diplomatique, juillet 2026 [Extrait]
    monde-diplomatique.fr/2026/07/
    #Afrique #Namibie #Héréros #Namas #Ovambos #Allemagne #Allemands #génocide #histoire #colonialisme #crime #esclavage #déportation #inégalités #colon #AfriqueDuSud #réparations #politique #société #Autochtones #média

  12. "The #Italian #Parliament has introduced a bill that would allow the government to create a #restitution process for #art and #culturalproperty lost under #Fascist laws and during the broader #Holocaust period.

    Bill 2834 would enable the Italian Government to create a framework for #reparations for art and other cultural items that were seized or otherwise looted due to #antisemitic persecution that was codified and permitted by law under #BenitoMussolini's Fascist government in 1938.

    The bill was reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies’ VII Committee on Culture, Science, and Education on June 24. During the hearing, the President of the Union of Italian #Jewish Communities (#UCEI), #LiviaOttolenghi, affirmed her support for the proposal.

    "There is no need to repeat how deeply the wounds inflicted by the racial laws are still felt today by Italian #Jews and our communities," Ottolenghi stated."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  13. Via KN

    NEXT STEPS 🔥
    Minister of Tourism, Culture & Creative Arts, Hon. Abla Dzifa Gomashie arrives with energy at the High-Level Consultative Conference on the next steps to the landmark United Nations Resolution on the trafficking of Enslaved Africans.

    #blackwomen #blackhistory #whitehistory #slavery #reparations #blackmastodon

  14. The Last Exchange: A Mythic Parable

    After months of grueling war, the Gavaun leaders welcomed the Oshkin leaders to their tent to entertain conversations of peace. Hearts among the two nations were as hard as could be, and no civilian expected that this would be the moment that would curve things in a better direction.

    As the Oshkin leaders approached the entrance, the Gavaun soldiers at the door demanded that they surrender all their belongings. Though insulted by these demands, the Oshkin reluctantly submitted to the rules. They removed their priceless rings and sacred necklaces, emptied their pockets into the hands of the smirking soldiers, and entered the tent. With the Oshkin out of sight, the soldiers chuckled and threw the objects into the trash. 

    As you can imagine, peace was not found that day.

    Months went by, and the tides of war shifted. It was now the Oshkin that welcomed the Gavaun leaders to their tent to discuss the possibilities of peace. As the Gavaun approached the tent door, they were met by Oshkin soldiers demanding that they surrender all of their belongings before entering. The faces of the Gavaun fell. They had heard the stories of what their soldiers had done. At the time, they had even gotten a laugh out of it. But now they knew their retribution had come. They sighed heavily and removed their priceless rings and sacred necklaces, and emptied their pockets into their enemies’ hands. 

    Hours later, the Gavaun leaders left the tent quickly, their pace fueled by their anger. As they reached the gate, they heard one of the soldiers call out for them. “Sirs! Your belongings?”

    The Gavauns stopped in their tracks. Surely this was a trick. Would they not be mocked when they turned around? They whispered to each other for a moment, and then one of them turned around and walked up to the soldier. He quickly grabbed their things from the soldier’s hand, and then they swiftly made their exit.

    Peace was not found that day either.

    Months went by, and the tides of war shifted once again. As the Oshkin approached the gate, they were surprised to find the Gavaun leaders outside the tent, one of them standing in front of a table holding what appeared to be a wrapped gift.

    “You were humane with us when we were inhumane with you,” said the leader. “We cannot recover your priceless rings and your sacred necklaces, nor the items you kept in your pockets. While we do not know if peace will be found today, we would like to offer you this gift to make reparations for our behavior.”

    The Gavaun pulled the bow as the box walls fell over to reveal an ornate sand timer.

    “The sand timer is one of the greatest symbols among the Gavaun people, and this one was carved by our most acclaimed craftsman. Our most sacred lessons and stories are tied to this symbol, and it carries many meanings. In this case, it represents our desire to turn back time to better honor your first visit. But just as time moves forward no matter how you turn the timer, so can we only do our best to do better with the time ahead of us.”

    As you can imagine, hearts began to soften. But peace was not found that day.

    As the months went by, the tides of war shifted, and the Gavaun came to discuss peace at the Oshkin tent. The Oshkin leaders were found outside their tent, one of them standing behind a table holding a cylindrical box. The leader confessed that the Gavaun’s previous gift should have softened their hearts more than it did and that peace should have been found sooner. They now wished to reciprocate by giving a gift of their own. As the Oshkin began to slowly pull the tall cylindrical top off the gift, the brightest, golden glow you could ever imagine blinded the eyes of all who looked upon it. The solid orb that was revealed must have been made of the most refined gold in the world.

    Peace was found that day. 

    Peace Day became a holiday, and a new tradition was established. Every year, the Gavauns and the Oshkins would gather for a new kind of war: a “gift-off,” I suppose you might call it. Each nation would present a gift to the other to see whose might be better. It became an intriguing display of craftsmanship and culture, as each nation would explain the significance of what they had offered the other. 

    This tradition continued for about a century, until one particular exchange between an Oshkin man and a Gavaun woman brought it to a sudden end. The man and the woman unveiled their nation’s gift at the same time, revealing the exact same gift: a large crystal glass with a small amount of gleaming white wine at the bottom. Both the glass and the liquid shone in the sun as all who gathered for the exchange looked at it with mouths agape. Neither nation had to explain the gift, for both realized in that moment that they had the same story. No greater gift could have possibly been given, and for that reason, the tradition no longer needed to continue.

    “Do you hear that?” the woman said to the man.

    The man looked around, listening closely, but heard nothing. He shook his head.

    “It’s as though the beat of every sacred song ever written is contained in that cup.”

    #allegory #craftsmanship #enemies #fantasy #fiction #forgiveness #generosity #gifts #grace #hope #hospitality #mythology #parable #peace #reconciliation #redemption #reparations #sacredStories #symbolicStorytelling #worldbuilding
  15. Jamaican delegation to travel to UK to lodge formal slavery reparations petition with 'King' Charles.

    Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's forebears were shareholders in the Royal African Company.

    #slavery #Jamaica #reparations

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jun

  16. 🔥🔥🔥💥 BOOM 💥🔥🔥🔥
    ❝ Grange pointed to the fact that, at emancipation in 1834, the planters were compensated for loss of their “so-called ‘property’”, with England offering £20m in compensation “through a loan that was finally settled in 2015”. She added that “newly emancipated Africans were forced to provide years of additional free labour to the planters, thereby literally paying their enslavers for their freedom.”❞

    #reparations #slavery #Jamaica #UKpol
    theguardian.com/world/2026/jun

  17. This new Learning guide for grades 9-12 & adult/higher ed is a powerful tool for exploring:
    - Race, Privilege and Reckoning;
    - Trust-Building as a Catalyst for Healing;
    - Honoring the Truth & Preserving Collective Memory;
    - The Relational Work of Authentic Allyship;
    - Grassroots Acts of Reparation.

    Check out the link in the comments to learn more about this powerful film and how to share it with your education community! 👇

    journeysinfilm.org/film/acts-o

    2/n

    @histodons

    #Education #Homeschooling #Race #Allyship #Allies #Trust #SocialEmotionalLearning #Grassroots #Activism #Reparation #Reparations #Edutooters #CommunityEducation #AdultEducation

  18. A Day for the World to Say Sorry

    From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair

    A PeaceGrooves Reflection

    There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.

    Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.

    National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….

    Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.

    #AboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #AnabaptistPeaceWitness #Australia #buildingAJustFuture #colonialism #globalPeace #Healing #historicalMemory #IndigenousJustice #InternationalSorryDay #NationalSorryDay #Nonviolence #Peacebuilding #PeaceGrooves #publicApology #Reconciliation #rememberingThePast #reparations #Repentance #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #StolenGenerations #truthAndReconciliation
  19. Wednesday, April 22, 2026

    Ukrainian drones hit key Russian oil hub in Samara Oblast -- Russia destroys mass graves near Mariupol, satellite images suggest -- Fearing Ukrainian troops landing in Crimea, Russia intensifies coastal mining -- Russia's digital concentration camp in occupied Ukraine is further cutting families off from each other ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  20. UN Secretary-General António Guterre stated today:

    “Now we must remove the persistent barriers that prevent so many people of African descent from exercising their rights and realising their potential,”

    news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1

    #AntónioGuterre #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

  21. Huge update from the UN today, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has secured a UN resolution declaring the slave trade (and it's lasting impacts) as one of the world's worst human rights abuses.

    President Mahama stressed the importance of this resolution in the fight for reparations paid by the countries who profited from slavery.

    presidency.gov.gh/speech-presi

    #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

  22. Saturday, November 29, 2025

    1 killed,11 injured in Kyiv amid Russian missile, drone strikes on residential buildings -- How Ukrainian helicopter pilots hunt down Russian drones -- Ukraine strikes Saratov oil refinery, airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea -- Unmanned Systems Forces blow up $60m worth of Russian air defense systems in 3 days ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  23. Life 'cut short': #Peru's victims of #ForcedSterilization seek amends

    Story by Agence France-Presse, 2/12/2025

    LIMA — "Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the #PeruvianGovernment, against her will.

    "Decades later, the 46-year-old #IndigenousWoman is still fighting for an apology and #reparations along with thousands of others robbed of their fertility in a 1990s state campaign condemned by the United Nations.
    'My life was cut short,' Loayza told Agence France-Presse, recounting how her partner abandoned her over the procedure, which also left her with lasting pain.

    "'On the outside, we look fine, but inside we are withering,' she said of the estimated 270,000 women who, like her, were coerced, pressured or deceived into surgery to have their fallopian tubes tied.

    "Eighteen women died, according to official data, during the campaign that marked the final years of then-President #AlbertoFujimori's 1990-2000 rule.

    "His government said it had offered sterilization as part of a family planning project, but the UN women's rights committee said in a report last October the state had carried out a 'systematic and generalized attack against rural and #Indigenous women.'

    "It said the procedures were carried out without #InformedConsent from victims who were often poorly educated and did not understand Spanish, the language of officialdom in Peru.

    "'It's not something that was done in the cities... but in a specific (rural) area as a way of fighting poverty so that the poorest women didn't reproduce,' Leticia Bonifaz, who was a member of the UN committee, told AFP.

    "She said it was the biggest known case of forced sterilization in #LatinAmerica."

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-ph/news/world/life-
    #PeruPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony #ReproductiveAutonomy #Sterilization #Genocide

  24. A Vancouver Island First Nation whose people were the first to greet European explorers in the region almost 250 years ago is taking British Columbia to court, seeking title to their traditional territories and financial compensation.

    Chief Mike Maquinna, a descendent of #ChiefMaquinna who met British explorer Capt. James Cook in 1776, says the claim in #BCSupremeCourt seeks to return decision-making, resource and ecological stewardship to the #Mowachaht / #Muchalalaht First Nation.

    He says the province has been acting as the sole decision-making authority in the #GoldRiver / #Tahsis areas of northern #VancouverIsland especially with regards to the forest resource, without the consent of his nation.

    Hereditary Chief Jerry Jack says the claim filed today seeks title to about 66,000 hectares of land from #FriendlyCove to Tahsis in the north and #ButtleLake in the east, and an undisclosed amount of financial compensation.

    cheknews.ca/vancouver-island-f

    #BCpoli #CDNpoli #IndigenousBC #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #BCNDP #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #NoConsent #Landback #FirstNations #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Reparations #Decolonization #Colonialism #IndigenousJustice #UNDRIP #Legal #BCLaw #CanadianLaw #Lawsuit #Justice

  25. The topic moved to the Ukraine/Russia war and the State Department spokes man says Russia must be made to pay reparations for the damage done to Ukraine.

    The AP reporter is back at it asking how & when the State Department will demand Israel pay for the damage done in Gaza and the West Bank?

    Damn, dudes out here making me think about Helen Thomas. She would be digging into the Biden admin a just like this.

    #JoeBiden #MattLee #MattMiller #USPol #GenocideJoe #Gaza #Reparations