#reparations — Public Fediverse posts

Once racism is valued in GoFundMe's and GiveSendGo's we can keep score, the lone juror is about 57% to being paid the average value of reparations due to Black Americans who descended from slavery.

It's an annoying fact of Black life, that traumatic events can spur good will. Good will that should be statutorily required, actually...

Anyways, keep being racist, this slave at least is almost free.

https://www.givesendgo.com/standwithjuror

#BlackMastodon #Reparations #LoneJuror #Boston

Philadelpia Inquirer: African-American family bought their first home thanks to reparations fund from Quakers in Germantown section of Philadelphia.

https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/philadelphia-first-time-homebuyer-grants-quakers-germantown-reparations-20260914.html?id=7hT8kcvy2QTae&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

#Pennsylvania #USpol #reparations #racism #goodNews #Quakers #Friends

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.

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

Saturday, November 29, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/saturday-november-29-2025/

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.

https://cheknews.ca/vancouver-island-first-nation-whose-ex-chief-met-capt-cook-files-claim-against-b-c-1228788/

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

In a clip from a recent NPQ #webinar, Temi F. Bennett explains that #reparations is about three main things: resources, policies and programs, and ending anti-Blackness. The latter requires analysis and vision to remake the future: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/what-are-reparations/

#racialjustice #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #BIPOC #ProBlack

#UK #Government #reverse #plans to #cancel #debate on #gay #military #ban #reparations following #backlash.

#BBCNews reports that the #debate is now scheduled to go ahead in 2024 and that #veterans who were #affected by the #gay #military #ban can now #register their #interest in #applying for #reparative #schemes.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #MilitaryService #Tories #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/15/government-plans-debate-gay-military-ban/

If Russia is going to be made to pay to rebuild Ukraine, which it absolutely should be, then getting a grip on the oligarchs now is essential. They are the buffer between Putin and Russia's wealth. TBH, Russia should be bled completely dry if that's what is needed to clean up, compensate and rebuild Ukraine.

#RussianMoney #Ukraine #reparations #warcrimes #oligarchs #londongrad #sanctions #Putin #rebuildukraine

#FossilFuel firms owe #climate #reparations of $209bn a year
Groundbreaking analysis by #OneEarth is first to quantify #economic burden caused by individual companies: #BP, Shell, #ExxonMobil, Total, #SaudiArabia’s state #oil company and #Chevron are among the largest 21 polluters responsible for $5.4tn (£4.3tn) in drought, wildfires, sea level rise, and melting #glaciers among other climate catastrophes expected between 2025 and 2050 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/fossil-fuel-firms-owe-climate-reparations-of-209bn-a-year-says-study #cliamtecrisis #climateemergency

This article from Dr. Anthony B Pinn is SO GOOD. "Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?
Humanism Beyond Inclusion"

" [M]aybe we are at a point in our humanist history when we need the challenge and guiding logic of an abolition humanist manifesto offering accountability that goes deeper than a commitment to inclusion expressed through a decontextualized rehearsal of humanist ethical values."

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2023/features/is-it-time-to-talk-about-reparations

#Abolition #Humanist #BlackHumanism #Reparations #AHA #AnthonyPinn

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This article from Dr. Anthony B Pinn is SO GOOD. "Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?
Humanism Beyond Inclusion"

" [M]aybe we are at a point in our humanist history when we need the challenge and guiding logic of an abolition humanist manifesto offering accountability that goes deeper than a commitment to inclusion expressed through a decontextualized rehearsal of humanist ethical values."

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2023/features/is-it-time-to-talk-about-reparations

#Abolition #Humanist #BlackHumanism #Reparations #AHA #AnthonyPinn

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This article from Dr. Anthony B Pinn is SO GOOD. "Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?
Humanism Beyond Inclusion"

" [M]aybe we are at a point in our humanist history when we need the challenge and guiding logic of an abolition humanist manifesto offering accountability that goes deeper than a commitment to inclusion expressed through a decontextualized rehearsal of humanist ethical values."

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2023/features/is-it-time-to-talk-about-reparations

#Abolition #Humanist #BlackHumanism #Reparations #AHA #AnthonyPinn

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This article from Dr. Anthony B Pinn is SO GOOD. "Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?
Humanism Beyond Inclusion"

" [M]aybe we are at a point in our humanist history when we need the challenge and guiding logic of an abolition humanist manifesto offering accountability that goes deeper than a commitment to inclusion expressed through a decontextualized rehearsal of humanist ethical values."

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2023/features/is-it-time-to-talk-about-reparations

#Abolition #Humanist #BlackHumanism #Reparations #AHA #AnthonyPinn

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This article from Dr. Anthony B Pinn is SO GOOD. "Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?
Humanism Beyond Inclusion"

" [M]aybe we are at a point in our humanist history when we need the challenge and guiding logic of an abolition humanist manifesto offering accountability that goes deeper than a commitment to inclusion expressed through a decontextualized rehearsal of humanist ethical values."

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2023/features/is-it-time-to-talk-about-reparations

#Abolition #Humanist #BlackHumanism #Reparations #AHA #AnthonyPinn

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