#reparations — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reparations, aggregated by home.social.
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UK Rejects Jamaica’s Historic Demand for Reparations for Slavery – Orinoco Tribune
https://orinocotribune.com/uk-rejects-jamaicas-historic-demand-for-reparations-for-slavery/ -
We have had too many popes issue hollow apologies, and people fall for their crocodile tears.
1) Demand that the #Pope ask #Catholics to resign from all military posts.
2) Demand that the #Vatican pay #reparations to all the people of the nations that the church looted, and which afforded it a pile of gold in a private city state in the middle of Rome.
3) Demand that the #Catholic #Church compensate all the children their priests abused.
4) Demand that the pope stop condemning #LGBTQ folks.
5) #FreeLuigi
https://rant.li/ashwin/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Jesus #Christ #Bible #Christian #Christianity
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We have had too many popes issue hollow apologies, and people fall for their crocodile tears.
1) Demand that the #Pope ask #Catholics to resign from all military posts.
2) Demand that the #Vatican pay #reparations to all the people of the nations that the church looted, and which afforded it a pile of gold in a private city state in the middle of Rome.
3) Demand that the #Catholic #Church compensate all the children their priests abused.
4) Demand that the pope stop condemning #LGBTQ folks.
5) #FreeLuigi
https://rant.li/ashwin/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian
#Jesus #Christ #Bible #Christian #Christianity
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The utter silence from the British Press about this, it was "Royal News" yesterday
Oh sure, there are the stories, but the algorithms were not showing this one if that cursed Windows News tab is anything to go by...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jamaica-slavery-reparations-king-charles-37635205
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“The Empire strikes back… at Jameela Jamil!”
by Nu’man Abd al-Wahid in AlMayadeen English
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@palestinenews“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’”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/the-empire-strikes-back----at-jameela-jamil
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Britain #Empire #Reparations #India #Jamil #SettlerColonialism #Spectator #Attacks #AdHominem #RightWing #Trump #Brexit
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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 -
The Tinker Experiment was a UK government policy (1940-1980) that forcibly settled Scottish Gypsy Travellers into substandard housing. No electricity until 2010.
Children taken from families. The Church of Scotland was complicit. In 2025, Scotland finally said sorry — but victims want reparations, not just words.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-tinker-experiment
#Travellers #Scotland #Gypsy #Government #Coverup #Reparations #Accountability
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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 -
CW: #Auspol Arsenic in the damper, campers driven off a cliff: the murky historical links of AACo, Australia’s largest beef producer
They can afford to pay reparations.
“Jesse Gregson led massacres of Aboriginal people before joining the Australian Agricultural Company as its longest-serving superintendent
“AACo, today worth about $830m, is still Australia’s largest beef producer, with stations covering almost 1% of the nation’s land mass. Its majority shareholder is the UK billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family own Tottenham Hotspur, followed by the Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest and his ex-wife, Nicola Forrest.”
#Reparations #AustralianAboriginalGenocide #Auspol #andrewForrest #MindarooFoundation #FortescueMetals #FMG #Auspol
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Expropriation from the European Jews transfered properties billions worth. From then on, the grabbed money and wealth mostly followed laws of ownership and capitalism. Only in #Germany, they grew into companies and assets in the realm of between €300 billion and €1 trillion.
In their book , Katharina and Zachary #Gallant write:
"Hitler didn't produce Zyklon-B and profit off of its use in the murder of millions: Degesh, Degussa, Henkel, and IG Faben did. Hitler didn't rip the shares of major companies from their Jewish owners, … major German businesses did… And it wasn't Hitler who took over houses and properties that had belonged to Jews through Aryanization, it was everyday Germans, many of whose families still live in those homes today."mock-up: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hitlers-nazis-and-how-germany-became-good-again/ 🧶
#Denazification #Aufarbeitung #history #morals #reparations #compensations #Volkswagen #BMW #Daimler #Melitta #Bahlsen #Henkel #Degussa #Persil #Allianz #Porsche #DeutscheBank #Bosch #SüddeutscheZeitung #Bundesbahn #antisemitism #guilt
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#GOP #Candidate for #Missouri #SecretaryofState Tells #Black #Americans #Seeking #Reparations To 'Get The F**k Out' Of #America
#ValentinaGomez's #campaign has consisted of #homophobic #stunts and #antiLGBTQ #rhetoric
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #BlackMastodon
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She echoes what #ComfortWomen from #Phillipines who now live here & shared their traumatic stories with me said. Many have now passed away. Some survivors here, told me, they believe #Canada is trying to do similar #delayed $justice #reparations for their #genocidal #crimes against the #Indigenous peoples here. They're not wrong. Canada let RCMP & their other #IndianAct agents take #NativeWomen & #abused & #exploited them just like Japan did w/many #AsianWomen in #WorldWarII .