#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
#Equalrights #justice -
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 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 -
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! 👇
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#Education #Homeschooling #Race #Allyship #Allies #Trust #SocialEmotionalLearning #Grassroots #Activism #Reparation #Reparations #Edutooters #CommunityEducation #AdultEducation
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I hope #TrumpsWar is over, wars are bad, but if ANYONE should be paying #Iran $300 Billion in #Reparations it's #DonaldTrump out of his own damn pockets for starting this war without Congressional approval, not actual #taxpayers!!! He broke it, he should buy it.
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Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Sir Hilary Beckles (vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies) described the adoption by the 80th UN General Assembly of the Resolution designating the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity, as a “historic, landmark decision.”
#reparations #slavery #UNresolution #CrimeAgainstHumanity #CARICOM #Caribbean
https://repeatingislands.com/2026/03/29/un-resolution-recognizes-slavery-as-the-greatest-crime-against-humanity/ -
#GoodNews of the day:
#SlaveTrade is a #CrimeAgainstHumanity
#Reparations & #Restitution are coming
#Justice can not be stopped
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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,”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199
#AntónioGuterre #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations
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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.
#JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Kyiv struck over 50 Russian strategic targets in autumn 2025, satellite images show -- Ukraine holds northern Pokrovsk, prevents Russian attempts to bypass city -- Finnish president warns Europe that US likely talked with Russia while negotiating with Ukraine -- "The key to ending the war is in Brussels": Ukrainians react to Belgium's Russian asset opposition ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/friday-december-5-2025/
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#ViolaFletcher, who as a child in 1921 saw her affluent Black neighborhood torched by white citizens in what became known as the #TulsaRaceMassacre — one of the most violent acts of racial violence in #AmericanHistory — & who, a century later, testified in #Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning #reparations, has died. She was 111 & the oldest survivor of the attack.
#UShistory #BlackHistory #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/viola-fletcher-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"Climate change is an existential problem of planetary proportions."
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion that could reshape the global legal landscape for climate action, declaring that States have binding duties under international law to protect the climate system and that a failure to take appropriate measures may constitute an internationally wrongful act."
"The ICJ also addressed the oceans, affirming that anthropogenic GHG emissions qualify as “pollution of the marine environment” under UNCLOS, triggering obligations for States to “take all measures… necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution.”
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https://pasifika.news/2025/07/icj-rules-climate-inaction-breaches-international-law-affirms-states-legal-duties-to-act/
#FossilFuels #CoalAndGas #expansionism #Australia #SA #pollution #MarineHeatwave #Pacific #ocean #MassMortalityEvents #GHG #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #reparations #restitution #justice #law #ClimateAction -
Reparations may seem out of reach in this backlash moment. But build the infrastrucure to be ready when the moment opens.
#Reparations #BuildTheFuture #QuietStrength
#InfrastructureForChange #PrepareForProgress
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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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Reminder:
I am a #disabled #Asian #AnarchoSocialist & don't support any forms of colonial governments. I am huge on #decolonization & fighting for overdue #justice & #reparations & #equity for #POC communities.
I loathe #colonial #cops & their aligning #bigot governments - want to smash up all #ecocidal corporations & want a lot of #PublicServants aka #POLITICIANS in prison for their multiple #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
#AsianMastodon #Activist #HumanRights #SocialJustice #EcoJustice #RainbowNation #RiseUpAgainstColonialism #MatriarchRising #ArisingAunties #PowerToThePeoples #WomenOfTheResistance #CDNpoli #BCpoli #POCJusticeNow
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“We’re not just establishing a study group,” he said at the news conference, adding that he wants city funds to promote #homeownership “& advance the goal of creating intergenerational wealth” among the massacre’s descendants. Other states & cities have created groups to decide on #reparations for #Black residents, including #Boston, #DC & #Chicago. A task force established by the #California state legislature recommended billions in reparations last year….
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Bynum, who will select the cmte members, has previously demurred on the idea of financial #reparations.
In 2020, he told #Tulsa-based TV station that distributing cash payments “divides the community on something that we really need to be united around.” Debate over compensation led to the cancellation of an event commemorating the bloodshed the next year.
On Thurs, Bynum said he wants the cmte to explore types of reparations beyond cash payments. -
The cmte’s creation was prompted by a 2023 report by the city that recommended more than a half-dozen types of #reparations. Descendants of victims & #Tulsa residents said #educational opportunities — #scholarships & #tuition assistance — & direct payments were the most crucial, acc/to the report.
The cmte, called the Beyond Apology Commission, will forge a plan for a #HousingEquity prgm meant to benefit survivors, their descendants & residents of North Tulsa… -
“Our fellow Tulsans were murdered, their homes & businesses torched, their bodies buried in unmarked graves so their loved ones couldn’t find them,” #Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) said at a news conference Thurs. “And to this day, no one has ever been held to account for it. To call it an outrage does not do it #justice.”
#law #TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackWallStreet #WhiteSupremacy #racism #SystemicRacism #GenerationalWealth #reparations
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The developments come after decades of debate over how — if at all — #reparations should be doled out to victims & their families for the #violence that has limited the economic advancement of generations of #Black Tulsans. During the 1921 massacre, a White mob destroyed #Greenwood, an all-Black community nicknamed #BlackWallStreet, leaving as many as 300 Black people dead & 10k homeless.
#justice #law #Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre #WhiteSupremacy #racism #SystemicRacism #GenerationalWealth
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#vendrediLecture #antiracisme
Écoutez Geoffroy de #Lagasnerie à propos des procès : "Les juges voient bien qu’iels ne jugent que des pauvres, qu’iels ne jugent que des dominés, mais iels doivent pouvoir inventer des manières de juger quand même ; et de juger malgré la vérité du monde social. Un procès est un lieu qui invente une narration anti-sociologique du monde pour laisser l’appareil répressif d’État fonctionner."
"Le procès pénal est un moment où l’État construit le crime comme crime contre l’État."
"L’enlèvement n’est pas interdit en France ; ce qui est interdit c’est de le faire sans autorisation de l’État."
https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/entendez-vous-leco/entendez-vous-leco-emission-du-jeudi-21-mars-2019 #violencespolicières #justice #biaisJudiciaire #sociologie #prison #réparations #lectureDécoloniale #conseilPodcast