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  1. A quotation from Victor Hugo

       You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Misérables is written for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
       In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him, the book of Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: “Open to me, I come for you.”
     
       [Vous avez raison, monsieur, quand vous me dites que le livre les Misérables est écrit pour tous les peuples. Je ne sais s’il sera lu par tous, mais je l’ai écrit pour tous. Il s’adresse à l’Angleterre autant qu’à l’Espagne, à l’Italie autant qu’à la France, à l’Allemagne autant qu’à l’Irlande, aux républiques qui ont des esclaves aussi bien qu’aux empires qui ont des serfs. Les problèmes sociaux dépassent les frontières. Les plaies du genre humain, ces larges plaies qui couvrent le globe, ne s’arrêtent point aux lignes bleues ou rouges tracées sur la mappemonde.
       Partout où l’homme ignore et désespère, partout où la femme se vend pour du pain, partout où l’enfant souffre faute d’un livre qui l’enseigne et d’un foyer qui le réchauffe, le livre les Misérables frappe à la porte et dit: Ouvrez-moi, je viens pour vous.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli

    More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/13238/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #borders #downtrodden #economicinjustice #global #humancondition #poor #poverty #serfdom #slavery #socialills #socialinjustice #socialproblem

  2. Nur allein mit der Summe, um die das Vermögen der G20-Milliardäre im vergangenen Jahr *angestiegen* ist, ließe sich die weltweite Armut beenden.

    🇬🇧 ‘G20 billionaires’ fortunes rise by $2.2 trillion in just one year, more than enough to lift everyone above the global poverty line’

    oxfam.org/en/press-releases/so

    Wir können uns keine Milliardäre leisten.
    🇬🇧 We can't afford billionaires.

    #Gerechtigkeit #Ungleichheit #Inequality #Armut #Poverty #Injustice #SocialInjustice #Inequity #TaxMeNow #Vermögensteuer #Erbschaftsteuer #Reichensteuer

  3. A quotation from Frederick Douglass

    The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

    Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
    Speech (1886-04-16), “Strong to Suffer, and Yet Strong to Strive,” Israel Bethel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/7…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #classism #economicinjustice #ignorance #impoverishment #injustice #nojusticenopeace #othering #poverty #racism #socialills #socialinjustice #socialunrest #society #unrest #classwarfare #unrest

  4. Thomas Manton, English Puritan, considers oppression of laborers, a topic in James chapter 5. To delay a payment of a worker is to pay less, and prohibited in many places in scripture. It’s sin. This is item number five in Manton’s list of common ways to oppress a poor laborer.

    Is this list commonly shown in all of the Puritan content being generated today?

    How can you carefully consider your relationship with poor laborers?

    #christian #reformedbooks #socialinjustice #mosthigh #notinmyname

  5. Despite #BCNDP saying they’ve stopped #renovictions in #BritishColumbia they’re still very much happening. After a ruling from the Residential Tenancy Branch #RTB dozens of #Esquimalt #seniors are being kicked out in four months for the new owners to do renovations.

    Many of the #renters being displaced are #LowIncome, either on #disability or a #FixedPension. As a result, most of them can’t afford market rent, and fear they could be homeless.

    Because the new owner is doing renovations, not a total demolition, Esquimalt’s #Tenant Assistance Policy isn’t triggered. Any stronger policy is the #BCgovernment jurisdiction.

    “It’s time for the provincial government to actually stop this from happening. If they really want to stop renovictions, then they need to change the laws,” said Douglas King, executive director of #TogetherAgainstPovertySociety.

    King says what’s needed is a BC-wide #TenantAssistance #policy to better #ProtectTenants facing #displacement, but also to prevent #taxpayers from paying for the consequences down the line.

    www-cheknews-ca.cdn.ampproject

    #BCpoli #BChousingCrisis #RentersRights #YYJpoli #PovertyIsNotACrime #StopRenovictions #HousingRights #MarginalizedRenters #BCNewDeathParty #Housing #RentalProperties #YYJHousing #BCHousing #HumanRights #SocialInjustice

  6. Reposting from Cambridge University Press - Archaeology:
    "'Social Injustice and Archaeological Practice' is the new free-access research collection curated by
    @aap_saaorg
    for
    @SAAorg
    's #SAA2024NOLA. Download now: ➡️📱 cup.org/4d9LOym

    #SocialInjustice #Archaeology"

  7. #Scientists outline a bold solution to #climatechange, #biodiversity loss, #socialinjustice
    Pathway is inspired by #Earth system that illustrate how humanity's resource demands have exploded since 1850, indicating #ecological overshoot. "The growth in human population, #GDP and energy consumption, primarily reliant on #fossilfuels, has led to an extraordinary surge in #greenhousegas #emissions, dramatically altering land use and triggering a massive biodiversity decline."
    phys.org/news/2024-01-scientis

  8. 1. DEI efforts and Women's rights rescinded 2. Handwritten poster from the 2017 Women's March on Washington, DC 3. Sign from a segregated restaurant during US Jim Crow era. (Nos. 2 and 3 Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture 1920s-1840s and 2017.
    #Blackmastodon @blackmastodon #BLM #Blackfediverse #Racism #Womensrights #Socialinjustice #DEI

  9. STATE OF US UNION
    - Legally ban specific subject matter books
    - Erase specific subject matter from school curriculums
    - Cost prohibit higher education
    - Legally decrease age requirements for youth employment
    - Tie basic healthcare insurance to employment
    - legally keep minimum wage beneath cost of living
    Divide and conquer populace by hyping cultural differences
    #socialinjustice #StateOfTheUnion #Culturewarsusa #Educatedconsumer #Dontbelievethehype

  10. Succinct and spot-on: "It wasn't so long ago that "#woke" was a slang term from Black America, and it meant something substantive and easy to define. To be "woke" was to refuse to be complacent about #SocialInjustice. This definition offended Republicans, whose very existence depends on complacency in the face of social injustice. So as an act of very racist revenge, they appropriated the term "woke," turning it into a catch-all insult for anything that annoys them."
    salon.com/2023/03/16/why-the-i

  11. 'Their performances continue to #challenge a #MaleDominated industry defined by fleeting #talent , youthful beauty and #voyeurism .
    Their #voices are stronger than ever. Their #musicianship is tight, and the onstage antics are imaginative, playful, colourful and fun. Their messages are #uplifting and clear, #intelligent and #RhoughtProvoking, now tinged with a softened version of #empathetic #rage about #SocialInjustice .'

    theconversation.com/amp/sexual

    #GenX #Musicians #WomenInMusic #Activism #music

  12. "I leave aside the deeper concern that the primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an
    apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order."
    Footnote in a document of the US Federal Reserve, by Jeremy R. Budd.
    Hard to say it better. federalreserve.gov/econres/fed
    #SocialInjustice #Capitalism #Economics #ClimateEmergency

  13. A friend just returned this to me. Had totally forgotten about me lending it to her. The Motorcycle Diaries – Che Guevara, is definitely one of my favourite books and one of those which influenced my life most.
    #books #memoir #journey #cheguevera #marxism #socialinjustice #medicine

  14. "I don’t need to tell you that the distribution of vaccines has been terribly unfair.
    More than 4.8B doses of vaccine have been administered globally.
    Just 87M doses have been administered in the African region: less than 2% of the global total." – DrTedros opening remarks at the 71st session of the Regional Committee for Africa #who #publichealthcare #africa #socialinjustice #covid19 #vaccines #pharmaceuticals #corps
    afro.who.int/about-us/governan