#systemicracism — Public Fediverse posts
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The stats say it all
Apparently in 2022 about 1,200 US Black male prisoners died per year
And in 2023,
15, 440 Black males were homicide victims ...the highest number of any ethnicityLiving Black in the US is dangerous
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"Chris’ past is repeatedly presented as though it explains why he was killed. Beneath much of the commentary sits an ugly question: was Chris Kaba worthy enough not to be shot by the police?"
~ Temi Mwalehttps://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/09/02/police-accountability/
#policeViolence #commentariat #media #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #negrophobia #racism #systemicRacism
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"Chris’ past is repeatedly presented as though it explains why he was killed. Beneath much of the commentary sits an ugly question: was Chris Kaba worthy enough not to be shot by the police?"
~ Temi Mwalehttps://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/09/02/police-accountability/
#policeViolence #commentariat #media #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #negrophobia #racism #systemicRacism
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"Chris’ past is repeatedly presented as though it explains why he was killed. Beneath much of the commentary sits an ugly question: was Chris Kaba worthy enough not to be shot by the police?"
~ Temi Mwalehttps://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/09/02/police-accountability/
#policeViolence #commentariat #media #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #negrophobia #racism #systemicRacism
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"Chris’ past is repeatedly presented as though it explains why he was killed. Beneath much of the commentary sits an ugly question: was Chris Kaba worthy enough not to be shot by the police?"
~ Temi Mwalehttps://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/09/02/police-accountability/
#policeViolence #commentariat #media #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #negrophobia #racism #systemicRacism
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"Chris’ past is repeatedly presented as though it explains why he was killed. Beneath much of the commentary sits an ugly question: was Chris Kaba worthy enough not to be shot by the police?"
~ Temi Mwalehttps://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/09/02/police-accountability/
#policeViolence #commentariat #media #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #negrophobia #racism #systemicRacism
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A quotation from Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.
Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gloriasteinem #bias #custom #prejudice #receivedwisdom #sexism #stereotypes #subconscious #systemicracism #tradition #ageism #patriotism #culture
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Through a political desire for unity, ‘we are documenting the transformation of the very meaning given to the principle of #laïcité, the interpretation of which has undergone a notorious shift: whereas yesterday it allowed the pluralist expression of beliefs, today it requires religious neutrality’.
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez in "L'École et la République - La nouvelle laïcité scolaire" (2023)
#unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school #secularism #neutrality #education #HennetteVauchez #hijab #bioPolitics #bioPower #islamophobia #racism #raceMaking #systemicRacism #France
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Here I spin a yarn about an efficient method of using orientalism to support israel. 🧶
#unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school #secularism #neutrality #education #hijab #bioPolitics #bioPower #islamophobia #racism #raceMaking #systemicRacism #France #Europe #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #proZionism #confusion #conflation #entanglement #EstelleSays
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny
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Systemic Racism, Individual Responsibility: Why Black Positivity Triggers White Rage
Bustling street scene of Black Wall Street’s shops, theaters, and businesses in early 20th centuryLast week, I wrote an article about the Black family—specifically the enduring institution of the Black family reunion. It was a celebration of culture, resilience, tradition, and community. It was not an indictment of white people, nor did it mention systemic racism or historical atrocities. It was simply a quiet, intentional affirmation of Black life.
Yet, a predictable pattern struck again.
In the comment section of the facebook post used to promote the article, a few readers lashed out with visceral, unprovoked hostility. One reader insisted I needed to “teach the Black family some good parenting skills” and asserted that “the only people holding back Black people from success are Black people.” All mind you without reading the article. All this from the promotional post. When I pushed back by listing foundational Black inventions that shaped modern American life, another reader jumped in with outright rage, claiming that Black people are “a race without any meaningful accomplishments” and that “Black Wall Street is a made-up lie… it was a dirt road average Black town.”
Notice what happened there: I never brought up Black Wall Street.
He did. Out of nowhere. Unprompted.
That unprompted reaction reveals something critical. He didn’t bring up Tulsa because he was ignorant of it; he brought it up because he knew about it and actively chose to degrade it. He knew the history, felt threatened by its implications, and felt compelled to diminish a thriving, self-sustaining Black community to a “dirt road” to keep his own worldview intact.
When we talk about systemic racism, people often run to one of two extremes: either blaming every white person individually, or treating “the system” as some abstract, faceless ghost that nobody is personally responsible for.
The truth is far more uncomfortable.
Systemic racism is structural. It refers to the policies, institutional designs, and historical inertia that yield disparate outcomes across race, regardless of individual intent. It is how a Black police officer, operating within a system built on specific historical incentives, can participate in institutional brutality. The design of the machine transcends the color of the person operating it.
However, recognizing the power of the system does not exonerate the white individual.
The white individual sitting behind a keyboard may not single-handedly draft laws, set bank lending policies, or draw redlined district maps. They do not uphold the entire structural apparatus of systemic racism on their own. But it is their personal attitude—the cruelty, the willful denial, and the hostility that surfaces the moment Black excellence is mentioned—that fuels the engine.
The system is what denies my rights, but it is the individual that denies my peace.
Why does the simple assertion of Black joy or historical achievement provoke such irrational hostility? Because for those who have anchored their identity in a rigid racial hierarchy, Black progress is viewed through a zero-sum lens. If Black people built Greenwood—a 35-square-block district with its own luxury hotels, modern hospitals, banks, and legal practices where dollars circulated for nearly a year—then the myth of absolute white superiority collapses.
Rather than adjust their worldview to accommodate the facts of Black achievement, it is psychologically easier for them to declare those facts “bullshit,” “exaggerations,” or “lies.” Aggression becomes a defensive armor to avoid the discomfort of unlearning.
This is precisely why platforms like My Two Cents exist.
The goal of documenting our history, celebrating our cultural traditions, and highlighting our achievements has never been about seeking permission, begging for validation, or picking a fight with strangers in a comment section. It is about grounding ourselves in truth.
When people invade a space dedicated to Black positivity and lash out with unprovoked anger, they are demonstrating the exact individual cruelty that keeps racism alive on a human level. You do not get to claim innocence while actively fanning the flames of contempt. You do not get to pretend a thriving community was a “dirt road” just to preserve your own racial comfort.
Ultimately, that rage is a confession. It reveals a deep-seated fear that if the myth of Black inferiority completely shatters, the foundation of unearned privilege crumbles with it.
We cannot control every system designed to limit us, nor can we stop every hostile comment on the internet. But we have absolute control over our narrative. We will continue to gather at the family reunion. We will continue to honor the legacy of Greenwood and the countless inventors, thinkers, and builders who shaped this nation. We will continue to speak our history plainly—not to convince those determined to hate us, but to ensure our community and our children never forget who we are.
The system can keep its barriers, and the trolls can keep their rage. Our peace, our history, and our joy belong strictly to us.
#Blackhistory #Blogging #Dailyprompt #History #Society #SystemicRacism #Whitefragility #Whiterage #History #philosophy #racism #writing -
A moving walkway is a great metaphor for systemic racism. This allegory is from Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum in her book “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” Dr. Camara Jones extended the metaphor to include dismantling the system in her TED talk “Allegories on race and racism.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4sw6VXGFA_4
#movies #airport #systemicRacism #racista #antiracism #racism #StandUpToRacism #FogoNosRacistas #AntiRacista #AntiFa
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#ForFucksSake -- @USAToday does a human interest story on Black #MTG players, and the Facebook comments go "All Nerds Matter" on the story.
AND USAToday's website is suggesting questions about Somalis and fraud? The #SystemicRacism has infected the #AI!
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#ForFucksSake -- @USAToday does a human interest story on Black #MTG players, and the Facebook comments go "All Nerds Matter" on the story.
AND USAToday's website is suggesting questions about Somalis and fraud? The #SystemicRacism has infected the #AI!
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Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.
Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)
https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/
#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse
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In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history — and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation.
APTN Investigates: Dismantling Denialism | By Christopher Read
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Pv8-99Sp4&list=WL&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB
#APTNInvestigates #APTN #ShortDocs #HotDocs #CDNpoli #KKKanada #Colonialism #Documentary #DocFilm #Racism #Indigenous #ResidentialSchool #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ColonialAbuses #ColonialCrimes #Injustices #ChildAbuse #IndigenousGenocide #NativeCanada #TruthAndJustice #Whitewashing #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #Denialism #SystematicAbuse #SystemicRacism #EthnicCleansing #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #BelieveVictims #SupportVictims
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In the midst of a global uprising against police brutality and systemic racism, No Visible Trauma examines a deeply troubled police department and reveals the devastating consequences of unchecked police brutality. Despite its relatively low crime rates, recent years have seen the Calgary Police Service shoot and kill more people than officers in any other Canadian city, and more than either the New York or Chicago police departments in 2018. Five years in the making, the film unravels the intertwined stories of three individuals who were the victims of extreme violence at the hands of police officers. From the kidnapping and beating of a young immigrant from Ghana, to the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a “wellness check”, the film exposes a criminal justice system that fails to hold police officers accountable for their actions.
Directors: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal
Writers: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppalhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ktKrNvJnuQ
This doc focuses on CalgaryPD but the issues raised are happening across AB, in BC, Manitoba, Ontario & many more places across Canada. Canadian cops keep getting away with crimes & human rights abuses, daily, in Canada. Systemic racism is still a major problem across the country - no matter how much our governments try to whitewash their PR.
#documentary #documentaries #police #PoliceBrutality #politics #Calgary #Canada #crime #AwardWinning #PoliceViolence #AwardWinningDocumentary #HotDocs #trauma #VictimStories #TraumaHealing #TraumaRecovery #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #PublicTransparency #CopCrimes #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #NoJustice #DefundThePolice #ACAB #CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli #PunishPolice #CriminalCops #KKKanada #SystematicAbuse #SystemicRacism #Canadian #RacistCanada #WarSurvivorsForPeace
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Because the rest of us can’t afford to gamble our futures on your “I don’t know.”
#Mediocre #MythOfWhiteMaleSupremacy #TaNehisiCoates #EzraKlein #WhiteMen #GoodWhiteFolx #Antiracism #Accountability #PowerAndPrivilege #SystemicRacism #CulturalCritique #DoTheWork #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
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CW: Chattel slavery for sugar and rum 🧶
In 1776, Scotsman Adam "Smith noted that the British West Indian sugar plantations were so profitable they their returns from rum exports, a byproduct of sugar production, paid for the entire overhead expenses of a sugar plantation. As far as Smith was concerned, this was an achievement without parallel in eighteen-century British imperial agriculture."
(excerpt from Seymour Drescher’s book "The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation")
#AdamSmith #economics #economy #slavery #chattelSlavery #WestIndies #agriBusiness #agriculture #sugar #Caribbean #lineofColor #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #rum #accumulation #transatlantic #trade #slaveTrade #deportation #economics #BritishEmpire #BritishIsles #Tobago #Jamaica #Barbados
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Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶@economics @histodons @geography
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon
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An #Indigenous #employee with the #Canadian #Broadcasting Corp. #CBC is taking up the fight against what he describes as #SystemicRacism by his #employer.
Richard Agecoutay, 61, has been granted a #HumanRights hearing over claims of #discrimination at the #PublicBroadcaster, where he’s worked since 2001
#CDNpoli #GovernmentFunded #NativeNews #NativeCanada #equity #CorporateEthics #Justice #Legal #CanadianLaw
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Reification and objectification
"The notion of objectification concerns an interpersonal relationship, the individual action targeted by morality and law [...]. The notion of objectification, understood in this way, dispenses with a critical theory of society, which is central to the concept of reification. The emphasis is on individual responsibility, on the condemnation of singular acts, rather than on the social structures that demand, authorise or perpetuate these behaviours."
"In her book Dialectics of the Body, Lisa Yun Lee proposes an understanding of reification in Adorno based on the question of the body: the body forgotten by scientific modernity, the repressed body associated with nature and the feminine, the body mutilated by identity violence, and the commodity and spectacle body, instrumentalised for production (Yun Lee, 2004). "All reification is an oblivion": an oblivion of suffering, a collective anaesthesia to the effects of domination systematically organised and reproduced by reification."
Naït Ahmed, Salima ; Loslier-Simon, Marie : « Réification». Dictionnaire du genre en traduction / Dictionary of Gender in Translation / Diccionario del género en traducción. ISSN: 2967-3623. Mis en ligne le 09 Novembre 2023: https://worldgender.cnrs.fr/notices/reification/ @patriarchy
#Reification #objectification #research #feminism #feminisms #systemicRacism #blackFeminism #dictionary #InternationalDayOfWomenSRights #WomenSRights #March8 #InternationalWomenSRightsDay #InternationalWomenSDay #WomenSDay #CNRS
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"Introduced in the 1990s in the United States by black women activists, the concept of reproductive justice highlights how access to reproductive rights is impeded by gender, race and class oppressions. The entry presents the origins of the reproductive justice movement in the United States and the circulation of this notion in activist and academic spheres internationally."
El Kotni, Mounia; Louise Virole : “Justice reproductive”. Dictionnaire du genre en traduction / Dictionary of Gender in Translation / Diccionario del género en traducción. ISSN: 2967-3623. Mis en ligne le 6 juillet 2022: https://worldgender.cnrs.fr/notices/justice-reproductive/ @patriarchy
#reproductiveJustice #intersectionality #research #feminism #feminisms #systemicRacism #blackFeminism #Procriation #proCreation #maternity #dictionary #InternationalDayOfWomenSRights #WomenSRights #March8 #InternationalWomenSRightsDay #InternationalWomenSDay #WomenSDay #CNRS
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There is no judicial truth. Organisations cannot "do Justice". Let's discuss the biases of the judicial institutions.
! to be followed @sociology @ethics
#toBeFollowed #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #choice #choosing #sentencing #judging #systemicRacism #racialisation #racialization #patriarchy #fragility #truth #reputation #domination #stateViolence #sociology #mentalHealth #unitary #corporatism #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #responsibility
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New Study: #FossilFuels Disproportionately Impact #Black, #Brown, #Indigenous, and #Poor Communities Throughout The Supply Chain
#CarbonOffsets, #CapAndTrade, #CCS and Other “#CarbonCentric” Policies Fail to Mitigate Air and Water #Pollution
by Tyler Kruse
June 5, 2023"The study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy.
WASHINGTON DC (June 5, 2023)–"A new peer-reviewed study details the risks of President Biden’s support for expanded fossil fuel production and exports. Despite campaign promises to take on fossil fuels, Biden has approved massive extraction projects and allowed a surge of crude and LNG exports. Against the backdrop of attacks on environmental justice in Congress – including the recent rollbacks to NEPA in the Fiscal Responsibility Act – and the Supreme Court’s undercutting of the Clean Water Act, the study titled 'Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities' finds that fossil fuels impose unfair and unjust health harms on Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor communities.
"The study identifies the public health harms as well as the disproportionate impacts on communities at each stage of the #coal, #oil, and #gas lifecycles – #extraction, processing, transport, and combustion. It was authored by experts from Greenpeace USA, Salem State University, and Taproot Earth and published in Energy Research & Social Science.
"The publication draws from 200+ academic studies which reveal a consistent pattern: fossil fuel pollution is associated with #asthma, birth complications, #cancer, #respiratory disease, heart conditions, and premature mortality. Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities bear a disproportionate burden of these harms. These same communities are hit hardest by the impacts of the climate crisis.
"Additionally, the study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing #GreenhouseGas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy. Black, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and low-income populations already have an elevated burden of exposure to air pollutants that can harm the respiratory system known as PM2.5, a pattern that is consistent across nearly all emission source types. Poorly designed climate policies could concentrate this pollution in community 'hotspots' even as overall carbon emissions decline.
"Dr. Tim Donaghy, research manager at Greenpeace USA and a co-author of the report, said: 'Fossil fuels harm both the climate and our health and must be phased out as fast as possible. But if our climate policies only focus on reducing carbon, we are missing an opportunity to greatly improve health in impacted communities. Carbon-centric policies being pushed by the oil and gas industry won’t alleviate fossil fuel racism and could worsen it for communities who already bear the brunt of the industry’s pollution. A better approach is to shift the focus to the root cause of both carbon and pollution, which are fossil fuels themselves. Policymakers should explicitly mitigate air and water pollution, advance #EnvironmentalJustice, and meaningfully include historically targeted communities in climate policy-making and implementation.”
"Noel Healy, professor of Geography and Sustainability at Salem State University and co-author of the report, said: 'Alarmingly, Biden is approving new #drilling at a faster rate than the Trump administration. This includes approving '#CarbonBombs' at the #AlaskaWillow and the #LNGAlaskaProject, and recently breaking a major G7 climate promise by financing an #Indonesian #OilRefinery. Continued approval of harmful and #Extractive fossil fuel licenses is a catastrophic climate and public health failure.'
"The study argues that #SystemicRacism enables the fossil fuel industry to avoid paying the true cost of its pollution by passing it on to communities of color. It identifies fossil fuel racism as a subset of environmental racism characterized by the disproportionate and racialized effects of climate change, fossil fuel extraction, transportation, processing, and consumption on Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor populations.
"The fossil fuel industry is fueling a public health crisis that disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income communities. Healy said: 'We can tackle the #ClimateCrisis, improve public health, and confront systemic racism by phasing out fossil fuels and enacting a #GreenNewDeal.'
"The study makes the following recommendations:
- The U.S. should implement a managed phase out of fossil fuel production to drive absolute pollution reductions in ‘#SacrificeZones’ and to align our policy with 1.5°C pathways.
- Enact a Green New Deal to halt climate change and build a more just and regenerative economy.
- Protect and expand democratic spaces."#EnvironmentalRacism #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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If it constantly happens, it's not isolated incidents, it's systemic!
If police constantly kills POC, it's not some bad apples, it's #SystemicRacism!
If a political party is full of nazis, it's a nazi-party!
If your fediverse instance is full of nazis, it's not a "#FreeSpeech" instance, it's a nazi instance!
If #GAFAM is constantly in the news for data leaks it's not data leaks, it's #SurveillanceCapitalism!
If there are weather extremes on a daily basis, it's not the weather, it's the #ClimateCrisis!
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