The Manitoba government went back to the days of banning Indigenous ceremonies yesterday. Security and police stopped Indigenous people from putting up a ceremonial tipi. Welcome to 1867 .
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I am a social justice and human rights activist! It is important to do the right thing! Always!
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My statement following numbers dismissed by the New York Times a month ago.
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Jewish American journalist Katie Halper has been fired by The Hill for calling Israel an 'apartheid state' and for defending Palestinian-American US Rep. Rashida Tlaib who said "you cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back Israel's apartheid government."
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Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Fawzy got injured with live bullets while he was clearly wearing a press vest, while documenting the Israeli military raid into Deir El-Hatab village, East of Nablus.
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The lsraeli occupation forces intimidate a primary school in Hebron; dozens of Palestinian students have been terrorized today as they were gassed and assaulted by the lsraeli occupation force during what was supposed to be a ‘normal’ school day.
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I thank everyone who has asked about me, and appreciate your support.
Hossam Salem, a freelance journalist and photographer
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What is taking place is a systematic effort to distort the image of Palestinian journalists as being incapable of trustworthiness and integrity, simply because we cover the human rights violations that the Palestinian people undergo on a daily basis at hands of the Israeli army
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Not only has Honest Reporting succeeded in terminating my contract with The New York Times, it has also actively discouraged other international news agencies from collaborating with me and my two colleagues.
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The editor later wrote an article stating that he had succeeded in sacking three Palestinian journalists working for the New York Times in the Gaza Strip, on the basis of us being "anti-Semitic”.
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... My aforementioned posts also spoke of the resilience of my people and those who were killed by the Israeli army - my cousin included - which Honest Reporting described as “Palestinian terrorists”.
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The article, which the New York Times had based its decision for dismissing me, gives examples of posts I wrote on my social media accounts, namely Facebook, where I had expressed support for the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation...
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As I understood later, the decision was made based on a report prepared by a Dutch editor - who obtained Israeli citizenship two years ago - for a website called Honest Reporting.
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I began working with the newspaper in 2018, covering critical events in Gaza such as the weekly protests at the border fence with Israel, the investigation into the Israeli killing of field nurse Razan al-Najjar, and more recently, the May 2021 Israeli offensive on the Gaza strip
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After years of covering the Gaza Strip as a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, I was informed via an abrupt phone call from the US outlet that they will no longer work with me in the future.
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Some Native communities must travel 200 miles round trip just to vote. It’s time to bring polling sites to the reservation — wouldn’t you agree?
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We just had the National Day of Ttuth & Reconciliation Sept 30, today Oct 4 is National Day of Action for MMIWG. How many races of people do you know in Canada that are trying to heal from a genocide & stay alive while another one is ongoing? This is the reality for Indigenous
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Israel regularly detains and imprisons Palestinians without charges, because their only true “crime” is existing as Palestinians.
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5. We won't avoid 1.75/2.25°C in the coming years imo which I'd think will probably be too much for the Amazon Rainforest given current levels of damage. I may be wrong. Anyway, broadly speaking the political change needed is the same regardless of whether or not it's 'too late'.
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4. 'the Brazilian Amazon — which contains up 40% of the world’s tropical forests — has passed the tipping point, with 25% transformation and 9% high degradation. This means that 34% of the Brazilian Amazon has practically been lost.'
It's hard to stomach.
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3. 'knowledge spanning millennia': how to keep the Amazon forests standing
“It is essential that global and national policies recognize the role of Indigenous peoples and territories in the preservation of the most sensitive ecosystems on the planet..”
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2. 'The tipping point for the Amazon is no longer a distant scenario, but a present reality in some parts of the region
Brazil and Bolivia have the largest amounts of destruction and, as a result, “savannization is already taking place in both countries.”
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1. “Our data show that the protection of 80% of the Amazon is necessary and possible, but above all, urgent. If the current trend of deforestation continues, the Amazon as we know it today would not reach 2025,” says the RAISG’s report..
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The Brazilian Amazon, containing 40% of Earth’s tropical forests, has passed the tipping point. Unless the role of Indigenous peoples and territories in preserving the most sensitive ecosystems on the planet is recognised in the next 24 months, we may anticipate total collapse.🧵
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In Ojibwe our word for lighthouse is waskonenjige-gamik (pronounced wa-sko-nen-ji-ge-ga-mik). ‘Lighthouse and ice’ by Manitoulin Photographer Peter Baumgarten.
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Egyptian authorities' use the NHRS to showcase their commitment to human rights. Yet, Ahmed Douma's sentencing to 15 years in prison for exercising his right to protest shows the opposite. Call on to release him now: amn.st/6018Mj7kr
#CantFakeHumanRights
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These are really extraordinary scenes. If these protests are going to achieve anything, it will be because of the schoolgirls.
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Holding the UN climate summit in Egypt, under the boot of one of the planet’s most brutal dictators, creates a moral crisis for the climate movement.
On this blockbuster panel this Thurs we'll discuss the politics of #COP27 in a Cop State. #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll twitter.com/theintercept/s…Show this thread
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And more than 9 years later, I reunited with my parents yesterday in London. I last saw them in September 2013. They made their way out of Gaza a week ago. It is hard to put my feelings in words. I am relieved and grateful.
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#IranRevolution
Tehran, #Iran's capital—#IranProtests against #MahsaAmini's murder, day 19.
Students of Khaje Nasir University are protesting and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime.
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The official poster for the upcoming 9th edition of Palestine cinema days 2022. Paying homage to the Syrian artist and designer Burhan Karkutli (1932-2003), whose work is considered emblematic of the Palestinian resistance and its visual landscape. Designed by 40mustaqel.
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The world is watching Iranians young and old confront the Islamic regime amid fears of a worsening crackdown. It's day 18 of unprecedented protests that erupted after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. spoke to one of the student protesters.
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Florida female students are being asked to share the details of their menstrual history to play sports. This information is kept by a software company that is not protected by HIPPA laws and it could be forced to turn the data over to the state if subpoenaed.
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I am honored to have my name beside 2 great humanitarian heros and to be nominated to such prestigious award .
This might shed some light on the human rights situation in Egypt twitter.com/auroraprize_/s…
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Real allies who understand that our struggle is one, for universal human rights values, global climate justice, and a safe future to our planet and all its inhabitants
#Cop27 #climatechange #humanrights #Egypt #FreeThemAll
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This is Neekas, Heiltsuk Territory. All of these salmon went into the creek, the creek dried up b/c of no rain so far this fall, and just died, and this is just one reach! Global warming is killing everything. This is such a sad scene. Video credit, Sarah Mund
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The pediatrician in the video, Dr. Ismail, said that Rayan effectively died of a panic attack: that his little heart and body couldn't control his reaction to the fear of being chased by the soldiers, and so he just dropped after arriving at home.
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The family of a 7-year-old Palestinian, Rayan Suleiman, say he died of heart failure after being chased by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
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