nikol @nikol@mastodon.bida.im

Il 10% della popolazione mondiale detiene il 90% della ricchezza.
Le tensioni geopolitiche scaturiscono anche da questa disparità.

#16aprile

I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

If you could witness any moment in history firsthand, what would it be and why?

APERITIVO DI RACCOLTA FONDI - PALESTINA

Piazza della Propositura, giovedì, 18 aprile (17:30)

https://lapunta.org/event/aperitivo-di-raccolta-fondi-palestina

C'è un nuovo estratto dal nuovo album deə King Hannah, Davey Says, ovvero King Hannah in the garage

https://youtu.be/aIoOin1mpwU?si=R49WuUOXtocmIU0I

#FediRadio #AltRock #KingHannah #NewMusic

This is a historic tech action in a long proud tradition.

From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/

Apparently I work at the WRONG library!

Also, as I've said many times regarding several other wars and single armed incursions,
there is no "retaliation", "vengeance", "balance" or similar casus belli. Applying equally for every State regardless of what we think of the State/regime in question.
There is a "self-defense" mechanism which is defined as only valid while defending against an actually ongoing armed attack, which ends the moment that armed attack ends, meaning a single instance of attack, not an entire war or campaign. After that, the matter is to be taken to the UNSC and/or ICJ.
"Counter-attacking", "retaliatory strike" or whatever weeks or even hours later is NOT valid "self-defense" and neither is crazy claims some made of "preemptive self-defense" attacks. They are all simply acts of war of aggression.
That's not "my opinions", but the rules all States imposed on themselves by declaring themselves as States; current intl law.

Compare to if Steve was out partying and was punched by Joe, then everyone goes home, but then Steve drives over to Joe's apartment a couple of weeks later to punch back. Nobody would consider that to then be a "self-defense" act.
Same if Steve just decided that "I think Joe will punch me soon, so I will drive over to Joe's place and punch Joe first, in self-defense".
That is not self-defense.

#OtD 16 Apr 1999 a bill to require that military action by the UK against Iraq be approved by parliament, rather than launched unilaterally by the govt, was scheduled for debate. But on advice from the Labour govt, the debate was blocked by the Queen https://t.co/r55sxNFX3G https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8753/iraq-invasion-law-blocked?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"I'm Jewish, and I've Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them": Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza

http://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/israel_war_crimes

Don’t include Iranian women as part of the “enemy” narrative, their struggle is ours. #Iran

Time to boycott #Nike

Or at least fire their stupid all-male leadership and "design" team.

Nike's Olympic track women's uniforms criticized by athletes over sexism concerns

"And if you honestly think that on the most important days of our careers we're choosing what we wear to appease the men watching over what we're most comfortable and confident in, to execute to the best of our abilities, that's pretty offensive," she added.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/nikes-olympic-track-womens-uniforms-criticized-athletes-sexism/story?id=109267006

Many people remember the historic demonstrations that shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 as a breakthrough for anarchist direct action. The mobilization against the summit of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC the following April confirmed the movement's strength, popularizing tactics that are widely used today.

This oral history explores the A16 mobilization in depth:

https://crimethinc.com/A16

The photo shows the black bloc driving back police by charging them with two sections of fencing. 🏴

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"We walked straight into downtown, saw the blockades, the sleeping dragons, the big yellow puppet and went down to I street. All of the streets there were blockaded."

"We were so crazy, so fearless. I remember at some point marching with the anarchists past this construction site. And a whole bunch of us picked up this fence, these couple of links of fence, and charged the police line. It was so wild, the cops running away from us!"

Journalists of New York Times instructed to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” & “ethnic cleansing” & to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” & not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” #Gaza #Palestine https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/