#Climate Equality

[ihhfhonao3]

I’m a firm believer in the passive and small acts of activism.

You’re actively fighting capitalism by resting and taking a break. You’re actively fighting homophobia by wearing a rainbow pin to signify to others your allyship. You’re actively fighting climate change by air drying your hands after washing them. You’re actively fighting childism by letting a minor talk to you about how they’re doing. You’re actively fighting oppressive systems by simply existing.

There have always been others like you, and there always will be others like you. Your existence is rebellion. As long as you’re alive, conservatives and bigots have lost.

You’re a rebel. You’re a warrior. You’re a fighter. And you don’t even know it.

[liberaljane]

Feminist victories– from legal reform to workplace rights to control over our own bodies– have not been the result of solitary efforts but legacies of collective action. Right now, our world is at a crossroads. Climate catastrophes. Violence. Inequality and threats to roll back our rights. The stakes keep rising.

Digital illustration of three people, from left to right: a blonde woman with green shorts and a green tank, a afro Latina fem wearing an oversized yellow shirt with text that reads, 'a feminist movement win is a win for everybody.' On the right is a Black man wearing a blue shirt and a young deaf girl of color wearing a shirt with a graphic of the earth that reads, 'vote for her.'

[geminni5]

[gaymaerer]

Why do people pay rent, simply deny the landlords existence, in fact, start charging him money

[mywitchcultblr]

[koheletgirl]

ok so i don't personally believe in the 2 states solution (for a myriad of reasons i won't get into now), but why does it seem like everyone who supports it these days is labeled as a zionist? i know why i might think that, but i doubt it's for the same reasons so i'm genuinely asking here

[saddayfordemocracy]

Vincent Dubourg, "Exile coffee table," France, 2008,

Patinated cast bronze, polished cast aluminum,

30 h × 37⅜ w × 35 d in (76 × 95 × 89 cm)

Courtesy: Wright20

[randyite]

Woke, indeed

[livin-lightning]

Support LGBTQ+ rights Support Women's rights Support BLM Support fair and equal pay Support a clean and sustainable environment

Do NOT support companies using those causes as a way to increase their own profit margin.

[sparksinthenight]

Why we need Land Back

We should talk about current issues Indigenous people face.

In Canada at least there are many problems still happening.

Indigenous children are being ripped away from their loving families and put into foster care simply because the families are poor or the parents struggle with mental illness or something like that.

Women are being forcibly sterilized against their will.

Girls, women, and 2 spirit people are being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery and are also getting murdered and raped and their bodies are being thrown into the landfills.

The land that Indigenous communities need for their cultures and livelihoods is being destroyed by resource extraction companies that cut through the landscape and leave open wounds, that pollute the land, air, and water, and destroy the biodiversity and health of the ecosystems.

There is police brutality against Indigenous people, and people are killed by the police every day. There are hate crimes against Indigenous people.

Social services on reserves, including education, healthcare, utilities, housing, etc, are horrifically underfunded, and are funded much less well than the same social services off of reserves.

There’s discrimination in employment, in healthcare, in pretty much everything. And Indigenous people are kept in poverty and homelessness by the discriminatory society.

We need Land Back.

Land Back will allow Indigenous people to stop their land from being destroyed. Their cultures and livelihoods and mental health and spiritual health and well-being is so deeply tied to the land/nature. And actually, having them be able to effectively protect the land helps all of us because all humans are dependant upon the land even if we don’t realize it.

It will also allow Indigenous communities to force the government to stop discriminating against them by giving them worse social services. It will allow them to force the government to give them the same social services everyone else gets.

It will also allow them to force the government to stop taking their children. All children deserve to be with the families who love them and they should not be ripped away from their families, because this causes deep and devastating lifelong trauma.

It would allow Indigenous communities to stop rapists and traffickers and murderers from entering their communities. It will allow them to force rapists and traffickers and murderers out of their communities. And it will allow them to make sure every case of people getting raped or kidnapped or trafficked or killed is properly investigated and the victims are saved and the perpetrators get justice. Same with other hate crimes.

It will allow Indigenous people to have the power necessary to push back on police brutality and build better models of law enforcement, including community-ventured models.

Indigenous communities will also likely get a flow of money that they can use to lift their people out of poverty. They’ll have the power to stop healthcare discrimination and forcible sterilization. And they’ll have the power to force us to give justice to unethical healthcare professionals and to force systemic change in the healthcare system so that medical mistreatment doesn’t happen.

Indigenous people would also have the opportunity to do more outreach to settler communities and teach them about Indigenous culture and values and stuff, so that people learn to be less racist and discriminatory.

Land Back will help pretty much every marginalized community because stopping racism and discrimination for one race usually leads to there being decreased racism and discrimination for other races too.

Ultimately Land Back is about giving Indigenous people and communities the power to keep themselves and each other safe in a society that is actively against them. It is also about keeping the ecosystems that we all rely upon safe, and about stopping discrimination and racism.

Giving Indigenous people power to protect themselves and their communities isn’t going to prevent any other community from protecting themselves. It will create more equality and social justice for everyone in Canada.

I support Land Back. I’m a settler girl and I support Land Back, and you should too.

[ivygorgon]

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[gaymaerer]

I’m swag like Ohio yo skibbity rizz with the gyatt

[gay-ppl-real]

While I was out on a charity shopping adventure in town yesterday two people walked past us while we were taking a short rest turn and one of them said,

"I just think... Men are not it, y'know?"

like it was something really profound that they'd hit upon.

and I was the only one who heard and I started giggling, and the rest of my party was really confused, and that was funnier so I started cackling, but I didn't want the people who'd walked past to feel self-conscious so I had to wait until they were out of earshot to explain why I was laughing hysterically to myself over seemingly nothing

[the-rockers]

Don't get me wrong, the fusion energy breakthrough is really cool from the angle of, like, scientific progress, but...

[faithfromanewperspective]

snippet of me thinking i've solved all the world's problems yet again

I don't like first thinking about policy shifts because i think policy in itself as our only thing keeping us in line is a sign we are letting ourselves become that rational economic dudebro rather than a society. so i'll talk in terms of cultural shifts first as i believe they are the prerequisite. one of these is simply the need to value autonomy of all people, in a way that does not consider autonomy to require the ability to exploit others but rather resilience against exploitation (and understands why some may feel the former). rediscovering connection, with each other, but with those so separate from us, as our measure of wealth--because it is a wealth that leads to advocating for rights for all. including the planet. and policy is the puppet on a string that keeps the masses happy. when the masses want this, policy will reflect it and keep the few who still hold to (and succeed in) the old paradigm in line. this ensures we're not fighting people to make these policies.