#codepink #freerumeysaozturk #usa #ice #immigration #tufts #democracy #discrimination #ramadan #muslim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5rl9Lszt-I

#PowerdByRainbows

Which Companies Are Ending #LGBTQIAplus :pride: :anqueer_flag: Support?

#Fortune500 #DEI #Discrimination #SaveYourMoney

#ClassActionLawsuit Hopefully

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #discrimination / #islamophobia / #antisemitism

„Rights advocates have highlighted an increase in Islamophobia, anti-Arab bias and anti-Semitism since the start of Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza, following a deadly October 2023 Hamas attack.“

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/gaza-war-behind-record-high-us-anti-muslim-incidents-advocacy-group-says

The world needs more disabled journalists and writers.

We bring a unique perspective that is needed during these increasingly tumultuous times.

Heartbroken to see a disabled student lose their funding for accommodations because the school deemed them “too disabled” to have a feasible career in journalism.

This is systemic ableism. People think they can tell us what we can or can’t do.

He was described as an excellent writer, and he deserved the chance to get his degree and fulfill his dream.

It’s also a perfect example of the catch 22 many disabled people find themselves in. Often denied or judged for needing benefits and told to “get a job!”, while subsequently being told that we’re too disabled to merit giving a job.

https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/local/north-dakota-supreme-court-rules-against-dsu-students-claim

#ableism #disability #discrimination #disabilityjustice #disabilityrights

"Hateful #media narratives can have dangerous real world consequences. Sign the #petition to spread the word & urge #MarksandSpencer to #StopFundingHate

https://actionstorm.org/petitions/marks-spencer-stop-advertising-on-gb-news?ref=699436

#GBnews
#hatespeech
#discrimination
#bigotry
#misinformation
#newsmedia

As more States propose mask bans, I want to take a moment to discuss claims that it’s “fear mongering” to say that masking is illegal.

People claim the medical exemption is “good enough”.

This ignores three critical points. Public perception, anti mask sentiment and rampant ableism

First things first, mask bans make masking a criminal offence. They make the act of wearing a mask illegal.

Sure there may be medical exemptions, but they’re incredibly problematic.

Lawmakers specifically chose not to exempt medical masks and respirators. The burden is on the wearer

Second, public perception around masking is very different now than it was before Covid.

People are irrationally angry when they see a mask. They’ve been politicized and folks have created an identity in their minds about who a masker is. A liberal. A sheep. Someone who’s anti-freedom.

None of their preconceived notions are based in fact or reality, but they fuel the anger and rage that gets directed at maskers every day.

When you enact a mask ban, you embolden these people. They aren’t reading the bills and considering medical exemptions.

They just hear they’re banned.

As a result they think they can demand you remove your mask. They may call the police on you. They will certainly feel justified in judging and targeting maskers and declaring that they’re doing “something wrong”.

This emboldening creates a dangerous situation that could easily lead to violence

This is why we must discuss anti mask sentiment when talking about mask bans.

Many disabled people masked before covid. I was one of them. The worst I ever got was a strange look or someone moving far away from me on transit

Since mask mandates ended I’ve been coughed on, spit at and yelled at

People view masks as bad and loathe anyone who’s still wearing them.

When you publicly enact a mask ban, you’re telling those people they’re right. That it’s ok to harass people for masking. That it’s wrong to wear a mask and protect your health.

You’re increasing the hostility.

Finally there’s the issue of ableism. Mask bans make public spaces less accessible. Period.

For many of us a good mask is the only reason we can be out in public. If you make it a crime, we risk being stopped by the police and forced to justify our disabilities.

Many of us have a difficult time getting healthcare workers to take us seriously, but we’re supposed to assume law enforcement will believe we’re masking for the right reasons?

That’s a risk we should never be forced to take. The interaction alone would negatively impact our baseline

Lastly… any reason for wearing a mask should be good enough.

We are still in a global pandemic. Millions are dead, even more are disabled. People are still dying every week.

Wearing a mask to protect yourself - whether disabled or not - is a smart and caring choice

The idea that someone should be forced to justify that choice or risk arrest is patently absurd.

Which is why mask bans are wrong.

The best way to fight these bans is to mask up. The more people wearing masks, the harder they will be to ban.

You can also call and email your local lawmakers and tell them you strongly oppose bans which make a medical mask illegal.

Please don’t wait until someone is assaulted or arrested just for wearing a medical device. Help us fight these bans now.

I’ve written extensively about mask bans, if you want a full length piece about why medical exemptions are not the answer, please read my article on Nassau County

Exemptions leave many people behind. They put undue burden on disabled individuals. They increase risk of profiling marginalized people

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#uglylaws #maskbans #discrimination #ableism #disability #uspoli #eugenics #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

Hello! 👋🏼 We are pleased to welcome you to the page of the social critique journal #Spilne. We are a #leftist Ukrainian #journal focused on #economics, #politics, #history, and #culture.
The editorial team shares egalitarian and #anticapitalist views. Therefore, in our publications, we discuss how to transform #society so that there is no place left for exploitation, #inequality, and #discrimination.
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#commons_journal #introduction #socialism #Ukraine #progressive

We recently finished the series #DerryGirls, and my hubby found a podcast from Telegraph which tells the awful truth of why #IrishCatholics were so pissed off at #Protestants in #NorthernIreland. Housing and employment #discrimination, harrassment, lack of #VotingRights, etc. Did you know that only if you owned property you could vote, and business owners could vote twice! And guess who owned most of the property and businesses! No wonder there was rebellion!

A new series of Bed of Lies: Spies, murder and terrorists in Northern Ireland’s Troubles

by Cara McGoogan

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/bed-of-lies/
#IrishHistory #BritishHistory #AbolishTheMonarchy #TheTroubles #Oppression

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
—

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.

https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Trump #CivilRights #Students #Discrimination #USPolitics

“You’re so lucky you don’t have to work!”

Disability IS a full time job. Only you don’t get paid. You don’t have opportunity for advancement. You never get to earn more money.

You spend every dime trying to stay alive. You live below the poverty line. You’re judged constantly.

I wish non disabled people would imagine how it feels to have your life grind to a halt with no expectation of improvement.

When you’re healthy, you at least have the possibility of earning more money. Of getting a better job. Of inheriting. Of moving forward.

That vanishes with disability.

We’re literally not allowed to earn money. Many of us can’t get married or cohabitate without losing our benefits.

We have to beg and plead for support that can be taken away at any moment, and are barred from doing anything to better our situation.

We live in a constant state of fear.

Fear of worsening health. Fear of a medical emergency that will wipe out our baseline, savings or both. Fear of being trapped with an abusive partner or caregiver. Fear of homelessness or bankruptcy. Fear of judgement and gaslighting.

We miss out on every day things that people take for granted.

I miss grabbing a coffee with a coworker. Being able to pop to the store for groceries. Being able to drive. Feeling safe in my body.

I miss my autonomy and freedom.

Being disabled can be a difficult existence. You don’t just lose your health

In many cases it destroys relationships, finances & hope

It’s not a vacation. It’s not something to aspire to. It’s not fun.

Please be kinder in the way you speak to us & be allies in the fight for better supports.

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #eugenics #discrimination #disabilityjustice

“HOW BRITAIN SUPPORTED ZIONISM AND PREVENTED PALESTINIAN FREEDOM”

by A Bustos in Declassified UK @Declassified_UK

“Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/

#Press #Britain #Zionism #Palestine #Freedom #Mandate #Balfour #Colonislism #Repression #BenGurion #Weizmann #Discrimination #JewishAgency

Absolutely bloody right. This alleged "case" is an absurdity, & furthermore IMO is a racist attack on SK by cops ironically using the laws intended to safeguard SK from racist attacks. 😡

#racism #HateSpeech #Discrimination #colonialism #SamKerr

A #white person using a racial slur to refer to someone with dark skin is tapping into deeply held cultural ideas about racial hierarchy created by centuries of colonial exploitation. A dark skinned person calling someone ‘white’ is saying ‘you have NO IDEA what it is like to live in this body’.

In what way are these things equivalent?

#racism #HateSpeech #Discrimination #colonialism #SamKerr

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/sam-kerr-trial-london-metropolitan-police-london/104884292?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

This is how it is done - and should be - all day and night every day and night - Sen. #AngelaAlsobrooks, the first #Black U.S. #senator in #Maryland history [she won against #trump supported #hogan], dragged Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s history of racist #pseudoscience to the fore during his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday. #HHS #congress #discrimination #hatred #science #publichealth https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/rfk-jr-alsobrooks-confirmation-hearing-vaccines-black-people-rcna190207

Police brutality case against Roma in Hungary marks larger scale of abuse highlighting systematic and institutional racism in Europe

📖 https://www.errc.org/news/hungary-romani-man-dies-during-police-intervention-relatives-demand-public-inquiry

See this report by the Council of Europe raising the need for anti-discrimination laws to apply to law enforcement authorities and the publication by the OSCE on good policing practices

📖https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/b/7/67843.pdf

📖https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33095/html#_TOC_d19e50

#roma #minority #press #policebrutality #europe #discrimination #democracy #hungary

Not only does this memo give serious Handmaids Tale vibes (prioritizing the pious and the fertile while the rest of us go without)….

But don’t snooze on the fact that they’ve made it so if you get funding from the Department of Transportation you can’t have a vaccine or mask mandate.

COVID isn’t over. H5N1 is spreading rapidly and has pandemic potential.

We’ve got RFK Jr poised to take over HHS and do untold amounts of damage to public health.

Yet they’re still coming for masks and vaccines.

Please wear a mask while you still can. Mask to protect your own health and to show solidarity with disabled and marginalized people who’ve been cast aside and treated as expendable for years.

Mask to Resist.

Via Ken Klipperstein

#uspoli #dot #dei #deia #departmentoftransportation #discrimination #masks #vaccines #pandemic #publichealth #covidisnotover #h5n1

#Trump Draws Bright Line Between #Sexes. #Executiveorder requires changes to #passports #prisons and other areas of #American life. WSJ gift article. #gender #discrimination #hmanrights #identity #legalresearch https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/donald-trump-gender-ideology-impact-fa30bdc0?st=5w4oCW&mod=djemwhatsnews

Hegseth being confirmed is a slap in the face to every woman or marginalized individual who’s been passed over for a job because there was a completely unqualified and morally questionable cishet white dude available.

So basically … all of us.

#Hegseth #uspoli #trump #misogyny #discrimination

#Lawyers and #advocacy #groups advise #members of the #LGBTQ+ #community to take #precautions under #Trump’s #executiveorder

For anyone experiencing #discrimination based on their #genderidentity, #advocacy groups such as #LambdaLegal or the #ACLU, can provide support.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/health/lgbtq-rights-trump-executive-order-wellness/

A Line By Line #Analysis Of #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump's Big #AntiTrans #ExecutiveOrder.

Trump released 70+ executive orders Monday. While orders on #immigration and #climate drew attention, his #antitrans order could have sweeping impacts.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-line-by-line-analysis-of-trumps

People often ask me why I’m outspoken about trans rights. I’m not trans so “why do you care?”

The Ogre nailed it. I care because what the government is doing to trans people is wrong. I care because we are being conditioned to accept atrocities. Conditioned to allow our fellow human being to be treated in discriminatory, dangerous and appalling ways. Conditioned to look away from the suffering of others.

It seems plainly obvious to me. They’re creating a villain where one doesn’t exist. Whipping people into a frenzy over perceived dangers like trans women in bathrooms and sports… instead of dealing with the very real dangers that are facing us (pandemics, climate change, the fall of democracy and capitalism).

They’re starting with trans people because they’re an easy mark. They’re a small percentage of the population, many people don’t think they know any trans people and therefore they don’t see it as a “big issue”.

Stripping people of their dignity and rights will always be a big issue. Just because it’s not happening to a group you care about doesn’t mean you shouldn’t speak out against it.

The trans community need allies. They need people to see how wrong this is and say “enough is enough”. They are not a threat and they don’t deserve to be treated as one.

Lastly… this type of hateful rhetoric doesn’t stop with one group of people.

It doesn’t stop at all.

They will keep coming for your rights. The rights of LGBTQ+ communities. The rights of immigrants and marginalized individuals. The rights of the unhoused. The rights of women.

They will keep coming.

If you wait to speak up, before you know it, it’ll be too late.

Speak up now. Ask the tough questions. Get to know a trans person. Support them. We are stronger together.

https://open.substack.com/pub/opinionatedogre/p/trans-genocide-is-beginning-wheres?r=19dk2e&utm_medium=ios

#lgbtq #transrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #discrimination #uspol

Southern Africa: Growing Authoritarianism Threatens Rights

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/16/southern-africa-growing-authoritarianism-threatens-rights

Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024. Attacks on civic space and media have far-reaching implications…

#Africa #Authoritarianism #HumanRights #Intolerance #Attacks #CivicSpaces #Media #PoliticalPrisoners #Power #Competition #Journalists #GovernmentKillings #Displacement #BlockingAid #Discrimination #Policies #Fraud #Corruption

A doctor posted earlier that she saved a life because she believed her patient.

She described him as “strong”, a father, a firefighter. Someone who “wouldn’t complain for no reason.”

How can HCWs not realize this bias insinuates others DO complain for no reason?

I’m glad the man got the care he needed - as he had a life threatening issue that could have easily been blown off.

But what if it had been someone else? A disabled or marginalized women? Someone who’s homeless, has multiple complex illnesses or dealing with drug addiction?

Bias and misogyny are huge problems in medicine.

By this doctors own admission, they believed it to be serious because the patient was “not the type” to complain for nothing.

How can they not realize they’re insinuating there IS a type that complain for nothing?

The majority of people won’t go to the ER for funsies. They’re not complaining for attention - they’re suffering.

If they’re disabled? Odds are good they’ve been suffering for days trying like hell to avoid going to the ER.

But we don’t take them seriously. Why? Bias.

The tendency to dismiss, gaslight, downplay and ignore is always there.

The number of times I’ve gone to the ER and watched a male patient receive vastly quicker & more efficient care makes me physically ill.

It happens ALL the time.

The result? Patients like me don’t go to the hospital. We suffer in silence. We roll the dice with our health rather than be subjected to gaslighting and trauma.

It needs to stop because it costs lives - they’re just not talked about.

When someone with a complex chronic illness dies at home it’s unlikely anyone knows that they were debating medical care. That they would have gone in if not for the myriad of times they were ignored or abused.

Those stories never get told.

I have my own such story from when I had a hysterectomy at 24

I was discharged from hospital despite feeling “off”. I decompensated at home.

I went to the ER for help and was told I was “fine”. Asked “what do you want us to do?”

Told I was “overreacting”

Two weeks passed as I got sicker and sicker. Increasing pain, swelling and fatigue.

I couldn’t eat, walk or function. I was pale and listless and had stopped checking phone or email. I was not “fine”

Yet it took 4 trips and a man coming with me to be taken seriously

I had been bleeding into my abdomen & a large life threatening infection had developed.

Yet I wasn’t believed. I wasn’t listened to.

After 3rd ER trip yielded no results I was adamant I wasn’t going back. I wanted to die in my own bed

The man who took me in saved my life

I could have become a statistic. Bled to death at home because ER told me repeatedly that I was “fine”

They told me this without running single test. They wrote me off the moment I walked in

We must change the culture. Listen to patients. Treat them equally. Lives depend on it
Patients with life threatening medical emergencies should not have to be “strong & tough” young men to be taken seriously

I shouldn’t have needed to bring a man to the ER for them to finally run tests. Patients deserve to be listened to… ALL patients:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and

#chronicillness #disability #spoonie #ableism #bias #misogyny #discrimination
#medicaltrauma

[thread] Anita Bryant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

* outspoken Christian activist against U.S. gay rights
* 1977 Save Our Children campaign to repeal local ordinance in Miami-Dade County, FL
* ordinance outlawed discrim. on basis of sexual orientation
* disgraced; freq. named prototypical example of opposition to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights
* 2024-Dec-16 died f. cancer

#AnitaBryant #RepublicanParty #GOP #discrimination
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #homophobia #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #hatred

""De la même manière qu'il n'y a pas de raison que les musulmans s'excusent des attentats islamistes, je ne vois pas pourquoi les juifs devraient être responsables des atrocités commises à Gaza", poursuit Jonas Pardo, cofondateur de Golem, un collectif de juifs de gauche constitué au début de la guerre à Gaza pour lutter à la fois contre la politique de Benyamin Netanyahou et contre l'antisémitisme. "Le soutien au peuple palestinien est légitime, mais conduit trop souvent à des déplacements antisémites, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux ou en manif où des gens ne se rendent pas compte qu'ils propagent une iconographie antisémite créée par l'extrême droite", soutient-il."
https://tetu.com/2024/12/13/antisemitisme-association-juive-lgbt-beit-haverim-veut-rompre-le-silence/
#antisémitisme #GuerreIsraelHamas #Gaza #ConflitIsraéloPalestinien #benyaminnetanyahou #religion #politique #discrimination #France #LGBTIQA #LGBT #Tetu

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #evacuation / #discrimination / #family / #justice

„Nine Palestinian Americans sued the US government on Dec 19, alleging that it had failed to rescue them or members of their families who were trapped in Gaza, where Israel’s war has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis.“

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/lawsuit-alleges-us-failed-to-evacuate-palestinian-americans-trapped-in-gaza

A study for the Guide Dogs charity in 2022 found that 76% of guide dog owners had been refused access to a business or service.
49% have changed or restricted their plans because they were worried about being challenged or refused access.

#Ableism #Discrimination

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6233rv397yo

My latest article is about the shooting of CEO Brian Thompson and how NYC Mayor Adams seems poised to use it as an excuse to bring in a ban on masks (which he’s wanted to do for awhile).

Mask bans are discriminatory, ableist and put lives at risk.

We are still IN an airborne pandemic. Everyone - whether disabled or not - should have the legal right to protect themselves from infection.

People need masks for all kinds of reasons. Pollution, wildfire smoke, allergies AND Covid. No one should be forced to risk their health because a necessary medical device has been criminalized for absolutely no reason.

Make no mistake - these bans won’t stop crime. Studies have shown that sunglasses obscure identity more effectively.

The only reason to ban masks is to pander to those on the right still angry about mask mandates - and to make it easier for the government to surveil its citizens.

Ironically those who screamed the loudest about freedom and bodily autonomy during mask mandates are eerily quiet about mask bans - despite the fact that they represent escalating fascism and government overreach.

We really are on our own.

Please - mask up. Do it in solidarity with disabled people who NEED masks in order to safely access public spaces. Do it to support the Covid aware people who just want to avoid infection. Do it to send a message to the government that you don’t believe anyone is expendable. Do it to protect our right to mask in the future.

It’s not too late - but we must get loud, work fast and wear our masks.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nyc-mayor-wants-to-ban-masks-in-the

#maskbans #nomaskbans #noNYmaskban #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #wearamask #respirator #brianthompson #luigimangione #ableism #discrimination #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #maskup

Global church council makes no apology for applying 'apartheid' to Israeli policy

https://www.canadianaffairs.news/2024/12/10/global-church-council-makes-no-apology-for-applying-apartheid-to-israeli-policy/

The leader of the World Council of Churches also said Israel should be investigated for 'accusations of genocidal intent‘…

“Because those lives are precious. Those lives have been given by God. And we need to say something about it.”

#GlobalChruchCouncil #Condemns #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide #LostLives #Christians #Dialog #Discrimination #Palestinians

"Sadly, incidents of Islamophobia simply do not generate the same levels of publicity as other forms of discrimination."
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/liberal-senator-dave-sharmas-fictitious-islamophobia-claim-condemned/5wqbmxqc2
@palestine
@israel

#AusPol
#Islamophobia
#Antisemitism
#discrimination

How #Republicans' #Trans #MoralPanic Echoes #VladmirPutin’s #Authoritarian #Playbook

I was a #journalist in #Russia when Putin launched his #campaign against #LGBTQ+ #people just over a decade ago.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #Russia #FuckRussia #FuckPutin

https://www.them.us/story/how-the-gops-trans-panic-has-shades-of-putins-anti-lgbtq-playbook

I can’t believe this needs to be said - but masks don’t kill people. Guns do.

I find it extremely concerning that the media reports about Luigi Mangione say he had a gun, ammo and “box of masks” in his backpack. As though they’re the same.

Masks are a personal protective tool. They can’t harm anyone else.

The U.S. has a terrible problem with gun violence. Yet whenever a mass shooting occurs and someone suggests banning guns - they scream about their right to carry & “freedom” to protect themselves.

How far we’ve fallen that people are more concerned with banning masks than guns.

Masks bans won’t stop crimes. All they will do is fuel hateful anti-mask rhetoric and make public spaces even less safe for disabled and high risk individuals.

If the “freedom” to protect oneself is truly of paramount importance - the right to wear a mask needs to be preserved.

If you’ve stopped masking - please mask back up. We need you now more than ever. Send a loud and clear message that masking should not be considered a crime - and that you refuse to contribute to the spread of a dangerous virus.

#nomaskbans #noNYmaskbans #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #luigimangione #brianthompson #ericadams #ableism #discrimination #disability #disabilityjustice #sarscov2

#Transgender 10-year-old #worried about being #murdered, sharing concerns on #CNN.

#VioletDuMont fears is that “I’m gonna be walking down the street and somebody’s gonna come up and, like, #shoot me.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransKids #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #Media #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes

https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-youth-worries-murder

Ten ways in which rich, white, straight, educated males aren't lucky.

A thread.

https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113483290183581137

#Power #Heirarchy #Oppression #Wealth #Discrimination