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On this day, 22 December 1988, Brazilian rubber worker activist, environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate Chico Mendes was assassinated by a rancher.
To try to protect the Amazon rainforest, rubber workers and Mendes, a senior official in their union, asked the government to set up reserves to prevent deforestation. Rubber workers in Cachoeira set up roadblocks to keep out a rancher called Darly Alves Da Silva who bought part of a reserve. Later, Mendes launched a campaign which stopped Da Silva from logging in another area, and not only that but successfully got a warrant for Da Silva's arrest for a murder he committed elsewhere. Mendes delivered the warrant to police but they failed to act on it.
On the evening of Thursday 22 December, Mendes was assassinated in his home by Da Silva's son. He was the 19th rural activist to be murdered in Brazil that year. Da Silva, his son and one of their employees were jailed for 19 years for the killing, and following a global outpouring of support, the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve was set up, which alongside other reserves which were subsequently established now cover over 33 million acres.
The new far right government in Brazil is determined to escalate the destruction of the Amazon, and environmentalists and Indigenous land defenders continue to be murdered.
"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity." — Chico Mendes, 1944-1988
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Re: Leftists [Re: koods]
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qman said: https://www.foxnews.com/media/northwestern-university-student-newspaper-journalism-apology
https://reason.com/2019/11/11/daily-northwestern-jeff-sessions-editorial-triggered-students/
What a terrible decision to force them to apologize. People attending protests have no expectation of privacy and the press has the constitutional right to report on public events.
Are you supporting Tucker Carlson here? If so, we're in agreement!
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Andrew Yang has already called for decriminalization of all drugs and is now calling for decriminalization of prostitution for the seller
this is an interesting position to me, as the Conservatives previously in power in Canada changed the law in the manner Yang is seeking, but argued it was to fight human trafficking and now sex workers are putting pressure on the Liberal government to go further as the current system serves to endanger workers who cannot publicly meet with clients, and may end up in a private room with someone they could not screen for violent intent
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She starts by screening them.
Whenever Mari receives online booking requests from new clients, the dominatrix and sex worker asks them to email her their government identification or a piece of work ID.
She also accepts references clients may have from other sex workers. If a client is known to others as a bad date, she won’t see them.
But Mari, who asked Global News to identify her by first name only, says not all sex workers have the “privilege” of screening clients in this way.
Those who work on the street may not have the ability to screen at all, or have to negotiate services in unsafe environments since aspects of communicating about sex work are criminalized.
“It makes our work less safe,” Mari says.
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Sex workers and legal experts argue that Canada’s sex work laws are prohibitive and doing the opposite of what they’re supposed to do — instead of protecting “human dignity,” the laws push sex workers into dangerous situations by criminalizing nearly every aspect of their job.
Built into Bill C-36, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA), is a commitment to review the laws by the end of 2019. That time is now, and advocates say nothing has happened.
The Canadian Alliance of Sex Work Law Reform is calling on the Liberals to start that review process and act on decriminalization. The group also wants to see provincial and territorial employment laws regulate the sex industry as a form of labour.
The organization, which is made up of sex workers’ rights groups from across the country, also says sex workers need to be part of legal reform. They are the ones who know how to best protect their rights, the alliance argues.
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“Despite the stated commitment in 2015 to replace the PCEPA and to reform prostitution laws, the Liberal Party of Canada has yet to take meaningful steps,” the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network recently wrote to the government.
In a statement to Global News, a spokesperson for the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada said it is a governmental priority to ensure that “our laws are effective in meeting their objectives, promoting public safety and security, and are consistent with our constitutionally protected rights.”
“With regard to the five-year review, the Act provides that it is Parliament’s responsibility to establish or designate a committee to study the matter,” the spokesperson said.
“As Parliament has just opened, the House is currently in the process of forming Committees. In the interim, we continue to engage with those involved.”
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Screening clients can be hard
Because it’s illegal to purchase sex, Mari says clients have a lot of fear around divulging their identity.
This makes it difficult for sex workers to screen clients in a comprehensive way, which ultimately jeopardizes their safety.
“If [clients] do not want to divulge their identity, their places of work and their reasons for coming to see us, it creates danger for the worker because you do not have any information about your client,” Mari says.
“In any other workplace or any other business, you have information about your clients.”
Those who work in rural communities may have greater difficulty getting clients to offer their personal information ahead of a meeting, especially in places where sex work is heavily policed.
Porth echoes this and says sex workers who work online — who are generally independent indoor workers — are also concerned they might be communicating with a police officer masked as a client.
“There’s been a number of sting operations online and so those concerns are valid,” she says.
Violence and sexual harassment are also a legitimate concern.
According to Statistics Canada, there were 294 homicides of sex workers between 1991 and 2014. A third of those murders were unsolved as of 2016, more than 10 per cent higher than the unsolved rate for murders that do not involve sex workers.
Sex workers who are transgender, Indigenous or people of colour are even more vulnerable to violence.
Predators are aware that police are less inclined to investigate the disappearances of sex workers, the Canadian Alliance of Sex Work Law Reform says, and they also know Indigenous and migrant women often fear police detection and apprehension.
“Street-based sex workers or sex workers that don’t have an established business and are working independently might have to compromise their safety in order to simply get business and pay their rent,” Deck says.
“And predatory clients know this; they know what they can get away with.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/6073593/canadas-sex-worker-laws-bill-c36/
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Something tells me Moore would meet the requirement for holding up the "community standards" around here.
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Michael Moore declared that white people "are not good people" and that you should "be afraid" of them in an interview on "The Rolling Stone" podcast "Useful Idiot." Moore warned people that if they see a group of 3 white men approaching them that they should cross the street because at least 2 of them voted for Trump.
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Moore joked that the "other guy" with the group of three whites are people "like him" that didn't vote for Trump.
"We're traitors to our race, that's how they see us," Moore said of pro-Trump white people.
it's like crossing the street when you see one or more black guys walking towards you
he does have an interesting point about being treated like "traitors to our race" tho there is a strange sentiment going around that seems to be a post-modern tribalism where an increasing number of people seem to fear there to be an underlying effort to wipe out the white race and support of things like immigration, or citizenship for illegals is viewed as siding with the elite to wipe us out
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ContraPoints on cancel culture after getting cancelled on twitter
am watching this on 2x speed and only about 20 minutes in, so not sure where the rest of this goes but she has provided an interesting analysis so far on how individual comments get abstracted into positions about the person
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On this day, 18 January 1958, the Battle of Hayes Pond took place near Maxton, North Carolina, when Native Americans routed a rally of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan considered the local Lumbee tribe as a "mongrel" race of "half niggers", were unhappy with interracial relationships occurring with white men, and thought due to their small numbers and marginalised status they would be an easy target.
So they began by burning a cross on the lawn of a Lumbee woman who was dating a white man. Their activities escalated and culminated in a rally on 18 January intended at ending "race mixing" once and for all, at which they declared they would have 5000 attendees. On the day, they only mustered 50-100 white supremacists, while 500 Lumbee, led by World War II veterans, armed themselves with shotguns, clubs and rocks turned out to oppose them.
The Native Americans opened fire and attacked, lightly wounding 4 Klansmen, who returned fire but failed to hit anyone.
The KKK were totally defeated and forced to flee, while the Lumbee took their speaking equipment and burned their Klan outfits and banners on a makeshift bonfire until police arrived and teargassed the revellers.
In the wake of the incident, public sentiment swung against the KKK, and the local leader was later convicted for incitement to riot and jailed for two years. The humiliation ended Klan activity in the local area, and the incident is celebrated each year as a Lumbee holiday.

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LOL bringing up shit from the 50s Ku Klux Klan was 99% democrat founded and run btw. So they chased away the dems, good for them.
1/20/20 Man KILLS his Trump supporting boss over a political argument https://www.newsweek.com/man-kills-trump-supporting-boss-florida-1483375
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Ohio mass shooter Connor Betts, who murdered 9 people last year.. including his sister... was an avowed hard leftist / communist, never-Trumper - Bernie and Antifa supporter. http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60569
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Shroomism said: LOL bringing up shit from the 50s Ku Klux Klan was 99% democrat founded and run btw. So they chased away the dems, good for them.
1/20/20 Man KILLS his Trump supporting boss over a political argument https://www.newsweek.com/man-kills-trump-supporting-boss-florida-1483375
Which party do you think Klansmen belong to nowadays?
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It's not the now that matters man! It's the past!
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https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26139337#26139337
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Democrats.
Or let me guess.. you believe in the The Great Southern Strategy. The best lie the democrats have gotten the American public to believe.
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Sorry I didn't know the preferred pronoun of his sibling?
He murdered 9 people.
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Shroomism said: Sorry I didn't know the preferred pronoun of his sibling?
He murdered 9 people.
It's not you so much as the published news stories them misidentifying/misrepresenting one of the victims is further dehumanizing to that individual
it's the "fake news" issue at play -- reporters not doing due diligence
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What a piece of work
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Shroomism said: Democrats.
Or let me guess.. you believe in the The Great Southern Strategy. The best lie the democrats have gotten the American public to believe.
You think Klansmen are democrats? The Democrats put a black man in the whitehouse.
How old were you before you stopped pissing on the toilet seat? (Relevant question).
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you're walking a fine line, Mr.
I'm still working the kinks out of this banstick...I might need more practice
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I'm still working the kinks out of this banstick...I might need more practice
Whatever do you mean, mister moderator, sir?
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