Jasper @jasper@mastodon.nl

Yay!

"The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.

The Cherokee Nation's right to appoint a delegate stems from the same treaty that the US government used to forcibly remove the tribe from its ancestral lands.

As a result of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, the #Cherokee were ultimately made to leave their homes in the Southeast for present-day Oklahoma in exchange for money and other compensation. Nearly 4,000 citizens of the tribe died of disease, starvation and exhaustion on the journey now known as the Trail of Tears.
A delegate in the House of Representatives was one of the ways the US government promised to compensate the Cherokee Nation."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/index.html

#Indigenous representatives in the House is one step, but we still need equally-allocated footing in the Senate.

For the first time, the Cherokee Nation is exercising its right to send a delegate to the US House of Representatives: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/index.html

Hong Kong revolutionaries cutting down a facial recognition tower in a dank display of praxis ✊

Humans set fire to the wrong Amazon.

@strypey if you're keen on some practical example's, I love Rob's Backyard Farm youtube channel. He's doing a lot of interesting aquaponics stuff as well, but his old wicking beds videos are what got my thinking started.

This one's great with some different implementations with reused containers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFyB35yVeA

#ChrisRiddell: No-deal #Brexit: the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/aug/24/no-deal-brexit-the-fourth-horseman-of-the-apocalypse-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire

♻ RT @th1an1@twitter.com:

#Brazil 23.08: Thousands of people marched in #SãoPaulo, against the neo-fascist Bolsonaro government's attacks in the #Amazon rainforest. https://t.co/fjVBCsQXWS

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Zodirect naar het protest op de dam in Amsterdam, tegen het ontslaan van burgemeesters in Turkije https://www.doorbraak.eu/24-augustus-amsterdam-manifestatie-tegen-het-ontslag-van-burgemeesters-in-turkije/

In de stad Van stuurde de vervangende AKP-'burgemeester' deze week zelfs de hele gemeenteraad per sms naar huis...
http://bianet.org/english/politics/211999-trustee-dissolves-van-metropolitan-municipal-council-with-an-sms

The rules of games shape the culture of games, and you might want to be aware of it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/08/24/witness-the-inherent-violence-of-the-system/

@jasper @Tauoverpi - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/amazon-fires-global-leaders-urged-divert-brazil-suicide-path

#postmarketOS now boots on Motorola Moto X Play! #Linux

20 years of a community newspaper. #burngreave #sheffield https://www.burngreavemessenger.org/blog/2019/08/20-years-of-the-burngreave-messenger/
I'm glad they mention Anthony Green .. a young black man deliberately run over by the police.

https://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2005/09/323938.html?c=on

@Wolf480pl @freakazoid
That's basically the fundamental question. Prometheus stole fire from the gods to help humans, who certainly were worse at using it than the gods.

So is Prometheus a hero or a villain ?

If Prometheus is a hero, it's hard to avoid concluding that the snake in the genesis story is also the hero.

But if Prometheus is the villain then it's hard not to reason yourself into Anarcho-Primitivism.

"...The moment Bolsonaro's fascist regime took office in Brazil he praised the genocide of Indigenous people. These fires are being set to illegally deforest the Amazon for industrial use and are an act of genocide.

Our Mother's lungs are on fire and the fire is fueled by capitalism and greed. Violence against the land begets violence against our women, our children- against our future...
https://mobile.twitter.com/IENearth/status/1164580391287701505