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I want to switch from those American for profit news outlets to Euro or non-profit news outlets, what are my options?

I will list the ones I know and I find here:

• Bloomberg: TBA.
• Reuters : Associated Press.
• New York Times: Follow The Money.
• Politico: TBA.
• The Verge: Techzine, Heise.

I know this is happening because of a combo of my browser (librewolf) and my extensions (uBlock and Privacy Badger), but really it's because most larger concert halls in the USA and the ticket service they use online are owned by the most evil fucking corporation and I am fucking sick of it. I was going to buy tix for a local punk band's show but now my choices are:

• I have to drive 30 minutes to buy tix in person, Monday-Friday
• or sell my soul to these assholes

Just venting, no suggestions needed.

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Very much Beatles Sgt Peppers vibe…1989.

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Artist Sarah Boardman said her 41-year art career is at risk after Donald Trump accused her of distorting his likeness in a 2019 portrait displayed in the Colorado State Capitol.

Trump called for its removal in a March 23 Truth Social post, prompting Republican lawmakers to have it taken down the next day.

Boardman denied political bias and said the portrait was pre-approved. She reported a sharp decline in business and backlash, though her family and supporters defended her online.

Boardman had also painted Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip, the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.

Protesters said they were venting anger and desperation as they endure a new round of war and displacement after Israel ended a ceasefire. They leveled unusually direct criticism at Hamas even while remaining furious at Israel, the United States and others for their plight.

Public expressions of dissent have been extremely rare since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007. The militant group has violently dispersed occasional protests and jailed, tortured or killed those who challenged its rule. Hamas has faced no significant internal challenge since the start of the war and still controls Gaza, despite losing most of its top leaders and thousands of fighters.

The latest fantastic video from CT, hope New York wins the war!

Bird of the Day — Secretary Bird, Tanzania 2018

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Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip, the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.

Protesters said they were venting anger and desperation as they endure a new round of war and displacement after Israel ended a ceasefire. They leveled unusually direct criticism at Hamas even while remaining furious at Israel, the United States and others for their plight.

Public expressions of dissent have been extremely rare since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007. The militant group has violently dispersed occasional protests and jailed, tortured or killed those who challenged its rule. Hamas has faced no significant internal challenge since the start of the war and still controls Gaza, despite losing most of its top leaders and thousands of fighters.

Mattan here. I am the executive director of Refuser Solidarity Network and a refuser who spent 110 days in prison. Today I would like to update you about a new refuser who is currently in prison. Last month, Israel imprisoned 18-year-old activist Ella Keidar for refusing to join the Israeli military in opposition to its genocide. We are standing in solidarity with Ella’s decision, with all of its bravery and of course hardship. Ella wrote a moving public letter addressed to the world about her journey towards refusal as a journey home: a journey towards oneself, one’s humanity and one’s right to demand another world. We are attaching her letter to the world and call on our supporters to send her support letters and to share it widely.

I know from my own time in prison how meaningful were these letters of support from people around the world.

My name is Ella Keidar Greenberg. I was raised to be a man and a soldier. At the age of 14, I came out as a trans woman and rejected society’s dictation of gender. Now, at the age of 18, I am refusing to enlist, and rejecting society’s militaristic dictation.

Shortly after coming out, I found the communist manifesto in my grandmother’s library. I spent the next two years reading books about political philosophy and Marxist theory. Through reading, I developed a deeper understanding of the bloody history and present of the place I live in. With the protest movement against the judicial coup, a path manifested for me to convert the frustration I felt into hope and political action.

I quickly joined the struggle against the occupation as an activist and organizer. First in the anti-occupation bloc and the weekly protests in Kaplan Street, and later in the Mesarvot Network, in the Communist Youth Union, in Hadash (DFPE) and in the Communist Party. Since then, activism has turned into the center of my life.

I organized a mass protest against transphobic propaganda, protested with Palestinian activists against land theft as soldiers shot stun grenades and rubber bullets at us, blocked roads, got injured by cops and from violent evictions by border police, organized a mass refusal campaign under Youth Against Dictatorship, did protective presence and joined co-resistance in Masafer Yatta, and now — I am refusing.

The main reason for this act, is that my country is committing a genocide n Gaza. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in bombings, intentional destruction of infrastructure, starvation, and indiscriminate fire. Millions were torn from their homes, and continue to exist in a state of displacement since. This has been the daily reality in Gaza for the past 18 months. All for a war that was supposedly meant to bring the hostages back home, but in practice, abandons them. The war of annihilation has not passed over the West Bank, with escalating settler violence, supported more than ever by the army.

Dozens of villages, ethnically cleansed as if they never even existed, and entire neighborhoods destroyed and depopulated as part of the destructive operation in Jenin and Tulkarm. Now that the government has returned to its campaign of destruction in Gaza, this situation is expected to continue to worsen.

Inside Israel we are witnessing police political persecution of left-wing activists and Palestinians on scales not seen since the period of military rule between 1948–1966, arrests over statements on social media, protests and civil organizing. There is an intentional systematic neglect of Arab society to murderous organized crime, 24 living hostages still waiting to return to their families, a horrific economic crisis that is affecting working people first and foremost, a 65% increase in domestic violence that is tied to the 40% rise in civilian firearms. Additionally, we have seen a surge in violence against the queer community and a simultaneous cut of its governmental budgets, and that same judicial coup we blocked roads against just moments ago, is now being rapidly legislated under our noses.

These are not processes happening separately from the genocide in Gaza. These systems are not just the soldier standing at the checkpoint, the boss that pays too little, or the people outlawing our gender and medical autonomy, but also the education into these institutions, the sum of all social mechanisms that prime us into obedient subjects of the system. This logic is what trans people, like refuseniks, undermine. That’s why we’re so scary, because the existing system and its reproduction is insured by us — the people, staying disciplined and obedient.

But obedience brings us nothing but oblivion. The decision makers of the military and government clarify again and again that they have no interest in the stability of the ceasefire agreement, in our rights, or in the return of the hostages. Their interest in us is limited to our function as canon fodder for the extermination and expansion industry.

Dark regimes and the horrors they enforce don’t collapse by the citizens obeying the law and doing what we’re told, hoping someone upstairs will come to their senses and understand this has to stop. Faced with the reality of mass extermination, of systematic neglect, of trampling on rights, of war — the imperative is refusal. Don’t stay complacent: gather, organize, resist. In 40 years, when our grandchildren ask us what we did during the Gaza genocide, during the collapse of the old order, if we gave up or if we put up a fight, how will you rather answer?

I know what I’ll answer: that I chose to resist, this is why I am refusing.

In solidarity,

Mattan Helman
Executive Director
Refuser Solidarity Network

(Taken from an email sent to me by the Refuser Solidarity Network.)

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