I hope you've seen the awesome fake #Tesla advertisements put around London.
They have a crowd funding setup if you want to help them continue & step it up to the next level.
I hope you've seen the awesome fake #Tesla advertisements put around London.
They have a crowd funding setup if you want to help them continue & step it up to the next level.
Hi #Mastodon! I am so glad to be here. #introduction
I am a #Lightworker and #spiritual #activist. My interests include: the #environment , #politics, #society, #equality , #justice , #acceptance , #trans and #women #rights, plus #religion (all kinds).
I'd like to use #Light and #healing to restore balance to #America .
I believe strongly that we must accept one another and work toward compromise to move our country forward. These days of #hate and #Darkness must end.
Top o' the mornin' to ya! ️
NYT: Pro-Palestinian activists vandalise Trump’s Turnberry golf course
The Palestine Action group spray painted the clubhouse and gates and dug up the lawns, in protest over the US president’s plans for Gaza
Archived non-paywall
https://archive.is/waEZK
Witness: Most tribal nations at #DakotaAccessPipeline #protest ‘didn’t know who #Greenpeace was’
By: Mary Steurer - March 3, 2025
"A #Lakota organizer said in a video deposition played to jurors Monday that the #StandingRockSiouxTribe led the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, not Greenpeace.
"#NickTilsen, an Oglala Sioux Tribe citizen and #activist, called the notion that Greenpeace orchestrated the protests 'paternalistic.'
"'I think that people underestimate the complexity and the sophistication of tribal nations,' Tilsen said.
"Tilsen’s deposition was the latest testimony heard by the nine-person jury in the marathon trial between pipeline developer Energy Transfer and Greenpeace.
"#EnergyTransfer claims Greenpeace secretly aided and abetted destructive and violent behavior by protesters during the #demonstrations, which took place in south central #NorthDakota near the #StandingRockReservation in 2016 and 2017. It also claims that Greenpeace orchestrated a misinformation campaign to defame the company, leading a group of banks to back out of financing the project. Energy Transfer seeks roughly $300 million from the environmental organization.
"Greenpeace denies Energy Transfer’s allegations. The group says it has never condoned violence, and only played a supporting role during the protests.
"Tilsen said he got involved in the protests before Greenpeace. He was invited to join the cause by former Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault and his sister, Jodi Archambault, he said.
"'They called me and said, ‘Hey, we need your help at Standing Rock,’ Tilsen said.
"Standing Rock has long opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline, stating the project poses a pollution threat, infringes on tribal sovereignty and has disrupted sacred cultural sites.
"It was Standing Rock leadership that laid the groundwork for the protests against the pipeline’s construction in 2016, Tilsen said.
"He said organizers later invited Greenpeace to support the camps, including by providing supplies and nonviolent direct action training. Tilsen said he only felt comfortable reaching out to Greenpeace because a friend of his, Cy Wagoner, worked there.
"He said since Wagoner is from the #NavajoNation, he trusted that Greenpeace would respect Standing Rock’s leadership of the camps.
"Indigenous communities are often reluctant to invite outside nonprofits to help with Native rights issues, Tilsen added. He said they often don’t understand Native nations’ unique relationship with the U.S. government.
"Greenpeace wasn’t a big part of the protests, Tilsen said.
"'To be honest, most of the tribal nations didn’t know who Greenpeace was,' he said.
"Countless other groups — including representatives from more than 300 Native nations — came to the protest camps in solidarity with Standing Rock, said Tilsen.
"'Quite frankly, our list of allies was hundreds,' he said.
"Tilsen said he was involved in several protest actions against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017, including those that involved marching on the pipeline easement, jumping in front of equipment and using lockboxes — also known as 'sleeping dragons' — to disable construction machinery.
"None of the protest actions were coordinated by Greenpeace, he said.
"Tilsen said he never saw or endorsed any destruction of property or acts of violence toward construction workers or law enforcement. He also pushed back on the assertion that any of the protest activities he participated in qualified as trespassing.
"The pipeline passes through land recognized as belonging to the #SiouxNation under #treaties signed by the U.S. government in 1851 and 1868. The U.S. government later annexed that land in violation of those treaties.
"Tilsen asked how Lakota citizens could be trespassing on land that was unlawfully taken from them.
"'This is the conundrum we find ourselves in,' he said.
"Employees of Greenpeace said during video depositions played last week that the environmental organization brought 20 to 30 lockboxes to the camps.
"Tilsen said while he saw many lockboxes during protests, he wasn’t sure where any of them came from. He also said he never heard anyone from Greenpeace tell demonstrators to use the devices.
"Tilsen said that David Khoury, an employee for Greenpeace, helped identify potential sites for protest actions. Tilsen added that while Wagoner — another Greenpeace employee — didn’t plan protest activities, he trained people on how to conduct them.
"The trial, which is before Southwest Central Judicial District Judge James Gion, is expected to last roughly four more weeks."
Source:
https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/03/03/witness-most-tribal-nations-at-dakota-access-pipeline-protest-didnt-know-who-greenpeace-was/
#StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer #UnicornRiot #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #Blackwater #ErikPrince
#art #history: it's a hasty sketch to celebrate the life of the south african phenomenon, miriam makeba (born #otd in 1932).
through a short & tough childhood to survive breast cancer & marriage to kwame toure, she packed a lot of music, activism & heart into her 76 years on this marble.
#miriamMakeba #musician #activist #southAfrica #art
Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom).
Resistance Revival Chorus
So...because a few thousand people want to live better than any person in most of human history could possibly conceive, we're all gonna die?
And the normies are cool with this?
I feel fairly confident that almost everyone reading this is not. So I ask you once again.
It's 1933 again. WTF are we going to do about it?!?
How do we convince the people starting to realize that #fascism is a problem that #billionaires and #oligarchs are the root cause that needs to be yanked out?
I'm thinking that we need to use #art as a weapon & deploy clever art installations, signs, stickers & chalk art in public places.
Got any other suggestions besides the also important protests, pressure on elected officials, boycotts & union support?
What about examples or ideas for #ActivistArt? Want to join an artist's federation or start your own #ArtFED?
"I'm your huckleberry."
What are your thoughts on @gretathunberg and her climate activism?
Poll ended, thanks for participating!
Unboxing: Buskill Laptop Kill Cord
Very cool (open source) project
More extensive videos covering this / usage / getting started coming soon!
#buskill #hardware #security #cybersecurity #journalism #activist #activism #tech
VIDEO:
#Introduction with a billion #hashtags...
I'm Alba, a #trans #nonbinay #bisexual #autistic #vegan #antifascist #activist from #Nijmegen, #NL. In addition to my #autism, I've also got #ADHD, #hyperlexia, related auditory processing and executive function issues, #aphantasia and #SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory). I'm an IT #tech at a large #international company, a volunteer for the #radical #intersectional #anticapitalist #political party #BIJ1 and a freelance #translator. I speak #Nederlands, #français, #English, #Deutsch and #Esperanto. I play #saxophone - I have a bari sax, a tenor sax and a soprano sax. I also have a #flute and a #ukelele but I don't play those nearly as well as the saxes. I love playing #TTRPG like #DnD5e and #PF2e, and I have two #cats, an orange slonk called Hobbes and a void chonk called Nita.
I used to hang out on mastodon.lol until early 2023 when that instance shut down. I then moved to todon.nl and recently decided to hop on to blahaj.zone
How can sharing knowledge with each other in free, equal and solidary ways help us build effective social movements against capital and the state? Join the Radical Sunday School in their workshop.
This workshop will be in English.
re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(18/18) I don't quite know the way forward, but I think there is a way, despite all the exhaustion and apathy, to still pull ourselves back from this #coup that #ElonMusk and #Trump are carrying out. I think there's still a way forward for us that doesn't end in #fascism. But I think we're going to have to deliberately and radically commit ourselves to care in a way that we haven't before. I don't quite know what that looks like. I think it is going to have to be something very new, something that builds on previous #leftist movements and #activist work but that transcends it. Not knowing what that will be is both exciting, because it's an opportunity to succeed where we might have fallen short in the past, and scary, because it's unknown and the future is uncertain.
All I know is that we have to try.
re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(16/?) Another thing I'm thinking about in terms of my needs around participating in #leftist #activism relates to a conversation I had a while ago with another #activist friend. The gist of the conversation was that a lot of activists don't work on issues that impact them materially and directly, so they don't see a direct benefit from their actions. For instance, this person was suggesting that rather than working on large-scale, abstract advocacy issues, activists would do better to organize tennants unions in their own apartment complexes or become involved in small but meaningful #community efforts. I think there's something to that, and it's a point I'm still pondering
re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(14/?) What I also needed while doing #leftist #activism during the first #Trump term was #EmotionalLabor. I needed cheerleaders. I needed people who could support me emotionally and provide validation and encouragement. I was surrounded by people who were constantly telling me I wasn't enough--that whatever I was doing, it wasn't radical enough or leftist enough or effective enough. I watched people who had been in the #progressive movement for longer than I'd been alive get driven out and treated like garbage over petty infighting. I needed people who would accept and care for me, exactly as I was, without demanding I be something else. I needed people who I could trust. I needed to not feel so alone.
If you know an #activist on the #left right now, offer to listen, deeply listen, to what they're going through. Be a space of affirmation for them. It might also help
re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(12/?) I was talking with a friend about some of these issues, and she also pointed out to me that part of why #activists are so exhausted is that we've been protesting, to the point of risking our reputations, jobs, health, and even lives, for a long time and haven't seen any change. The #BlackLivesMatter uprisings were quashed and Biden increased police department funding. The backlash to the protests calling for a #CeasefireInGaza has been swift and punitive. A lot of people feel like protesting isn't effective, and that's a conversation that's been happening on the #left for a while now. A lot of people are looking for other ways to foster change