Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)

Even beyond the horrific war crimes by themselves, we are so not ready for the consequences of a world where acts like remotely exploding devices, bombing healthcare facilities, impersonating doctors, murdering humanitarian aid workers, targeting journalists, or weaponising water and food supplies are normalised.

There is a reason these things are not acceptable, even in war.

Israel is setting a terrifying precedent.

#sanctionIsrael #freePalestine #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea

The climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis are intertwined. We need to urgently reduce emissions AND protect vulnerable ecosystems to prevent more things like these from happening.
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#climateDiary #sponges #ocean #aotearoa

Mass bleaching of NZ marine sponges largest ever recorded globally
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524348/mass-bleaching-of-nz-marine-sponges-largest-ever-recorded-globally

"Political violence is unacceptable"
they repeat as they send another shipment of bombs to drop on desperately hungry refugees with nowhere to go,
as they close the borders for asylum seekers looking for a chance to work and live in peace,
as they set snipers on students protesting for justice,
as their soldiers the world over intimidate and abuse locals with impunity,
as they conspire to depose another regime refusing to let them plunder unimpeded.

Only their violence is OK.
#USPol

Here's a cartoon about landlords.
#antiCapitalism #ACAB

Report by stuff (with video from a different angle) here:
#NZPol
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350212968/students-protest-spit-front-david-seymour-during-school-visit

Unsurprisingly, the school's principal is taking the bootlicker position and denouncing the students for standing up for themselves and their culture peacefully yet forcefully.

The students were courageous but restrained.
The school is cowardly and frankly, teaching them all the wrong lessons.

Making Māori lives materially worse: acceptable.
Protesting the person doing that: totally unacceptable.

The kids are alright, it's the adults who are embarrassing.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511779/freyberg-high-school-says-students-behaviour-during-seymour-s-visit-totally-unacceptable

#NZPol

Students at Freyburg High School in Palmerston North perform an impromptu haka protesting politician David Seymour.

Their school is one of many at risk of losing their free lunch school program, currently 'under review' by Seymour.

The kids are alright.

"Pōkokohua."
#NZPol

We are now in the middle of "Oops"

Every time someone complains that "they built a cycleway and no one uses it"....

#AKLBikeLife #paihikara #BikeTooter

Another good way to get on board the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People is to follow the OG Palestinian peaceful activism movement:

Boycott, Divest and Sanction

and to support their campaigns by making sure your money (and your institution's money) is not supporting apartheid and war crimes. 🇵🇸

https://bdsmovement.net/
🍉
@palestine
#freePalestine #ceasefireNow #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea

November 29 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. 🍉

So don your Keffiyeh, pick up a free ebook and peruse one of the many resources to educate yourself and support the struggle for Palestinian freedom and dignity. 🇵🇸

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/solidarity-with-palestine-free-resources-and-further-reading

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free-ebooks-for-a-free-palestine

https://decolonizepalestine.com/

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

@palestine #freePalestine #endTheOccupation #ceasefireNow #fromTheRiverToTheSea

I bring you a Chinese meme. 🇵🇸😁

#freePalestine #ceasefireNow #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea @palestine

Do no harm. #CovidIsNotOver
https://johnsnowproject.org/do-no-harm/

Quick reminder that we are not actually in a "Cost of Living Crisis".

It's a Extreme Inequality and Record Untaxed Profits Crisis.

While we struggle for the basics, banks, energy companies, supermarkets and the oligarchs are posting record breaking profits.

It would be pretty straight forward to even it out. If they wanted to.

Don't buy the framing that makes it seem like nothing can be done, other than suffering through it.

I think my love for the #fediverse was cemented that time when Raspberry Pi brought a surveillance cop as a brand ambassador to do Influencer Shit™ on here and everyone dragged them for days.

#ACAB + #antiCapitalism = ❤️

@coin it's not irrational.
Any car can be deadly but smaller cars are less likely to kill pedestrians or cyclists. (speed x mass and all that; plus smaller blind zones)
There's a lot of data backing why bigger cars are more dangerous for anyone outside them.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/03/17/suvs-pickups-pedestrian-fatalities-rise/7075333001/

In Japan, family cars don't need to be gigantic intimidating murder machines.

I like it.

Imagine if governments around the world acted to save the environment our lives depend on as quickly and as decidedly as they spring into action to bail out banks.

They could.
They just choose not to.

-Are you coming to [event]?
-Is it outdoors?
-No, we want it to be cozy.
-Will there be ventilation and filters inside?
-*puzzled look*
-*sigh* Are masks required?
-No, no one is doing that anymore.
-I am. Will there be an online option?
-No, too complicated, we want everyone to be together this year.
-I don't think I'll join, thanks.
-We've moved on, the pandemic is over!
-Sadly, it is not. And it's not worth risking my family's health so we can pretend it's 2019 again.

#CovidIsNotOver

We can have a future, or we can have capitalism.

We can't have both.

Don't let the 1% fool you. They have no vision beyond their own profit.

Choose your future. End fossil capitalism.