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Bali Vibes 

The boy is only just 15 ?????

August 8 - After two teenagers, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib were mowed down on the side of the road by a speeding bus, thousands of high school students have taken to the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh for a week of demonstrations demanding the government do something about road safety in the country. Students have blocked roads, checking if drivers have drivers’ licenses and taking their keys if they don’t. But the protests are also fuelled by anger over government corruption and increasing authoritarianism.

After some days of demonstrations the police brutally attacked the protesting students with batons, tear gas and rubber bullets, while the ruling Awami League has send their supporters to attack the protesters, with multiple murders, kidnappings and sexual assaults as a consequence. 

i grew up in a little desert valley called Tucson, Arizona, where it only rains 2 inches a year on average. the majority of the city’s water is pumped from an underground aquifer, which took millions of years to fill. one of the biggest conservation efforts in our city was for water, naturally, and i spent a lot of time learning about low flow toilets and 5 minute showers. i learned that filling your sink basin and washing your dishes in that water is less costly than running the tap. i learned that it only takes 2 days without water on the desert for someone to die

the city was sinking as the aquifer drained. neighborhoods fell into flood zones that didnt exist 10 years ago

there’s a road called Golf Links in the city and it is lined with golf courses. miles of green grass where grass doesn’t grow, in a valley where it doesn’t rain. why? because the rich white retirees who moved there to stop the aching in their joints decided they should also get to play golf. meanwhile our public schools taught small children like me that taking long showers would kill the world

Each one consumes ~312,000 gallons of water per day.

That consumption is equivalent to 55+ million humans per day in the United States… roughly 1/6 the entire population.

July 5 2018 - Sean Williams, who was shot with a Taser by a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, police officer before being arrested, filed a lawsuit alleging that the officer used excessive force and violated his civil rights.  

The lawsuit named the City of Lancaster Police Department and Officer Philip Bernot as the defendants. It argued that 27-year-old Williams hadn’t committed any infraction to justify the use of a Taser “in violation of federal law.”

Williams’s lawsuit stated that officers asked him to take a seat on the curb. This “surprised” him because he “had not done anything wrong,” but that he complied “without resistance” in an effort to not cause trouble.

Montreal Anti-Fascists | It’s Going Down | July 7th 2018

The post After Embarrassing Defeat in Montreal, Far-Right Trolls News of Antifascist Attack appeared first on It’s Going Down.

In the fake of large scale losses in Montreal, the far-Right in so-called Canada went back to doing that they do best – lying on the internet. A particularly disgusting piece of “fake news” was being shared on social media following to two far-right rallies that occurred in Montreal on July 1st. While La Meute […]

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