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This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

So for whose benefit do we need to go slowly? How can white men be our born leaders and at the same time so fragile that they cannot handle social progress?"

If for some reason you encounter a child who has been offered That Book and you’re trying to replace SPECIFICALLY MAGIC SCHOOL as a setting with a lot of pull, two series I like are Adia Kelbara by Isi Hendrix and The Last-Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto. And Rick Riordan Presents is an imprint with more examples of kids discovering they are magic, all by marginalized authors, than even the most voracious middle-schooler could probably consume in a year.

I think the NYPD is right, in a way, that tech-sector actors are an increasing target of ire; and/but/also this spin is a propaganda tactic attempting to paint growing movements as unprecedented and backwards "neoluddites" rather than people who are pissed off about the same unresolved and worsening problems of climate collapse, socioeconomic oppression, colonialism, and imperialism that have inspired social movements throughout the entirety of living memory & before.

It also sets up cover for poisonous and abusive tech giant facilities who market themselves to municipalities and citizens as job-creators and specifically high-quality jobs. Sure, automation and reduction of labor costs are a big part of the discourse, but when these companies make their press releases about moving to podunk nowhere and hold their company-sponsored town halls, theyre pitching economic development and jobs jobs jobs. Regardless of how true those pitches are (and they rarely are), if you walk in thinking that the big issue is job loss and the nice man in the nice suit shows you numbers about how that wont be true, wouldnt you feel reassured?

The reason why this is so important to understand is the concept of economic hostages. The article im linking below describes this concept re: uranium mining on Navajo lands in the 2nd half of the 20th century (which is becoming as big an issue today as it was then and is closely tied into issues with data centers, which are increasingly invested in small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) which are like, even less safe, portable nuclear power plants). Toxic heavy industry gets local defendants by promising economic development (often but not always to impoverished communities) and thats just as true in the 2020s as it has been in any other decade, inter-bourgeoieoiseie promises of eliminating reliance on the working class be damned. Taking up the mantle of pro or anti tech is a bad rhetorical move that obfuscates the much older dynamics at play.

So this is what a Goblin Shark actually looks like…

'Transfem DIY HRT' and 'Transmasc DIY HRT' are a pair of zines aimed at teaching transgender people how to safely self-administer DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Both zines are 100% free to download here from Little Mouse (who also made the zine). Print, share and distribute to those who need it!