results of a meandering attention span

This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.

For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.

Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.

The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.

PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM

1. A screenshot of a caption from Instagram by @/noor__saleh, reading: “I need everyone to share or repost this or whatever. Please do not skip reading this caption. The Israeli government has bombed the journalism office in Gaza. Natanyahu has come out to say the next few hours will not be easy. Israel completely controls the rhetoric right now. Gaza has been without electricity and supplies. Hama’s commanders died days ago and Gaza has requested a ceasefire that has been (in caps) shut down. This is going to be a massacre the likes of which may have never been seen before. Please share this and get the word out. (in caps) Israel controls all the media right now. The only media they cannot control is social media and we are still being censored by Instagram. By Facebook. By TikTok. Please do not let the Israeli government vilify Palestinians even more.” Over this caption, in large text, is written, “This is the most important caption I’ve ever written. Please share it.”

2. A tweet by @/drosepali, reading, “Does everyone know how severe the bombing in Gaza are right now?! People are calling it worse than all 3 wars combined. They’re tweeting out as if it’s their last words. Families in Gaza are all sleeping in the same room so if they die, they die together. #GazaUnderAttack.”

3. A tweet by Eman Basher, reading: “Tonight, I put the kids to sleep in our bedroom. So that when we die, we die together and no one would live to mourn the loss of another. #GazaUnderAttack.”

4. A tweet by minahil, reading, “Palestinians posted those videos for a reason. They want us to flood the internet. They want the help of social media. So, show your support. In a world where they’ve been left alone, stand up for them. It’s all they’re asking for - the bare minimum.”

5. Another tweet by Farah, which reads: “If the Palestinians themselves are saying that media coverage is the only thing helping them, who are you to say posting on socials won’t contribute towards change? Fix up.”

6. A last tweet by Osha Mahmoud, reading, “If you thought posting on social media was doing nothing, maybe ask yourself why Israeli forces felt the need to destroy a building housing international media offices in Gaza Strip.”

Sign the petition here:

http://bit.ly/StopJerusalemExpulsions

bring awareness of this issue. this is a map with that reflects the size of the rroma population in each european country.

Some sites to donate money to help to better the life of rroma communities:

Secretariado Gitano (Spain)

Roma Edutional Fund (International)

European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network (International)

Roma support group (UK)

@oprerroma has a lot of resources and organisations on her bio where you can donate to.

Inspired by the word searches I shared yesterday, here is a brand new way to discover your gender! The first word you see is your shiny new gender identity!

This is a hate crime. The man in the photo was not helping her, he yelled at her and assaulted her with the rest of the fascists. She was almost murdered by those. sick freaks. They all deserve to be hung.

Her gofundme, as of Jan 9th, has $70k/$100k.

because Dow Chemical (worth 70.43 B$)

and DuPont (acquired by Dow but worth 4.926 B$)

said it would be “costly” to meet new standards, and threatened to pull out of the state.

even though changing to the updated pollution limits would mean rules for 25 chemicals become less stringent and 35 more stringent.