X, a.k.a. Twitter is done, it will not email me a code recover my password despite my 10 requests. Perhaps X won't help due to my account having "COVID" in the name which Elno bans.
And Facebook hackers took over a San Francisco group I belong to. Hackers renamed the group in honor of the vaccinated-yet-antivaxx-evangelizing governor Ron DeSantis.
Today in Writing History May 9, 1946: Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist was born on this day. Along with her husband, she cofounded Belge publishing house. She published books on the Armenian Genocide and the human rights of Turkey’s Kurdish population. As a result, the government imprisoned her repeatedly. Amnesty International designated her a prison of conscience.
Today in Writing History May 7, 1867: Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont was born. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants), which won him the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also in 1924, he published his novel “Revolt,” about a rebellion of farm animals fighting for equality. However, the revolt quickly degenerates into bloody terror. It was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution. Consequently, the Polish authorities banned it from 1945 to 1989. Reymont’s farm animal rebellion predated Orwell’s by 21 years.
The antisemitism awareness act, passed by congress yesterday, makes it illegal to criticize Israel on college campuses. Clear violation of the constitution, free speech.
"Two years after the launch of Books Unbanned... 'In Their Own Words: Youth Voices on Books Unbanned' gives new insight into the impact of censorship on teens and young adults across the United States.... More than 14,000 young people had signed up for Books Unbanned programs at the two libraries through February 2024, collectively checking out over 340,000 books."
Librarians in several states can now be jailed for years for making “pornography” available. Let’s be clear about intent here - it is to limit descriptions of the lives of LGBTQ people, where possible down to the level that we even exist. @bookstodon#bookstodon#lgbtq#books#censorship#libraries#librarians
Varoufakis was not travelling to Germany nor attending the conference in person btw, but Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah was and got also banned from entering #Germany.
Germany moreover seems to believe that their internal #censorship, from their Interior Ministry (right?), should somehow apply outside of their borders, as they threaten people with fines or even jail time if they connect via Zoom from abroad!
“The most challenged books in the United States in 2023 continued to focus on the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore themes of race…”
Time to buy these books, and/or request your public library purchase if they don’t have them. #bookstodon#books#libraries#censorship#race#lgbtq@bookstodon
Meta blocked a story critical of its climate change ad policies on all of its platform. An independent journalist asked permission to repost the story verbatim on her substack. It was blocked too.
Time for Autonomous Action for Palestine: A Conversation with Within Our Lifetime
'We will also discuss the benefit of - and existing calls for - decentralized actions, de-occupations, assemblies and gatherings, public testimonies, research/writing, media-making and agitprop, mutual aid stations, trainings and teach-ins in the streets, roving shutdowns, disruptive poetry readings, sit-ins and slow downs, strikes and marches, singing and amplifying sound, painting walls, resistance parties, wheatpasting, and other happenings.
"Within Our Lifetime is not only a name, but a promise, a motivational cry, a rally, and a call to action. It is the steadfast belief that no matter what obstacles we will face, victory of the oppressed is inevitable."'
So..It’s time for a change…
Raise your voice to the air
It’s time for a change
Revolution is here
This is our song,
our rights now expressed
There’s power in our voice
There’s strength in our words
When the whole world is silent,
Our voice must be heard.
This is our song #Revolution is set
For the festival of the #oppressed https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=9F_coLFmerg