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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 1d

In 2024 the oil and gas industry paid BC taxpayers $20,000 for fresh water. They used and poisoned 9 Billion litres of fresh water. Fracking companies should not be allowed to do this. If you want to call in the government to stop letting them you can here act.stand.earth/page/89100/a...

Fracking is draining B.C.’s freshwater: Act now before it’s too late

Despite B.C.’s Peace River Region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil & gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction, with an alarming 50% increase over the year before. J...

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Grist @grist.org · 15h

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires.

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New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

What’s happening in Nova Scotia?

Mi’kmaq land protectors have held their ground for over a month. But a new law could change everything.

APTN’s Angel Moore reports from Hunters Mountain and Veldon Coburn explains what’s at stake for Indigenous rights.

Listen to the latest APTN News InFocus:

InFocus: On the ground in Unama'ki: Land protectors sound alarm over Indigenous rights in Canada

On this edition of APTN News InFocus, host Cierra Bettens looks at a new law in Nova Scotia that could threaten Mi’kmaq treaty rights. Land protectors at Hunters Mountain in Unama’ki have preve...

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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 15h

Settlers calling for the end of birthright citizenship in Canada is something to behold 🫠 #cdnpoli

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

DC!

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social

Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social

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Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change

Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 16h

California’s efforts to wean itself off fossil fuels are paying off, with solar power generation reaching record highs and battery storage coming online to back it up.

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year

The state’s combination of solar and battery plants have pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone.

A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

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#Oceans #Fish #Seas #Water #Climate

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone

A new report sounds the alarm on mounting ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Entering the Anne Frank stage of the administration I see

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 1d

A storm approaching the Bering Sea is expected to hit Alaska’s western coast and is shaping up to be more powerful than the system that flooded coastal communities like Kotzebue and Kivalina this week, forecasters say. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Weekend storm could bring flooding, 100 mph winds to Western Alaska coast

The National Weather Service said it was likely to be more powerful than a storm that days before had brought high winds and flooding to some coastal communities.

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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 1d

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY, Vancouver!! 😃

UBC SPPGA @sppga.ubc.ca · 5d

Join us on Oct 24 at @moaubc.bsky.social, as journalists, experts and storytellers explore the ways Indigenous narratives work to engage with what climate change means on Indigenous terms.

Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/teoofwhzrs

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 1d

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”

ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

Read the full essay👇

Merging to Survive

As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2d

The federal government is trying to have a lawsuit over biological experiments on Inuit dismissed over technicality, according to the lawyer representing the plaintiffs.

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit

Paul Quassa is among the Plaintiffs in a class action filed almost six years ago over biological experiments.

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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 2d

Pow! has a ton of screenings in the United States in October! Come powwow with us!

10th - Red Brick Road Film Festival & Tacoma Film Festival
11th - Washington West Film Festival
12th & 13th - Hamptons International Film Festival
16th & 18th - Santa Fe International Film Festival

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

NBC is reporting 'high level conversations' happening in the White House about how Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act.

This would enable him to deploy the military for domestic civilian law enforcement.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 2d

"[Manitoba] provincial court Judge Heather Pullan noted [the late Darren Wood's] sister Sophie, whose first language was Oji-Cree, 'struggled with English literacy' and was without representation... after the justice department turned down the family’s request for funds to cover legal costs"

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2d

An inquest judge took it upon herself to secure legal representation for the family of a man who died in the Winnipeg Remand Centre when the province denied their funding request four days before hearings were to begin.

Inquest judge finds legal counsel for dead inmate’s family after province denies funding

An inquest judge took it upon herself to secure legal representation for the family of a man who died in the Winnipeg Remand Centre when the province denied their funding request four days before hearings were to begin.

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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 2d

“Carney has cautioned that his first federal budget—set to drop Nov. 4, will be an austerity budget. A leaked internal government email from July confirmed that Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), like other departments, has been asked to cut planned spending by up to 15% over three years.”

APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2d

Reconciliation, rebranded: What journalists covering the Nation to Nation beat are watching this fall session

Nation to Nation looks at what's happening in federal politics

Three journalists who cover the Nation to Nation beat join host Karyn Pugliese to talk about what they're following this season.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 3d

Julia, the full-time caregiver for her three-year-old niece, was blocked from being considered for family-sized housing because she couldn’t provide proof of legal custody. #bcpoli

Indigenous Caregiver Says She Faced Housing Discrimination | The Tyee

Kinship agreements keep Indigenous families together — but one housing provider didn’t accept an applicant’s documentation.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

As drought in B.C.’s Peace River region leads to massive wildfires and the City of Dawson Creek scrambles to find a new water source, a report released today concludes that water use by the region’s fracking industry shot up a record 50% last year.

Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli

Fracking’s Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC | The Tyee

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 9d

Disabled Māori face higher rates of hardship, poor health, and exclusion. Huhana Hickey calls it what it is: poverty by design.

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental’: How our systems deliberately keep people poor

All of this is avoidable – so how do we fix what's broken?

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