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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · 4d

A global collective hope crisis is simmering, with many people hurting, criminalized, repressed, and doubting that justice is possible. The old fable of a stable job, home, family and retirement is crumbling. But, things are much more hopeful than they initially seem.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 8d

Women and the LGBTQIA+ community have become the faces of resistance against the far-right Salvadoran government.

Beating Back Bukele’s War on ‘Gender Ideology’ - Truthdig

Women and the LGBTQIA+ community have become the faces of resistance against the far-right Salvadoran government.

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · 13d

"The (US's) anti-drugs policy isn't aimed at stopping cocaine from reaching the US ...its for dominating the (Global) south in general," said Gustavo Petro in the UN yesterday, on the US striking Venezuelan boats (and I'd add, categorising Latin American countries as terrorists)

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 29d

Israel has attacked five different countries today: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria (3 locations, including the ancient city of Palmyra), Yemen, and a boat carrying activists and food in Tunisian waters. That's a wholllllle lot of defending itself, ey??

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 29d

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · Sep 5

Pakistan and Iran are carrying out the decade’s largest forced migration, deporting Afghans into poverty and repression. With resources already stretched after Sunday’s deadly earthquake, Afghanistan is in no position to support the thousands now arriving.

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Humanitarian Crisis as Millions of Afghans Made to Return - Truthdig

Pakistan and Iran are deporting Afghans back to poverty, repression and uncertainty in one of the decade’s largest forced migrations.

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gabomh.bsky.social @gabomh.bsky.social · Aug 29

Excluded Headlines: Indonesia workers' protests, Milei rejected...
Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social
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Excluded Headlines: Indonesia workers' protests, Milei rejected...

Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, Tamara Pearson.

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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · Aug 24

I do not understand why homelessness pisses people off enough to criminalize it, but not enough to fix it

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gabomh.bsky.social @gabomh.bsky.social · Jul 18

Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social

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Excluded Headlines: France leaves Senegal after 65 years,12 Global South countries agree to arms embargo on Israel, Israel attacks Damascus ...

Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, Tamara Pearson.

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 13

Or it's backed by power, privilege, colonial interests, while some of the cleverest, beautiful and relevant stories written by oppressed folks are barely read?

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Global South authors and journalists

Use these lists to broaden your reading beyond authors from wealthy countries, to learn, gain new and important perspectives, and to find experts. Media outlets can also find journalists who, unlik…

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 11

@wepunjab.bsky.social @sapannews.bsky.social
#indianewsupdates

Truthdig @truthdig.com · Jul 11

Government support after the conflict has been scarce, leaving many struggling to rebuild shattered homes and livelihoods.

The India-Pakistan Conflict Is Over, But the Aftermath for Civilians May Be Even Worse - Truthdig

Government support after the conflict has been scarce, leaving many struggling to rebuild shattered homes and livelihoods.

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 9

A whole community of Mazatec people in Oaxaca, #Mexico is being attacked as they try to defend their river from aggregate mining. The repression is proportionate to their resistance and they really are an example of the collective #environmental care that is possible.
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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 9

A whole community of Mazatec people in Oaxaca, #Mexico is being attacked as they try to defend their river from aggregate mining. The repression is proportionate to their resistance and they really are an example of the collective #environmental care that is possible.
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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 6

Cheap for whom? Im all for solar over fossil fuels obviously, but dont forget it's the Global South that is hit hardest by climate change while contributing much less to it, and lithium and other mineral mining, for manufacturing batteries, often happens here at a very big cost

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Jul 6

We’ve had 28 COP meetings on climate change and still haven’t capped emissions…

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 6

British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.

Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group

British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 6

-zero voices from the protest
-lede on the protest "turning violent" but the real violence here is empire
-zero context re the economic inequality and transnational interests behind gentrification as well as cultural and physical displacement, instead they make it about tourism

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 6

The complete irony of this @nytimes.com piece about a protest against gentrification in #mexico (which they stupidly call "tourism") written by a journalist IN and FROM the US with no knowledge of the country or issue. The piece embodies the mentality & economic power that was being protested 🙄

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · Jul 5

Life’s real heroes aren’t given the red carpet or BBC interviews
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“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”

― George Carlin
#writing #books

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Jess Fink🍉🌈🎃 @jessfink.bsky.social · May 22

Hey, let's outlive these ghouls ok? Let's witness their demise together

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · May 23

Out now, this week’s Global South #news summary.
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gabomh.bsky.social @gabomh.bsky.social · May 16

#excludedheadlines Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social

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Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social · May 14

Big #tech are strangling the Global South. US companies dominate our search results, AI algorithms are full of racial, gender, and pro-West bias, and these companies are dominating whole industries in Mexico. But there is resistance and there are alternatives ... truthout.org/articles/mex...

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · May 14

In this documentary report from Lebanon, TRNN speaks with journalists who continue to report on Israel’s war crimes even after they have been targeted and injured and their colleagues have been killed.

‘Sadly, there are martyrs among our colleagues’: Israel continues targeting and killing journalists in Lebanon

In this documentary report from Lebanon, TRNN speaks with journalists who continue to report on Israel’s war crimes even after they have been targeted and injured and their colleagues have been killed...

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · May 14

"In our home, there is no food left — only two bags of flour that we managed to store for these dark days, both spoiled and infested with worms and insects. We ration the flour carefully, hoping it will last as long as possible."

-Shahad Ali, from Gaza

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Amid Starvation, People in Gaza Are Choosing Death at Home Over Displacement

Only two bags of infested flour are left in my house. I interviewed others also facing starvation and ground invasion.

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