#Landwirte in #Kansas und #Missouri meiden Gespräche über den #Klimawandel unabhängig von ihrer Meinung dazu.
Sie fürchten Konflikte mit Nachbarn, wirtschaftliche Nachteile oder negative Online-Bewertungen. Das Schweigen erschwert gemeinschaftliche Lösungen und politische Maßnahmen. Einige setzen dennoch auf nachhaltigere #Landwirtschaft, fühlen sich aber oft isoliert.
What have you done, #America, what have you done? Imagine a #totalitarian regime applauding #silencing #VOA by the #US #government. This #rogue #CorruptAdministration is the #pits.
From 2021: #Indigenous Leaders Speak Out About #Criminalization and #Silencing by #Putin Administration
"Indigenous organizations in Russia, allied organizations, and #CulturalSurvival have released an Open Letter to the Putin administration sounding an alarm about the growing intimidations and reprisals against #IndigenousActivists and rights defenders in Russia.
"These attacks are exemplified by the recent illegal detention of activist #AndreiDanilov (#Sámi) in the #Murmansk region. Danilov, Director of the Sámi Heritage and Development Foundation, was detained on August 29, 2021. Andrei Danilov was unlawfully detained by the police after, fearing for his safety, he refused to present his belongings for inspection without witnesses. He was detained for five days, charged with 'failure to comply with the lawful order of a police officer.'
"Danilov’s arrest is just one of the latest incidents in a series of acts of harassment against Indigenous activists and rights defenders in Russia in recent years. Days before, another Indigenous rights defender #StepanPetrov was declared a 'foreign media acting as a foreign agent' in the Republic of #Sakha on August 20, 2021. The 2012 Russian law on foreign agents, originally created to restrict international funding to Russian NGOs, is now being used to target individuals. Stepan Petrov (Sakha) is the first Indigenous person in Russia to receive the 'foreign agent' label. Petrov chairs the nonprofit group #Yakutia – Our Opinion, which is well-known in the region of the Republic of Sakha for their human rights work. The activist submitted numerous appeals to the United Nations calling on the Russian government to adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (#UNDRIP) and to support civil society in Russia."
Read more:
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/indigenous-leaders-speak-out-about-criminalization-and-silencing-putin-administration
#Putin #IndigenousPeoples #Persecution #Genocide #RepublicOfSakha #Oppression #SamiPeoples
Kann man sich mit Spenden an #Codeberg eigentlich #Karma-Punkte verdienen? 
#Softwareentwicklung #Code #FOSS #OpenSource #Gemeinnützig #DDoSAngriff #Silencing
Wikipedia - the fight is on, and the RW press are right behind it, the bar stewards.
Wikipedia accused of blacklisting conservative US media
On a page titled “Reliable sources/Perennial sources”, the site publishes a traffic light system grading sources as generally reliable, no consensus, generally unreliable, discouraged from use and blacklisted.
Remarkably a number of right wing sites are rated as unreliable.
Have a read.
#Auschwitz80: Never Forget! (#Musk)
One year ago, Musk did not perform the Hitler-salute. Instead, how wore a kippah.
He did that while lighting a candle in former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
He was in "good" company: the maintainers of that camp are hypocrits too. In https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/ they state, among other things:
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Threatened in its existence, the State of Israel has the right to self-defense in accordance with international law and the principles of humanitarianism.
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Both Musk and them make a joke of "Never Again". They don't care that Gaza is a concentration camp. Neither that Palestinians on the Westbank are robbed and murdered (including a "terrorist", a 2 years old girl who was shot in the head, see https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113896121666875015).
Musk was invited to Auschwitz by the EJA (remember that name if you favor equal human rights for every person - the #EJA does *NOT* represent all Jews).
And Musk does *NOT* hate Jews (he earns money from them too). He is a populist and demands attention 24x7. He hates people who cannot or do not make him even richer and powerful than he already is.
He just HELPED Zionists worldwide by FAKING an increase in antisemitism - which is a LIE.
OTOH, (hopefully) an increasing number of people hate Zionists because the Israeli Destruction Forces commit genocide ordered by Netanyahu et al.
Western governments, enticed (or bribed, think #AIPAC) by Zionists, WANT everyone to believe that being anti-genocide and pro-equal-human-rights means you're an antisemite.
YOU. ARE. NOT. AN. ANTISEMITE!
It's a TRICK, see the image in https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113379001154934065 (I stole that image from @LALegault).
The screenshot below was taken from https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2024/01/23/elon-musk-says-he-was-naive-on-antisemitism-as-he-visits-auschwitz_6456954_13.html.
Powerful and moving. A *must read*!
“Letter to Refaat Alareer”
by Chris Hedges on Substack
“A year ago on Dec. 6, 2023 Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/letter-to-refaat-alareer?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Employee Surveillance And Silencing #apple #employees #lawsuit #news #silencing #spying
https://www.lowyat.net/2024/338607/apple-lawsuit-employee-surveillance/
Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 
After youth movements:
“To not tell those stories out of shame only serves to cement the destiny and ideology of those educated within Zionist institutions"
Joe's treatment by the university is disproportionate & cruel - this beloved student is now threatened with permanent loss of his degree.
This goes beyond pro-Palestine encampments. If this precedent is set, there are implications for *all* forms of peaceful protest
If we want a better future, we need to defend our rights to fight for it! 2/2
@DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
Tariq Ali said in #germany demonstrations are not allowed. That's wrong, there is #repression especially in #berlin but it's possible to demonstrate (with legal requirements)
But the #silencing in public is immense
#Cult #expert #SteveHassan: "The #silencing of #critics" is #crucial to #Trump's "#authoritarian #control"
Their #belief in and #adoration of #Trump is now so #powerful that they now view him as a type of #martyr and #prophetwarrior who has been #blessed by their “#god” (#Satan) as a tool of #destiny.
Btw, do you know how the modern version of the #internet #censorship in #Russia started? In 2012, an organization branded as "League of Safe Internet" (mimicking to be an #NGO, but with obvious #government affiliation) developed a bill enforcing a list of sites forbidden in the country.
The "explanation" was to "protect kids" from #abuse, calls to commit #suicide and information how to get narcotic #drugs (sounds familiar, doesn't it?).
Obviously, after the technical possibility of #blocking was achieved, and the procedure elaborated, they started to use the list for everything, including fight with Western sites, #silencing the remnants of their so called opposition and finally creating their own alternative reality.
Well, regarding kids... these folks are wanted for #genocide for what they do with kids now...
The largest shit in this world is made in order to "protect" your safety and "save" kids from abuse.
Silence is Violence
Rede von @sebastianschroeder / Sebastian Schröder zur Demonstration „All Eyes on Rafah“ am 1. Juni 2024 in Wuppertal
Hallo, guten Tag!
Mein Name ist Sebastian Schröder.
Ich bin Mitglied in der Bezirksvertretung Elberfeld-West für die Partei Die Linke. Die Bezirksvertretungen sind die offiziellen gewählten Stadtteil-Parlamente.
Überall auf der Welt werden in städtischen Parlamenten Resolutionen zu #Waffenstillstand und #Frieden in #Gaza, #Palästina und #Israel diskutiert und manchmal verabschiedet. Im November habe ich für die #Linke den Antrag „Frieden und Gerechtigkeit für Gaza“ eingebracht. Doch anstatt zu diskutieren und abzustimmen haben es alle Parteien per Geschäftsordnung abgelehnt, dieses Anliegen überhaupt zu behandeln. Es gibt dann keine Möglichkeit über das totgeschwiegene Thema zu sprechen.
#SPD, #CDU, #GRÜNE, #FDP, #AfD: Das ist #silencing!
Warum dürfen die Stimmen der Menschen mit palästinensischer Herkunft in unserer Stadt in den gewählten Vertretungen nicht gehört werden?
Mein 1. Antrag war also im November.
Den 2. Antrag „Palästinensische Flagge am Rathaus hissen“ habe ich im Januar gestellt. Wieder silencing – das heisst totschweigen.
Den 3. Antrag „Unbefristeter Waffenstillstand in Palästina- Israel“ habe ich im März eingebracht. Wieder silencing – das heisst totschweigen.
Den 4. Antrag „Waffenstillstand in Palästina -Israel JETZT“ habe ich in der Sitzung vor drei Tagen gestellt. Zum 4 Mal wurde unser Anliegen totgeschwiegen.
Ich lese euch jetzt meinen 4. Antrag vor:
Zur Sitzung der Bezirksvertretung #Elberfeld-West am 29. Mai 2024, von Sebastian Schröder Die Linke
Sehr geehrte Frau Bezirksbürgermeisterin
Die Bezirksvertretung Elberfeld-West möge beschließen:
Die BV Elberfeld-West fordert Oberbürgermeister Schneidewind, die Landesregierung NRW und die Bundesregierung auf, für einen sofortigen Waffenstand in Gaza – Israel einzutreten.
Begründung:
Angesichts der ungezählten und massiven Verletzungen des humanitären #Völkerrechts und der #Menschenrechte, die zum Tod von über 35000 Menschen geführt haben und zu den seit 1945 extremsten Zerstörungen ziviler Infrastruktur, fühlt sich die BV verpflichtet, die Einhaltung dieser Rechte zu fordern, auch im Namen der Menschen mit palästinensischem Hintergrund in #Wuppertal.
Der internationale #Strafgerichtshof hat als Reaktion auf die #Kriegsverbrechen #Haftbefehle gegen den israelischen #Ministerpräsidenten und den israelischen #Verteidigungsminister beantragt.
Nachdem sich die Bezirksvertretung Elberfeld-West bereits mehrfach (3 x) geweigert hat über Palästina – Israel zu beraten, korrigiert sie sich heute.
Die Bezirksvertretung schliesst sich den weltweiten zivilgesellschaftlichen und politischen Bemühungen für einen unmittelbaren und unbefristeten Waffenstillstand an.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Sebastian Schröder
Dieser Antrag wurde wieder übergangen.
Im „Oxford Languages“ steht als Definition zum deutschen Wort „totschweigen“: „eine Tatsache bewusst nicht erwähnen, der Öffentlichkeit vorenthalten um bestimmte, sonst zu erwartende Reaktionen der Öffentlichkeit zu vermeiden“
Heute fragen wir: Welche Reaktion der Menschen, der BürgerInnen Wuppertals will die Bezirksvertetung Elberfeld-West vermeiden?
Ich sage hier und jetzt laut: Freie Rede – free speech – statt totschweigen, statt silencing.
#Respekt statt #Ausgrenzung
Wir fordern:
• Einen unbefristeten Waffenstillstand.
• Den sofortigen Stopp aller #Waffenlieferungen aus #Deutschland.
• Die Untersuchung der Kriegs- und #Menschenrechtsverbrechen.
https://www.trueten.de/archives/13223-Silence-is-Violence.html #CeaseFireNOW
Interesting: I just tried following someone on mastodon.ie with an unlocked account and it got turned into a follow request.
Has mastodon.ie silenced me?
If so, I’d like to know why.
CC @mastodonie
PS. This won’t affect you if you’re already following me. It will mean my posts would get hidden from the public timeline and wouldn’t show up in trending posts, etc., on your instance. Hence “silenced.”
