Slow Factory
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Designing & creating climate positive solutions for our collective liberation. We are a school & a lab for and by people of the Global Majority 🌍
New York
Joined August 2012
Join us in working to redesign the world! We need a slower world centered not on profit but instead on the health of people and the planet. Link:
slowfactory.earth
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The Israelis just issued forced displacement orders to a new layer of South Lebanon that is north of the Litani River ricer. They had already issued these order for south of the Litani. Now they’re saying anyone south of the Zahrani river must leave or risk dying, which
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It’s going to take ordinary people standing up to oligarchs like this for us to have a decent future.
An Oklahoma fire department turned down $250,000 from Google because they didn't want to betray public trust as Google tries to build a data center in their community. The Rock Volunteer Fire Department fire chief got a standing ovation for speaking out against the data center.
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Israel is flattening village after village in Lebanon with massive bombs, each carrying the explosive firepower that another army might have in its total arsenal. They are destroying homes and land, centuries of legacy. They are using incendiary white phosphorus, which literally
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The first time I saw white phosphorus was in 2008. I was returning home from school when suddenly the sky was filled with falling fire and thick white smoke. It was suffocating beyond description. We were just children who knew nothing of life except playing and having fun, but
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At least 261 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza. The most recent victim was Amal Shamali who was killed in an Israeli attack on a makeshift tent sheltering her family. https://t.co/UmsQaoqtWx
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At least 261 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza. The most recent victim was Amal Shamali who was killed in an Israeli attack on...
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Breaking | Haytham Al-Moussawi, the chief photographer for the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, was wounded by shrapnel while covering the Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburb today.
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Israel has now displaced 700,000 people, 12% of Lebanon’s population. Imagine 40 million Americans forced from their homes in less than a week.
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“The architecture being tested on Palestinians does not stay in Palestine. It travels, it is exported and it becomes precedent.” — Yara Hawari (@yarahawari), Co-Director for @AlShabaka
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Today, on International Women's Day we honor of the suffering, sacrifices, and heroic resistance and sumud of Palestinian women. The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure now. https://t.co/lFFHe859nO
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In honor of the suffering, sacrifices, and heroic resistance and sumud of Palestinian women, the BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure now.
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A few pro-Israel billionaires are influencing the Trump admin's Iran policy. No one has as much sway here as Miriam Adelson, who gave $250 million to Trump's campaign. That money buys a lot of influence, and she uses it to help make Israel the dominant power in the Middle East.
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I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Please share with any Indigenous youth that you know! Apply here: https://t.co/hhGAkLTQpk
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The Cost of AI Colonialism. "The fear is that since these AI data centres are facing backlash in the Global North, they are trying to shift them to the Global South, where civil liberties are precarious and, furthermore, unaccountable" https://t.co/ygqbIoZWXC
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The fear is that since these AI data centres are facing backlash in the Global North, they are trying to shift them to the Global South, where civil liberties are precarious and, furthermore,...
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“Organize locally, think globally” was never a more urgent mandate
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Senator Sheehy joined Capitol Police in lifting up and ejecting anti war protestor Brian McGinnis from a SASC subcommittee hearing. McGinnis is a Green Party candidate running for Senate in N.C. An antiwar activist filmed the video below:
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