Fitsum Areguy
@fitsumareguy
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Kitchener, Ontario
Joined September 2012
Mining projects fueled by critical mineral strategies are devastating Afro-Black communities. What role should the wider Black diaspora in Canada play in resisting mining? How do I ensure my own organizing is non-extractive? My latest for @briarpatchmag: https://t.co/jkZ9pDlrUo
briarpatchmagazine.com
Mining companies extract critical minerals by escalating conflicts and exploiting labour in Afro-Black communities globally. An international Black-led movement is essential to combat these companies.
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black journalist here! i was never able to keep a job in the industry, so i started a magazine that highlights all types of emerging artists ☺️
1202magazine.com
- Teen Vogue losing its Black women via Vogue merger - VIBE magazine being gutted via Rolling Stone merger, - every NBC marginalized vertical including NBC BLK dismantling all under a month. Where's all the Black journalists at now?
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Why did you terminate your investigation of the genocide in Tigray?
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists 02 November 2025
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BREAKING: Dozens of elected officials and community leaders are blocking the exit of 26 Federal Plaza where ICE transports people they detain.
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Bruh datpiff has a partnership with internet archive and I just went on thrrr and seen SO much shit woah
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5 CDN ice hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman were all acquitted by ON judge today-a woman no less. I believe survivors, whether they are 'good' or 'bad' victims, no matter what they wear, where they work, attend school, or even their politics. We all should.
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Dame and Giannis unintentionally recreating the Will Smith meme
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Amid the constant stream of videos and images or the silence that marks so many atrocities, the world relies on casualty counters to count the dead. Here, writer @NoLore emphasizes the personal and political significance of documenting each name:
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The data detectives recording the true cost of war
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“What we are seeing now is the failure of the idea that tech and its disciples can solve every issue through these technocratic fixes. What's dangerous is that now,many of our anti-colonial, antiauthoritarian struggles have also begun to internalize this idea.” - Ralowe T. Ampu
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🧵"The fullness of Black life is worth less to capital than empty condos." - Ralowe T. Ampu
logicmag.io
Insights from abolitionist organizing on the implications of computation in municipal projects of mass displacement in San Francisco
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who killed them?
Reports and images from Gaza are devastating. Hundreds of people have been killed, many of whom are children. The loss of innocent lives is unacceptable and heartbreaking. The priority must remain on an immediate and sustainable ceasefire, the release of all hostages, the
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As of January 2025, @WRPSToday has spent over $771k to fight a whistleblower who walked away from a career in policing over 8 years ago!!! The very person advising them to keep fighting is the one benefiting from it. 🤔
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A deadly infection is spreading through Ontario’s most crowded jail. The local public health unit confirms two people are dead. The Ministry of the Solicitor General did not respond to the Star’s questions. Latest, with @BKennedyStar:
thestar.com
Two people have died following an outbreak of invasive group A strep at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton.
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This poster on the left was spotted in the CBC elevator lobby today. so @CBCNews is now hiring @CanadianFSWC - the same organization that is surveilling kids, (that's according to THEIR own reporting) to train employees on anti-semitism?????
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OMG! Art Spiegelman, who created "Maus," is teaming up with Joe Sacco, who created the graphic novels "Palestine" and "Footnotes in Gaza," for a new graphic novel about #Gaza today. If they get it published it will be a cultural earthquake! https://t.co/Sqrdl0qowj
bleedingcool.com
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and Joe Sacco, author of Palestine, are working together on a new graphic novel about Gaza.
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Scissoorrrrrr 🤎🐊 love you sis !
Yea doechii is my favorite artist rn hands down . Fuck the genre .
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Tigray TV Journalists Kidnapped by Gunmen Three journalists from Tigray TV, the public broadcaster in #Tigray, were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in northwestern Tigray while gathering information on the impacts of gold mining in the region.
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How much are Canadians and Canadian companies involved in this mining @CanadaEthiopia @JoshuaTabah @melaniejoly @Rob_Oliphant @mary_ng? @JustinTrudeau @PierrePoilievre Tigray TV journalists have done vital work covering #TigrayGenocide must be protected.
omnatigray.org
While protecting Canada’s mining interests in Ethiopia, and specifically, Tigray, the gross human rights violations taking place as part of a genocidal campaign in Tigray were ignored.
Tigray TV Journalists Kidnapped by Gunmen Three journalists from Tigray TV, the public broadcaster in #Tigray, were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in northwestern Tigray while gathering information on the impacts of gold mining in the region.
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your relationship with discipline changes so much when you shift doing things from shame to love. from ‘i have to clean’ to realizing i deserve to have a clean home. from ‘i need to work out’ to i deserve to have a healthy body. you deserve to have the best from yourself.
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“to the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country…”
Luigi Mangione’s alleged manifesto published by @kenklippenstein: “To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some
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