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Give themselves raises and cost of living increases....
..raise rents and reduce incomes for the disabled, while implying they are bums who should just get a job despite their disabilities. The MLAs' rent allowance is greater than the entire income of a disabled person, which is now it is to be reduced further. I would like to spit on every single Alberta UCP MLA. Shame shame shame you poor excuses for human beings.
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AISH Helped Me Survive. Its Replacement May Push Me Into Poverty | By Leif Gregersen | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for June 21, 2026.
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Kharkiv, Ukraine
A woman hugs her cat after it was found during search and rescue works in the damaged residential building after a Russian missile attack.

Photograph: Andrii Marienko/AP

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#Ukraine
#pets
#cats

A woman hugs her rescued cat.
#Photography #cats #pets #ukraine

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Outrage: FIFA awarded exclusive World Cup Burmese rights to Mytel, owned by junta
Please share this email campaign.
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Mytel profits help fund the Burmese military and senior members of the Burmese military. Burma Campaign UK has also received reports from local communities that Mytel also plays a role in facilitating internet connections for scam centres in Burma, which not only steal money from people all over the world, but are also linked to human trafficking, forced labour, organ harvesting and funding the Burmese military and armed groups associated with the Burmese military. 

Tell FIFA to cancel World Cup football contract with the Burmese military

FIFA have given World Cup football rights to a company co-owned by the Burmese military. Now if football fans want to watch the World Cup, they are forced to pay the Burmese military to do so.
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From HELP to "compassionate intervention"
When the changes officially take effect on July 1, police will have expanded authority to detain people who have not been accused or convicted of a crime.


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Out of Sight: Alberta Law Enforcement Returns to Policing Poverty | By James Hardwick | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for June 7, 2026.
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Blood river
The vivid red colour of the Betsiboka River Estuary in Madagascar comes from iron-rich silt in the river water. After heavy rains, red soil bleeds into the river from neighbouring lands. Upstream, the river is surrounded by mangroves, but nearly a century of logging in Madagascar’s rainforests and coastal mangroves has caused erosion of the riverbanks and clogging of coastal waterways with sediment.

Kai Yokoyama

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#rivers
#Madagascar
#AltText

A striking, top-down satellite photograph capturing the Betsiboka River Estuary in Madagascar as it empties into the deep blue-black waters of the Mozambique Channel. The dominant feature of the image is the river itself, which flows with a shocking, vivid blood-red color caused by massive amounts of iron-rich sediment. Moving from the bottom right toward the top center, the river branches out into a complex, sprawling network of dense, braided streams. These red channels cut aggressively through the landscape like a system of human arteries, branching outward into the surrounding land before merging back into a singular, thick torrent that chokes the main estuary opening. The land on either side is a patchwork of mottled green vegetation, rugged brown ridges, and eroded, sandy terrain. To the left, a completely separate, smaller river system also bleeds deep crimson into the landscape, snaking out toward the coast. Where the main river finally breaches the coastline at the top of the frame, the intense red silt balloons outward into the dark ocean water, creating a ominous, blooming cloud of red sediment that visually demonstrates the severe erosion of the island's topsoil.
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What's wrong with African Parks?
"African Parks wants to make us disappear" - Baka woman raped by parks ranger, Congo #AfricanParks #Congo #indigenous #Baka #PrinceHarry
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Prince Harry Is Lending His Name and His Dollars to the Rape and Torture of Indigenous People. He Calls It Conservation.

He took a humanitarian award. The Baka Indigenous Peoples took the violence.
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Irreplacable rainforest and culture being destroyed for copper

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A story all too familiar to a Canadian indigenous journalist

But this is our history happening now in Ecuador. The first road into this place was only built 10 years ago.

This Is What the End of the World Looks Like

Her name is Nazli. She was just born into one of the last sacred places on Earth. They’ve given her people until 2027 to leave.
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Had to update slides for a presentation tonight, so I'm sharing the latest numbers showing how bad the situation in orbit is getting. There are now 10,413 Starlink satellites, more than about 2/3 of ALL satellites (15,623 total, numbers from planet4589.org/space/stats/act…).

The CRASH Clock outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashcl… is down to 2.5 days.

Jonathan's Space Report | Space Statistics

Jonathan McDowell's new homepage
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living in hiding in the Dominican Republic

"From 2021 onwards, Evens lived in hiding in the Dominican Republic. He relied on support from his family in the United States, who sent him money to survive. He only ventured into the streets on rare occasions..."

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#Haiti #DomincanRepublic #refugee #migrant

The ordeal of an undocumented Haitian migrant in the Dominican Republic

Regaining hope and confidence rests on finding a pathway to a country where he can regain his freedom and dignity, since persistent gang violence makes a return to Haiti impossible.
Guest Contributor (Global Voices)
#migrant #refugee #Haiti #DomincanRepublic

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Trailer for Canada Inc

70% of the world's mining companies have their headquarters in Canada. They operate with impunity in other countries brutally forcing indigenous people off their land #mining

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CANADA INC.-THE TRAILER IS HERE

The world’s mining landlord has blood on its hands-Canada sells the world human rights. Then ravages the land from under it.
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#Mining
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The invisible migration: How urban refugees are powering Uganda’s economy
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The invisible migration: How urban refugees are powering Uganda’s economy

As Paul Kithima and the entrepreneurs in Makindye demonstrate, when refugees are given the tools to succeed, they don’t just survive, they build the future of the country that welcomed them.
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Still Standing
As you read this, Oglala Lakota youth have locked their bodies to drilling equipment at Pe’ Sla.


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#landback

Standing Rock at Ten: The Next Generation Just Showed Up

On the anniversary of the most powerful Indigenous uprising in decades, Lakota youth are putting their bodies on the line again
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Water not Coal

Are you an #Alberta resident? Have you signed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal petition yet? There’s little over a month left, so check out a signing location ASAP :-)

Must be an Alberta resident, Canadian citizen, over 18, and show ID with proof of address

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#water #coal #petition #Alberta

Water Not Coal | Corb Lund's Petition To Protect Alberta's Rockies

Join Corb Lund and thousands of Albertans to prohibit coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. Sign the citizen initiative petition.
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Canadian mining company poisons indigenous Bolivians hand in hand with Bolivian state

"Santacruz Silver is dedicated to sustainable silver mining across Latin America, with a focus on environmentally responsible mining in Bolivia" - Their website

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Bolivia Is Poisoning Indigenous Peoples to Death. Canada Is Signing the Cheques.

They refused my interview requests. They burned his house. She has cancer. Hundreds displaced. I'm writing it anyway.
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Brandi Morin, Canadian indigenous independent journalist
This past week, I attended the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City. In an interview I witnessed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues, Dr. Alberta Barume, declared a crisis — an international crisis — for our Peoples.

He said out loud what I’ve been witnessing on the ground for years.


- Brandi Morin
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I’m About to Tell the Most Dangerous Stories of My Career. I Need You With Me.

The frontlines are calling. Come.
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Another Russian indigenous rights activist arrested
Leongardt and Egereva are accused of participating in the activities of “Aborigen Forum” — an informal network of activists and experts representing the Indigenous peoples of Russia’s North, Siberia, and Far East — which the Russian authorities classify as a “terrorist organization”
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Indigenous rights activist jailed pending trial in Russia’s “Aborigen Forum” terrorism case

A second defendant has been named in Russia’s case against Aborigen Forum: rights advocate Natalya Leongardt. She is being prosecuted alongside Daria Egereva,…
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