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This is the Mastodon account for Richard Stallman. I founded GNU & the @fsf and with them launched the Free Software Movement. Please join or donate to the FSF: https://www.fsf.org I use this account to mirror the political notes from my web site, stallman.org. Read my linking policy: https://stallman.org/linkpolicy.html The views expressed here, as in stallman.org, are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware
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the Guardian
It’s the media’s job to hold power to account. This year, too many got into bed with it instead | Arwa Mahdawi
The lines between advertising, public relations and journalism have become dangerously blurred
 *It's the media's job to hold power to account . This year, too many got into bed with it instead.* "Power" in this article refers to state power. However, "power" includes the power of businesses as well as the power of governments. Over recent decades, the major US media have become subsidiaries of megacorporations which mainly do other kinds of
Tell Amazon: Come to the Table with Amazon Labor Union!
Last December, Amazon Labor Union - International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1 (ALU- IBT Local 1) went on strike alongside Amazon facilities ac...
Online Letter Campaign, no JavaScript
 US citizens: call on Amazon to come to the table with Amazon Labor Union. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
the Guardian
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
 Long-time activist Rosa Parks started the Montgomery bus boycott with a shot in the dark, no advance plan. The blacks of Montgomery had an organized and motivated community which seized the opportunity. We need to continue trying to launch resistance against today's unjust systems, including proprietary operating systems.
civicshout.com
Demand Media Expose Trump’s Abuse of Power
The Trump administration says it has the power to kill anyone it designates a “narco-terrorist” — even survivors of military strikes who pose...
 US citizens: call on media to expose the bully's abuse of power as an offense against the Constitution and human rights. US citizens: sign the petition to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.
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the Guardian
How three Uyghur brothers fled China – to spend 12 years in an Indian prison
Arrested in 2013 on India’s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing’s ‘genocide’ against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been impriso...
2023: July - October Political Notes
 Three Uyghur brothers have been jailed in India for 12 years, without a trial, for crossing the China-India border unknowingly since there was nothing to say it was a border. The greatest danger to them is that India may expel them to China, which