Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 70

Here's some #RadioNZ coverage of the #Strike4Climate actions in #Aoteaoa:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/384744/thousands-of-students-protest-against-climate-change

@notclacke have you heard of anyone participating in #Strike4Climate in mainland China?

@notclacke can't wait to get some figures on the total number of people protesting. I wonder if it was bigger than the global day of action against the invasion of Iraq?

Links to more coverage of today's #Strike4Climate actions can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/b0ytuf/school_strike_4_climate_action_nz_on_friday_15/

#RadioNZ offers a soundtrack for today's #Stike4Climate actions, one that also, in a weird way, maybe speaks to what we need to change to prevent any repeats of the shocking incident that happened today in Ōtautahi:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2018686574/hope-for-a-generation-songs-for-the-environment-and-the-spirit-of-protest

Students and supporters in Otago march down the main street of Ōtepoti demanding #ClimateJustice:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/otago-school-pupils-rally-against-climate-change
#Strike4Climate

Exactly what I expected of #ClickBait corporate media. They are so easily distracted and their entire business model is based on feeding the loudest trolls they can find. Here's an example, where a page of live coverage on the #Strike4Climate protests has been hijacked into covering the mosque shootings:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/03/live-updates-new-zealand-s-school-kids-join-global-climate-change-strike.html

Students and supporters of the #Strike4Climate gather outside parliament, the house of representatives where the elected government of #NZ do their work:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/111283325/climate-change-strike-live-coverage-of-new-zealand-students-taking-action-against-climate-change

Internet discourse is the digital equivalent of having a parliamentary session, a university lecture Q&A, a public meeting organizing a protest march, a bunch of folks having a beer at the pub, and another bunch tripping balls on cactus or mushrooms, all in the same room at the same time. Is it any wonder it's driving us all bananas?

Students in Gisborne on the picket line today, demanding the #NZ government take more action to transition the country to #RenewableEnergy sources, and do our bit to keep #GlobalWarming under 1.5 degrees.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=oE2dEJ73MHc

Students and supporters marching for #ClimateJustice in the central city of #Wellington, the capital city of #Aotearoa (#NZ):
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=4z_3UzpaCr0
#Strike4Climate

Under the current #NZ law, a person working 40 hours a week on minimum wage earns NZ$66,000 over 2 years, and pays tax on every cent (plus GST when they spend it). While a person who can afford to own a property they don't live in, can pull in something like NZ$123,650 in capital gains over 2 years - more than twice as much money for doing *no* work - and not pay a red cent of tax on that income. Figures based on this valuation table:
https://www.enz.org/house-prices-wellington.html

#TaxCapitalGains! It's only fair.

@donkey is that what we want? I mean sure, freeze the account so they can't use it as a soapbox post-attack. But isn't it useful to have a publicly-available record of their agenda in own words? It might come in handy if some PR flack starts trying to spin their motives as being something it wasn't. Don't you think?
@john_holley @Twitter

I find it deeply disturbing that the people who planned the attacks on the mosques in Ōtautahi chose the same day as the student's #Strike4Climate in #NZ. If one of their goals was to make sure news of the strike was swamped with sensationalist news about their own cowardly actions, let's make sure they don't achieve that goal. Don't feed them the reinforcement (positive or negative) that they crave. Especially when they're armed and hurting people. Focus on the kids.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/03/15/school-climate-strike-the-biggest-challenge-is-to-make-democracy-work/

BTW I hope anyone still towing the coporate PR line that there is no scientific evidence that #GMO can cause harm is paying attention to this. There is more published evidence than you think, and there's probably even more that the #biotech companies have either failed to publish (the same way tobacco companies failed to publish their results on cigarettes causing lung cancer), or managed to get censored through underhanded tactics like what happened at Elsevier.

#Elsevier has also been known to publish fake journals funded by pharmaceutical companies. It's great to see an increasing number of academic Martin Luthers starting to nail their own versions of the '99 Theses' to the digital front doors of these parasitic corporations.
https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/elsevier-published-6-fake-journals-44160

@srol Moya, the Leviathan starship from #Farscape

@srol Moya, the Leviathan starship fromm #Farscape

@aral @bhaugen if membership of a larger collective was an optional extra for humans, institutions could never aggregate the power they do. If it was easy to just walk away and live as a lone individual, people would, and institutions would collapse. But we don't. Because people *need* communities, we define our individuality in common or in contrast with them, and if the only communities we can find are tyrannical ones, we'll put up with that. #CharlesEisenstein writes some good stuff on this.