Notices by hambibleibt #riseup4Rojava (hambibleibt@todon.nl)

"#Apple has removed a #HongKong map app used by pro-democracy protesters, saying it endangered police, after #China warned the US tech giant to drop it." - AFP

"In this development, we see the fundamental role of China in global capitalism, the complicity of Apple in totalitarianism, and the sanctity of police impunity as a foundational aspect of oppression all around the world." - crimethink

Read also:

Three Months of Insurrection
An Anarchist Collective in Hong Kong Appraises the Achievements and Limits of the Revolt:
https://crimethinc.com/2019/09/20/three-months-of-insurrection-an-anarchist-collective-in-hong-kong-appraises-the-achievements-and-limits-of-the-revolt

byciclist are blocking the traffic in #Berlin.
The bike tour is organized by the "hedosnist international", and in their words:
"We are not blocking traffic, we are the traffic!"
...as currently the police is blocking them, and by that causing a great traffic jam.

Their press release in english/german here:
https://radtour.hedonist-international.org/
#berlinblockieren

Those bike events are kind of common in some cities and known as #criticalmass.

Correlation between C02 emissions and global economy growth rates.

...hmmm what if capitalism is actully the problem to the #climatecrisis

source:
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/energysnapshots/co2-emissions-and-global-economy-growth-rates.html

Just because there's always somewhere someone arguing that countering opression is the same as causing opression:

@greenfediverse you might like to take a look at those listed here:
https://github.com/ecobytes/awesome-librehosters
some do offer hosting for others, some not.

Reminder:
without the #police, we could shut down the coalmine for ever, today.

Sometimes people ask, why are we considering the police so much as an enemy. Well, they have proofed to many times to protect the interests causing this #climatecrisis by the usage of violence against those that fight for #climatejustice.

To make this clear:
What all the countless activists in XR do on the ground is important and inspiring.
Yet it is believed that the named critique is also important.

Following some sources beside many more where the critique is originating from:
https://sunbeam.city/@GreenandBlack/102027193955658298

https://twitter.com/KojoRTE/status/1123849480703488000

https://twitter.com/rentcutUCL/status/1122187784574447617

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/an-open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/

https://enoughisenough14.org/2018/11/24/hambacherforst-memorial-for-steffen-destroyed-during-operation-by-police-and-rwe-to-extinctionrebellion-why-the-police-are-not-our-friends/

https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/04/24/rebellion-extinction-a-capitalist-scam-to-hijack-our-resistance/

https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/04/28/from-extinctionrebellion-to-desirous-rebellion/

https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/08/03/andrew-flood-exploring-violence-non-violence-extinctionrebellion-where-xr-gets-the-research-wrong/

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Extinction Rebellion takes/supports position that are
- supporting police and status quo
- racist
- capitalist
- classist
- historic revisionism
- against diversity of tactics
- against intersectionality

There's likly much to say for each point, following only very few but likly enough reasoning for the made hypothesis. If you have or want further information on it, or disagree with it feel free to reply.

(please, see the first toot first, in case you only saw the 2. post of this thread)

There are some controversies about #XR. Befor naming them it need to be said, that the groundwork of the many people that are active within XR is inspiring and important. Yet some see structual problems within XR and have them already adressed in personal interaction or public articles.
To make this information accessable to those that have been unaware of it's existance, here some main arguments that have been circulating. Mostly they are releated to the XR UK, some beyond. Feel free to reply.

(this thread is not representing the opinion of hambibleibt that remains in solidarity to XR, but from some)
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A few reasons not to organise on #Facebook:
https://libcom.org/news/few-reasons-not-organise-facebook-30122017

...yes, we still have an account there :-(
I hope this will change over time.

Hello fediverse,
this is our very first toot.

"The Hambach Forest, which one could call the last “primeval” forest in Central Europe, is being stubbed for Europe’s biggest climate pollutant – the Rhenish lignite mining area of RWE (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier), in which RWE mines brown coal. Whole villages and the health of human beings are destroyed in this process.
To prevent all of this it we squatted the Hambacher Forest and take part in other effective and direct Actions."

Since 2012 it is squatted and defended against cops and security forces from #RWE. #hambibleibt!!!

Berxwedan Jiyane