Harms Committed
Independent Journalism on State Violence
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curated by morgan harper (they/them)
phd candidate @ university of toronto
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- If you like my posts please consider helping me stay sheltered and fed during a time of suck
- I’m a disabled homeless trans woman living in a motel in the short term. If anyone can help me out with funds to extend my stay and cover necessities, I would be immensely grateful. My links are in my bio. 💕💸💸💕 #crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
- Do not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess
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- a good day to tap this sign!
- 3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche! findyournews.org/explore/
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- Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
- What a wonderful day!
- Spin Doctors is a book about how the COVID pandemic played out in Canada during the first two years @nolore.bsky.social is a brilliant speaker too! Big lesson from the book: the pandemic exploited inequities within the society and worsened inequities
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- Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.
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View full threadContext matters: Grabbing a child without their consent is not okay, but grabbing a child to get them out of the way of an oncoming car, or attacking dog, or ICE agent, is community care where overriding consent is justified. Blowing whistles to save lives is justified.
- Don't think I don't notice that you are NOWHERE when disabled people are asking for your help and you just like to trot us out when it is convenient.
- In particular, leveraging mental health conditions here in a very pointed way to prey on the superficial 'mental health awareness' floating around is especially vile when you consider that being kidnapped; fearing for your family; and experiencing systemic racism all cause extreme mental harm.
- Whistles are highly effective for both community defense and alerting people to the fact that there's an existential risk in their communities. If you are not centering the people who are fearing for their lives. families, and communities, I am not interested in whatever you have to say.
- This is really another iteration of 'screaming at people on social media' is praxis and it is extremely tiresome. Social media can be a powerful tool for building community and power. It can also be weaponized as a performative cudgel.
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- A lot of wisdom being dropped here about deescalation. At artful protests I organized in the early 2010s, where people showed up expecting a family-friendly vibe, we sometimes had folks who were bloc'd up who I had to talk to. They always heard me out because we had mutual respect. They knew me.
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- Spark Space is an incredible mutual aid organization that provides a safe space for students to work and access free internet and electricity, but they need our help to keep paying electricity costs. Your donations, even $5, help immensely:
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