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Cynical optimist. Gardener, fermentor, musician, socialist. Member of the Tompkins County (NY) Green Party. Feel free to toot at me in English, Deutsch, Gaeilge, or Italiano.
#GreenParty #GoToSocial

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2025-02-25 23:50:08

Please Post Widely!
Tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 26th, support Ellen Grady at trial in Syracuse for her November arrest to demand an end of illegal US arms sales to Israel for genocide in Gaza. Trial begins at 10 am. We will vigil at 9:30 am for half hour before going in to the court. Bring signs.
Ellen and nine others of the Berrigan Collective sat in the lobby of the Syracuse Federal Building housing Senators Schumer and Gillibrand’s offices calling on the senators to stop funding Israel’s year of genocide. Ellen was the only one arrested. Among possible witnesses are people who resigned from the State Department, people like Josh Paul, and the Department of the Interior because of the Biden administration’s violation of 6 Laws prohibiting the US from sending weapons to a country committing war crimes and genocide.
   Carpooling from Ithaca? Leaving by 8:15 am.
Call Mary Anne Grady Flores  607-280-8797
   Syracuse Federal Court  100 South Clinton St., Syracuse, NY 13261
Also see action steps to urge senators to support Bernie Sanders' new resolutions (Feb. 2025) to block arms transfers to Israel.
Details of action follow:
On Friday, November 15th, 2024, members of the Berrigan Collective, based in Ithaca, NY, with other upstate peace activists, went to the Syracuse Federal Building to ask for an immediate meeting with staff in the offices of New York's US Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to "exercise our right to petition the government for a redress of grievances". They wished to "impress upon the Senators the urgency of the impending vote (in 3 business days) to cut off offensive weapons for Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples." They specifically were asking the Senators to support the 6 Senate Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would block the sale of U.S. weaponry to Israel.
Earlier last fall Senators Bernie Sanders (VT), Peter Welch (VT), Jeff Merkley (OR), and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to stop a $20 billion weapons shipment approved by the Biden administration. “There is a mountain of documentary evidence” that Israel uses US weapons to violate the law, Sanders said.
When the nine activists were denied access they staged a sit-in in the security checkpoint area of the building without blocking people from their business in the building. Part of the activist's statement read "It is against US law to send a single weapon to any country grossly violating human rights. 61% of Americans say they want to cut off weapons to Israel. Our tax dollars must not be used for another illegal, immoral weapon giveaway to Israel!" The nine said they were there to implore the Senators to uphold the law by voting in favor of the impending legislation.
After about an hour the Department of Homeland Security police removed the nine from the lobby, carried them out of the building and deposited them on the sidewalk. Some of the nine decided to block one of the the doorways of the building. Eventually, the DHS police arrested one of the group, Ellen Grady from Ithaca, and charged her with not following the order of the DHS and blocking a doorway. Grady was ticketed and released.
The group's action was part of a nationwide effort that week to urge Senators from across the nation to support the historic Joint Resolutions of Disapproval which was voted on within days of the witness.
The nine activists are;
Bill Carini - Newfield, NY
Ed Kinane - Syracuse, NY
Mark Scibilia-Carver-Trumansburg, NY
Tom Joyce - Enfield, NY
Emma (Mac) Puckett- Syracuse, NY
Selima Gurney - Ithaca, NY
Ellen Grady - Ithaca, NY
Dan Burgevin - Trumansburg, NY
John Amidon - Albany, NY
Please call your Senators to support Bernie Sanders new legislation to stop funding Israel’s continued ethnic cleansing & genocide. 202-224-3121
#Palestine #genocide

2025-02-09 21:54:00

The first post of a thread from Wikileaks:
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN. Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted. IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government
https://xcancel.com/wikileaks/status/1888072129327083979#m
#USAID #propaganda #USpropaganda

2025-02-09 04:57:47

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@nprofile…5fn0 Bette Davis?

2025-01-22 01:08:57

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@nprofile…6vl3 Please don't use short URL's in your posts:
Guidelines and best practices
Links in Mastodon are not shortened using URL shorteners, and the usage of URL shorteners is heavily discouraged. URLs in text always count for 23 characters
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/guidelines/#links
When you use a short URL we can't see where we are being taken to, and it will be counted as 23 characters anyway, so you are not burning characters when you use the original, full URL.

2025-01-16 23:49:48

Via @ryangrim on Twitter:
Reporter @samhusseini was just physically dragged from Blinken’s briefing. “Why aren’t you at The Hague?” he asked.
https://gts.epigaea.net/fileserver/01M61KB29J1NM2V8FSP8X06JMP/attachment/original/01JHRR29FWTRF07ES1Y37GEXQV.mp4

2024-12-30 00:30:21

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@nprofile…5fn0 Hmmm, good question, here is what I am doing these days. I'm open to your suggestions!
Organizing with others in my community to engage in civil resistance
BDS movement
https://www.bdsmovement.net/act-now-against-these-companies-profiting-from-genocide
Building an alternative to the war criminal Democratic and Republican parties
https://www.gp.org/
Confronting and shaming complacency among my fellow humans

2024-12-30 00:30:21

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2024-12-30 00:02:04

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@nprofile…5fn0 Sad that the college movement seems to have largely run out of steam. But we "olds" shouldn't leave it all up to the kids, we need to do our part.

2024-12-30 00:02:04

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@nprofile…5fn0 Sad that the college movement seems to have largely run out of steam. But we "olds" shouldn't leave it all up to the kids, we need to do our part.

2024-12-24 20:07:27

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@nprofile…5fn0 I have been a dues-paying member of sdf for many years, I really liked the idea of getting internet services from a not-for-profit. Unfortunately, my association with them is ending after they censored and limited my account on social.sdf.org (now I am on my own instance). They never even responded to my appeals.
Some of the posts they censored:
https://gts.epigaea.net/fileserver/01M61KB29J1NM2V8FSP8X06JMP/attachment/original/01JFX4FNQQ61KHNXTN8AXKMVJ8.png

2024-12-24 20:07:27

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