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if-you-fan-a-fire · 9 months
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Unemployment relief delivered by the government in minuscule amounts, The Worker. July 3, 1933.
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nommoz · 2 months
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homo-house · 5 months
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hey uh so I haven't seen anyone talking about this here yet, but
the amazon river, like the biggest river in the fucking world, in the middle of the amazon fucking rainforest, is currently going through its worst drought since the records began 121 years ago
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picture from Folha PE
there's a lot going on but I haven't seen much international buzz around this like there was when the forest was on fire (maybe because it's harder to shift the narrative to blame brazil exclusively as if the rest of the world didn't have fault in this) so I wanted to bring this to tumblr's attention
I don't know too many details as I live in the other side of the country and we are suffering from the exact opposite (at least three cyclones this year, honestly have stopped counting - it's unusual for us to get hit by even one - floods, landslides, we have a death toll, people are losing everything to the water), but like, I as a brazilian have literally never seen pictures of the river like this before. every single city in the amazonas state is in a state of emergency as of november 1st.
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pictures by Adriano Liziero (ig: geopanoramas)
we are used to seeing images of rio negro and solimões, the two main amazon river affluents, in all their grandiose and beauty and seeing these pictures is really fucking chilling. some of our news outlets are saying the solimões has turned to a sand desert... can you imagine this watery sight turning into a desert in the span of a year?
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while down south we are seeing amounts of rain and hailstorms the likes of which our infrastructure is simply not built to deal with, up north people who have built everything around the river are at a loss of what to do.
the houses there that are built to float are just on the ground, people who depend on fishing for a living have to walk kilometers to find any fish that are still alive at all, the biodiversity there is at risk, and on an economic level it's hard to grasp how people from the northern states are getting by at all - the main means of transport for ANYTHING in that region is via the river water. this will impact the region for months to come. it doesnt make a lot of sense to build a lot of roads bc it's just better to use the waterway system, everything is built around or floats on the river after all. and like, the water level is so incomprehensibly low the boats are just STUCK. people are having a hard time getting from one place to another - keep in mind the widest parts of the river are over 10 km apart!!
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this shit is really serious and i am trying not to think about it because we have a different kind of problem to worry about down south but it's really terrifying when I stop to think about it. you already know the climate crisis is real and the effects are beyond preventable now (we're past global warming, get used to calling it "global boiling"). we'll be switching strategies to damage control from now on and like, this is what it's come to.
I don't like to be alarmist but it's hard not to be alarmed. I'm sorry that I can't end this post with very clear intructions on how people overseas can help, there really isn't much to do except hope the water level rises soon, maybe pray if you believe in something. in that regard we just have to keep pressing for change at a global level; local conditions only would not, COULD NOT be causing this - the amazon river is a CONTINENTAL body of water, it spans across multiple countries. so my advice is spread the word, let your representatives know that you're worried and you want change towards sustainability, degrowth and reduced carbon emissions, support your local NGOs, maybe join a cause, I don't know? I recommend reading on ecological and feminist economics though
however, I know you can help the affected riverine families by donating to organizations dedicated to helping the region. keep in mind a single US dollar, pound or euro is worth over 5x more in our currency so anything you donate at all will certainly help those affected.
FAS - Sustainable Amazon Fundation
Idesam - Sustainable Developent and Preservation Institute of Amazonas
Greenpeace Brasil - I know Greenpeace isn't the best but they're one of the few options I can think of that have a bridge to the international world and they are helping directly
There are a lot of other smaller/local NGOs but I'm not sure how you could donate to them from overseas, I'll leave some of them here anyway:
Projeto Gari
Caritás Brasileira
If you know any other organizations please link them, I'll be sure to reblog though my reach isn't a lot
thank you so much for reading this to the end, don't feel obligated to share but please do if you can! even if you just read up to here it means a lot to me that someone out there knows
also as an afterthought, I wanted to expand on why I think this hasn't made big news yet: because unlike the case of the 2020 forest fires, other countries have to hold themselves accountable when looking at this situation. while in 2020 it was easier to pretend the fires were all our fault and people were talking about taking the amazon away from us like they wouldn't do much worse. global superpowers have no more forests to speak of so I guess they've been eyeing what latin america still has. so like this bit of the post is just to say if you're thinking of saying anything of the sort, maybe think of what your own country has done to contribute to this instead of blaming brazil exclusively and saying the amazon should be protected by force or whatever
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anarchoposting-moved · 6 months
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crionic-dubs · 9 months
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smarmy-yet-satisfying · 9 months
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In case you were wondering how screwed we all are:
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The fossil fuel industry has successfully completed their infiltration and takeover of the COP climate conference. The president of COP 28 is going to be an Oil CEO.
Billions of people are going to die but the rich don’t care so long as they can maintain the status quo and continue lining their pockets.
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And I’m supposed to feel bad that a couple of them got themselves squished on a voluntary trip to the bottom of the ocean???
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politijohn · 10 months
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liberalsarecool · 8 months
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It's structural, not individual.
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thoughtportal · 1 year
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progressivemillennial · 4 months
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year
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“Proud Iroquois Plead for Aid For First Time in All History,” Toronto Globe. February 4, 1933. Page 1.  ---- (Canadian Press Despatch) Caughnawaga, Que., Feb. 3. - "Never before in the history of America have we, the proud Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga [Kahnawá:ke], aborigines of this continent and wards of the nation, appealed to you, brothers and sisters of Canada," begins a statement appealing for unemployment relief funds, signed by members of the Caughnawaga Relief Fund Committee, and titled "The End of the Trail." 
"We appeal for mercy and charity funds to feed and clothe our - and you own - destitute people residing on our reserve,” the statement continues. "Advertising experts, leaders in their field, employ pictures of our people in various phases of life as symbols of endurance. This is logical; but even we, with our traditional powers of endurance, can no longer endure without your help the merciless exactions of the economic depression.   
"We have come to the end of the long quagmire trail. Exhausted in body and soul, gasping for breath, we stand collapsing at the brink of the great divide. Are you going to stand by and watch us and our children fall into the abyss of lost hope? Or will you, like good palefaces, extend a helping hand to our groping people.”
The appeal is nationwide, and is endorsed by several prominent Montrealers, a member of the Relief Committee said. About $25,000 is needed to tide over 2,700 families who, it is contended, are unable to live on relief extended by the Department of Indian Affairs.
[AL: Some savvy rhetoric from the Kahnawá:ke relief committee, deploying the racist images of their people and cliched language to garner sympathy for a community hard hit by the Depression, as the ‘skywalkers’ who worked construction were thrown out of work.]
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keirstarmerhateblog · 8 months
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markuthoaks · 9 months
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nando161mando · 7 months
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anarchywoofwoof · 5 months
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well
here's the headline some of us collapse-aware folks have been dreading becoming mainstream for a long time now.
this is in a vice article. not some fringe website. this isn't fearmongering. this is reality.
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so this isn't a small sample size. this a plea from 163 of of the 195 countries on the entire planet to act.
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we have seriously broken something. and badly.
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you people literally can't even take someone blocking traffic and making you late for brunch. you shit on Greta Thunberg. you shit on Just Stop Oil. you shit on anyone who tries to make any kind of meaningful difference. and then you say "we need movements." every movement that any radical with good intentions has tried to start in the 1st world on the left has been stomped out by the police time and time again. give me a fucking break.
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trapped, is what they mean.
trapped in an unlivable wasteland with no food, no water, and no chance of survival.
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millions of people are being forced back into half hour-hour commutes in the name steadying of corporate real estate prices. because a profitable business is more important than a habitable planet to the people with wealth who actually own the means of production.
the fact of the matter is that the rich and powerful will never, ever let you vote their power away and they will never agree to give away by choice. we can sing this song in a million different tunes, but it always has the same words. you gotta eat the rich.
[vice news]
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