It is extremely devastating to see my beloved homes cede to the sea and to consider that there will be more loss in my lifetime. An unimaginable loss of people, nations, culture, and history.

The Global North has a debt to pay and we, as marginalized people experiencing this impact ourselves - because fascisim and resulting #ClimateCrisis everywhere will always impact the most marginalized first - MUST meaningfully integrate internationalism in our understanding of the world and our work. So that we join in solidarity with people in the third world.

In 2013 a school teacher, Rafiq Rehman, and two children, Zubair Rehman (13 yr old) and Nabila Rehman (9 yr old), traveled from Pakistan to testify to a Democratic Congress about the brutality of drone bombings. The translator sobbed.

The no-show numbers were historical.

https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/1563910553206136834

Fun story about the capture of Osama bin Laden. Obama authorized CIA to infiltrate healthcare networks, taking DNA samples of people being vaccinated for things like Hep B.

Now it's near impossible to have healthcare campaigns in rural Pakistan.

https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/1563910553206136834?s=20&t=XR0i-DlzhhtKZVvarbJamQ

It is extremely funny to me how sex worker and drug user histories get romanticized. "Most ancient cultures didn’t grow marijuana to get high, but as herbal medicine." "Courtesans in ancient history were revered in political and religious spaces." Bro, I have news for you... Throughout human history we have gotten high and we have fucked for resources and money. It is what it is. We don't need to romanticize this shit to give ourselves legitimacy. Also, a lot of practices said to be "ancient" still exist today. Which makes this even more funny to me.

The state cannot help trafficking victims because the state, by it's own definition, is the largest trafficker on the globe. Traffickers cannot help trafficking victims.

I'm not being figurative. Thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/highendanonsw/status/1483099096776859650

According to the state's own definition, "trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor".

Arguably the largest labor force is the prison industrial complex. Where people are imprisoned and pulled into further debt. All the while, they're

"Exit services" look like affordable housing, a living wage, competent medical services, a right to unemployment because you quit to escape sexual violence at your food/hospitality/whatever industry job You don't hear s3x worker rights activist talking about "exit services" because we're busy asking for all of these things and more. So much more. Because we know that what benefits us benefits all. And those benefits don't have to be especially applied to us