Here's why garment factory workers in Bangladesh are striking:

Take a woman working a 12-hour shift in a textile factory in Bangladesh. During her shift she sews more than 150-200 t-shirts for Zara, Levis, Walmart and H&M. Her pay for the entire day? Less than $5.

H&M takes those shirts and sells them to European consumers for more than €20 each. That's over €4,000 in retail value. Generated by her hands. In a single day.

H&M runs massive ad campaigns in Europe talking about "conscious" fashion and "sustainability." But there's nothing sustainable about a system that uses their workers up like a cheap commodity.

This is why Bangladeshi workers are shutting down garment factories all over the country. They aren't just asking for a few extra cents. They are striking for the right to be treated like human beings.

#H&M #Walmart #CheapFashion #Bangladesh

"56 seconds. That’s it. I just called my Senator to let them know we don't support Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader. That's less than a minute to make sure they know we demand a fighter. Not an AIPAC funded creature of Washington." - Major Leeg, social media personality

The U.S. Capitol switchboard for reaching Senate offices is:
(202) 224-3121.

#SenateMajorityLeader #TakeAction #VoiceYourOpinion #ChuckSchumer #Democrats

Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney carpool!

Chris Wilson as Pierre Poilievre, and Mark McKinney as Mark Carney, brilliantly nail Canada's two conservative party leaders 😂

Pierre: "It's weird sitting up front. Backseat driving is my entire thing!" 💯

Mark: "When I go right I do it slowly, over time, so no one notices." 🎯
#Parody #Satire #ThisHourHas22Minutes #PierrePoilievre #MarkCarney #Canada #CanPoli

This is what happens when an opera singer gets a cockatiel! 🤩

🦜 jackiandaspen

#Birds #Cockatiels #Opera #Mozart

Perfect day to reshare this great Patrick Stewart bit titled "What Has the ECHR Ever Done for Us?", a brilliant parody of the iconic "What have the Romans ever done for us?" scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian movie.

Canada's unions passed a resolution calling on workers to refuse to handle weapons and military equipment destined for Israel.

Unions stand with Palestinian workers in their fight for peace, justice, and respect for international law.

https://canadianlabour.ca/clc-calls-for-an-end-to-arms-shipments-to-israel/

#Canada #Unions #Labour

It's critically important to teach your kids a sport. It will come in handy one day.

#ParisProtest #France #StudentProtesters #StateViolence #PoliceOppression

Whatever you do, don't buy 'smart' appliances!

A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigerators across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.

Temperatures were set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food.

The West has dehumanized Palestinians to such a degree that simply advocating for their liberation from apartheid and occupation is described as “hurtful” to the people who want their oppression to continue.

By not taking sides Ed Sheeran has sided with the oppressors.

Respect for Macklemore, Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#Anthropic employee quits.

C: Vinny Thomas @vinn_ayy

The Gaza documentary “NAZA” earned a massive 24.5 minute #Venice Film Festival ovation as the crowd cheered and waved Palestinian flags.

This marks the longest-ever standing ovation at Venice, and perhaps the longest at any film festival, period.

The new documentary was shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” per an official synopsis.

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor interviewed 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers — all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — who were involved in the surveillance or remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Their appearance and voices were digitally altered to disguise their identities.

#Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #VeniceFilmFestival

Harrowing story!

"Experts say the hospital's (Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care), use of long-term isolation is unlike any other facility in North America."

The hospital CEO's raise last year could cover 3 more staff members who could take Jake out for walks.

#MentalHealth #Isolation #Journalism #Investigation

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/her-son-was-caged-for-5-years-video-of-his-life-in-isolation-at-this-ontario-hospital-has-left-her-absolutely-completely-horrified/article_a0c36803-5bc6-4c88-8c96-31830dab057e.html

The Israeli Consul General, Dani Dayan, showed up at Harvard Law to lecture students on “the legal strategy of Israeli settlements.”

The students didn’t debate him. They stood up, held signs that said settlements are a war crime, and walked out.

Occupation doesn’t get a polite lecture hall. It gets an empty room.

#Harvard #Students #Israel #WarCrimes #Apartheid

Over 150 wildfires are burning in Algeria 🇩🇿, but the country has received little international news coverage or aid compared to European countries on the other side of the Mediterranean.

#Wildfires #Algeria #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Here are 5 great tips to break the shame cycle that comes from living with #ADHD:

c: adhdthriversss on IG

When you go to light a birthday cake and you almost end up burning down the house! 😂

C: over30andoverstimulated on IG

#ADHD #FireSafety

When the Roman emperor Tiberius turned a cave on the coast between Rome and Naples, into a private dining hall, the Odyssey was already about 700 years old. At the deepest point of the cave Tiberius placed a massive marble sculpture that showed the moment when Odysseus blinds the Cyclops, Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant.

In 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor. In that collapse, the great marble figures were smashed, and there they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them.

Slowly, piece by piece, the scene was meticulously put back together, and the sculptures now reside at the Sperlonga Archaeological Museum.

#TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #RomanHistory #Art #Sculpture #Archeology

#TaxWealth #CriminalizeBillionaires

In February 1204, the Japanese court poet Fujiwara no Teika recorded in his diary that a terrifying "red vapor" and glowing red light filled the night sky over Kyoto for three consecutive nights.

Eight centuries later, scientists analyzed carbon-14 spikes in ancient tree rings and confirmed he had witnessed a massive, historic solar storm.

The red skies were a severe, low-latitude aurora borealis triggered by powerful coronal mass ejections. A solar storm of that magnitude today would have fried every satellite, GPS system, and global power grid on Earth.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-writings-and-tree-rings-helped-researchers-track-a-solar-storm-from-800-years-ago-and-reconstruct-past-solar-cycles-180988546/

#AuroraBorealis #SolarStorm

BBC reporter: 'Sounds like you’re saying 1 Jewish life is worth 100s of 1,000s of Palestinian lives'

Israeli West Bank settler: 'No. MILLION. 1 Jewish life, it’s 10 million, ok'

BBC: 'That just sounds racist'

Settler: 'Yes. I know. But it’s the truth. Because God chose us'

#Racism #Zionism #Israel #WestBank #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine