I was reading it for a bit a few years ago but they seemed to really hate trans people. I remember at some point they were posting pictures of Natalie Wynn and picking apart her appearance as to whether she was passable or not. Just a general lot of commentary about trans people being freaks and stuff. It was intolerable.
It comes after an expert predicted the exact date Trump will walk away from the presidency due to a “lethal” problem.
The home made stuff is stringy.
They should be able to suggest ways to make things accessible to them, like as above examples.
I have worked with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. The idea of being 100% unable to attend any meeting, ever, is implausible. Someone who smacks down such a proposal without trying to work it out is abusing good will.
I don’t think the people making such claims will enjoy what the “justice” system has in store for them.
Like at all?? Wow.
Maybe get a decent Bluetooth speaker phone thingy? Get your own or the org can pay, which is mote than justified as a cost of accomidation to avoid ablism. The people who can’t or dont want to attend in person can participate remotely that way, same as they do now. Since the tech has become available and normalized I have attended various events set up that way. Need to practice using it before rolling out, and start with a committee or something small to work out technical issues.
Then make it so attending the meeting in person has social benefit like pre and post chit chat, maybe hangout or food sometimes. Make a pan of brownies to share. Or shoplift cheese and dates. the informal waiting around time is important as well as business. (Unless your meetings are extremely meandering.) Those who attend in person will have more coherency due to being physically present with each other. Which will incentivise attendance.
Depending on your organizational context, could possibly try to work around the ablism by supporting people to attend if possible such as organizing transportation either by carpooling or paying cab fare for people who truely cannot make it otherwise. (Just an example.) A hardship travel fund.
Another strategy is to rotate the meeting location around rather than defaulting to somewhere “central” which typically favors those who live in the city. The downtown people then need to have some commitment to occasionally going “far away” to a suburb or neighboring town, to share the burden of travel. And finding suitable meeting space can be difficult anywhere. But you learn a lot about your surroundings and create relationships while searching for them.
Idk what kind of group you’re in, where or with whom, so may or may not be exactly applicable. All the above is very doable though. IMO planning meetings is a foundational skill for any organizer/activist/revolutionary individual or group. It is not out of reach for anybody. It always includes some sort of thinking such as the above no matter the context. It is never a matter of just announcing a time and location you feel like and everyone just stops their life to obey. Planning meetings, including logistically difficult ones, is a way to learn about how to think about balancing the conflicting needs of various people, to do things fairly. And practical tasks like securing a venue, communicating to everyone, setting up and tidying after. Depending on your membership these are all things that people may have never done before, in which case they should all learn. They are skills of democracy.
an appropriately dedicated group could probably spin up their own encrypted messaging system?
this is completely unrealistic. Its hard enough to find a few people with whom one has sufficient agreement and trust to organize with. A requirement that one or more of those people being competent enough to write their own encrypted messaging system from scratch? And everyone is able or willing to sideload it on their devices without introducing some other security issue. That isn’t a matter of commitment, it is a matter of luck. The kind of luck which is unevenly distributed through geography, class, gender, race etc.
All that aside from the fact that even if you are organizing in an elite area and this is plausible (if not likely), it does absolutely nothing to address the issue at hand. I just read the linked article, is there another one that indicates a technical problem with signal?
Every comment in this thread proposing technical solutions, it sounds like living in a comic book or something. We should start passing a hat around now for commissary donations to all the hexbears who are about to be locked up because they thought they could outsmart fascism with some clever python or kotlin.
My understanding is that there are many costs associated with collecting fares, beyond the wages of the enforcement cops. In most (all?) places, the majority of fare revenue just go back to paying for fare collection. Only 20-40% is actual profit.
If transit was free, so many more people would use it, so you can collectivize the loss of profit from taxes and everyone is bettter off. Except for all the people who were employed in the fare collection complex. They will need new jobs.
Fare collection on public transit is an ideological, not financial, necessity.
I dont really understand why there is discussion of alternative methods of encoded comms. Any or all of them are equally as “suspicious”.
Do you really think there is any “trick” to evade this prosecutorial attitude? The reblious intentions of the victims can be clearly demonstrated by the actions at the protest. Everything else is just decoration.
Realistically, I find it unlikely that most any group of 5 or 10 or more people would be able to exercise perfect discipline and discretion required for this to work. I also dont know what kind of information would be transmitted this way? Its not like the rosenburgs passing scientific information. Its easier to just have an IRL meeting.
Anybody involved in this stuff has to be aware that there is a 1 in 3000 chance that they will be executed or life made hell indefinitely. Quit smoking/vaping now, it’ll make incarceration easier.
People managed to organize before cell phones. Its called you set a meeting and everyone attends in person as agreed. Discuss IRL and then dont change your plans.
Call phones have really lowered the general ability of anybody to commit to anything. Before SMS became prevelant you could set social or political meetings weeks in advance. Like July 16 at 2pm, in the park. I’ll bring ___, you’ll research ___,whatever other tasks. And everyone just plan for that. Maybe confirm the night before with a phone call (also planned in advance). Now everything requires 50 text messages to nail people down.
If only they had added an Atlantic author to their group chat like Pete hegseth it would have been all kosher.
A hearing in Luigi Mangione ’s state murder case in the killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court.
Judge Gregory Carro had scheduled the hearing for Tuesday but adjourned it about a half-hour after it was supposed to start when Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann told him that prosecutors had failed to send required paperwork to the jail.
“It’s on us,” Seidemann said. “We got the writ signed but we failed to serve it.”
“That’s unfortunate,” Carro replied.
Seidemann noted that the judge in Mangione’s federal case, Margaret Garnett, had sent an order to the jail authorizing him to wear a suit to court, but the prosecutor acknowledged that alone wasn’t enough to get him brought to court
Federally, they’ve purged all non-nincompoops so running on hot air. State level can be more competent but in some states there have been scandals where a lot of people resigned, so that stresses all who remain.
You’ve forgotten that this whole thing is part of gods’ plan. So that can provide strength of will, to pursue illogical plans.
Maybe Israel thinks they can discepline USA more than Iran can. Maybe they will start assassinating politicians, celebrities and other high profile people to assert themselves.
“Even though the chain of custody for this evidence has some … gaps in it, we are profressionals so you trust it overall”
Merely dissatisfied with the pace of genocide. Rabid fascists.
I hate how media coverage downplays this, sometimes even neglecting to mention the motivations. It gives western audiences the false impression that there is some pro Palestinian solidarity within Israel.
Restrict travel funding? They are threatening to 75% ground him?
Parents and spouses are typically adults. Adults are can and should adhere to higher standards of behavior than children. It is expected that all children do bad things sometimes, as part of learning to not do them.
In most cases the power asymmetry is reduced compared to a parent. A sibling doesn’t typically have control of food, shelter, utilities, external relationships. A child is totally dependent on their parents for all life. Adults are generally physically larger and stronger than children, so they have a physical advantage.
So in cases of abuse by adults, the culpability is easier to discern. Its also considered that the character one has is more coherent and consistent through adulthood than between childhood and adulthood. It makes more sense to hold a 55 year old accountable for things they did at age 35, than to hold a 12 year old accountable for things done at age 5.
It is also expected that responsible adults should observe the interactions of children to detect and intervene on abusive dynamics. Even if harm came at the hands of another child, the question arises what was the involvement of nearby adults.