Tules (ord-et-mach bsky) @protopic

I hope that whatever Uranus has in store for us brings us closer to the liberation we all so deeply crave. May we be freed from the self-limiting beliefs that keep us small. May we, as a collective, break the chains of imperialism and extractive power. And may the technological and intellectual breakthroughs to come teach us how to love one another more fiercely, more honestly, and more freely. Àṣẹ. Let the revolution be radiant.

@Rafaellcord @GeauxGabrielle There's no regulation on the term "holistic practitioner." I'm a chiropractor and acupuncturist (DC and LAc) who practices "functional medicine" (western medicine's attempt at being more holistic), but there's not one recognizing credential for functional medicine either.

*taps the sign* 30% of American jobs do not offer health benefits, and 49% of employed workers can't afford healthcare without going into debt. Every American is a vulnerable American when healthcare is restricted, tied to employment, and for-profit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

11 months ago

Bessent on Medicaid cuts: "The able-bodied Americans are not vulnerable Americans ... people can get off Medicaid and get a job that has good healthcare benefits ... I don't think poor people are stupid. I think they have agency."

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The U.S. has the highest women's incarceration rate in the world. Women can’t get left behind in the effort to end mass incarceration.

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The government is going to do its best to spread the belief that they are omnipresent, you must remember that there are some parts of our communities, of our relations, of ourselves that they will simply never be able to reach We need to use those parts of us

4th July, 1844 — Edmonia Lewis was born. Edmonia was the first professional black sculptor and one of the most celebrated neoclassical sculptors of her time. ‘The Death of Cleopatra’ is one her most recognised works. It depicts the famous Cleopatra in the moment of her death. Edmonia Lewis was the first sculptor of African American and Native American (Mississauga) descent to achieve international recognition. Her father was Black, and her mother was Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian. Orphaned at an early age, Lewis grew up in her mother’s tribe where her life revolved around fishing, swimming, and making and selling crafts. In 1859 she attended Oberlin College in Ohio, one of the first schools to accept female and Black students. She developed an interest in the fine arts, but an accusation of poisoning, probably racially motivated, forced Lewis to leave the school before graduating. She traveled to Boston and established herself as a professional artist, studying with a local sculptor and creating portraits of famous antislavery heroes. Moving to Rome in 1865, she became involved with a group of American women sculptors and began to work in marble. Sculptors usually hired local workmen to carve their final pieces, but Lewis did all her own stonework out of fear that if she didn’t, her work would not be accepted as original. In addition to creating portrait heads, Lewis sculpted biblical scenes and figural works dealing with her Native American heritage and the oppression of Black people.

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The local population in countries that export bananas typically eat different varieties grown primarily by small farmers. The ones for the Americans and the Europeans, Cavendish variety bananas, are grown in huge, monoculture plantations that are susceptible to disease. The banana industry consumes more agrichemicals than any other in the world, asides from cotton. Most plantations will spend more on pesticides than on wages. Pesticides are sprayed by plane, 85% of which does not land on the bananas and instead lands on the homes of workers in the surrounding area and seeps into the groundwater. The results are cancers, stillbirths, and dead rivers. The supermarkets dominate the banana trade and force the price of bananas down. Plantations resolve this issue by intensifying and degrading working conditions. Banana workers will work for up to 14 hours a day in tropical heat, without overtime pay, for 6 days a week. Their wages will not cover their cost of housing, food, and education for their children. On most plantations independent trade unions are, of course, suppressed. Contracts are insecure, or workers are hired through intermediaries, and troublemakers are not invited back. Who benefits most from this arrangement? The export value of bananas is worth $8bn - the retail value of these bananas is worth $25bn. Here’s a breakdown of who gets what from the sale of banana in the EU. On average, the banana workers get between 5 and 9% of the total value, while the retailers capture between 36 to 43% of the value. So if you got a bunch of bananas at Tesco (the majority of UK bananas come from Costa Rica) for 95p, 6.65p would go to the banana workers, and 38p would go to Tesco. Furthermore, when it comes to calculating a country’s GDP (the total sum of the value of economic activity going on in a country, which is used to measure how rich or poor a country is, how fast its economy is ‘growing’ and therefore how valuable their currency is on the world market, how valuable its government bonds, its claim on resources internationally…etc), the worker wages, production, export numbers count towards the country producing the banana, while retail, ripening, tariffs, and shipping & import will count towards the importing country. A country like Costa Rica will participate has to participate in this arrangement as it needs ‘hard’ (i.e. Western) currencies in order to import essential commodities on the world market. So for the example above of a bunch of Senegal bananas sold in a UK supermarket, 20.7p will be added to Senegal GDP while 74.3p will be added to the UK’s GDP. Therefore, the consumption of a banana in the UK will add more to the UK’s wealth than growing it will to Senegal. The same holds for Bangladeshi t-shirts, chocolate made with cocoa from Ghana…it’s the heart of how the capitalism of the ‘developed’ economy functions. Never ending consumption to fuel the appearance of wealth, fuelled by the exploitation of both land and people in the global south.

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I am confident that this genocide will stop, that we will be able to grieve and heal from this tragedy, and that change has begun. Yes, it has begun with the burning of our bodies, our cities, our homes, our memories, our past,and our future, but it has begun. In the first photo.

White colonizers fed so many people to sharks during the Middle Passage that it permanently changed the migration pattern of sharks in the ocean There is no bottom to the depravity of white settler colonialism & feeding people to alligators is something they’ve done before

Thread of COVID PPE deals for the Month of July ⛱️:

bothered black girl (@botheredblkgirl.bsky.social) @IfuekoNadine

a year ago

Thread of COVID PPE deals for the Month of April ☔️:

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It’s not simply the fact that the Black Panthers and Young Lords had social programs like free medical care that troubled the counterinsurgent forces. What troubled them is that they were *revolutionary militants* gaining popular support partly through these programs.

Happy 4th

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Wanna learn more about HOCl? I teach a free, weekly, virtual 101 class every Wednesday at 8pm! You can sign up via the link in my Reference Guide here: tinyurl.com/HOCl101

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@BreeNewsome Alligator Alcatraz and Cop City are both flammable. People need to burn these things down before any real humans are stuck inside. Destroy the camps before they open their iron gates.

‘The Principal Farmer’ Is Teaching Black Families How to Build Sustainable Lives bit.ly/4exztoO