@david_ruffin_no_temptations, a Black King wrote:
By 1860, there were 4 million enslaved Black [People] in the United States [Proof: https://billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/chart-slave-population-in-1860 ]. Their combined market value was over $3 billion at the time,
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#Auspol Arsenic in the damper, campers driven off a cliff: the murky historical links of AACo, Australia’s largest beef producer
O mês de Agosto tem direito a duas sessões do ciclo de conversas "Confrontar o Legado Colonial no Museu", no Museu Municipal Santos Rocha, nos dias 2 e 30.
Numa iniciativa do projecto #TRANSMAT, um conjunto diversificado de 11 pessoas vão reflectir criticamente sobre o legado colonial nos museus portugueses.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/confrontar-legado-colonial-03/
Historic ruling finds climate change ‘imperils all forms of life’ and puts laggard nations on notice
"Climate change “imperils all forms of life” and countries must tackle the problem or face consequences under international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has found."
"It will set a new baseline in terms what countries need to do to address climate change and opens up new avenues of recourse against high-emitting states not doing enough on climate change."
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https://theconversation.com/historic-ruling-finds-climate-change-imperils-all-forms-of-life-and-puts-laggard-nations-on-notice-261848
#climate #life #biodiversity #ICJ #disasters #reparations #rights #FossilFuels #coal #inaction #LaggardNations
Robin Buller: ‘Our dreams were shattered’: the #Black Californians forced from the city they built. In the 60s, the white city of Hayward removed residents of Russell City. Now a $1m reparations fund has been approved – and important histories are coming to light
#Hayward #California #reparations #racism #Oakland #museum #history
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/russell-city-california-black-residents-oakland
"Brotha talking about what it will take to get better for him in 1976 #Harlem."
@EarlLandix
The world’s highest court issues an unprecedented ruling that allows #climate-harmed countries to sue for #reparations from other countries 
a new app coupled with outreach to women in Pakistan aims to reduce breast #cancer fatalities 
and a random group of #homeless people in England given no-strings #cash grants use it to improve their lives 
Muscogee Nation court rules descendants of enslaved people are entitled to citizenship: https://apnews.com/article/muscogee-nation-freedmen-citizenship-ruling-f5edb1fb723a9dd039a1a6c2ea8a853f
Africa: African MPs Demand Reparations for Slavery, Colonialism, and Exploitation in Historic Call: [Nile Post] African legislators attending the 5th Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, South Africa, have made an unprecedented joint demand for reparations from former colonial powers, citing centuries of injustice, theft, and oppression. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TM4yds #Reparations #Colonialism #Africa #PanAfricanParliament #SocialJustice
"Climate change is an existential problem of planetary proportions."
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion that could reshape the global legal landscape for climate action, declaring that States have binding duties under international law to protect the climate system and that a failure to take appropriate measures may constitute an internationally wrongful act."
"The ICJ also addressed the oceans, affirming that anthropogenic GHG emissions qualify as “pollution of the marine environment” under UNCLOS, triggering obligations for States to “take all measures… necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution.”
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https://pasifika.news/2025/07/icj-rules-climate-inaction-breaches-international-law-affirms-states-legal-duties-to-act/
#FossilFuels #CoalAndGas #expansionism #Australia #SA #pollution #MarineHeatwave #Pacific #ocean #MassMortalityEvents #GHG #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #reparations #restitution #justice #law #ClimateAction
Countries must prevent harm to the climate system and tackle fossil fuels to ensure the right to life.
"...The international court of justice (ICJ) said countries must prevent harm to the climate system and that failing to do so could result in their having to pay compensation and make other forms of restitution."
"The unanimous opinion covers a wide range of matters under international law. It says states are liable for all kinds of activities that harm the climate, but it takes explicit aim at fossil fuels. It says that a state’s failure to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from greenhouse gas emissions, including through the production and consumption of fossil fuels, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies, “may constitute an international wrongful act which is attributable to that state”.
"The court said a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was a precondition for exercising many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health and the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to water, food and housing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules
#climate #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #harm #consumption #reparations #restitution #justice #law #HumanRights #Pacific #RightToLife
When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about #Volkswagen. The company said it was finally ready to atone for its past. After admitting that its staff had cooperated with #Brazil’s #military #dictatorship to target #workers for political persecution, the automaker had begun to negotiate #reparations.
Rezende read to the bottom of the article, then sat for a moment, quiet.
O ciclo de conversas "Confrontar o Legado Colonial no Museu" regressa ao Museu Municipal Santos Rocha no próximo sábado, 26 de Julho.
Contará com a participação de Inês Ponte (ICS), Jorge Rivera e Paulo Simões Rodrigues (CHAIA), Paulo Catrica (IHC) e Ruy Llera Blanes (CRIA).
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/confrontar-legado-colonial-02/
"The predominantly Black and Latino community was bulldozed by the county and the city of Hayward in the early 1960s, forcibly displacing more than 1,000 people". #reparations https://www.kqed.org/news/12048684/alameda-county-set-to-approve-reparations-fund-for-displaced-russell-city-residents
@JaniceOCG and it never will die, since this is the foundation of the united snakes. #Landback #Reparations
“Caribbean leaders back Jamaica petition to King Charles for slavery reparations.” The government has already paid reparations for slavery. To the slave owners!! #Slavery #Reparations
The Guardian: Slavery reparations group takes fight to Westminster and Brussels…
Global campaigning for #slavery #reparations gathered pace this week with lobbying in Westminster and Brussels, days after the Jamaican government revealed it will ask King Charles to request legal advice on the issue... The Guardian #caribbean #jamaica
