(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(…)
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(and that’s just the basics on that topic, 22 is a good summary and 24 is worth knowing about too, and by the way since it’s currently relevant, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.” is article 9.)
Ummm, yes, everyone should have all those things???
YES HUMANS DESERVE THOSE THINGS WE ALL DESERVE THOSE THINGS
Can we take a moment to look how deeply imbedded racism is as a system when it comes to law enforcement?
This man reported his racist police chief who should NOT be in that position of power, because it opens doors to racial abuse. Instead of having a weight lifted off his shoulder… He is fearing for his life.
That is wrong beyond reason. He shouldn’t be fearing for his life. Also, the other officers shouldn’t be giving him reason to fear for his life. The police are the worst gang of them all.
Where all them good cops now, to defend him? Blue Lives, yall out there? One of your own is at risk “just for doing his job”
About a week ago, a tea party activist who was just elected to the Michigan GOP central committee said that it would be cool if singer Kid Rock, a vocal Trump supporter, ran against Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. This was enough to generate plenty of “Kid Rock for Senate!” articles, even though there’s no word that either Kid Rock (real name Robert Ritchie) or more senior Republicans were at all thinking about this. But one other loudmouthed Trump-loving musician, Ted Nugent, actually is expressing interest in a Senate bid.
Nugent recently posted on Facebook that if the local GOP didn’t get its act together, “I will come charging in as the ultimate we the pissed off people Mr. Fix It constitutional fire breathing candidate from hell!" When asked if he was serious, Nugent said, "I'm always very interested in making my country and the great state of Michigan great again." Nugent is currently a Texas resident, but the “Motor City Madman” was born in Michigan.
Two years ago, the idea of Nugent, who has a long history of racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic comments, running for the Senate would seem like a stunt but … well, Donald Trump won Michigan, and he’s sitting in the White House now. But Trump’s victory in the Wolverine State was narrow, and if the GOP faces the usual midterm doldrums that the party in power usually faces, the 2018 electorate probably won’t be keen to back someone like Trump. It’s also very unlikely that Nugent, who called for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to “be tried for treason and hung,” will have any crossover support. But then again, Nugent making it to the Senate would only be, at most, the second-most sadly absurd thing to happen in American politics over the last few years.
Donald Trump was asked multiple times, during Thursday's bizarre and somewhat spittle-flecked press conference, to weigh in on the spike of racist violence that has paralleled his campaign and election. He refused. But that violence is showing no signs of abating.
A man with connections to a white supremacy group was arrested in Myrtle Beach Wednesday after purchasing a gun from an undercover FBI agent, apparently intending to commit an attack “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.”
The apparent target was a synagogue in Myrtle Beach. And the white supremacist, Benjamin McDowell, didn't intend to go out in a blaze of glory.
McDowell went on to say that “I got the heart to do that s***, but I don’t have the good training,” the document states. He told the agent he sought a way to conduct an attack on non-whites without getting caught. He continued: "I seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred and I..I want to do that s***. Like, I got desire, not for nobody else...it just...I want something where i can say, 'I f****** did that'...me personally."
This parallels the recent attack by a Trump-supporting white supremacist on a Quebec City mosque, an attack Trump's team bizarrely used to justify its ban on Muslim immigrants. It's not likely Trump will so much as acknowledge this latest act of attempted terrorism.
Indeed, by retargeting programs combating violent extremism to focus solely on Muslim communities, this White House seems to be intentionally turning a blind eye to white nationalist violence. Still.
a nazi shot someone and they are facing no charges. This is how it starts, and if you are still stubborn enough to think peace is an option I pity you.
So...was anyone else really worried at the idea that the union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and staff endorsed Donald Trump?
Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents last week for being in the Seattle apartment of his father, whom agents were targeting for arrest. While apprehending his father, authorities also detained Ramirez, who was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. when he was seven. But it seems they ran into a little problem: He's here legally under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program and also has no criminal record. Oops!
That's when ICE agents appear to have totally fabricated Ramirez's gang affiliation so they could justify arresting him in what his attorney calls "one of the most serious examples of governmental misconduct" he's ever seen. (Also, if true, easily one of the most embarrassing examples. Look at that document above—it looks like a two-year-old experimenting with an eraser got ahold of Ramirez’s statement.)
Ramirez's lawyers have a filed a case challenging Ramirez’s detention in a US District Court in Seattle, but the Department of Justice is claiming the federal court has no jurisdiction over a matter being handled in immigration courts.
According to the brief filed by Ramirez’s lawyers, he originally wrote: “I came in and the officers said I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear an orange uniform. I do not have a criminal history and I’m not affiliated with any gangs.” But ICE agents allegedly eliminated the first phrase so the statement instead begins: "I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear an orange uniform...”
Ramirez’s attorney, Mark Rosenbaum, was shocked by the discovery, reports Sydney Brownstone:
"What began, I thought, as a mistake in bringing Daniel in has turned into a bogus operation that is attempting to railroad him and violate the sacred program that the DACA represents," lawyer Mark Rosenbaum told reporters on a conference call this evening. "It is one of the most serious examples of governmental misconduct that I have come across in my 40 years of practice."
ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After Ramirez Medina's arrest during an immigration raid targeting a family member last week, ICE put out a statement claiming that Ramirez Medina was a "self-admitted gang member." Ramirez Medina's lawyers denied that their client ever said he was affiliated with a gang; they added that he had been pressured to say he was (but resisted) while in detention.
ICE agents have detained nearly 700 people nationwide in sweeping raids since last week. They admitted during a Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers that “at least 186“ had no criminal record. But Ramirez is a special problem for ICE because of his DACA status, and federal agents appear to have come up with a special solution to make him appear like a threat.
Ramirez also has a 3-year-old U.S.-born son.
UPDATE: Looks like it’s not the first time ICE officials in Seattle have had veracity issues: “Ex-ICE attorney sentenced to prison for falsifying document in immigration case.”
The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, announced this week, seeks to encourage the pursuit of science fiction and imaginative writing in Pakistan. Organized by Pakistani speculative fiction authors Tehseen Baweja and Usman T. Malik (The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn), the award is named for Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize winner, theoretical physicist Dr. Abdus Salam; it will be given to aspiring speculative fiction writers of Pakistani origin, regardless of sexual orientation, creed, or caste.
The annual short fiction award is open to original, unpublished short stories (less than 10,000 words) by writers who currently reside in Pakistan or who are of Pakistani birth/descent. The rules page further outlines the short fiction content parameters:
The scope is broad. Anything from alien invasions to fantasy universes, and comic science fiction to dark fantasies is valid. The aim is to encourage imaginative fiction so anything that falls under the broad category of science fiction and fantasy, will be accepted.
What’s not acceptable though is religiously-oriented stories of good versus evil, stories that target a particular group/community, or stories that contain hate speech.
Submissions will be judged by a rotating panel of three SF professionals. This year’s judges are Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy; Mahvesh Murad, editor of The Apex Book of World SF 4 and The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories; and Malik. Three finalists will each receive an editorial review and an agent review of their work by (respectively) Tor.com acquiring editor Ann VanderMeer and Seth Fishman of The Gernert Company. The winning story will receive, in addition to the above, a $500 award. The editor and agent reviewers for 2018 are Diana Pho (Tor) and Jennie Goloboy (Red Sofa Literary), respectively; the 2018 judges will be announced later this year.
As an avid-reader of science fiction, I always tried to find local writers in this genre but could never find more than a couple of names. I strongly believe that there is no dearth of people who can write really well in this genre, but as a society, we have taught ourselves to curb our imagination rather than let it run wild. Hence, nothing has ever existed in Pakistan before to encourage people in this direction. I am hopeful though, that if incentivized and encouraged appropriately, we can gradually change this.
It is hard to find a single white demographic that did not come up with a Trump majority (white college graduated women some up with a 51% for Hillary, a small margin indeed) and there is not a single non-white demographic that came up with a Trump majority or came anywhere near it.
I encourage you to look through those exit poll results for yourself. CNN has extensive and well-researched exit polls and the difference in the numbers is far too big to be explained away by a margin of error.
Statistically the strongest defining feature of the Trump supporter is whiteness.
Does this mean the majority of white people actively hate people of color and voted for Trump because they wanted a racist in charge? No. That’s not how white supremacy works.
What it does mean it that, as a result of white supremacy, a LOT of white people who consider themselves ‘not racist’, ignored Trump’s racism and voted for him anyway. A lot of white people did not care about people of color enough to not vote for Trump.
That’s white surpemacy’s biggest feature: apathy to the point of allowing people to die because you can’t be bothered to keep them safe.
Don’t read the comments on this article. The kid did it because he was learning about how teenage girls suffer from depression more than any other age group, and didn’t want any girls going home feeling sad on Valentine’s Day.
Ofc half the comments are like “what an EPIC playa, bet he got some action after that hahaha” or “why do these special snowflakes need a handout like this” or “what kind of Richie Rich kid” (chocolate company donated the boxes after learning why he wanted so much)
Like… why is humanity like this
THIS BURNS MY BACON, LET ME SHARE WHY.
At the school where I work, we had a similar lovely Valentine’s moment:
One of our seniors bought hundreds of roses on Valentine’s Day. Every girl in every grade got one; there were enough left over for staff and extras for others who might want one. This is our library bouquet.
One year ago, our school lost a student to suicide. As Valentine’s Day was approaching, this sad anniversary was all our student body was talking about and remembering. This senior student decided to try to lift us up from that narrative, and literally fill the halls with flowers. The surprise was carried out flawlessly – even his own sister didn’t know what he was about to do.
I have rarely seen a happier school holiday.
I’ve seen EXACTLY those comments on social media about what happened with us, and about similar gestures from high school students. Lots of “spoiled kids with money”, lots of “this is just to get laid”.
I don’t think this diminishes my senior student or his gesture at all, but it diminishes us when good things happen and we turn around and reduce these moments to their most cynical interpretation. And that’s not even touching on what it says when people feel the need to belittle younger people for trying to do good; the kids can’t catch a break from some people.
Can’t we take sweet things at face value the way we do all the darkness out there lately?
I would like some Socialist!Steve Rogers making fox news/drumpf’s head explode by calling them on their shit on a national stage.
“Now, you all know, Captain America kept out of the presidential race – great guy, tremendous guy, how can you not love Captain America? – but I feel sure if he allowed himself to be political, he’d be for making America great again. The values of the forties, when we worked hard and fought for what we believed in, when people knew where they belonged – I think if he could speak publicly he’d say, good job, President Trump. Because he represents the people, too, and the people elected me – by a giant landslide, an enormous record-breaking – “
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Steve had thought, long and hard, considering the talk shows, the various social media platforms, and the other methods of publicity available to him. He finally decided on YouTube, though he did let them film him on something slightly better than a phone video camera.
He talked to the organizers; he asked them if they were sure; and when the time came, during the protest rally, he walked up to the podium in jeans and a #RESIST t-shirt, and he could tell for a minute nobody knew who he was.
“Good morning,” he said, using the smile and the voice he’d practiced selling bonds, seventy years ago. “My name is Steve Rogers. I came to march with you today.”
A ripple went through the crowd.
“My mother and father were immigrants. My mother was a single working mother. As a child I saw Pinkertons trying to break the unions, breaking strikes with bats and brass knuckles. I heard my friends’ parents tell stories about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire where people died because there was no federal safety regulation, because they were disposable – women, immigrants, Jews. I was born in the last Gilded Age, and I lived through every hungry year of the Depression that it led to,” he said, voice gaining momentum. “My ma died because she couldn’t afford treatment. Because it was a doctor for her or a doctor for me but not both.”
There was a roar from the crowd.
“And I saw Americans thrown into camps, and I saw “colored” drinking fountains, and I saw Americans who had to join separate regiments to defend freedom because of the color of their skin, so I know what the values of the 1940s were!” he yelled. “Don’t you tell me people knew their place! Don’t you tell me they weren’t shoved into place by Pinkertons and cops because I saw it happen! I didn’t survive 1940 to see it come round again!”
He glanced to the side, wondering if he’d gone too far, but the woman who’d told him it was okay to speak was grinning and gesturing for him to continue.
“So the President can be very clear about where Captain America stands,” Steve continued, “I’d like him to know that I am a lefty socialist anti-racist son of immigrants and I’m here today for open borders, socialized healthcare, equality in justice, and the death of fascism. You’re right about one thing – I am a tremendous man, and I am allowing myself to be political.”
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Yet another leak out of the White House today concerning the behavior of the president. Sources say last night President Trump was treated in the Residence for a broken hand, which the White House official statement says is a stress fracture from signing paperwork. Our source states that the President overturned furniture, threatened Secret Service agents, and broke his hand punching a wall. All this after witnessing the mega-viral BE POLITICAL youtube video recorded by Steve Rogers, Manhattan’s own Captain America, at a protest rally yesterday afternoon…
Sorry, Sam. I don’t like to give concrit, because I am so grateful for all the people that write fic that I can read, for free, in the Internet.
But, that first paragraph was far too coherent and grammatical.
You laugh, but after writing that first paragraph I literally sat there and went “I should go through and put in some ellipses and stammers and ums and take out some of the grammar.”
And I just…couldn’t do it. I felt so intensely gross even writing it to begin with, like, I literally could not go back and trumpify it MORE. :D
