DeadWorld

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3616486

Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada - Nadalie Lightning stares out of her living room window praying to wake up from what she describes as a nightmare. In the early hours of August 30, her 15-year-old grandson Hoss Lightning Saddleback was shot and killed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after what the RCMP describe as a “confrontation” in the nearby city of Wetaskiwin.

Nadalie is devastated by the loss and struggling to understand how a call for help turned fatal. On the night of his death, Hoss had initially reached out to his grandmother in desperation.

"He was calling me that night. I missed 18 calls," Nadalie revealed, her voice breaking with emotion as the screen on her phone showed her grandson’s attempts to contact her. "He texted me right here at 1:01am, 'Can you come pick me up?' And then it's just, 'I called the police.'"

She had been the one who had always told her grandson to call the police if he was ever in trouble. According to an RCMP release, it was Hoss who had called them, believing people were following him and trying to kill him.

That afternoon members of the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) showed up at her doorstep asking Nadalie to identify her grandson, one of a string of Indigenous people to have died during interactions with police in Canada since late August.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, the former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations RoseAnne Archibald, expressed her frustration at what she emphasised was a longrunning issue.

"[The First Nations have] been sounding the alarm bell for a long time - for many, many years,” Archibald said. “This has happened time and time again. They’re just trying to kill us off, it’s maddening. Is that the first way they deal with us, is violence towards us?”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21039899

Jessica Washington
September 30 2024, 5:40 p.m.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20469557

Archive link: https://archive.ph/PgtUk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20962099

The company that owns the GA plant that just exploded is owned by a private equity firm founded by a “climate activist” Democrat megadonor that just paid itself a dividend so big S&P warned unsecured creditors they’d likely get nothing in bankruptcy. 😂

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23657300

Graduate workers and student groups across the US are mapping university ties to militarism and Israel’s war on Gaza.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/CaYlO

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fcampus-organizers-are-using-research-to-expose-and-oppose-the-global-war-machine%2F

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20222393

Williams has condemned Israel’s defensive military operations in Gaza as a “war crime” and criticized the US Congress for inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in July.

Williams issued a statement on Oct. 11 of last year, four days after Oct. 7, lamenteing the attacks before calling not to retaliate and shifting attention to oppression of Palestinians.

“We can, we have to be able to, at once grieve the hundreds of innocent lives taken in Israel, and oppose the escalating violence of retaliation, the endless war, the systemic violence and oppression of Palestinians too often ignored, excused, or condoned,” Williams wrote.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20222174

Behold the dossier.

It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against “foreign malign influence.” 

I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself.

Ken does go on to speak a fair bit more but also provides a link to a pdf if you'd like to skip ahead.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23427367

Most criminal charges against pregnant people are tied to the doctrine of fetal personhood, a new report says.