get your friends on telegram
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests
Los Angeles Times
'It's a Telegram revolution': Messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
The Telegram messaging app has become an indispensable tool in coordinating the unprecedented mass demonstrations that have rocked Belarus.
"It’s Going Down pointed out that it is “a news platform — not a group — we cover, interview, and publish reports about contemporary autonomous social movements. Violence is coming from the State and the far-right — we don’t ‘aspire’ for more of it, we’d like to see it end.”
https://truthout.org/articles/facebook-has-begun-purging-accounts-tied-to-anti-fascist-groups/
https://truthout.org/articles/facebook-has-begun-purging-accounts-tied-to-anti-fascist-groups/
Truthout
Facebook Has Begun Purging Accounts Tied to Anti-Fascist Groups
It remains to be seen whether this initial purge is the harbinger of larger things to come.
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"It’s Going Down pointed out that it is “a news platform — not a group — we cover, interview, and publish reports about contemporary autonomous social movements. Violence is coming from the State and the far-right — we don’t ‘aspire’ for more of it, we’d like…
Joint statement from It's Going Down and Crimethinc:
https://itsgoingdown.org/on-facebook-banning-anarchist-and-antifascist-pages-the-digital-censorship-to-come/
"Lumping anarchists and anti-fascists together with far-right militias who explicitly support the state and especially the current administration is a strategic move to muddy the issue. This is the same operation that William Barr performed in creating a Department of Justice task force focused on “anti-government extremists” of all stripes. In the case of the Department of Justice, it enables them to point to far-right and militia attacks in order to demand resources with which to crack down on those who are on the front lines of defending communities against such attacks. They are attempting to do the same thing to Black Lives Matter activists, associating them together with neo-Nazis and white nationalists as “racially motivated extremists.”"
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"Make no mistake, if this goes unchallenged, it will not stop here. The more it becomes normalized for governments to be able to determine which voices social media platforms permit to be heard, the further such censorship will penetrate into every sector of society, and the more it will shape what it is possible to think, what it is possible to imagine."
https://itsgoingdown.org/on-facebook-banning-anarchist-and-antifascist-pages-the-digital-censorship-to-come/
"Lumping anarchists and anti-fascists together with far-right militias who explicitly support the state and especially the current administration is a strategic move to muddy the issue. This is the same operation that William Barr performed in creating a Department of Justice task force focused on “anti-government extremists” of all stripes. In the case of the Department of Justice, it enables them to point to far-right and militia attacks in order to demand resources with which to crack down on those who are on the front lines of defending communities against such attacks. They are attempting to do the same thing to Black Lives Matter activists, associating them together with neo-Nazis and white nationalists as “racially motivated extremists.”"
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"Make no mistake, if this goes unchallenged, it will not stop here. The more it becomes normalized for governments to be able to determine which voices social media platforms permit to be heard, the further such censorship will penetrate into every sector of society, and the more it will shape what it is possible to think, what it is possible to imagine."
itsgoingdown.org
On Facebook Banning Anarchist and Antifascist Pages & the Digital Censorship to Come
Today Facebook deleted a variety of far-Right militia and Qanon accounts along with anarchist and antifascist pages, including It's Going Down and CrimethInc. The following is a joint statement in response. Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages…
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https://www.france24.com/en/20200820-amazon-indigenous-protesters-vow-indefinite-roadblock
https://www.france24.com/en/20200820-amazon-indigenous-protesters-vow-indefinite-roadblock
France 24
Amazon indigenous protesters vow indefinite roadblock
Amazon indigenous protesters vow indefinite roadblock
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