#Minority Rights

[useless-catalanfacts]

People from Northern Catalonia (the part of Catalonia that was annexed by France in 1659) explain one of the ways in which France has targeted the language during the 20th century.

In the last 80 years, Catalan has gone from being the usual language of 90% of the population of Northern Catalonia to nowadays being the main language of only 5%.

However, many Northern Catalan people would like to be able to speak their land's language, or for their children to learn it. Studies show that more than 70% of families in Northern Catalonia want their children to study in Catalan, but only 8% of kids go to a school that does. The reason why so many kids can't go is because France still prohibits public schools from teaching in the local language if it's not French, claiming that French is the only official language of the Republic. Northern Catalan teachers have formed private cooperative schools where they teach in Catalan, but without support from the administration they can't grow, and many children -potential future native speakers- are left out.

The video above was posted by 30 Minuts and TV3 on their Instagram, using a few clips from the documentary Catalunya Nord: el català, a judici ("Northern Catalonia: Catalan to court"). The documentary explains how France sues city councils who use the Catalan language next to French instead of only French (which we talked about in this previous post). You can watch the whole documentary legally and for free on TV3's website or on the free streaming platform 3cat. The documentary is in Catalan but you can activate subtitles in Catalan or French or automatic subtitles in English or Spanish.

[artemis-pendragon]

Guys. Look at me. You guys. We have to vote. I know we're all sick of the two party system. But we have to vote. And we have to tell our family and our friends and our coworkers and our distant acquaintances and anyone who will listen to vote. I am so serious. Project 2025 is a fucking shit show. We literally have to vote.

[alwaysbewoke]

[gaarythehooman]

To those who voted for Trump: I hope you know what you've signed off on. If you've read the plan, and you know what's ahead, you know it's going to affect everyone. Not just the LGBT+ community. Not just racial minorities. Not just the small groups. EVERYONE. And I hope that you are aware of the effects that will cause to people you care about, people you don't know, and people who care about you. If nothing else, understand this: we will ALL be hurt.

To those it's already affecting: please know you are not alone. You have people and if you don't, you will find people. Hope is hard to keep in dire straits, but I want you to know that if no one else is with you, this community is. Be yourself and be proud of who you are despite the adversaries. the one thing they can never strip us of is our pride in who we are. Keep yourselves safe and keep those you love close. Together, we can overcome this.

[spaspetti]

In light of recent events, I think I need to bring back some quotes I found on Google:

So that’s what we need to do. We need to outlive that old fuck. He’s practically on his deathbed already. We need to stay strong and outlive our enemies and the people who hate us. We have a chance at fixing everything when they’re all gone. We just need to get there. We just need to outlive them.

[thingfailure]

im begging every queer, disabled, or person of colour in the united states currently to please stay strong. suicide is not the answer. do not give in. fight for your rights. i know things dont look good now but for the future of your communities you need to stay alive. you need to fight.

[eriondserranterrand]

I'm so fucking tired. Assholes in positions of power keep making things shitty. Denying basic human decency to people because of their ethnicity or gender identity or sexual orientation or nationality is so incredibly stupid and obviously wrong. Why are so many people okay with it?

Being at least benign shouldn't be hard. If someone can be mistreated for something out of their control then anyone can be. The only system you can truly be safe in is where everyone is safe. The only way to guarantee your rights is to guarantee everyone's rights. We're in this together.

[im-a-simp-for-my-ships]

I'm so angry, so upset I can hardly think straight. I'd been staying away from the news for a while now because I couldn't take listening to what that tangerine and his cronies were doing next.

And after thinking I'm strong enough to see what I've missed, I hear that the Supreme Court, the right hand of that shitbag in an orange skinsuit, has given the Jan 6th insurrectionists the win they wanted, have overturned YET ANOTHER long standing precedent that now gives the judiciary a giant fucking knife to gut any and all regulations that go against special interests, because they can, AND has now said fuck you to the homeless and have upheld the ban to keep them from sleeping outside even though it's more often their only fucking option when there's no fucking services to give them the help they need.

I'm so angry, so scared, I can't think straight. My heart is in my throat and I'm fucking terrified that with all these assholes telling people not to vote and to throw their vote away because both parties are bad, that it's gonna get A LOT worse come November. If fucking trump gets back into the white house, that's it. The Supreme Court is already unhinged because of what he did during his first 4 years. I'm horrified to think how much worse it can get.

They came for roe v wade. They came for affirmative action. They've made the judiciary into a hammer to break anything they don't like in their way. The majority of the court hates women, people of color, lgbtq+, the poor, and they're gonna come after every one of us just because they can.

Anyone who says both parties are the same?? You can all fuck off into a fucking lava pit. I loathe every single one of you who incite people not to vote because they need to have picture perfect fucking candidate that fits EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEIR IDEALS and refuse to compromise to the detriment of the rest of the country.

This is YOUR fault we're where we are. It's YOUR fault that Hillary wasn't voted president, and we got that fucking grease stain for 4 fucking years, that gave us the supreme court we have now, who's tearing up our rights with every ruling. It's YOUR fault that roe v wade was lost, and that women's bodies, which have always been fair game in red states, are now in even more danger than ever. That handmaidens tale universe is getting closer to being a reality with all the shit you dumbass fucks have pulled.

And now you want to continue with your fucking misinformation and encouraging people not to vote because what, because you think your cause is more righteous than everyone else's? You think someone can't condemn what's happening in Gaza what's happening with Palestinians and still vote blue??? You think if I don't want to hand over control of my body to the government, if I don't want to lose my right to vote, to not worry that they'll be coming after me if I'm lgbtq or a minority or anything they don't view as deserving of basic human rights, that I should be like you??? And toss this country into hands that want to take all that away??? Do you really think not voting for biden or any other democrat is gonna help Palestinians??? Really?? Are you that. FUCKING. DUMB???!! I want to shake every single one of you to wake the fuck up because you'll do nothing but make it easier for the Supreme court to keep doing what it's doing, for the party that hates anything not white, not rich, not straight unless it benefits them, to get stronger and stronger until all of us that don't think like them are crushed like fucking ants under their boots.

So fuck you to anyone who spread lies, who tells others not to vote, that a vote for democrats is a vote for genocide, because you know what? You're slowly helping to kill your friends, families, and yes strangers, because of your inaction. You're helping to put people in power that don't give ONE FUCK about Palestine. Don't give ONE FUCK about anything but turning this country into their own personal fucking playground where they can do whatever they want, with impunity.

VOTE FUCKING BLUE PEOPLE VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE---BECAUSE IT IS.

[shayotita]

Thank God for Amir Odom. Facts 👏🏼💯

- https://youtu.be/SwuHabmRxSc?si=c-D-20koRuHEEOZP

[useless-catalanfacts]

2nd February 2024. Photos from Vilaweb.

Demonstration in front of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (the highest court of the Spanish judiciary system in Catalonia) in Barcelona in support of Dani Gallardo, a young Spanish anarchist who is sentenced to prison because the took part in a peaceful demonstration held in Madrid (Spain's capital city) in favour of Catalan people's right to self-determination and against the Spanish police's violence against Catalan people.

We have explained Dani's case before, you can read it in this post:

Dani has been sentenced guilty to send a message. Until his case, more than 4,200 Catalan people had been sentenced guilty for their involvement in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum or the protests that followed it. The Spanish judiciary system has proven that they won't stop at punishing Catalan people, they also sent the police to beat up the protestors who demonstrated for Catalonia in Madrid (Spain) and they're also jailing a Spanish man for his solidarity.

Dani was sentenced guilty of public disorder and attempt against authority with made-up claims that had been fabricated hours before he even got arrested. The Spanish police already planned to arrest people and blame them for this even before the event happened. Dani spent 13 months in pre-trial jail, then he was released for some time, and now has received the order to go to prison for 2 years and 11 months more.

Cases like this is why there is a demand for an amnesty. After the last elections to the Spanish government, the PSOE party needed the support of other parties to get enough votes to form government. One of the must-have demands of the Catalan political parties was an amnesty law (amnesty laws are not uncommon in Spain) that would cancel the punishments of people who have been found guilty of political crimes related to the independence movement since 2017, because none of these thousands of people committed real harmful crimes. This law is currently being negotiated, but the Spanish parties are trying to write it in a way that will leave as many people out of the amnesty as possible. At the same time, the Spanish judiciary system continues accusing new people of terrorism for attending peaceful political demonstrations.

For example, two democratically-elected pro-independence politicians (Puigdemont and Wagensberg) are being accused of terrorism for supposedly calling for people to protest in the Barcelona airport, a protest that was completely peaceful and which was called by a civil society organization and not by these politicians. But they're influential, so Spain looks for any way to punish them. How are the Spanish judiciaries claiming that Puigdemont and Wagensberg should be sentenced guilty of terrorism for an action where there was no terrorism? The Spanish judges' imagination has no limits when it comes to sentencing Catalans and Basques. They are saying that it's terrorism because some of the protestors had weapons. What weapons? Fire extinguishers, bottles, and the metal carts that people use to carry their luggage:

Because there were fire extinguishers and luggage carts in the airport and people brought their own water, a completely peaceful protest that happened there is terrorism. The worst part is that it doesn't outrage or surprise us anymore, because we're so used to this nonsense.

[littlemissheavenonearth]

And we will fight.

Together.

For each other.

Every step of the way.

*from Morgana Ignis’s instagram*

[tootern2345]

A reminder

Keep on calling, keep on signing the petitions, keep on doing anything & everything YOU can to stop. Or at least, push back KOSA!

[ghostscrown]

Today :

My country's dictator president does shit again using his "technically legal so you can't do anything but obey" tricks (look up French politics this is too long to explain but basically at this point I just feel like this whole thing won't end well)

I learn that a maintenance worker who worked at the high school I went, and who was the funniest and nicest person and literally the only positive thing in this fucked up school, just died hit by a FUCKING Lamborghini

My therapist advised me to rely on the Local Mission and social assistances for poor/disabled people to find a place, because no one wants to rent to an autistic trans guy who can't work full time and live on 1k euros per month, so to put it simple, I'm basically too poor to leave my fucked up parents' house in the regular way

And on a less serious note, WHAT THE HELL is this Minecraft movie-

ISN'T IT A NICE DAY TO HATE CAPITALISM.

[chaos-in-one]

The absolute privilege there is in being able to tell minorities talking about laws that are taking away their human rights to “just move out”

1. People shouldn’t have to move from their home country just to be treated like an equal fucking human being. There should not be places that treat entire groups of people as inherently lesser, the fact that those places exist is the problem, not the people simply existing.

2. Moving takes money. A LOT of money. A lot of people, especially minorities already prone to social discrimination and therefore more likely to struggle financially, CANNOT move out because it’s too expensive. Blaming them facing discrimination at the hands of laws against their equality on them because they can’t afford to leave is classist.

[didthekingdieyet]

to all my US followers:

“I’m not sure if you’re aware but the US Supreme Court just struck down affirmative action (saying you can’t “discriminate” on the basis of race) (affirmative action just says that a a policy aimed at increasing workplace and educational opportunities for people who are underrepresented in various areas of our society most often looking at people of color) but allowed a homophobic website designer to not have to create a website for same sex marriage (saying you CAN discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation)”

if you are one of my US based followers, please please look into how you can best support the rights of minoritized individuals near you (i’ve attached a petition that was sent to me)

(to the individual that submitted this in an anon ask i am not trying to steal your thunder tumblr just wasn’t letting me answer it!)