#international migrants day

[murderousink23]

12/18/2024 is National Muffin Day 🇧🇷, Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day 🇺🇸, Arabic Language Day 🇺🇳, International Migrants Day 🇺🇳

[sofiaflorina2021]

Happy International Migrants Day 2024

Happy International Migrants Day, 18 December, 2024. 2024 Theme: "Honouring the Contributions of Migrants and Respecting Their Rights".

[migrantsday]

Strengthening union power with migrant workers.

To mark International Migrants Day, the ITUC organised a webinar, in which trade unions from every region shared their experiences of building union power with migrant workers. The webinar highlighted the importance of ensuring democracy at work for migrant workers, including the effective exercise of their right to freedom of association and collective bargaining through trade unions.

[subby-sab]

Today is 18th of December.

Today is International Migrants Day, National Roast Suckling Pig Day, Bake Cookies Day, Arabic Language Day.

[dijetemjeseca]

Svjetski dan migranata

[remembertheplunge]

12/18/2024

This is a great book to be reading now. That’s my margin note from this morning on the page describing the colors of the triangle warn by members of different groups in the Nazi concentration camps in the late 30s and up to 1945.

[versuasiva]

8 de marzo

tercer año fuera de mi país,

tercer año que los fantasmas creen que ganaron,

porque a mi antigua yo,

la silenciaron,

la amordazaron y empujaron al miedo absoluto,

le quitaron la esperanza y sus sueños,

le quitaron las ganas de vivir,

le quitaron su valiosa intimidad,

le robaron la luz de las metas que tenía,

la juzgaron y cuando creía que era suficiente, siguieron, terminándola de apuñalar emocionalmente hasta no poder respirar y hasta no querer respirar,

se la comieron viva y con zapatos creyendo que no sabría levantarse,

pensaron que estaría sola en esta historia,

la historia que alguna vez dije que se quedarían solo en eso: una historia, pero.. hoy luego de algunos años, la desempolvo, la remarco

y hoy, abro el libro,

lo escribo, porque luego de estos años,

ya no existe el miedo,

ni a las denuncias,

ni a la vergüenza popular,

ni a nada,

PORQUE ME QUITARON TODO,

sobre todo..

las ganas de vivir,

me persiguieron políticamente y me siguen persiguiendo de manera silenciosa, a través de los años, cada vez que digo una palabra clave sobre mi activismo o historia,

aparecen como fantasmas el pasado, con nuevos nombres, pero misma figura, rostro,

y ya no tengo miedo, porque sé que no estoy sola,

porque estoy al otro lado del mundo donde la violencia sigue, pero al menos me siento protegida estando lejos,

sólo mis verdaderas amigas conocen la verdadera historia y por eso no me dejan de abrazar fuerte, cada vez que pueden,

tuve que dejar mi valioso activismo, mis posts, mi familia, mi vida, mi ganas de vivir en el futuro en mi país,

porque tuve que irme a poder sentir un poco de paz, vivir un poco, olvidando lo malo,

sabiendo que tu país te trató tan mal,

y el sistema no te decepcionó porque para ti y para tu hermana, nunca funcionó,

el sistema nunca funcionó para nosotras, con diecisiete años y mi hermana con diez, ni cuando tenía veinte, ni mucho menos a mis veintiuno, pero a esos hombres, de alguna manera se les premia,

esa carta en pandemia, sacándo de la cárcel al infierno vivo, fue la señal para que mi padre y mi madre empacaran mis cosas y me dijeran: “tienes que irte del país, a fuerza, luego te mandamos a tu hermana”

luego de saber que mi destino era huir de mi país o morir en las manos de mis victimarios, la respuesta no fue clara, fue obligatoria,

y aquí estoy..

hablando de lo que nunca, nunca, me gusta hablar, la verdadera razón de mis antiguos miedos..

pasaron años y nada, nadie me derrumbó, sigo en pie y nadie tiene autoridad de callarme ahora,

porque, luego de tanto y tan poco,

volví.

Este escrito y fuerza invertida, es dedicada a mi hermana, Pierina. Que literalmente fue “la voz que me salvó la vida” un grito de ella, hizo que no terminaran de acabar con mi vida. Su voz fue mi salvación cuando fuimos pequeñas, más adelante, su testimonio y palabras años después, fue mi punto final para salir de un infierno que vivía en carne propia. Porque mi hermanita es lo más precioso que tengo en la vida, ella me salvó la vida y yo le daré la mejor vida a ella, lejos de tanta violencia que vivimos.

Te amo Pierina Juárez, te espero pronto, aquí, para ser felices como siempre lo soñamos.

[pizap]

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#InternationalMigrantsDay #CelebrateDiversity #GlobalUnity #piZapCreativity #DesignForChange #MigrationJourney #EmbraceCulture #UnityInDiversity

[remittancesday]

Focus on the economic impact of Remittances on households, communities, and nations.

“Digital remittances: Towards financial inclusion and cost reduction.” International Day of Remittances 2024. Remittances remain essential for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. By helping to put food on the table and pay for school, housing and medical expenses, they provide a crucial lifeline for those who receive them. The International Day of Family Remittances draws our attention to the economic impact of this money on households, communities, and nations, and recognises the sacrifice, separation and generosity often involved.

[mediaheights]

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[gayvampyr]

CNN:

Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and streets strewn with corpses. The state governor had just been executed and mutilated by Arab militia groups, leaving civilians with no choice but to flee.

What followed was a gruesome massacre, eyewitnesses said, believed to be one of the most violent incidents in the genocide-scarred Sudanese region’s history. The powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allied militias hunted down non-Arab people in various parts of the city and surrounding desert region, leaving hundreds dead as they ran for their lives…

…residents set off en masse from southern El Geneina, many trying to reach the nearby Sudanese military headquarters where they thought they might find safety. But they said they were quickly thwarted by RSF attacks. Some were summarily executed in the streets, survivors said. Others died in a mass drowning incident, shot at as they attempted to cross a river. Many of those who managed to make it out were ambushed near the border with Chad, forced to sit in the sand before being told to run to safety as they were sprayed with bullets.

“More than 1,000 people were killed on June 15. I was collecting bodies on that day. I collected a huge number,” one local humanitarian worker, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told CNN. He said the dead were buried in five different mass graves in and around the city.

Conflict erupted between the RSF and the Sudanese army in April. Since then, more than one million people have fled to neighboring countries, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration.

Now, a telecommunications blackout and the flight of international aid groups have all but cut off Darfur from the outside world. But news of the June 15 massacre began trickling out of the region from refugees who escaped to Chad. The evidence uncovered by CNN suggests that, behind a curtain of secrecy, the RSF and its allies are waging an indiscriminate campaign of widespread killings and sexual violence unlike anything the region has seen in decades.

The RSF’s official spokesperson told CNN that it “categorically” denied the allegations.

“To say you were Masalit was a death sentence,” said Jamal Khamiss, a human rights lawyer, referring to his non-Arab tribe, one of the biggest in Darfur. Khamiss was among those who said that they fled from El Geneina to Chad, surviving a series of RSF and allied militia positions by concealing his ethnicity.

The United Nations raised the alarm in June over ethnic targeting and killing of people from the Masalit community in El Geneina, after reports of summary executions and “persistent hate speech,” including calls to kill or expel them.

The vast majority of those who managed to make it out of El Geneina alive sought refuge in the Chadian border town of Adre, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) away from the city.

On June 15, the town received the highest number of migrants in a single day, along with the highest number of casualties — 261 — since the Sudan conflict broke out, according to Doctors Without Borders, widely known by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which runs the only hospital in Adre. The number of wounded people that arrived at the hospital was even higher the next day: 387.

“The last time we recorded the death toll in Geneina it was 884,” one local humanitarian worker from El Geneina, who works for a Western non-profit organization, told CNN. “That was June 9. After June 9, it was a different story. The dead became uncountable.”

Action Against Hunger is accepting donations to provide health, sanitation and nutrition services to Sudanese refugees in Chad.

[murderousink23]

12/18/2023 is National Muffin Day 🇧🇷, Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day 🇺🇲, Arabic Language Day 🇺🇳, International Migrants Day 🇺🇳

[sayruq]

3 thoughts on this:

Economy - Israel's economy took a hit in October that was comparable to the economic tremors caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. It is effectively in a major recession today. The longer they drag out this war, the worse their economic condition will be. Foreign capital will continue leaving the country as it seems incapable of stabilising. While the continued use of reserves means 300,000 Israelis will be unable to work, not to mention the millions of dollars Israel has to spend to mobilise its reserve every day. The longer the war goes on, the more people will end up leaving the country. 470,000 have left in October and November with no intention of returning while over 300,000 settlers are internally displaced. Both of those numbers are bound to go up as the war continues. This means that Israel is missing hundreds of thousands of Israeli workers. A few weeks ago, Israel struck a deal with the Indian government to get 100,000 workers after tens of thousands of worker migrants fled the country. That plan fell through thanks to Indian trade unions. Now Israel is turning to African States in a desperate attempt to replace the Gazan workers it's currently genociding. We will see if that plan works as Africans are by and large pro Palestine. Plus the Yemeni naval blockade is growing more and more intense every week as a direct response to the genocide in Gaza. In short, Israel's economy can't withstand a long war. America cannot help prop up the economy as it will soon be facing its major economy issues in the coming years including a housing crisis and likely a recession.

Military defeats - Israel cannot defeat Hamas. It cannot win a war inside Gaza. It failed to do so in 2014, it's failing right now. It has lost hundreds of military vehicles including the (formerly) vaunted Merkava-4. The estimated number of injured soldiers stands at 10,000+ while the Resistance is still intact and capable of carrying out dozens of military operations against IDF and the surrounding cities and settlements every day. The IDF has never looked more weak than it is right now. Hezbollah has been employing a military strategy dubbed the escalation ladder, in which one end of the ladder is no war and the other end is total war. It has continuously escalated against Israel, attacking deeper and deeper into its territory, and it will continue until there's open war between Israel and Lebanon. The point of the escalation is to give Israel time to leave Gaza but as that's not something the Israeli government is planning on doing, we're looking at a region war in 2024 (so far we have a regional conflict and whilebits serious, it's not yet war). Just like it can't win in Gaza, Israel can't defeat Hezbollah and occupy Southern Lebanon like its leaders have been threatening to. It certainly can't take on the Ansar Allah group in Yemen.

West Bank - every week, there are clashes between Israeli forces and the Resistance in the West Bank and it's growing more and more intense. The best way to describe the region is 'powder keg.' Israel has responded to Oct 7th by detaining thousands of Palestinians and killing hundreds. There's a growing popularity of Al Qassam Brigades and other militant groups in Gaza. There also seems to be coordination between the Gazan and West Bank resistance groups, as in they would carry out operations at the same time. The longer the war on Gaza goes on, the more likely that war will also break out in the West Bank.

Many, many more Palestinians will die. This plan, more than anything, is a call for the continued slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.

But the longer this goes on, the closer Israel gets to collapsing.

[migrantsday]

Honoring the vital contributions of migrant workers to economies and societies while denouncing the exploitation, discrimination and violence they face.

Migrant workers are:

Often the victims of forced labour, abuse and exploitation.

Disproportionately represented in informal work and sectors where precarity is the norm.

Frequently left trapped in debt and poverty in their search for a better future. According to the ILO, migrant workers pay more than US$5.6 billion annually in illegal recruitment fees.

[plant-ago]

An Open Letter to Dan and Phil

Dear beloved nerds,

This was originally going to be an (even longer) actual letter that I was going to give to you at the tour, but my nonprofit-employed ass can’t afford a meet and greet, so we’re doing this instead. I promise it’s not just trauma dumping— mostly, it’s about saying thank you and trying to cultivate some hope for all of us.

I’ve been a big fan since around 2014, when I was a mentally ill neurotic deeply repressed loner egg (average phannie, let's be honest). Now I’m a whole adult who got therapy and HRT and has joined the legions of transmascs with the Dan Howell haircut! What a legacy.

I’m making jokes because the thing I actually want to talk about, and the reason I decided to make this an open letter, is kind of serious. But in light of the election, I feel like I need to share this, both with you and with all the other queers in this little corner of the internet.

Here’s the gist: I’m a paralegal at a non-profit organization that works to help queer migrants get asylum. Mostly what I do is sit them down in our nasty sterile office and try to be kind, and help them get through telling me all the most terrible things that have happened to them, and then turn around and pare it all down into legalese that is digestible to the government to make the case they should get asylum.

It’s a horrible job, really, and one that shouldn’t have to exist. Some parts are plainly wonderful, like meeting so many queer people from all walks of life. But it’s also heartrending and difficult, and burnout is always looming. My horrible banal work is often literally a matter of life and death for the client, and I’m fighting a broken system for a chance at giving them the happiness and safety is owed to them by international law and, really, by any decent human standard, should never have been in question.

The thing is—and this is reason to hope—queer people really do exist everywhere, no matter how much repression and violence we face. In a tiny village in Colombia, there's a kid who’s all spit and vinegar, dresses like a boy and plays football and fights anyone who says that they can’t, who grows up wiry and gets black eyes because men still can’t handle getting their asses handed to them on the soccer field by a dyke. This client texts me at my work number sometimes to ask if I’ve eaten that day, because they wanted to check in on me. He asked me to call him by a boy’s name, recently. I don’t know that he’s told anyone else. I open every message I send him with "Hola, James."

Then there’s the sweet, babyfaced college freshman who got death threats when he was outed to his classmates back home, and whose parents kicked him out when he refused to marry a girl to protect the family's reputation, leaving him alone in a foreign country. He was couch surfing and just trying not to miss class so he could keep his student status and he was so conscientious I wanted to cry— he’s eighteen, guys. Eighteen. I’ll get him his papers or so help me fucking God I will kill for him. You know? You know. After that meeting I had to sit at my desk with my notebook and fill an entire blank page with the phrase “he’s just a kid,” over and over again, until I felt like I could breathe.

On a Friday morning recently I get up and open my laptop to interpret on a call with a soft-spoken older trans woman who's sat in the bleak phone room of the ICE detention facility because her immigration judge didn’t believe that she was really transgender. “An odor of mendacity pervades everything the respondent says,” the judge wrote in her ruling, where she determined the client wasn't "credible." To this day I’m still floored that she straight up ripped off Tennessee Williams—new frontiers in bigotry, truly. She didn’t even cite. In our meeting now, the client quietly tells us how hard it was when she came out but how happy she was the first time she wore makeup, and she'd rather stay in detention here for indeterminate years as proceedings spiral on than go back to Guatemala, where they'll kill her—boys, if I ever get within spitting distance of this fuckass judge, it is on SIGHT. Absolutely fucking ON SIGHT. For legal purposes, that was a JOKE.

So I finish the call and get up to get a snack. It’s only ten am but feel tired already because I’m angry, which is not unusual but also not something I want to hold onto, because it doesn't help anything. So I make some toast and look at my phone— two texts, which I ignore, a spam email, and, wouldn't you know it, a YouTube notification from Dan and Phil games! Jarring! That’s just sort of how life is though, isn’t it? Deathly serious and lighthearted in the same breath.

But regardless, seeing the notification makes me feel warm, so I have my toast and watch a little video of you two playing Roblox or dress up or whatever it is you do on that channel these days. I have a good giggle and I finish my toast and go back to my desk. It’s a crucial part of my diet really— the giggles, not the toast. I’m not angry anymore. I’ll be angry again, but for now my cortisol levels are manageable and I can put my head back into emails or whatever the fuck. Do you ever think about how plants make food for free out of sunlight but we sit around writing emails all day? And that’s if we’re lucky. Capitalism is hell.

Anyway, there is a point I am trying to make, and it’s not really about the banal horrors of neoliberal nation-state or capitalism or even homophobia. It’s to say thank you for coming back to make silly videos together, because I love them, and you never fail to make me happy. And yeah, maybe something about the story of that scared eighteen-year-old kid at the front of my mind makes it particularly sweet to watch you two goofing off and being openly queer. It reminds me why I’m doing what I’m doing, and it gives me the strength to send another fucking email because sometimes doing “important work that I value and believe in deeply” means having to send another fucking email. And sometimes I’ll rewatch your older videos, and then come back to the more recent ones, and my heart bruises, because you remind me what I’m fighting for and why. It’s nothing grandiose, it’s just— for queer people to get to have the ability to grow into themselves and be outrageous and silly and make mistakes and to love and be loved for who they are. To have the safety and support and security that no one should ever go without. That’s all.

So I am being dead serious when I say thank you for making top-tier light entertainment, and for coming back to a job that wasn’t always kind to you, and that it does actually matter. All this talk about terrible influences and legacies has made me think that sometimes you doubt whether you do good in the world, so let me be clear: you really, really do. I kind of get the sense that in order to accept sincerity Dan needs to be beat over the head with it, so if that’s the case, consider yourself coerced, you dickhead. You matter to me, and especially in times like these, I think I speak for all of us when I say that the joy you share is a precious and treasured gift. So please accept my gratitude in return.

All my love,

Jules

(I removed or changed all identifying information in this letter to protect privacy, but the stories are real).

[mesetacadre]

I love your blog and I learn a lot from it especially since you are a part of a organized movement so I hope it's okay if I ask you a few questions! One: what exactly is class consciousness? I understand what it means but it's still unclear how knowing and understanding your class and others' can help further a socialist cause. Two: can a bourgeoisie person be a communist or support the cause? If so, how? Three: when can one call themselves a communist? Thank you and I hope you're having a great day!

Thank you!

1- Lenin talked about two types of class consciousness, a spontaneous-economic consciousness, and a political-revolutionary consciousness. The first type arises on its own, just from the experiences of class antagonisms, such as realizing you're paid unfairly, intuiting your boss has different interests to you, or hating all CEOs and big corporations. This is a fickle type of consciousness and vulnerable to rhetoric which guides it towards other trains of thought, such as going against migrants' labor in favor of non-migrants' labor. When this embryonic consciousness is sharpened and matured through political education and a systematization of principles, it eventually becomes political-revolutionary consciousness, the internalization of class politics and of the necessity of communism as an overcoming of the inherent and destructive contradictions of capitalism. This, understanding your class interests as a worker, matter because that allows you to accurately act on those interests and towards a defined goal. The difference between this and the spontaneous type of consciousness is having a systemic program based on historical and current experience.

2- Individual members of the bourgeoisie can go against their class interests by becoming a communist, of course. Your class position heavily conditions your individual attitudes and beliefs and at the scale of an economic class is largely deterministic, but it is not deterministic at the level of individuals. Just like many workers actively wish to become a member of an exploiter class and can actively work against their class' interests, so can capitalists.

3- You're a communist when you become convinced of the program of communism, of course. I've seen some people say you can't call yourself that if you aren't actively organized or if you haven't read some amount of theory, but that's pointless gatekeeping of a term that can't really be gatekept. Sure, it is very important to become organized and it is very important to study theory, but individual circumstances vary wildly. And you can talk of being a good or bad, productive or inefficient communist. But if you think you're a communist, and you find yourself agreeing with at least some communists, then you are a communist. It's not a club :)