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Big day for weird little towns
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NEVER do your best. QUIT
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this is how the movie went right
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just wanted to make a general donations post for native americansย
- NARFย (native american rights fund)
- AISES (advancing indigenous people in stem)
- NIWRC (national indigenous womenโs resource center)
- PWNAย (partnership with native americans)
- COPE (community outreach and patient empowerment)
- the association on american indian affairs
- first nations development institute
- american indian college fund
- CARE (dinรฉ citizens against ruining our environment)
- hopa mountain
- indigenous values initiative
- native american disability law center
- peopleโs partner for community developmentย
and hereโs a map of what indigenous land you are living on if you want to donate specific towards those people and tribes ๐
help support returning land, including burial grounds, to the shinnecock nation
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lord grant me the serenity to do my laundry, the courage to do my laundry, and the wisdom to do my laundry
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this is vile
STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. โ Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe step of banishing a nonprofit organization from the tribeโs land.
The Lakota Language Consortium had promised to preserve the tribeโs native language and had spent years gathering recordings of elders, including Taken Aliveโs grandmother, to create a new, standardized Lakota dictionary and textbooks.
But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had copyrighted the language materials, which were based on generations of Lakota tradition. The traditional knowledge gathered from the tribe was now being sold back to it in the form of textbooks.ย
Iโm reblogging this again because people in the notes are focusing on the wrong things.
This isnโt about books. This is about an organization founded and led by two white men using the work of indigenous peoples to create resources for their endangered languages and then not giving those people access to those resources. Itโs about them literally copywriting the words of Elders and other indigenous people and refusing to let their tribes use them.
People are fighting to have access to the recordings that deceased loved ones gave to this organization and being denied because those recordings are copywrited. These men are literally taking aspects of these communities and saying, โthese are ours now, no one else can use them, not even the people who shared them with us.โ
And itโs not just one or two people who have issues with this. Itโs not just one tribe. Itโs multiple accounts of this organization and its founders violating the boundaries of both individuals and tribes and taking what wasnโt theirs to take.
This isnโt acceptable under any circumstances.
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Reblog to give your nonbinary friend a sword
And a glock!
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The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India, is shaped like a fish.
finally, some good fucking architecture
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I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.
Thatโs enough to keep me going.
@cryptonatureโโ Man do I have good news for you!
Also! Bonus frog!
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What if we started actively disincentivizing landlords letting real estate stay empty rather than renting at reasonable prices? Like, give them a maximum of three months to get a new tenant in, and then they start accumulating fines for the unused space.
And some similar system to disincentivize the ridiculous airbnb market as well. Make it unprofitable to have homes sitting empty in a city where people with jobs find themselves living in tents. Hell, make it unprofitable to have homes sitting empty anywhere that has a homelessness problem.
The fine? The full rent amount theyโre asking for. You think $1700/month for a studio apartment is reasonable? Well, until you get someone into that apartment, youโre going to be fined that same sum every month.
For Airbnb, a lower cost, but still based on how many nights/month the space is unused, and the fine will be based on the asking price per night.
This isโฆ really, really sensible.
literally email this idea to your local city council representative or similar lowest level government person. if there are meetings that are open to the public, go speak your piece there. an idea like this is very sensible, and this is an issue they are thinking about.
there will be traction. Iโm not saying you can get it to happen, the owners of large complexes have a lot of control over your local government. but itโs not complete control, and good ideas are powerful.
Vancouver slaps $10,000 a year tax on empty homes. Lie about it and itโs $10,000 a day
Thanks for the link, and fuck yeah! This is exactly the stuff Iโm talking about.
Milwaukee and San Francisco are also looking into policies like these. These ideas are out there and being explored, and I think thatโs pretty neat.
If your city has council meetings open to the public (a lot do!), theyโre probably listed on your cityโs website. Getting a group of people together can be even more powerful, since officials can see itโs at least more than one person who thinks itโs a good idea.
Lower-level local government people are usually happy to hear from you, too. An email pointing out the other places that have tried it and their results could go a long way. Some local government people will even let constituents schedule a short meeting with them where you could present ideas.
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