Back to our regularly scheduled "what should we be boycotting" posting - a couple of hours ago (today, Wednesday 8th November) the BDS movement has put together a definitive explainer on which companies it is currently targeting, splitting companies into four categories and explaining why each company is being targeted and also what each category means for consumers, institutions, etc.

PLEASE NOTE: The BDS movement is the official, strategic, coordinated boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign created by the BDS National Committee of Palestine. If you want to take part in boycotts and other forms of pressure against corporations in your efforts to help free Palestine, use this organisation's advice as your official and primary source. Other common boycott campaigns such as the "Big Three" (McDonalds, Disney, Starbucks) are at best incomplete and at worst actively contradictory representations of this targeted boycott campaign that we should all be aiming to follow for maximum efficacy and impact.

I have bolded where "big three" companies appear in this new release in order to clarify what action the BDS recommends for each.

click this link to read the explainer.

If, for whatever reason, you can't or don't want to click the link, here's a quick summary:

CONSUMER TARGETS: the BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of the following brands

DIVESTMENT TARGETS: governments, institutions, and investment funds should exclude and divest from as many complicit companies as is practical

PRESSURE (NON-BOYCOTT) TARGETS: for strategic reasons the BDS movement does not call for a complete boycott of these brands & services. they should be subjected to other forms of pressure until they end their complicity in Israeli apartheid

GRASSROOTS ORGANIC BOYCOTT TARGETS: other boycotts not organised by BDS. If these campaigns are not already organically active in your area, focus your energies on the strategic campaigns above.

Starbucks continues to not be officially mentioned by the BDS Movement. The boycott of Starbucks primarily stems from its decision to sue its union for using the company's name and branding in pro-Palestine posts. As another grassroots organic boycott campaign, albeit not one openly acknowledged thus far by the BDS Movement itself, my personal recommendation would be to treat it like other campaigns in that category - i.e. continue boycotting & encouraging others to do so if there is already an organically active campaign in your area, but please keep the "official" BDS boycott list as your main focus.

[image description: a tweet from @/BDSmovement which reads "Many of you have written to ask us about the accuracy of lists of companies being spread on social media.

We have put together this definitive explainer to help focus our collective efforts on ending complicity with Israel's apartheid regime."

attached is an image of the logos of companies being targeted by different types of boycotts or pressure from BDS movement, and some that which are not being targeted by BDS but have gained attention and some people boycotting them for their support of Israel.

the companies under consumer boycott targets are:

Ahava, AXA, Carrefour, HP, Puma, RE/MAX, Siemens, SodaStream, and Israeli produce.

the companies under divestment targets are:

Elbit Systems, HD Hyundai, Volvo, CAT, JCB, Barclays, CAF, Chevron, HikVision, and TKH Security.

the companies under pressure (non-boycott) targets are:

Google, Amazon, Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and Disney.

the companies under organic boycott targets are:

McDonalds, Burger King, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Wix, and Dominos. end image description.]

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What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night

Extracting from the original tags: this is an 8 minute exposure — it was indeed pitch black

One reference I'm not sure was intentional (because it was from Siobhan and this is, like, old American political slang that I last heard much of when I was in college during the Bush administration):

"Saving the world should count for more than ratfucking" is probably just the most recent iteration of the malapropisms of Ratgrinders and Fourdogs' name, but ratfucking IS a term that's been used for at least 50 years in the US to refer to winning elections through sabotage, smear campaigns, and other dirty tricks:

Ratfucking - Wikipedia

Which given the "party politics" title of the episode could be a really great deep joke or could just be coincidence.

WHAT

Pusheen is married?!?

PUSHEEN HAS BABIES?!?!?

Queen Of Keeping Personal And Professional Lives Seperate

SINCE WHEN IS PUSHEEN A GIRL

an absolute queen. her birthday is febuary 18th

she's Irish

everyone say happy birthday pusheen

Queering the Map in Gaza and the West Bank

jkr actively funds and lobbies for her hate groups and against my country's independence movement with the money she gets from dumb fucks who don't think their dollars count. if you're going to be a moral jellyfish at least simp for a dead bigot.

americans love to treat her like an abstract concept just because she's not paying taxes in their country. last year I had to tell my manager I refused to work on a major account for our healthcare charity bc it was laundering her shitty money. can you put down the racist YA for thirty seconds in solidarity

we got 54 reblogs in before someone said 'yeah duh just pirate her stuff'. so? no? you can't put down the racist YA for 30 seconds? fucking embarrassing.

Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3

Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?

She doesn't even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She's fucking embarrassassed...

Smelling you

Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She's around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful

everybody loves beans

Please boost this GFM! A Palestinian American student has asked for aid for their relatives to evacuate Rafah.

Hi all!!! Another direct fundraiser, and it’s at 2/3rds of its goal! This is a way to quite literally save lives in real-time. ♥️🖤🤍💚

The way this video holds up my mental health today...it's like Atlas holding up the sky

the sweetest baby

I'm begging other trans people to read an ounce of Black Feminist or Decolonialist Feminist writing. I'm on my hands and knees and begging you. I promise you, I promise you, there is so much more to Feminist theory than anything you have picked up from White/Radical/Pop/Liberal Feminism I promise you. Read There Is No Hierarchy Of Oppressions By Audre Lorde. I have a link to the PDF right here you can read it for free. Take my hand I can't do this alone (thanks glass beach). Peace And Love On Planet Earth.

I've recommended them a thousand times but Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall, White Tears, Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad, and Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo are excellent reads for those wanting to understand some of the voices of the brown women behind intersectional feminism (and in Mediocre's case, in politics and society as a whole in comparison to white men), and how we aren't being heard in white feminist spaces. Some Kimberle Crenshaw as well for the origin of (the term) intersectional feminism, even!

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (link is to a PDF)

"The urgency of intersectionality" Kimberlé Crenshaw (TED Talk)

Food is a right only if it is your private property. You have no right to food that does not belong to you; you have no right to food that you have not purchased or produced.

Yo shut up

Food isn’t scarce though, at least not everywhere. American grocery stores throw out tons of food every fucking day and aren’t even allowed to give it to the poor

Restaurants and Grocery stores throw out tons of food DAILY and are not allowed to donate it or even take it for themselves.

The amount of food America throws out is actually fucking horrendous. Another reason why I dont have the will to work anywhere near food is because I actually have fucking compassion and would give away what went unused at the end of the day, that action could get me FIRED.

us : people should be able to eat

these clowns: UM ACTUALLY

As someone who has worked in 2 restaurants and currently work in a grocery store in the US, I can attest to this. SO much food just gets fucking tossed.

The only exception I’ve seen is like once a week, maybe less often, our bakery is allowed to donate bread to some charity and usually the bakery tries to give away more than the one person from the charity has room in their car for.

And we have so much food go bad because there’s so much of it, no one buys it. It’s infuriating.

Food Not Bombs literally takes excess food from various sources and uses it to give away free meals and meal kits.

It’s not just an empty statement.

the whole point of Food Not Bombs is to use the food that’s wasted under capitalism because it can’t be sold for a profit to feed the people who need it, it’s literally designed to draw attention to the fact that scarcity under 21st century capitalism is manufactured. We produce enough food globally to feed 10 billion people a year; nobody should be hungry.

I literally almost got fired from Tim Hortons (call out) for giving homeless people stale doughnuts we had to throw out

If anybody tries to tell you that restaurants and grocery stores in the USA can’t donate or let people have their trash because they risk being sued tell them that the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act has been saying they’re full of shit since 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act_of_1996

It's very funny to me that the stereotypical gelatinous cube is bright fucking green when the monster itself is almost perfectly transparent. Like its gimmick is that it's a monster that imitates an empty 10x10 hallway. How many people have fallen victim to gelatinous cubes because they "know" that the ooze is bright green and so don't bother to check the suspiciously clean corridor in front of them.

The cube is green because oh my god do you know how hard it is to draw a perfectly transparent cube? Especially in isolation, like in the monster manual? Even if you put debris in, it reads as "floating skull ft. helium sword." Awful. Absolutely wretched.

I'm picturing it appearing in in-universe bestiaries with a little caption like *specimen dyed for visibility.

Dungeon naturalists sneaking up on a cube with a bucket of green dye so they can see it well enough to study it.

Classifying your Slimes and Oozes by Gram staining them

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