Last chance. If you want to have your signature on the real life letter that goes to Canada's House of Commons Speaker and others, you must tell me before 9AM PDT (about 40 minutes).
You do not have to be Canadian to sign.
Signatures received after 9AM will be on the web version.
I've made some updates to the letter including more supporting links and sources.
Statement von Lehrenden an Berliner Universitäten (Open Letter als Google form, noch zu unterschreiben)
"Als Lehrende der Berliner Hochschulen verpflichtet uns unser Selbstverständnis dazu, unsere Studierenden auf Augenhöhe zu begleiten, aber auch zu schützen und sie in keinem Fall Polizeigewalt auszuliefern.
“Unabhängig davon, ob wir mit den konkreten Forderungen des Protestcamps einverstanden sind, stellen wir uns vor unsere Studierenden und verteidigen ihr Recht auf friedlichen Protest, das auch die Besetzung von Uni-Gelände einschließt. Die Versammlungs- und Meinungsfreiheit sind grundlegende demokratische Rechte, die auch und gerade an Universitäten zu schützen sind. Angesichts der angekündigten Bombardierung Rafahs und der Verschärfung der humanitären Krise in Gaza sollte die Dringlichkeit des Anliegens der Protestierenden auch für jene nachvollziehbar sein …”
Dear Mark Zuckerberg and Leadership,
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We, #Meta employees, wish to express our disappointment and astonishment at the lack of acknowledgement and care the leaders of this company have shown toward the Palestinian community and its allies…
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“For each of us, Jewish identity is not a weapon to wield in a fight for statist power but a fount of generational wisdom that says justice, justice, you shall pursue.”
"Together, we should fight the forces that want some of us dead, and the rest of us meekly agreeing to their tyranny. The disabled or the chronically ill are considered as surplus under the neoliberal capitalist system – we are no longer of economic value, and thus worthless. Refusing to fight this notion means being subservient & compliant to the interests and wishes of the rich and powerful"
📢 Calling all creators, publishers, and content contributors on the web! 🌐
Today we are announcing an important open letter which proposes a simple specification to enable fair usage of content for search and AI. This is a threat now, not an #AISafetySummit future one.
@followers I need your help! Please could you sign this open letter to the UK health secretary regarding CAMHS?
There is also a sign up below the letter signature thar allows you to separately sign up for the mailing list that will help keep you up to date with the CAMHS campaign.
Please also share this post if you can, we need as many people as possible to get involved with changing CAMHS.
On 12 September, at a meeting of the IHC’s Scientific Committee, it was unanimously decided to send a letter to the publisher #Routledge expressing its position on the withdrawal of the chapter “The Walls Spoke When No One Else Would”, from the book "Sexual Misconduct in Academia", edited by Erin Pritchard and Delyth Edwards (2023).
The John Snow Project invites healthcare workers, patients and community advocates to send this letter to their local healthcare provider to encourage the reintroduction of multi-layered mitigations to protect patients from the serious impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19.
Welsh print is imperilled. I am proud to be one of 145 signatories of this #OpenLetter to #WelshGovernment calling for urgent action against the precarious situation of writers in #Wales. Please, join our fight and write to your #Senedd rep. Without independent Welsh print, Welsh voices are falling into a void and our concerns go unnoticed in a media culture centreed around #London.
If you are concerned about the cuts to #WVU academics, please consigning the #OpenLetter to the WVU Board of Governors - signatures are being collected through Monday.
RT @NOYBeu
Instead of focusing on on the legal matters of the supposedly new EU-US "Data Privacy Framework", EU Commissioner Reynders used his podium on Monday to discredit the work of NGOs like noyb.
We request a rectification and apology #OpenLetter.
1/2 📨 #OpenLetter: 80 civil society, media, publishers and broadcasters organisations, and trade unions are calling on @EP_Justice to BAN #spyware deployment against journalists without exceptions in the European #MediaFreedom Act
The recently adopted @EUCouncil approach to the EMFA would permit the use of intrusive spware against journalists on the basis of 'national security' reasons
✊🏾We are urging @EP_Justice MEPs to oppose this and ensure that the EMFA meaningfully protects journalists.
Why is Palantir sponsoring the Dimensions art exhibition in Leipzig?
"Palantir is a US-based data analytics company whose business model seems to be the pushing and exceeding of any ethical and legal boundaries that stand in the way of a fully “transparent humanity”. Some questions come to mind. What was the reasoning behind Palantir’s decision to sponsor the Dimensions exhibition in Leipzig? What exactly were the role of art impresario Walter Smerling and the association Foundation for Art and Culture e.V. (Bonn) which he heads, after his efforts were stifled in Berlin? What role do art, curators and artists play in such an exhibition?"
I found this very motivating for any local activist and so I conducted an interview with Iyán Méndez Veiga for insights about their success story: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190514-01