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703 - Pakistan economy: Price spikes, political woes hit millions - BBC News
Sitting in a dimly lit one-room apartment in the industrial area of Youhanabad in Lahore, Mr Maseeh and his wife Shamim Asif described how the escalating cost of living is impacting them and their five children. The couple work extra-long hours to feed their three daughters and two sons, none of whom go to school. "We used to somehow manage our daily expenses within 500 Pakistani rupees (£1.40; $1.75) a day. Now things have changed. To cook just one meal, we need 1,500 rupees," Mr Maseeh sai...
3858 - nullagent: "Georgia is trying to criminali…" - disabled.social
Georgia is trying to criminalize bailing people out of jail 🥴 They are trying to limit non-profits to only bailing out 3 people per year. The bill has today passed the Georgia state senate. Correction: It limits everyone! “No more than three cash bonds maybe posted per year by any individual, corporation, organization, charity, nonprofit corporation, or group in any jurisdiction,” https://atlpresscollective.com/2024/02/01/georgia-cash-bail-expansion-act-will-criminalize-charitable-bail-funds/
4317 - Dr. Monica Cox en X
Yes. I’m TIRED of speaking up and getting punched. I want to live too. My family needs me too. Uplift those of us who are unafraid and on the frontline. / X
4796 - Human Rights Watch report on WA Aboriginal children removed from families | National Justice Project
The National Justice Project says a damning Human Rights Watch report on Western Australia’s child protection system tells a shocking story of Aboriginal children being removed from their families by a system that focuses more on policing families than providing them with needed support. Aboriginal children make up nearly 60% of the Western Australia’s out-of-home care system despite Aboriginal children representing only 7% of the child population. The report “All I Know Is I Want Them Home”...
6608 - Sunny Hostin Shares How Sherri Shepherd Helped Her Earn A Higher Salary At 'The View' - 'She Got Me Paid'
Pay transparency among peers has helped many people to better negotiate their salaries.
8358 - On my timeline.... A homeless person who lives in their car being told to be positive and just be patient. A disabled person being called selfish because she complained about being in poverty and J...
10650 - Windspeaker.com: "“I would go into the woods and…" - disabled.social
“I would go into the woods and I would find trees and I'd sit there and I'd just tell them everything that was going on in my home… And the trees just always listened and accepted and were completely still. And then when I was done, they would rumble. And I felt like I had real communication with them as a kid.”
#Indigenous #theatre #Vancouver #InnerElder
https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/michelle-thrushs-inner-elder-brings-laughter-spirit-and-survival-stage
10946 - Hard Truths - Q+A
The mother of the arrested boy asked: Since a video was released of my son being kicked to the ground by police, a lot of men from my community have come up to me to say this has happened to them too. There have been numerous recommendations still not addressed from the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and over 400 further deaths since. Why haven't adequate Juvenile Justice preventative interventions YET occurred so that the police culture and attitude changes towards o...
11753 - The island where locals say data centres are taking their water
There were about 300 of them, all residents on the Indonesian island of Batam, and they were furious that the taps at home had run dry, while the data centres in the new Nongsa Digital Park seemed to have enough water to protect their machines from overheating.
"Not a single drop has come through our taps for the last three months... Our water supply had been reliable until the data centres came," Dewi Susanti, one of the protesters, told the BBC.
