he said, Wales might find the “United Kingdom has changed so radically that its component parts” may find “they will be better off elsewhere”. “From a Welsh point of view, this could lead to the worst of all possible outcomes – not one in which the people of Wales choose to leave the United Kingdom, but in which the United Kingdom has left Wales.”
Is more the theme of the article text.
israel continuing as cowardly jerks, a cautionary tale.
while iran takes lead of history, setting an example for others to iterate upon.
is this intended as a direct translation? there are too few characters to translate to 2 paragraphs in any language.
I OCRed the pic into the arabic text:
إسرائيل أولاً
وزارة الخارجية اللبنانية
which translates to
Israel First
Lebanese Foreign Ministry
Perhaps some cultural interpretation is added to these paragraphs. The brief message makes more sense to me with all the additional provided info.
They should be able to suggest ways to make things accessible to them, like as above examples.
I have worked with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. The idea of being 100% unable to attend any meeting, ever, is implausible. Someone who smacks down such a proposal without trying to work it out is abusing good will.
I don’t think the people making such claims will enjoy what the “justice” system has in store for them.
Like at all?? Wow.
Maybe get a decent Bluetooth speaker phone thingy? Get your own or the org can pay, which is mote than justified as a cost of accomidation to avoid ablism. The people who can’t or dont want to attend in person can participate remotely that way, same as they do now. Since the tech has become available and normalized I have attended various events set up that way. Need to practice using it before rolling out, and start with a committee or something small to work out technical issues.
Then make it so attending the meeting in person has social benefit like pre and post chit chat, maybe hangout or food sometimes. Make a pan of brownies to share. Or shoplift cheese and dates. the informal waiting around time is important as well as business. (Unless your meetings are extremely meandering.) Those who attend in person will have more coherency due to being physically present with each other. Which will incentivise attendance.
Depending on your organizational context, could possibly try to work around the ablism by supporting people to attend if possible such as organizing transportation either by carpooling or paying cab fare for people who truely cannot make it otherwise. (Just an example.) A hardship travel fund.
Another strategy is to rotate the meeting location around rather than defaulting to somewhere “central” which typically favors those who live in the city. The downtown people then need to have some commitment to occasionally going “far away” to a suburb or neighboring town, to share the burden of travel. And finding suitable meeting space can be difficult anywhere. But you learn a lot about your surroundings and create relationships while searching for them.
Idk what kind of group you’re in, where or with whom, so may or may not be exactly applicable. All the above is very doable though. IMO planning meetings is a foundational skill for any organizer/activist/revolutionary individual or group. It is not out of reach for anybody. It always includes some sort of thinking such as the above no matter the context. It is never a matter of just announcing a time and location you feel like and everyone just stops their life to obey. Planning meetings, including logistically difficult ones, is a way to learn about how to think about balancing the conflicting needs of various people, to do things fairly. And practical tasks like securing a venue, communicating to everyone, setting up and tidying after. Depending on your membership these are all things that people may have never done before, in which case they should all learn. They are skills of democracy.
an appropriately dedicated group could probably spin up their own encrypted messaging system?
this is completely unrealistic. Its hard enough to find a few people with whom one has sufficient agreement and trust to organize with. A requirement that one or more of those people being competent enough to write their own encrypted messaging system from scratch? And everyone is able or willing to sideload it on their devices without introducing some other security issue. That isn’t a matter of commitment, it is a matter of luck. The kind of luck which is unevenly distributed through geography, class, gender, race etc.
All that aside from the fact that even if you are organizing in an elite area and this is plausible (if not likely), it does absolutely nothing to address the issue at hand. I just read the linked article, is there another one that indicates a technical problem with signal?
Every comment in this thread proposing technical solutions, it sounds like living in a comic book or something. We should start passing a hat around now for commissary donations to all the hexbears who are about to be locked up because they thought they could outsmart fascism with some clever python or kotlin.
I dont really understand why there is discussion of alternative methods of encoded comms. Any or all of them are equally as “suspicious”.
Do you really think there is any “trick” to evade this prosecutorial attitude? The reblious intentions of the victims can be clearly demonstrated by the actions at the protest. Everything else is just decoration.
Realistically, I find it unlikely that most any group of 5 or 10 or more people would be able to exercise perfect discipline and discretion required for this to work. I also dont know what kind of information would be transmitted this way? Its not like the rosenburgs passing scientific information. Its easier to just have an IRL meeting.
Anybody involved in this stuff has to be aware that there is a 1 in 3000 chance that they will be executed or life made hell indefinitely. Quit smoking/vaping now, it’ll make incarceration easier.
People managed to organize before cell phones. Its called you set a meeting and everyone attends in person as agreed. Discuss IRL and then dont change your plans.
Call phones have really lowered the general ability of anybody to commit to anything. Before SMS became prevelant you could set social or political meetings weeks in advance. Like July 16 at 2pm, in the park. I’ll bring ___, you’ll research ___,whatever other tasks. And everyone just plan for that. Maybe confirm the night before with a phone call (also planned in advance). Now everything requires 50 text messages to nail people down.
If only they had added an Atlantic author to their group chat like Pete hegseth it would have been all kosher.
You’ve forgotten that this whole thing is part of gods’ plan. So that can provide strength of will, to pursue illogical plans.
Maybe Israel thinks they can discepline USA more than Iran can. Maybe they will start assassinating politicians, celebrities and other high profile people to assert themselves.
Evil + evil = good
Restrict travel funding? They are threatening to 75% ground him?
They said they didn’t want to eat the bugs.
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Blaming their problems of shit infrastructure on RUSSIA.