A conservationist campaign wants to give nature the right to exist. It aims to make ecocide a crime and recognize the legal personhood of natural entities. It hopes to create a new relationship between humans and nature.

#righttoexist #ecocide #naturepersonhood

https://www.politico.eu/article/right-to-exist-conservationist-campaign-give-nature-legal-status/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

"Communities created by unhoused people can be places for revolutionary dreaming, rad mutual aid projects, and sites to mobilize political resistance to the criminalization of extreme poverty. Government-run encampments take away what can be empowering about living in an encampment by turning the encampment into a “service.” The institutionalization of encampments reinforces the carceral logic that unhoused people and poor people can only legally exist within a system that is designed to reform them, even if the only difference between being in the system and on the streets is whether it’s your tent or a tent issued by the city. Institutionalization also completely alienates the sense of community that characterizes most encampments on the streets; since the advent of contemporary homelessness in the early 80’s, people have banded together in community with friends and allies to protect themselves, their belongings, and each other. It is a natural form of survival and togetherness in lives that are way too often dangerous and incredibly isolated."

https://wraphome.org/2021/07/14/conceal-criminalize-capitalize-how-government-sanctioned-tent-cities-promote-the-criminalization-of-homelessness-under-the-guise-of-service/

#Homeless #Houseless #RentStrike #RightToRest #RightToExist #HousingJustice #MutualAid

These outrageous acts of socioeconomic cleansing (see thread linked below) give the lie to all the mendacious claims that evictions of poor people’s encampments are about public health, safety, or “environmental impacts”. Even those that are exemplary models of minimizing those impacts are being evicted all over the country to appease landlords and upper-middle-income gentrifiers who have many times more detrimental effects on the local community and global ecology.

This is not about public safety, the environment, or even “quality of life”. It’s about maintaining extortionate housing prices and propping up the system of rentier capitalism by comprehensively criminalizing the mere act of existing anywhere, in any way whatsoever, without paying the banks and landlords their monthly pounds of flesh and engaging in the consumer economy at a level that the wealthy consider “respectable”.

There is simply no conceivable moral justification for this legalized neo-feudal protection racket, where if you don’t keep making skyrocketing extortion payments every month, the landlord / “property investor” class sends a band of sadistic psychopaths with guns to rob you of your belongings and displace you from your home by violent force.

This is happening practically everywhere and every day across the entire USA. And it’s not going to stop until people of conscience start organizing in large numbers to say, “No more! We won’t be forced to pay rent to live on the earth where we were born!” Every time these thugs show up for another round of evictions against the most marginalized people in this country, they need to start finding themselves faced with overwhelming resistance, including support for elements willing to engage in vigorous, forceful self-defense if necessary. That’s the only way we’re going to keep these crimes against humanity from continuing to accelerate.

This is, for me, on an equal footing with the climate and ecological emergency as the most urgent domestic problem in the US today, and it is inextricably intertwined with all the others. If we have no right to exist (and no, something we have to purchase is not a right - it’s a commodity), then none of our other rights count for a goddamn thing. This country’s unhoused people are on the front lines of one of the most crucial and urgent social justice struggles of our time, and need a hell of a lot more solidarity than they’re currently getting. Let’s all step up!

https://social.coop/@mlncn/110436188668525614

#Housing #HousingJustice #SocialHousing #Homeless #Houseless #Unhoused #RentStrike #RightToExist #PropertyIsTheft #Capitalism #SimpleLiving #Police #Minneapolis #Minnesota

@photocyte if #Minnesota can do the #RightToRepair maybe we can get a #RightToExist WHILE we pull scrap out of dumpsters and repair it.

https://urbanists.social/@nearnorth/110424611946855522

@Aaidanbird

I'll add to this with some important information:

Look under Transgender in my Deconstructing Biases article for all the articles and studies that back up these points: https://reshapingreality.org/2019/04/28/11532/

1. No one knows their chromosome make-up without being tested. And even then there are multiple ways chromosomes can interact with other genes and primary and secondary sex characteristics to make up our gender in unique ways. There are up to six chromosome pairs, so no, there's not even a strict gender binary. Biology is too fuzzy and complicated for that.

2. Determining where people are allowed to exist based on chromosomes and genitals is a form of oppression and violates bodily autonomy and right to exist at all. It segregates and harms, placing a group of people in a lower category than other groups.

3. Trans people have existed throughout time and space. Multiple cultures through all of history have had more than three genders recognized in their society. It is only due to brutal colonization by Western Europe that forced a Christianized view of sex binary on the world to try to eliminate that cultural attributes from other societies.

4. If we cede the rights of trans people to the fascists, then we are no better than the fascists. We have given up a group of people to death and harm all because some people have "mixed feelings" about my existence as a trans person. That will not win the fight against fascism. That literally AIDS fascism. Stop making our bodies a debate, and stop acting like we must legislate and create harmful laws and norms on where and if I can exist in certain spaces -- that is falling for fascism and then trying to justify it as a 'liberal concern' in a twisted use of social justice language.

WE SHOULD NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND IN OUR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.

If we do, then we have ceded our morals and ethics to fascism.

There was an excellent post if I can find it again that was a parable.

In the parable, one man who wished to kill one hundred people claimed to offer a compromise to the person who wished for no one to be killed.

What was the compromise? The killer would only kill fifty people.

But that's not a compromise. That requires the person who wants no one to die to compromise their entire morals, position, existence, while the one who wishes to kill people compromises very little.

Stop compromising the lives of people as if we are just chess pieces!

We deserve life.
We deserve care.
We deserve the right to exist in public that align with our gender identity.
We deserve the right to healthcare.
We deserve freedom and love just like any other person.

#TransYouth #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Transgender #Trans #RightToExist #BodilyAutonomy #Gender

#FollowbackFriday Evening Edition
Let's follow each other tonight 😘
Okay, I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams, my friends. 😴 #JamesBaldwin #Quote #Love #Respect #Oppression #Humanity #RightToExist #RespectfulDisagreement

#EducationForAll #WomenRightsAreHumanRights #EducateGirls #AfghanWomen #FundamentalistOppression
Remember women fighting for their #autonomy & #RightToExist
In Iran, as well
#WomenLifeFreedom

https://faisal.substack.com/p/fighting-for-girls-education-no-matter-what?s=09