Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

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“You have no enemies? How can that be? Did you never tell the truth or stand up for justice?” - Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine

“Every spectator is either a coward or a traitor." - Frantz Fanon

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” - Albert Einstein

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little” - Roosevelt

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” —Gustavo Petro

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.” - Noam Chomsky

“There’s only justice or bigotry” - Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

"You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules." - Bob Marley

American governance, both within and outside America does what’s best for profit, and not what’s best for people

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral” - Paulo Freire

We don’t need more people thinking about justice, we need more people acting

What is freedom? Free healthcare, free education, free transportation, public green spaces. Everyone’s freedom for which I am willing to sacrifice

“We must choose either champagne for a few or safe drinking water for all.” ~ Thomas Sankara

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children - Nelson Mandela

“In autocracies mass mobilization is sometimes the only way to express dissent” - Erica Chenoweth

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”- James Baldwin

What you do to promote children’s rights, you are doing for yourself, as well

“People were in prison so that prices could be free” - Eduardo Galeano

Those in power have gaslit us into thinking that children’s rights are controversial. We must change the narrative by amplifying children’s voices to tackle the power

“What if we defined the economy as the way we take care of one another. Since that’s what it ultimately is. What would economic indicators then look like?” - David Graeber

The rights of children are at odds with the goals of private industry

If the UN fails to get aid into Gaza, they have either lost their international legitimacy to the US/Israeli war machine, or they are willfully complicit in genocide

As a global community, the children are our responsibility, all of them

Powerful statement from @civilrightsorg.bsky.social. "This overreach is another beta test for nationwide authoritarian control. All Americans should recognize that this must be challenged, or they risk their own rights and local control."

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1. Fact: In their own words, Israel is committing genocide November 2023. youtu.be/Eep8n7J_a7I?... Genocide defn. (Wikipedia): the concerted, coordinated effort to destroy any human group or collectivity as it is defined by the perpetrator

Healthcare cannot be run as a business. Full article in comments

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“Even before they were burned by Trump, many in the NTD community agreed the distribution of drugs should not be so dependent on a single donor. They favor a model where NTD control becomes part of a country’s regular health system” www.science.org/content/arti...

Imagine how much more effective Western labour unions would be if they coordinated actions with workers in the global South who are inserted into their supply chains and who provide so much of the labour that ends up in Western output.

In the 1960's there was just one billionaire. Now there are over 3500. This is because the rich no longer pay tax.

There is no better metaphor for the farce that is the American political system right now than the emperor in his new clothes

“In autocracies… mass mobilization is often the only method through which people can express dissent” - @chenoweth.bsky.social in Civil Disobedience is rent free in my head at the moment.

The problems with global health governance, and global governance in general have been clearly outlined, but hypernormalization stops us from moving. What keeps us accepting the status quo, and how do we make the necessary change?

I worry that people are only gonna protest until they get what they need, then go back to sleep. But I’d rather them be in a place where we can show them why sustained resistance matters than rebuff them because we’re tired, even if rightly so. Sometimes, you gotta pick your battles. This is one.

Looking for recommendations on a global south global health journal to submit an opinion piece on health and human rights… babies were dying even before the USAID cuts