🙌 The Curious Shapes collective will host my dear @mariannedh.bsky.social with Tawanda Mugari to talk hope, resistance and the absurdity of authoritarianism. You can expect a lot of community care and humor ♥️ 📅 👩🏻‍💻Online - Dec 4th. Learn more and register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/learning-r...

I’ve come across another call for submissions of fiction + tech and it is once again sci-fi inclined. I’d love to see one that’s open to talk about the here and now as well as the recent past. There’s a lot of stories to tell in the world we already know.

"Resistir y decidir" es un archivo de estrategias de protección digital dirigidas a proteger derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Hay planes, manuales y estrategias y cubren comprensión, prevención y respuesta a eventuales ataques. resistir.digitaldefenders.org #Ciberseguridad #Derechos

"What happens when systems designed to control and monitor an entire country’s internet are offered to the highest bidder?" Comments and analysis reading between the lines of the latest IntersecLab report: interseclab.org/can-mass-sur...

With the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, we're diving once again into endless debates about her political position - with media calling her "far-right" or "radical right."

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I had one of those difficult conversations on Venezuela with my dear @ayoub.bsky.social in @thefirethesetimes.com. I deeply appreciated having a welcoming space for such a complicated conversation and being able to keep calling attention to what is going on. thefirethesetimes.com/2025/06/10/a...

De la Flottille de la liberté à la Marche mondiale vers Gaza, ce sont les sociétés, et au premier chef leurs jeunesses, qui sauvent les principes bafoués par les États face au martyre du peuple de Palestine. Sur @mediapart.fr le 2 juin dernier ⤵️

#Americas 🌎 In our monthly roundup we highlight rising repression in #Venezuela and #ElSalvador, alarming authoritarian trends in Peru, and the #Colombia's anniversary of impunity with the case of Jineth Bedoya. ifex.org/rising-repre...

#Venezuela 🇻🇪 IFEX joins human rights organisations and regional bodies in urgently calling for the immediate release of Eduardo Torres — a lawyer, unionist and member of PROVEA who is currently detained, isolated, and incommunicado, despite being under IACHR protection measures. buff.ly/q4ucBJ7

An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. cpj.org/donate #JournalismMatters

The genocide in Gaza is only profitable to the Israelis if other governments participate in it. That is a decision that these governments make, a decision to directly profit off the genocide of Palestinians. They can be pressured to stop.

On this #WPFD2025 I’m sharing a rare moment of hope I had when working with IFEX on this profile of Comprova — a powerful reminder that getting out of this mess we’re in won’t happen if we work alone. It takes networks. It takes trust. It takes collaboration. ifex.org/fighting-ai-...

🚨 REMINDER – Our webinar is coming up this Wednesday (yes, 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮 this week! 🗓️) Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social from Who Targets Me @whotargets.me will walk us through how political ads are tracked in real-time – and what we can learn from them. Don’t miss out – register now! 👇

March 2020 3/ #Venezuela and the Right to Narrate w/ @elevidalbe.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/35177339

“...this all might be the beginning of a process that leads to genuine “liberation days” for other countries, but not the US itself. There is pain ahead, but also a sort of independence […] there might finally be a recognition that the US’s definition of peace and prosperity was always its own...”

I was interviewed recently about #activism and, as always, in trying not to say too much, I ended up saying too little. So here’s a thread with the ideas that didn’t make it into the conversation but are still on my mind.

In our latest #FreedomOfExpression round-up from the #Americas @ifex.org 🌎 we highlight how civil society is increasingly targeted across the region, while women continue to lead resistance efforts in the face of censorship, persecution, and authoritarianism. ifex.org/across-the-a...

Une grève de deux jours a démarré, lundi 31 mars, dans l’audiovisuel public, Radio France et France Télévisions en tête, pour protester contre le projet gouvernemental de holding commune, avant le début de son examen à l’Assemblée nationale. www.lemonde.fr/economie-fra...

Toda la gente siria que conozco estalla de alegría y alivio ante cada pequeña buena noticia que llega. Ante cada muestra de unión, cada acuerdo, cada gesto de reconciliación. Hartos de muerte y de humillaciones. Un pueblo que quiere VIVIR. #Siria

Last week Georgia marked 100 days of protests - but the country and its people have been on the streets for much longer in the last four years. Here is an overview for @globalvoices.org and thanks to excellent reporting by @ocmedia.bsky.social globalvoices.org/2025/03/12/g...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

¡Estamos EN VIVO 🔴! Únete a la conversación y ve la presentación de nuestro informe “El Estado de la vigilancia”, un trabajo de documentación sobre los abusos de la tecnología de vigilancia en México: www.youtube.com/live/nvIeIKC...

Hello 👋 💙 PEN Canada is on Bluesky! We fight censorship, campaign for the freedom of imperiled and imprisoned writers and journalists, and help writers who live in exile because of their written work. As part of an international network of writers, find more PEN centres here ⤵️ go.bsky.app/MhL7yQC

📢 ¡Ya estamos en Bluesky! Síguenos y defiende con nosotrxs la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la información en México y Centroamérica. ✊ 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇭🇳🇨🇺🇸🇻🇳🇮

#Venezuela 🇻🇪 Derechos Digitales reports on digital resilience strategies amid a collapsed media landscape and unreliable internet. (In Spanish)

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

Authoritarian regimes have long understood the power of cross-border collaboration—they coordinate strategies and extend repression beyond borders. We should be taking note. Diasporic communities are not just in exile—they are key actors in a smarter, more connected human rights defense strategy.

La nueva edición de la extraordinaria revista de la FLIP lanza un análisis profundo y urgente sobre la situación de la prensa en #Colombia en medio de las nuevas evoluciones de la guerra. flip.org.co/publicacione...

A new episode of HRW's Rights & Wrongs podcast traces the history of sportswashing from the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany to Saudi Arabia’s hosting of the World Cup. Listen now 🔊 Spotify: spoti.fi/3UmP1BQ Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4bghhgA

A highlight of 2024: Researching on 2023 #Shutdowns in #Senegal and their impact on 'Society, the Economy & Trust in Democracy'. It illustrated how close we are in terms of challenges in both #Venezuela and #LatinAmerica and how little we communicate with one another. internews.org/resource/the...

#Global 🌍: Updated research by @freedomhouse.bsky.social documents 160 cases of physical transnational repression in 2024, with #Uganda, #Cambodia, #Russia, #Iran, and #China as the worst perpetrators.

January’s toll on press freedom was high: Journalists killed in Mexico, Colombia and Peru. Venezuela escalates repression. A rare win in Guatemala: José Rubén Zamora granted house arrest. Civil society keeps fighting. ifex.org/journalists-...

“Women artists, much like the women protesters who marched with the slogan ‘bread, work, freedom,’ demand dignity and equality for all, and play a vital role in shaping this grassroots movement.” hrw.org/news/2024/12...

Fernanda Torres, para Vogue www.vogue.com/article/fern...

Loved this discussion with @abeba.bsky.social on the complexities behind researching AI (for real) and the dark and useless hole that comes from datafying the human condition and making it a problem to solve (among many other fascinating things). open.spotify.com/episode/2Scs...

Been thinking a lot about AI, language justice, and precarious communication work. Some people avoid AI on principle, but the reality is more complex. AI is deeply extractive, but it has also allowed some people/orgs to participate—translating/creating in different languages, apply for jobs

"Vance’s remarks signaled that his first trip to Europe would advance the Trump administration’s “America First” approach to foreign policy, promoting U.S. industrial interests over relationships with allies." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

#Ecuador 🇪🇨: @rsf-interfr.bsky.social calls for whoever heads next government to make violence against journalists their top priority: https://buff.ly/40LKV9K

Freedom fries are gonna make a comeback you'll see

A new report (in Spanish) from @r3d.mx analizes the latest trends in #surveillance in Mexico. The conclusion goes back to their previous work on the issue: it's out of control r3d.mx/wp-content/u...

Long's account on Bluesky is no longer active, presumably part of a broader lockdown of her public profile to deal with the completely predictable harassment and threats that Musk engineered.

Wherever #Ecuador goes after this second round, it would be impossible to push out of the rut without dealing with the rising violence against journalists. 229 assaults in 2024, 31% targeting women. Over half of them perpetrated by state actors. ifex.org/es/ecuador-g...

“I was too quick to dismiss warning signs, believing that they wouldn’t come after a journalist... I now realize that personal safety is a matter for you as an individual.” I spoke to @ijnet about being targeted by the far-right and how I protect myself from attacks. ijnet.org/en/story/how...

🇻🇪Venezuelan authorities must release Carlos Correa, the director of NGO Espacio Público According to witnesses, Correa was intercepted on Tuesday afternoon in Caracas, #Venezuela by hooded officials. His whereabouts have been unknown since 5pm. #LiberenACarlosCorrea

Carlos Correa habría sido interceptado la tarde de ayer en el centro de Caracas, Venezuela por presuntos funcionarios encapuchados. Se desconoce su paradero #LiberenACarlosCorrea

Eager to see this discussion. I have the feeling that many international SCOs and activists push for people and orgs to leave those platforms (and here I also mean the move from X to Bluesky). For orgs in Latin America and the Caribbean that's quite a complicated move to make.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately

"As 2024 ends: Violence in #Haiti 🇭🇹 new freedom of expression frontlines in Venezuela 🇻🇪 the US 🇺🇸 and Cuba 🇨🇺" ifex.org/as-2024-ends...

La org @freepressunltd.bsky.social y la UNAM están investigando los impactos del trabajo periodístico en la #SaludMental de periodistas en #AméricaLatina. Participe haciendo el test y obtenga una valoración de sus resultados: encuestaperiodistas.org