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#Dictators do not respect #law , #borders , #privacy or opinions that are not theirs.
#Dictators do not respect #law , #borders , #privacy or opinions that are not theirs.
joene 🏴🍉
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How to be a modern autocrat. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
How to be a modern autocrat. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
I feared this day would come:
Trump puts human rights organisations on sanctions list and forces YouTube to delete their accounts, thereby erasing 700 videos documenting Israeli war crimes.
As a political commentator on YouTube, this news is profoundly troubling for me. And yes, I clearly need a plan B.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/
@randahl then the question is, do we have an #European version of #youtube that won't bend for #dictators will?
Billy Smith
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The Alberta #UCP has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to shield themselves from legal consequences.
A summary of the act:
Here are the 20 key takeaways from Alberta’s 2025 Back to School Act (Bill 2) — the highlights that matter most for understanding what this law does:
• Ends the Alberta teachers’ strike that began Oct 6, 2025, and the lockout by TEBA that began Oct 9, 2025.
• Forces all teachers back to work immediately — strike must end at once.
• Forces TEBA and school boards to end any lockout immediately.
• Makes it illegal to strike or lock out at all going forward for the duration of the Act.
• Imposes a mandatory collective agreement — teachers do not get to vote on ratification.
• The agreement is retroactive to Sept 1, 2024 and will run until Aug 31, 2028.
• The terms are taken from the recommended bargaining proposal signed Sept 23, 2025.
• The Act applies to all Alberta teachers, school boards, the ATA, and TEBA.
• The Act overrides the Canadian Charter (sections 2 & 7–15), the Alberta Bill of Rights, and the AB Human Rights Act via notwithstanding clause.
• It explicitly blocks any court or tribunal from challenging its constitutionality. Judges and arbitrators are not allowed to even look at it.
• Anyone violating the strike/lockout ban faces fines up to $500 (individuals) or $500,000 (organizations) per day.
• The Labour Relations Board is given full enforcement power to police and punish.
• No one can sue the government or seek damages of any kind for anything done under this Act — past, present or future.
• Teachers’ salary grids will get 3% increases in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027
• Substitute teachers’ daily rate rises to $271/day Sept 1 2025, then increases further in later years.
• 1000 new teachers per year will be hired province-wide in 2025–26, 2026–27, and 2027–28 to address classroom complexity.
• Northern & remote allowances are created — up to $6,300 per year depending on school location.
• Government also commits to hiring 1500 new Educational Assistants by Aug 31 2028.
• Teachers retain access to COVID-19 vaccinations at no cost, facilitated by the government.
• The entire Act automatically repeals on Aug 31 2028, unless ended earlier by the government
[the repeal is notably *after* the next scheduled election… we need to make sure this government doesn’t make it that far
The Alberta #UCP has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to shield themselves from legal consequences.
A summary of the act:
Here are the 20 key takeaways from Alberta’s 2025 Back to School Act (Bill 2) — the highlights that matter most for understanding what this law does:
• Ends the Alberta teachers’ strike that began Oct 6, 2025, and the lockout by TEBA that began Oct 9, 2025.
• Forces all teachers back to work immediately — strike must end at once.
• Forces TEBA and school boards to end any lockout immediately.
Federico Mena Quintero
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#Songs that you would recommend for the big global party - when Trump or Netanyahu or Putin or Xi or Modi - drops dead.
Drop the track name or video or song link, here.
Thanks for helping to create the hooray, the #dictators are dead!, party #music #playlist.
All music genres, welcomed.
*This thread will stay alive until one or more of the above listed dictators, drops dead. I added Modi too.*
#Songs that you would recommend for the big global party - when Trump or Netanyahu or Putin or Xi or Modi - drops dead.
Drop the track name or video or song link, here.
Thanks for helping to create the hooray, the #dictators are dead!, party #music #playlist.
All music genres, welcomed.
*This thread will stay alive until one or more of the above listed dictators, drops dead. I added Modi too.*