’On June 8, 2022, two days after the government announcement, dozens of police, military personnel, and game rangers arrived in Loliondo to demarcate the proposed game reserve. Over several days, the security forces arbitrarily arrested and detained 10 community leaders and fired teargas and rubber bullets at protesters and bystanders, injuring at least 30, including women, children, and older people.
Witnesses said police took from his home an 84-year-old man who has not been seen since. Security forces also destroyed residents’ property and shot and killed livestock. Up to 2,000 residents from various villages across Loliondo fled to seek refuge and medical treatment in neighboring Kenya.
The authorities also arbitrarily arrested and detained a human rights defender and a community member who had shared photos and videos of the violence and its aftermath on social media.
Since then, security forces have continued to commit abuses against Loliondo residents, with victims and witnesses recounting several instances of rape and other sexual violence, nightly raids, and shootings into homes. Residents said game rangers, who are under the authority of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, have confiscated livestock that had roamed into the demarcated game reserve, initially extorting exorbitant fees to return them and later auctioning them off.
The government contends that blocking access to the area is necessary to protect “the ecological integrity of the entire Great Serengeti,” the area of northern Tanzania involved, and announced that it was “investing in improving pasture grounds, markets for livestock and investment products, plus the provision of drinking water for both people and livestock.” In June 2022, the Natural Resources and Tourism Ministry stated that there are “no settlements” in the area and “therefore there is no eviction.”’
Not having children is the only way to end capitalism and fix the cost of living and housing crisis
It's the only way to break the system. Politicians will do nothing to fix the problems. Most people can't protest due to being unable to go long without income. Rioting will have a riot squad sent after you. However, having children? There's nothing the government can do to force you to have children, and it even saves you time and money and improves your quality of life (in first world countries).
# Why is not having children important?
By having children, we are just fueling the system and keeping it alive. Why would capitalists ever do anything if their population keeps growing and they keep getting richer?
Capitalism relies on constant population growth to fuel economic growth. Without population growth, economies would stagnant or fall. A study found that an annual population decrease of 0.5% would cause a population to stagnate. Larger decreases would result in economic decline. They also found that GDP per capita rises as population declines and that in the long-run, GDP per capita would rise to 7.4 times the values from January 2020 if population declined by 1% annually. This would solve the cost of living crisis.
Population decline would also solve the housing crisis because a constant supply of housing would enter the market from people dying. Housing supply would eventually exceed demand, making housing affordable.
Employers would also need to treat employees better because people will keep becoming scarcer, which causes people to become less replaceable and more valuable. As more people die, more vacancies open, giving people more options to where they work. Also, with GDP per capita increasing to 7.3 times Jan 2020 levels, people will have far more money. This means that work becomes much more optional. This changes the dynamic to employees being in power. Don't like your job? Just quit. This forces companies to compete to attract workers. Those that fail to adapt will eventually go out of business.
Governments are also placed into a situation where they are forced to fix population decline. They only have 2 options:
Fix population decline, or
Go extinct and have the economy crash
I assume they would take the 1st option since even the countries with the lowest fertility rates, e.g. South Korea and Japan, are trying to fix their population decline. This means addressing the root causes, such as poor work life balance, high cost of living, and etc. They have tried throwing money at the problem and found that it's failing completely.
Finally, the environment would be better since a smaller population means lower consumption and hence impact on the environment.
# How close are we to population decline?
Actually, not that far. There are several projections for world population. Most of them show the decline starting in 2050-2060. The 2022 UN projection shows 2100 but more recent fertility rate data shows fertility rates have fallen much faster than the UN predicted, so the UN low variant projection is likely more accurate.
However, there's a large detail that these projections don't show: almost all future population growth comes from undeveloped countries, particularly Africa. For example, the UN mentioned that "Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are
A report suggests Indigenous women are 32 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of domestic violence than non-Indigenous women.
⚫️Una persona desahuciada hace nueve meses en Móstoles muere mientras seguía viviendo en la calle
Su fallecimiento lo ha denunciado Stop Desahucios Móstoles, la asamblea de vivienda a la que pertenecía y le acompañaba en el proceso de conseguir una vivienda pública, siendo una persona vulnerable y enferma.
Por Susana Albarrán en El Salto Madrid
Foto David F. Sabadell
⚫️A person evicted nine months ago in Móstoles dies while continuing to live on the street
His death has been reported by Stop Desahucios Móstoles, the housing assembly to which he belonged and which accompanied him in the process of obtaining public housing, being a vulnerable and sick person.
By Susana Albarrán in El Salto Madrid
Photo David F. Sabadell
Fascist cooperation: France deports Kurdish activist to Turkey
The cooperation between France and Turkey is sickening. Mehmet Kopal, a Kurdish activist arrested in March last year during a demonstration in Strasbourg, was deported to Turkey where he was humiliatingly presented to the media by the AKP-MHP regime
"Iran: Education International demands the unconditional release of teacher unionists"
"Education International is a global union federation (GUF) of teachers' trade unions with 383 member organizations representing more than 32 million teachers and education support personnel in 178 countries and territories.
Shared via the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers' Trade Associations, teachers' union in Iran.
70-year-old human rights activist Oleg Orlov being escorted out of court by masked cops today. He’s headed for 2.5 years in prison for writing in an op-ed that the Putin regime has adopted fascism. I wonder who in the crowd will be the next on trial.
