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Here's a long thread with evidence about why the @RSPOtweets has failed to make any difference with key sustainability promises incl. stopping #deforestation #indigenous #landgrabbing #ecocide #slavery #humanrights abuses for supermarket brands. 1/7 palmoildetectives.com/2021/08/23/why…
Source: @EIA_News @RSPOtweets members using so-called "sustainable" #palmoil continue with #deforestation #ecocide #illegal #landgrabbing from #Indigenous peoples.
Thus the certification is a #greenwashing con. @EIA_News #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife eia-international.org/news/palm-oil-…
Thus the certification is a #greenwashing con. @EIA_News #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife eia-international.org/news/palm-oil-…
The certification of #palmoil is considered to be a con by @GreenpeaceUK as it doesn't stop #ecocide #deforestation. Certified "sustainable" #palmoil doesn't exist #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
“The fear of not knowing who will be taken next, my friends have been abducted, my partner has been abducted, I think I am fortunate that I got out when I could,” @drstellanyanzi
nairobinews.nation.co.ke/general/nyanzi… #StellaNyanzi
nairobinews.nation.co.ke/general/nyanzi… #StellaNyanzi
“I am in Kenya because Ugandans in the opposition who have criticized the government of Yoweri Museveni are getting abducted every day from the streets, from their homes, from their beds..." #StellaNyanzi
Pay attention to the exile of Dr. Stella Nyanzi - she is one of the most important feminists of our time.
She personifies the political power of profanity. The #Ugandan dictator jailed her for it. And now is in exile.
Listen
npr.org/2020/10/28/928…
She personifies the political power of profanity. The #Ugandan dictator jailed her for it. And now is in exile.
Listen
npr.org/2020/10/28/928…
Sending love and solidarity to feminist scholar and activist @drstellanyanzi:
#Ugandan Activist Stella Nyanzi Seeks Refuge in Kenya okayafrica.com/stella-nyanzi-… h/t @fulelo
#Ugandan Activist Stella Nyanzi Seeks Refuge in Kenya okayafrica.com/stella-nyanzi-… h/t @fulelo
“The abductions and detentions of political actors were getting closer to me; my children have been targets of police trailing. I just left prison in February last year and I don’t want to go back,” Dr Stella Nyanzi theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-…
Stella Nyanzi is a revolutionary. I devote much of my chapter on the political importance of profanity to her. Her feminist fight for liberation from the 30+ years of the Museveni dictatorship in Uganda has inspired us all over the world lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
One of the weaknesses of collective action in #Ugandan elections is how, reflecting the weakness of political parties, the dynamic MP races overshadow the presidential race and its peculiarities as all parties endorse the result of MP races but contest that of president.
Even now, after a particularly violent pre-election period FDC and even NUP are reporting wins and losses for their MP candidates while attempting to separate this process from that of the election of president as a political reality and statistical question.
FDC has asked how YK Museveni can lose some of his trusted lieutenants but win in the same constituencies with reportedly wide margins. This argument however is not extended to the legality of opposition wins in the same areas.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is one of the most important feminists of our time. She personifies the political power of profanity. The #Ugandan dictator jailed her for it. Listen to this great episode of @Roughly with @eyderp h/t @Nanjala1 #RadicalRudeness npr.org/2020/10/28/928…
And then watch and listen to the conversation the two of us had for @akefestival on 'Why Africa Needs Feminist Giants' with @aishasalaudeen and @msafropolitan. #AkeFest2020 #AkeFestOnline
I devote the bulk of the chapter on Profanity in The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls on Dr. Stella Nyanzi. She is a master at its political use! I explain why in this thread I wrote when she was released in February.
Small Thread| I will miss Nasser Ntege Ssebagala. They don't make them like that anymore. Just this week I was starting to write about the contradiction he embodied in relation to the debate about "academic papers" and qualifications btn supporters of Bobi Wine and YK Museveni
If there are two forces competing for moral and material space in the life of a #Ugandan it is the struggle to "buy a plot of land and build a house" alongside the busy activity involving the acquisition of "more papers", degrees, diplomas and certificates.
Combined as a singular ambition, they dominate entire lifetimes. The pursuit of plots of land and fresh papers for the latest profession ( there are many in my area of study #oil) set the upper limits of success. Then there is the Old School of Seya and the Hustler Club.
As we come to terms with the reality that community spread is probably on-going ( and look to what additional measures the government will announce when @KagutaMuseveni addresses the nation again) here are some thoughts on the health crisis and the economic one ( a thread)
Churches and other places of worship will be closed next week according to proposals for enhanced #COVID19 measures by the #Ugandan government. This follows a cabinet season on Monday. Uganda will hold labor exports to the #UAE and other places (contd)
And will likely announce national closure of all schools ( both day and boarding) following Kenya which has done the same. In addition public meetings will be banned and returning citizens will be put in government quarantine facilities.
A full ban on travel to and from Category A countries like France, Italy and the United States will also be imposed. A partial ban currently exists. It is not yet clear what the ban means for buses and other mass transit options.
Dr. STELLA NYANZI IS FREE!
This is a great day for feminists everywhere, pan-African feminists and feminists around the world! A High Court quashed her conviction and sentencing. She has been in prison for a poem deemed “cyber harassment” about #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni
This is a great day for feminists everywhere, pan-African feminists and feminists around the world! A High Court quashed her conviction and sentencing. She has been in prison for a poem deemed “cyber harassment” about #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni
In August 2019, the feminist scholar, activist and poet was sentenced to 18 months in prison for writing a poem wishing that Museveni’s mother’s birth canal had poisoned him during birth. Read the poem @drstellanyanzi wrote from prison and #BeBoldLikeNyanzi
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is one of my heroes. Her insistence on profanity in the face of patriarchy and dictatorship - the real profanity, the real offense, the real vulgarity - is legendary.
Fuck the patriarchy, everywhere. Fuck dictatorship, everywhere.
Fuck the patriarchy, everywhere. Fuck dictatorship, everywhere.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is one of my heroes. I write about her in the chapter on Profanity in my book #7NecessarySins. Thank you @RosebellK for telling me about her collection of poems from prison, where she is serving a sentence for a poem that offended the #Ugandan dictator.
Here is an extract from my chapter on Profanity that features Dr. Stella Nyanzi - a feminist hero for the world lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-… #7NecessarySins
Nyanzi is a force who strategically uses profanity to take aim at patriarchy on behalf of those most harmed by it.
#BREAKING NEWS!!!
@unhcr #UNHCR
According to research by the weekly magazine "@sternde", employees of the @UN refugee agency @Refugees were able to enable #Africans to move to the #West in exchange for #cash payments. Among other things,
@unhcr #UNHCR
According to research by the weekly magazine "@sternde", employees of the @UN refugee agency @Refugees were able to enable #Africans to move to the #West in exchange for #cash payments. Among other things,
the #employees issued false #papers with which the #Africans made it onto the coveted lists of the so-called "resettlement" program.
Several western states, including #Germany, offer refugees who are particularly worthy of #protection a secure future in their country. Above all,
Several western states, including #Germany, offer refugees who are particularly worthy of #protection a secure future in their country. Above all,
people who are at risk of #disease and #persecution should benefit from this.However, since there are currently only 50,000 to 60,000 such resettlements per year worldwide, the chances of getting one of the places are negligible.
When white men whine and complain, investigations are swift: Does the ABC investigate when right wing extremists and fascist panelists upset viewers? Like Steve Bannon or Blair’s Cottrell? I think I know the answer. about.abc.net.au/statements/abc… #qanda
And when white men whine and complain, ministers are swift to issue statements #qanda #Australia
It’d be brilliant if Paul Fletcher & #Australian govt announced investigation into actual misogynist violence vs women in this country, into racist misogyny that subjects women of colour to multiple forms of violence & oppression,rather than imaginary scenarios of violence vs men
“I want, like you, to steadily & surely offend anything that stands in the way of freedom, liberation, love, justice, truth, humanity. Let me be rude, let me be all these things, if all they are trying to say is that I am free, unbound”
theelephant.info/reflections/20… h/t @miss_mumbz
theelephant.info/reflections/20… h/t @miss_mumbz
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is a #Ugandan feminist and activist who was imprisonments for publishing a metaphorical poem about the birth of President Yoweri Museveni and his mother's vagina. google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.… #FreeStellaNyanzi
*imprisoned
When she shouted “Fuck you. Fuck your. Fuck you!” at her sentencing hearing today, #Ugandan feminist Dr. Stella Nyanzi reminded us: fewer people are as expert as her at disrupting patriarchal authority w/power of her words. She is the star of the Profanity chapter in my new book
Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience. And Stella Nyanzi demolishes “politeness” and “respectability” used as straitjackets against us. She is radically and consciously rude
My new book via @BeaconPressBks begins with profanity. I revel in being deliberately and consciously profane. As I recorded the audiobook, I reveled in every “fuck” I wrote! #WhyISayFuck
At her sentencing for harassing #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, feminist academic & activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi -who appeared via a screen - staged a nude protest & shouted “fuck you fuck you.” She is a revolutionary engaging in the “radical rudeness” of anti-colonial activists
#FF @RosebellK who has been covering Stella Nyanzi’s trial.
#Ugandan feminist academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been found guilty of harassing President Yoweri Museveni. In a poem she posted on Facebook, she wrote about the president's late mother's vagina and wished Museveni had been poisoned in the birth canal.
bbc.in/2YvnH9R
bbc.in/2YvnH9R
Stella Nyanzi owned and took pride in offending dictator Museveni. Stella Nyanzi is a revolutionary.
#Ugandan feminist @RosebellK live tweeted Stella Nyanzi’s verdict hearing today and filmed Nyanzi’s powerful and defiant words.
#Ugandan feminist @RosebellK live tweeted Stella Nyanzi’s verdict hearing today and filmed Nyanzi’s powerful and defiant words.
Watch this: “I planned to offend Yoweri Museveni Kaguta because he has offended us for 30 plus years,” Stella Nyanzi via @tumwesigye_ #Uganda #PushForStellaNyanzi
“And when your son looks at you and says ‘Mama look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said ‘Baby, they don’t. Because we’re gonna go in there, we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.’” - Rep. Rashida Tlaib
#WhyIsayFuck #116thCongress
#WhyIsayFuck #116thCongress
“People are like, ‘Rashida, maybe you should put the bullhorn away.’ No! ‘Maybe you shouldn’t wear those gym shoes everywhere.’...I say fuck that.” h/t @rerutled #WhyIsayFuck
“I didn’t change or try to run away from being Arabeyya,Muslimah, Falestenyya &...it’s such an addition on top of that to being a badass organizer.Don’t ever let anyone take away your roots,culture,who you are bec when you(don’t change) people love you & you win” @RashidaTlaib
Following #WomenWallKerala protest & entry by 2 women into #Sabarimala Hindu temple for 1st time since #Indian Supreme Court lifted ban on women of “menstruating age” I’m writing about time I prayed while menstruating (during Amina Wadud’s historic mixed gender prayer NYC 2005)
Writing about it in chapter on Power in my new book. I am not interested in “Who gave you permission?” I gave myself permission. I took it. Amina Wadud leading mixed-gender Friday prayer was revolutionary and I decided to pray behind her without a headscarf and on my period.
Menstrution remains a taboo and a source of at times deadly consequences of patriarchal notions that it makes us “impure.” I am not “impure.” I am just as I’m supposed to be. I am not interested in arguing with anyone about this. I own my body and I gave myself this permission.
Feminist scholar @drstellanyanzi will appear again in court on Monday on charges of “offending” #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni and his late mother. Fuck civility. Fuck politeness. Tyranny and authoritarianism are not civil nor polite.
Nyanzi faces a 1 year prison sentence if convicted for posting a poem on Facebook wishing Museveni’s mother’s birth canal had poisoned him upon birth to save #Uganda from him. The poem ends with “You Should Have Died At Birth, Oh Dirty Delinquent Dictator.” #FreeStellaNyanzi
Read this by @MKSerumaga: “A controversial scholar attacks Museveni with her incendiary pen. She is accused of bad manners. But is she more badly behaved than a regime that peels away the skin of its people?”
theeastafricanreview.info/op-eds/2018/09…
E Review. #FreeStellaNyanzi
theeastafricanreview.info/op-eds/2018/09…
E Review. #FreeStellaNyanzi
#ARRESTED|Mr.Gabantu Patrick Emmanuel,a #Ugandan national & two Kenyans; Zahra Ahmed and Abdullazac Rajab have this afternoon been arrested by @DCI_Kenya Detectives for defrauding Kenyan SACCOs(Safaricom, Bamburi,Stima & others) millions of shillings. Several Passports recovered.
The other suspects arrested in connection with the electronic fraud.
#UPDATE|Six other people were arrested today in connection with the Electronic Fraud targeting Kenyan SACCOs among them are @SafaricomPLC staff, interns & Agents.
They are:-
Jason Amayo
Arnold Orupia Okello
Silas Shihundu
John Wangila
Sylvanus Nyapera&
Rodgers Wanyonyi.
They are:-
Jason Amayo
Arnold Orupia Okello
Silas Shihundu
John Wangila
Sylvanus Nyapera&
Rodgers Wanyonyi.
