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 (DIR) Post #B4diiYNmScni86XMmm by majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com
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       It's no coincidence that the U.S., Israel and Argentina, as three entirely repressive regimes, have voted against condemning the trafficking of enslaved Africans and acknowledging the lasting impacts of slavery –– and that every country responsible for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade has abstained from the vote entirely.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4diiYf9Q2hAzyfErQ by oatmeal@kolektiva.social
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       “When it’s framed as a trade, it distorts the reality,” said Jasmine Mickens, a postgraduate student of history and government at Harvard University. “It was not a consensual joint business enterprise.”https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/25/un-votes-slave-trade-gravest-crime-against-humanity-reparatory-justiceMost all EU countries and the UK abstained. #USA #Israel and #Argentina voted against. Israel has historically invoked Holocaust memory and international frameworks around crimes against humanity, yet voted against extending that moral-legal category here. The same legal frameworks and reparations logic could be applied to #Palestinian dispossession. The #ICJ already mandated Israel to end its occupation, dismantle its settlements, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims and facilitate the return of displaced people. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/experts-hail-icj-declaration-illegality-israels-presence-occupied#usa #israel #argentina #palestinian #icj #palestine #gazagenocide
       
 (DIR) Post #B4diib42UTnARkK8vo by majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com
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       White supremacy is foundational to colonial superpowers; the legacy of which lives on. The only real remedy for the brutalities of slavery is reparations – and a new system that prevents these atrocities from ever taking place again!