Aindri @aindri@mastodon.social

🌐 🌿 List of ethical, easy to use, privacy conscious softwares:
https://switching.software/

2020 plans: Migrate to decentralised, open source platforms.
(Txt: Chart showing alternatives to Adobe via @inkfycreates )

Facebook policy in charge for India was in bed with the BJP/Modi

https://www.newsclick.in/part-3-who-were-key-players-responsible-facebooks-support-modi-and-bjp

just found out that Facebook was drilling under the Oregon coast to connect a high-speed cable to Asia earlier this year when an accident left drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid stranded beneath the seafloor. The company has no plans to retrieve it.

..

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/08/facebook-abandons-broken-drilling-equipment-under-oregon-coast-seafloor.html

Via AIITEU

Issue 1: As Covid-19 rages across our country, a huge
number of retrenchments are occurring in
the ‘Silicon Valleys’ of India:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10PEh6naOlBqTcK5SkAlKVJhOn5Z_vH3Y/view?usp=drivesdk

Image via @/ReleaseSUsmani (Twitter)

Sharjeel Usmani has been sent to 15 days Judicial custody after being illegally picked up from his house. -- via Ladeeda Farzana

#ReleaseSharjeelUsmani

Five men in plain clothes claiming to be from UP Police today ‘arrested’ Aligarh Muslim University Ex-student Sharjeel Usmani from his native place in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh.

#ReleaseSharjeelUsmani

https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/07/08/pro-democracy-activist-sharjeel-usmani-arrested-from-azamgarh/

via AMU Students Collective
#ReleaseSarjeelUsmani

Extended until Aug 11!!

Extended until Aug 11!!

Extended until Aug 11!!

Extended till Aug 11!!

#DraftEIA2020 explained:

Write to the Ministry of Environment.. to #withdrawEIA2020 Pushing it during a pandemic is highly suspect. Deadline 30 June!

Template and resources: https://coda.io/d/SAVE-EIA-TOOLKIT_dWwI4b9FeBu/Take-Action_suW0n#_lu-z3

LG Polymer gas leak, Vizag :
7 May 2020

Oil India Fire at Baghjan Tinsukia, Assam:
9 June 2020

Write to the Ministry of Environment to #withdrawEIA2020 DEADLINE 30 JUNE

The present draft will escalate these kind of disasters. Resources and toolkit:
https://coda.io/d/SAVE-EIA-TOOLKIT_dWwI4b9FeBu/Take-Action_suW0n#_lu-z3

#EIA2020 kills 💀

Write to MoEFCC to #WithdrawEIA2020. Deadline 30 June!

TW: Flashing images

https://coda.io/d/SAVE-EIA-TOOLKIT_dWwI4b9FeBu/Take-Action_suW0n#_lu-z3

URGENT! Write to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India to #WithdrawEIA2020!!

DEADLINE 30 JUNE

The present draft systematically dilutes safeguards to favour industrial projects and their ease of doing business.

Thank you to folks who put together the #SaveEIA toolkit. It literally takes 5 minutes: resources, email templates here:

https://coda.io/d/SAVE-EIA-TOOLKIT_dWwI4b9FeBu/Take-Action_suW0n#_lu-z3

#EIA2020

Invoking the constitution in the anti #NRC_NPR_CAA movement does not help us. Interview with Sharjeel Usmani
https://www.dalitcamera.com/in-conversation-with-sharjeel-usmani/

Mukti

Mukti works primarily in the Sundarban area one of the most delicate ecosystems in the world

https://muktiweb.org/contact-us/

Shabujh Shangha

NGO working on healthcare access

https://sabujsangha.org/donate.html

Ebong Alap (এবং আলাপ)

Ebong Alap is a feminist group of writers, teachers, journalists, researchers and performance artists to focus on critical pedagogy and gender-sensitive citizenship.

EA has been working in the Sundarbans for several years now, particularly with women and the student community in Bali. Now they are organizing relief for these areas.

https://ebongalap.org/