Song of the Day 🇷🇼🗣: https://open.spotify.com/track/34dx8DACTJsc3rsJdaEIQw

Good Idea: Dig some holes!

https://www.climatelinks.org/blog/lunar-landscaping-how-digging-half-moons-helps-re-green-niger

In the arid landscape of the West African Sahel, where climate change and desertification threaten livelihoods, innovative approaches like "half-moons" offer hope for water conservation and landscape restoration. These semicircular ponds, implemented by initiatives like the World Food Programme, help retain rainwater in dry and degraded soils, supporting vegetation growth crucial for farmers and herders. Satellite imagery analysis reveals significant improvements in vegetation health post-intervention, showcasing the efficacy of these low-cost and sustainable techniques. With the potential to stabilize communities' livelihoods and enhance regional water resilience, initiatives like half-moons represent a promising step towards a more resilient future in the face of climate change and desertification.

🙏to our friends @klimadeswandels

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On this day, 28 April 1909, biracial Black German anti-Nazi labour organiser and actor Hilarius Gilges was born in a working class household in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1926 he joined the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD), and a few years later he founded a radical worker entertainment group called the Northwest Ran. Northwest Ran put on working class plays, music and other entertainment, as well as organising anti-fascist protests. After a conflict with racists and police at a demonstration, Gilges was arrested and jailed for one year. Despite this, he continued his activism, and travelled through many towns and villages attempting to mobilise opposition to Nazism. After the Nazi takeover, in June 1933, he was abducted from his apartment in front of his family by a dozen SS officers. His body was soon found in the River Rhine, with 37 stab wounds and a bullet wound to the head. One of his daughters, Franziska Helmuss, later recalled: "His funeral was well attended, but exclusively by women. The men were too afraid to be associated with him. The stonemason who made the gravestone for my father was incarcerated for five years in a Nazi concentration camp." Despite some of his killers being known, none of them were punished after the war.A plaza in Düsseldorf by his apartment was named after him in 2003.We've posted this story as a collaboration with our backup account @peopleshist , which we set up after some of our posts got removed, so please give it a follow.

Geld für Garantien: Das hat der Nationalrat bezüglich der UNRWA beschlossen https://www.watson.ch/!193435880

TIL: Humans are uniquely efficient at conserving water compared to other primates, using 30% to 50% less daily. A study published by Duke University revealed this trait, which likely helped our ancestors survive by traveling further in search of food without needing water sources nearby. [source, comments]

In response to threats from the university administration, demonstrators at Columbia University have occupied Hamilton Hall, the campus’s main administrative building.

Background on how the encampment in solidarity with Gaza began at Columbia:

https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

If you are participating in protests, encampments, or occupations, you should understand how to dress to minimize your risk factors.

Most importantly—if you wish to protect your privacy, you will need an outfit that conceals your identifying features. You should change into it in a location that is not under surveillance, wear it for the entire duration of the activity, then change out of it in a location that is also not surveilled. You should not be seen with any elements of the outfit before or after.

Consider reading these short instructional guides:

Fashion Tips for the Brave

https://crimethinc.com/fashiontips

The Femme’s Guide to Riot Fashion

https://crimethinc.com/riotfemme

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On this day, 30 April 2022 food delivery couriers working for the Deliveroo app in Dubai went on strike, shutting down the app, and defying a ban on strikes in the United Arab Emirates.The drivers were facing a pay cut from $2.79 per delivery down to $2.38. The UK-based firm, backed by tech giant Amazon, also intended to increase the length of the working day up to 14 hours per day.The workers, all of whom were migrants from South Asia, remained on strike until May 2 when the company agreed to abandon both proposed changes.The following week, riders for delivery service Talabat also walked out demanding a pay increase.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7946/dubai-deliveroo-strikeTo access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photoPictured: a photograph of the strike taken by one of the workers, Asad Mirza

Song of the Day 🤝🫂: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ewoyB7JLGEWxW6HloDIwV?si=3awG90XcTU27duoiXQhpWg

Zehntausende demonstrieren in Georgien gegen «russisches Gesetz» – 5 Fragen und Antworten https://www.watson.ch/!446276460