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#reparations

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BellingenNSW

"Climate change is an existential problem of planetary proportions."

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion that could reshape the global legal landscape for climate action, declaring that States have binding duties under international law to protect the climate system and that a failure to take appropriate measures may constitute an internationally wrongful act."

"The ICJ also addressed the oceans, affirming that anthropogenic GHG emissions qualify as “pollution of the marine environment” under UNCLOS, triggering obligations for States to “take all measures… necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution.”
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pasifika.news/2025/07/icj-rule
#FossilFuels #CoalAndGas #expansionism #Australia #SA #pollution #MarineHeatwave #Pacific #ocean #MassMortalityEvents #GHG #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #reparations #restitution #justice #law #ClimateAction

BellingenNSW

Countries must prevent harm to the climate system and tackle fossil fuels to ensure the right to life.

"...The international court of justice (ICJ) said countries must prevent harm to the climate system and that failing to do so could result in their having to pay compensation and make other forms of restitution."

"The unanimous opinion covers a wide range of matters under international law. It says states are liable for all kinds of activities that harm the climate, but it takes explicit aim at fossil fuels. It says that a state’s failure to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from greenhouse gas emissions, including through the production and consumption of fossil fuels, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies, “may constitute an international wrongful act which is attributable to that state”.

"The court said a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was a precondition for exercising many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health and the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to water, food and housing."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#climate #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #harm #consumption #reparations #restitution #justice #law #HumanRights #Pacific #RightToLife

The Guardian · Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rulesBy Isabella Kaminski
Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈

"Hayward, Alameda County officials propose Russell City reparations fund.
The $900,000 fund would go to living former residents of Russell City, a Black and Latino community that was bulldozed for an industrial park in the 1960s."
#hayward #alameda #reparations
mercurynews.com/2025/07/13/hay

The Mercury News · Hayward, Alameda County officials propose Russell City reparations fundBy Chase Hunter
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Angela G

@itzyg
The descendants of every person run out of town by a white mob deserve reparations. The white mob stole their access to generational wealth.

The descendants of every person dishonorably discharged from the military for standing up for themselves in the face of racist officers deserve access to the GI Bill and GI housing loans for being denied access to generational wealth.

The descendants of every person denied access to federal housing loans prior to 1976 should get priority access to zero interest loans to make up for being denied access to generational wealth.

#reparations
PapyrusBrigade

"Not long ago, Nazi-ism transformed the whole of Europe into a veritable colony. The governments of the various European nations called for reparations and demanded the restitution in kind and money of the wealth that had been stolen from them. Cultural treasures, pictures, sculptures and stained glass have been given back to their owners. [All agreed] Germany must pay."

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

#Colonialism #Reparations
#FrantzFanon

ahimsa

"Portland to pay $8.5M settlement to descendants of displaced Black families"

opb.org/article/2025/06/05/alb

"The city of Portland will pay $8.5 million in settlement funds to 26 descendants of Black Portlanders driven from homes and businesses for development projects from the late 1950s through the ’70s."

“I want to be clear that this settlement, it’s not a full restoration, because it never can be … But nonetheless, it is important.”

OPB · Portland to pay $8.5M settlement to descendants of displaced Black familiesBy Kyra Buckley
#Oregon#Portland#CivilRights
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Jonathan Emmesedi

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I then came upon the conservative historian Robert Tombs claiming that shoddy historical research had led notable British institutions into error regarding their past involvement wit slavery:

>>Does the term "South Sea Annuity" ring a bell? There is no reason why it should. It is a recondite feature of eighteenth-century government finances, when Britain, engaged in the "Second Hundred Years War" with France, was borrowing unprecedented sums to sustain global conflict. Yet misconstruing this term has turned out to be probably the most expensive historical error in modern British history. It is set to cost the Church Commission at least 100 million [pounds sterling] and severe reputational damage. The University of Cambridge has also certainly spent a considerable sum and has damaged its own international reputation in part by making the same error. How could this have come about?<<

link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229

Tombs is challenged about the "misconstruction" of "South Sea Annuity" in a waspish letter from Richard Drayton in a subsequent issue of the TLS:

>>It is so nice to see my old Cambridge colleague Robert Tombs turning his hand in retirement to British history and culture war. I appreciate that, not being familiar with eighteenth-century sources, nor with economic history, some things might not be immediately clear to him.<<

link.gale.com/apps/doc/A841611

The next week sees the Tombs riposte, with assistance from financial historian Richard Dale:

>>Richard Drayton kindly offers to guide me through the arcana of eighteenth-century finance (Letters, May 23). His letter is, however, a better guide to the confused thinking of the Church Commissioners and their historical advisers, among whom he is prominent... Nothing he writes alters the embarrassing reality: certain historians have given leading institutions wrong information on the nature of their historic investments, and contentious and expensive decisions have been based on historical error.<<

link.gale.com/apps/doc/A842180

Entertaining as this British historiographical bitchery might be, the argument over the significance of the term "South Sea Annuity" should not obscure two important points.

In the first place, Tombs and other conservatives are making these criticisms of the Church Commissioners, Cambridge, and their associated historians less out of a concern for historical accuracy than from a deeply held desire to shelve the entire debate about Britain, slavery, and what is or is not owed to the descendants of those enslaved.

This debate goes astray if the right of former British colonies in the West Indies to reparations for slavery is made to depend either on the discovery of financial benefits accruing to particular British institutions or on the strength or weakness of the Williams thesis, that the Atlantic slave trade and slavery were crucial for the development of British capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. These arguments in financial and economic history should not obscure the larger truth that Britain inflicted a serious injury on people inhabiting and imported to the Caribbean by enslaving them. Regardless of any benefits that might or might not have flowed to Britain, and regardless of the motives and actions of British abolitionists, that injury to those enslaved and their descendants and the moral injury to Britain itself have not been made good. Reparations are therefore a legitimate demand; what form these should take must be a matter of discussion between the British and Caribbean governments. Attempting to dismiss the question by calling attention to errors in detail is an attempt to whitewash an ugly history.

To those who would point out all sorts of societies, including those of Africa, have engaged in slavery, I would argue that Atlantic slavery is distinctive on account of its racialised nature, its connection with the depersonalizing economies of the plantation and of industrial capitalism, its sheer scale, and the depth of its cruelty.

#History#Histodons#AtlanticSlavery
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@EugeneMcParland so basically #Russia demands worse terms than the "#StatusQuoAnteBellum" as per #BudapestMemorandum.

  • If I were #Zelenskyy I'd literally answer that "I can also demand absurd shite" and demand control over Russia's nukes and #Putin to be delivered to the #ICC.

Even the "Status Quo Ante Bellum" is too little.

IMHO anything but #Ukraine being a full #EU & #NATO member with "#BootsOnTheGround" in the borders of 1994-2011 alongside a #DemilitarizedZone 100km into Russia from the border and 50km from Belarus is already letting the Putin-Regime off the hook.

Whoever thinks one can "negotiate with Russia" and by negotiate doesn't mean 'pushing dual-wielded Stechkin APBs against Putin's head that are cocked, loaded with a round in the chamber and set to full auto' has completely lost sight of things...

  • Putin's fanbase want a neo-Czarist Empire."From Dublin to the Yukon!"
mastodon.ieEugene McParland 🇺🇦 (@EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie)russia media published memorandum prepared by russia for talks in Istanbul. russia demands #Ukraine to be neutral, non-nuclear, fully withdraw from Ukrainian regions, partially occupied by russia, also recognize them as rF, limit army, prohibit nationalist parties, use russian language as official, lift all sanctions, don’t demand compensation for damage Source: https://liveuamap.com/en/2025/2-june-16-russia-media-published-memorandum-prepared-by-russia
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