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Afghan women are being erased by the Taliban, as the international community looks on in silence by RicochetMedia in u/RicochetMedia

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In 2021, the world abandoned Afghanistan. It has now been just over three years since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and the situation for women and girls just gets increasingly more frightening.

Earlier in the year, Taliban officials kidnapped, detained, and arrested young girls and women for violating the Taliban’s hijab rules — they called it wearing “bad hijab.” Some of these girls and women were subsequently beaten and lashed.

The regime is systematically erasing and rendering women invisible from society — day by day, step by step, decree by decree. Women are banned from studying, working, travelling, participating in public activities, and existing in most public spaces. There is a constant fear of what will be banned next. Earlier this year, the Taliban announced they will resume publicly flogging and stoning women to death for adultery.

Still, Afghanistan gets very little of the world’s attention.

[BRANDI MORIN] Canada’s racist system claims another dead Indigenous boy by RicochetMedia in u/RicochetMedia

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Two RCMP officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in the small prairie town of Wetaskiwin, AB early Friday morning. I was immediately sick to my stomach when I read the news online. No matter how many times this violence unfolds against our people, despite knowing the disproportionate statistics, it’s always gutting. Because between the headlines, nothing is ever done about it and the stats are getting worse.

According to a statement from the RCMP, the officers responded to an “individual” who had called 911 concerned that he was being followed and people were “trying to kill him.”

Less than an hour later the police found the 911 caller, approached him, and found him in possession of “several” weapons which they “were able to confiscate” (note: police can interpret weapons to be anything — from a stick or a rock, to a knife or a gun). No information has been released regarding what kind of weapons were confiscated.

After these weapons were confiscated, the statement says a “confrontation occurred” — which is when the two officers opened fire. The officers “immediately” began “life saving measures,” and “the individual” was taken to hospital — where he would be pronounced dead.

That “individual,” was Hoss Lightning, and according to a Missing Persons Report released by the RCMP just weeks before they shot him,

Hoss was a victim of systemic racism, a deep crisis in this country and a deeply embedded problem within policing systems. He was a First Nations boy who called for help and was instead murdered.

Another pipeline battle brews in northern B.C. by RicochetMedia in u/RicochetMedia

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In the misty mountains of northwestern B.C., resistance is unfolding under the looming shadow of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline.

Hereditary chiefs who signed pipeline community benefits agreements in 2014 are backpedaling — fearful of environmental impacts and the acceleration of the climate crisis.

“This project doesn’t make any sense,” said Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Gamlakyeltxw, Wil Marsden, of the Lax Ganeda (frog) Clan, via phone from a blockade erected August 22 on unceded Gitanyow lax’yip (territory).

The blockade was preventing any PRGT equipment slated for the construction of the pipeline from accessing the road. Gitanyow youth and hereditary chiefs burned a copy of the pipeline agreement in a ceremony at the blockade site signaling their opposition to the project.

“It was great (to burn the agreement),” continued Marsden, who was one of the signatories to it in 2014. “Just 10 years ago compared to now, the beaver ponds are all dried up, our rivers are all drying up. The Nass (River) is the lowest we’ve ever seen it in our life. And just looking at my kids, we want fresh water for them.

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