Orlando Bloom: DRC's Children - Recruited To Fight, Killed, and Raped - Need Violence To Stop Now

[estelle]

The UN decided to pull peacekeeping troops out of The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Phase 1 of the departure of the UN-DRC peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, was completed on June 25, 2024. This plan was executed even though the conditions in the country are dire. Phase 2 had now been paused but the departure is expected to be completed at

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[melancolour]

I was just listening to a podcast that talked about how the UN pulled out ot Rwanda before their genocide, and it took until a european couple(?) Were killed for the west to pay attention again. DRC has been dealing with war and rape as a weapon of war for so long, i hope this isnt a sign that things will just get worse.

Terrible things are also happening to Sudan, which is also tied to mining and tech.

[triggered]

Then the UK wanted to send immigrants and asylum seekers to rawanda. Fucking insane

[melancolour]

That wasn't in the 80s/90s too, was it? Rwanda is now considered very safe, but the the UK shouldnt be sending refugees there imo.

[triggered]

Yeah I just meant it’s shit they wanted to send refugees to an African country.

The uk is partly to blame for the reason these refugees are leaving their home and they just want to dump them in an Africa country who is still recovering from the atrocities they went through

Idk if I’m making sense lol

[dustbunny105]

I only really became aware in the last few months of what's been happening to Congo and it's horrific. I'm glad to have been seeing more people talk about it but it seems like it's still getting so little attention.

Buying refurbished and donating old tech when possible is the most common way to help I've seen talked about. There's also this linktree of resources to help more directly and you can learn more about the Free Congo movement and how to get involved here.

Wow, that is awesome!

[estelle]

Thank you for these links!

[inandoutofgrace]

I’m so appreciative of you always coming into posts with links ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[cricket]

I feel so ignorant. I didn't even know about most of this.

[fernandocolunga]

Ok???? I was unfamiliar with your game Orlando

[pseudonygma]

This is exactly why I'm side-eying the hell out of all the entire car industry for pushing battery powered cars as though they're better. Even if we disregard all the conflicts that come from it, there's still no safe way to dispose these batteries once they're no longer rechargeable, so what then?

Guess Governments across the globe and the car industry's just gonna offload this problem for someone else to solve--it's so irresponsible.

[behansu]

I'm with you on this. We're just creating a different problem for another day. I'm old enough to remember the big push from paper bags to plastic bags at grocery stores in the 80s because we were cutting down too many trees! But look where that got us. Forever chemicals and non-degrading plastics everywhere.

No one actually wants to make the hard sacrifices, but those are really the only things that will make a difference. Switching from one pollutant to another is just six of one, half dozen of the other.

[pseudonygma]

Omg, don't even get me started on plastics... As great as all these backpacks and raincoats made of recycled bottles are, it's exactly as you've stated: we're just delaying the problem. What happens when these fabrics start wearing out? We'd be shedding microplastics everywhere we go; same thing for all these "vegan leather". Sure, there are actual vegan leather made of mushrooms or whatever but nothing from fast fashion is actually made from that type of fabric--maybe because of cost?

One thing I've always wondered about is if there really isn't any way to melt down old car tires to make new tires out of them because there's literally mountains upon mountains of tires stacked up in the ocean.

[behansu]

Anything that pushes consumption is not a real solution. I think the best things we can do are to focus on locally sourced, ethically and organically made things that have as small of an environmental impact as possible. And to consume less as a society. But that idea is antithetical to capitalism, which is why big companies will never back that ethos. They'll just give us different pollutants disguised as alternatives and solutions. It's way too depressing when you keep thinking about it.

Mountains of tires in the ocean, and a giant Pacific garbage patch. :/