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Aubrey Harris
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Coordinator for the Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty for Amnesty International Canada. Posts are my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements. See also @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social - I also play Aussie Rules for the Toronto Rebels.
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I still have Twitter - but I really like BlueSky better - I try to keep on several platforms to help with reach. Only a few that I don’t have for security concerns.

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Thanks Mary! Good to see you here! (Are you also following @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social )

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Meta relies on contracted workers to moderate its platforms. Last year, 185 moderators at Sama in Kenya tried to form a union, but they were all dismissed. Now a Kenyan court has ruled the workers can sue Meta, recognizing it as their true employer.

Kenya court finds Meta can be sued over moderator layoffs
Kenya court finds Meta can be sued over moderator layoffs

A Kenyan court ruled on Friday that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of content moderators by a contractor.

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🚨NEW: The anti-LGBTQ “million march for children” ended up being more like the tiny tantrum — one that was drowned out by people supporting education and the LGBTQ community. I walked around the protest in Montreal, where even pepper spray and tear gas couldn’t cloud the counter messaging:

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UPDATE: After Gov. McMaster denied Owens clemency, the execution went forward. Freddie Owens has been killed. His time of death, per the AP, was 6:55 p.m.

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BREAKING: SCOTUS will not stop South Carolina from executing Freddie Owens tonight, the state’s first scheduled execution in more than a dozen years. Justice Sotomayor noted she would have stopped the execution. Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/five-execu...

(ORDER LIST: 603 U.S.)
24-5603
(24A284)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
CERTIORARI DENIED
OWENS, FREDDIE E. V. STIRLING, DIR., SC DOC, ET AL.
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court
is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Justice Sotomayor would grant the application for stay of execution of sentence of death.
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Sign the petition: I Love Bike Lanes www.cycleto.ca/ilovebikelan...

I Love Bike Lanes
I Love Bike Lanes

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #582,663!

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Aubrey Harris
@aubreyharris.bsky.social
Coordinator for the Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty for Amnesty International Canada. Posts are my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements. See also @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social - I also play Aussie Rules for the Toronto Rebels.
88 followers387 following124 posts