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Over a year after their arrests, the first of 12 Asheville mutual aid workers still facing felony littering charges for having supplies in a public park (yes, really) finally headed to trial this week.
In the latest from the Asheville Blade co-op, reporter Matilda Bliss delves into the pre-trial legal fights.
The prosecution disturbingly tried to paint basic acts of protest — like writing down a jail support number, praising a direct action, simply using Signal — as automatically criminal. So far this is mostly falling flat, running into a judge skeptical of a weak case. But it shows the tactics used in Atlanta are spreading.
These trials are part of the wider crackdown on protest, mutual aid and journalism Asheville authorities are determined to pursue. Whether you're inside our city of elsewhere, this is worth paying attention to, as what the governments involved are aiming for is another step towards a police state.
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Andor: "That was an amazing show, holy shit they should quit while they're ahead and end it now."
Severance: "That was an amazing show, holy shit give me season two now before I cut someone."
"hey this thing you do in this survey is like, awful, kinda transphobic, and you need to fix it or you'll end up erasing trans people from your results"
"this is the national standard set by the australian bureau of statistics"
time to go complain at a government agency, i guess
the two question model is, instead of asking "are you trans/intersex?" asking "sex", and then ask "gender". i hate this for two (imo good) reasons:
- im a female and a woman, im not answering anything else. wanna fight about it? ive got the birth certificate to prove it
- if i tick "male" (so that at least the count of trans people is accurate) then the rest of my responses probably get assessed as "men who are/do x" rather than "women who are x"
they at least gave the option of "other/indeterminate" for both questions but i'm not 'other', so that doesn't help.
im gonna bother and contact the ABS to try and push against the giant boulder that is bureaucracy, on the slim chance this can be less-awful for the next census (since in theory that'll be the first national count of trans people in the country, they were gonna ask in 2021 and scrapped it). wish me luck. anyone know any australian queer media? like my first thought is the ABC but i dont trust them as much as i once did 2 3