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#humanity

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Humans come in many different forms with different looks, preferences and beliefs but fundamentally, we are all human and therefore deserve the same rights, the same opportunities and the same respect. No one is more or less human than anyone else.

Just a quick reminder to Canberra people that this is on tomorrow. Hope to see many of you there.

The March for Humanity will start with speeches at Civic Square, in front of the Canberra Theatre, at 12 pm on Saturday (9 August). The rally will leave from there, cross Commonwealth Avenue Bridge and finish at the lawns between the National Library and Questacon.

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A Plea for Survival, Dignity, and Compassion

I’m Philip, a disabled man fighting to survive in poverty. I am not begging out of choice. I’m begging because it’s the only path left to stay alive. Every day is a battle: my body is in constant pain, I am hungry, exhausted, and overwhelmed. I don’t sleep well, I don’t have access to proper healthcare, and I struggle with tasks many take for granted—like standing, bathing, cleaning, or simply thinking clearly through the fog of suffering.

I need $1,500 each month just to live. Right now, I’m $1,500 short, again. That money would allow me to buy food, keep a roof over my head, access basic hygiene, and maybe just maybe reduce some of the agony of existence. Your compassionate monthly support could save a life, mine.

To live this way is to endure a relentless, invisible war. There are days I cannot move, nights I cannot rest, and hours I cannot see or think straight. People judge what they cannot see. They dismiss what they don't understand. But disability in poverty isn’t just hardship, it’s isolation, exhaustion, and despair layered on top of each other until there's no air left to breathe.

Despite it all, I dream of more than surviving. I dream of building a home. Not just for me, but for others like me. I dream of transforming this pain into purpose. But for now, I need help to make it through this month, and the next, and the next.

Please help by donating:

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Even $5, $10, $15 helps. Your compassion matters more than you know. Help me reclaim dignity. Help me fight for life.

I asked earlier if any prior civilizations collapsed as a whole due to collective insanity, as we seem to be. Luke Kemp has another take: “History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says.
"His first step was to ditch the word civilisation, a term he argues is really propaganda by rulers. “When you look at the near east, China, Mesoamerica or the Andes, where the first kingdoms and empires arose, you don’t see civilised conduct, you see war, patriarchy and human sacrifice,” he says. This was a form of evolutionary backsliding from the egalitarian and mobile hunter-gatherer societies which shared tools and culture widely and survived for hundreds of thousands of years. “Instead, we started to resemble the hierarchies of chimpanzees and the harems of gorillas.”"

#WhatNext #Humanity

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapseBy Damian Carrington

On my list: #book by #LukeKemp:
#History is best told as a story of organised crime,” ... “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory & population. [...]The key thing is this is not about all of #humanity creating these threats. It is not about human nature. It is about small groups who bring out the worst in us, competing for profit and power and covering all the risks up.”

#mustread #collapse #capitalism

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapseBy Damian Carrington