Another data breach notice. It seems like I get these notices every few weeks.

I think it’s cheaper for these companies to send out the letters and pay for credit monitoring than to service the data in the first place.

#ProfitOverPeople
#enshitification

Holding #Drax accountable

via @Freedom_Press
Aug 12th

Despite raid on #CimateCamp, #activists link up with #Mississippi fence-line community

"Climate campaigners this weekend Saturday (August 10) held an online conversation with community activists in #GlosterMississippi, who shared their experiences of resisting a polluting #WoodPellet factory owned by UK multinational Drax. The UK climate camp, planned to take place last weekend near Drax power station, was cancelled after a pre-emptive raid by police.

"The 22 arrestees have since been released, but the police impounded essential infrastructure, effectively shtting down the event. Nevertheless, the event went ahead after moving indoors.

"Gloster is a low-income, mostly Black community in Amite County, #Mississippi. In 2015, #AmiteBioEnergy, a part of the #DraxGroup, started making wood pellets in Gloster. #Biomass wood pellets are compressed dried wood chips and sawdust, compressed into pellets at high pressure. The Drax factory received a permit to emit up to 25 tons of harmful #AirPollutants and 249 tons of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) per year.

"But since 2016, Drax has consistently gone over these limits, in one instance being fined $2.5 million. This was the largest in a much longer series of fines for environmental violations by various companies operating wood pellet factories in the US.

"In the online event, the campaigners from Mississippi discussed the physical and mental health effects of persistent #AirPollution, including the highest rate of mortaility from heart disease in the state of Mississippi. The community has no local medical doctors, and residents have to spend hours commuting to access medical.

"According to local resident Jimmy Brown, 'our legislators aren’t doing us any justice because they didn’t inform any citizens about what going on, so that’s up to us'.

"Activists on both sides of the Atlantic vowed to hold Drax accountable. 'We cannot let them continue to put profit over the planet and over our people', said Gloster organiser Krystal Nicole Martin, 'they need to leave tour community'.

~ Jane Alison

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/12/holding-drax-accountable/

#profitoverpeople zerstört unsere Lebensgrundlagen.
That’s #COP28
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/cop28-opec-chef-will-offenbar-einigung-bei-weltklimakonferenz-verhindern-a-621c0563-375a-4786-805b-60cd7729505f

Thanks to Kaiser SoCal, the earliest I can get an appointment for the updated COVID vaccine near me is December 7th, as you cannot use Kaiser insurance at other pharmacies.

I brought up the CDC bridge program today, as well as Medi-Cal, at my local pharmacy and they still said it would be $185. This is unacceptable.

@luckytran @QueerInTheCountry and here we find the real enemy of climate change, of healthcare etc
#ProfitOverPeople

Every single company & government still doing business with #russia is an example of the #profitoverpeople mindset.
The idea that greed is a virtue is destroying the world, literally

#Brazilian lawmakers vote to limit recognition of Indigenous reserves

Disappointing. #profitoverpeople

https://www.rawstory.com/brazilian-lawmakers-vote-to-limit-recognition-of-indigenous-reserves/

8 dump trucks sat idling on North Road all day yesterday, burning oil en masse while destructively digging a dirty oil pipeline through a previously protected area.

The #bcndp & #TMX are actively committed to #profitoverpeople as they openly pollute our neighbourhoods, threaten to arrest us with permanent legal signage & regularly disrupt local traffic.

#Canada is a dirty oil country. Humanity deserves all the havoc #climatechange will reek on us.

#stopTMX #ClimateCrisis
#bcpoli #cdnpoli