He speaks with great heart and should be heard. I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share. pic.twitter.com/6gyVRhgpFV — Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) March 17, 2022
Continue reading →⚡️Russians drop a heavy bomb on Mariupol theater where hundreds are sheltering. The number of casualties is yet unknown. Photo: Telegram channel MariupolNow. pic.twitter.com/8mgY9brR8E — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 16, 2022 More reporting on the situation: ‘Why? Why? Why?’ Ukraine’s Mariupol descends into despair 300,000 people trapped in besieged Mariupol face living hell
Continue reading →Aerial footage of Mariupol showing the extent of destruction caused by constant Russian shelling. People there say no street has been left intact #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/vl4fSOog8I — Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) March 14, 2022 I took those photos in beautiful Mariupol just months ago. Mind-blowing and heart-breaking that it has come to this: More than 2,000 dead, and 400,000 trapped without heat, food or clean water. https://t.co/wctRynmDFe pic.twitter.com/N1jRSb9gPB — Matthew Luxmoore (@mjluxmoore) March 14, 2022
Continue reading →Mariupol is in a “disaster phase now,” Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator says An emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders told CNN that the humanitarian situation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is deteriorating by the day…. “They’re using snow and rain water, they’re breaking into heating systems to access the water in heating systems, but for many, water has already run out and so has the food for many people. The only people left with food are those who have stocks that they’re rationing,” he said from Vinnytsia, Ukraine…. Staff on the ground in Mariupol have told Wade that … Continue reading →
is at the very least an attempt at genocide, and may yet become one entirely. 400,000 civilians are surrounded by Russian forces, have little to no food and water left, and are under constant assault by Russian bombs and artillery. The people cannot get supplies and all attempts to open humanitarian corridors out of the city have been crushed by Russian aggression. This article at the Guardian has before/after photo pairs that let you see the destruction around Mariupol. I do not want the US and NATO to go to war with Russia, but something must be done about the … Continue reading →
Here is the full video of Ukraine's women-warriors' address to Russians. I am so proud. pic.twitter.com/EOzS9YlU9W — Nika Melkozerova (@NikaMelkozerova) March 7, 2022 They remind me so much of the YPJ, the Women’s Defense Forces of the Syrian Kurds. Even though I am against war and against violence, I believe in the right of self-defense, and I have always admired the Kurdish project of Rojava and the Kurdish attempt to form a cooperative economy centered around the rights of women. As in Ukraine, the Kurds have had to use force of arms to keep nearby armies from killing them. The … Continue reading →
Ukrainians are just like you. But the war affects just everything: how we live, how we love and how we take care of the people most dear to us. Help us save lives. Demand your governments to act now. Together, we can and must stop Putin ✊🇺🇦#StandWithUkraine #CloseTheSky pic.twitter.com/WGzogeCVlJ — Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) March 7, 2022
Continue reading →Incredible bravery. Wow, thousands of people in the streets of St. Petersburg chanting "Ukraine is not our enemy" pic.twitter.com/BivhCgNpPw — Read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (@JoshuaPotash) March 6, 2022 anti-war protests in Moscow today; people chanting "No To War!" newly passed legislation (signed into law on Saturday) makes it crime to call Russia's invasion of Ukraine a "war"– or an "invasion" for that matter. (source: https://t.co/HyElpDZptg) pic.twitter.com/GFQ3GMcgZN — Mike Eckel (@Mike_Eckel) March 6, 2022
Continue reading →From Oppenheimer’s deadly toy? I spent a lot of time in the ’80s working with other peace activists to keep Reagan and Gorbachev from escalating nuclear threats between the U.S. and Russia. There were huge protests like these in Berlin back then. In Berlin, more than 100,000 people protest against Putin's actions and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Activists say that the number of protesters could reach 500,000 people pic.twitter.com/xxbMJrn3Wv — Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) February 27, 2022 The people want peace. Putin threatens us all.
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