Awesome. I'm going to get started. Hi everyone. Welcome to Code Pink's morning kickoff webinar for International Women's Day. As I said previously, if folks want to put and introduce themselves in the chat, putting their names, pronouns and where they're zooming in from. My name is Grace Siegelman. I am the Feminist Forum Policy Project Coordinator and administrative supporter here at Code Pink, and I'm so grateful to be in community with all of you today. I am guided in this work both at the Feminist Forum Policy Project and generally here at Code Pink, and I'm so grateful to be in community with all of you through the love for my community. Today's feminists today remind ourselves of the world we seek. We seek to contribute a world without war and violence, where militarism is replaced by cooperation and diplomacy, where poverty is eradicated by replacing capitalist structures of exploitation with sharing economies that take care of each other, where the goals of environment protection, racial equality and gender equality govern our policy decisions, and where international solidarity is the guiding principle for our foreign policy. Our love and community propel us into a new world. We want to thank all of our IWD organizational and individual members who signed on to our coalition and said feminists say no to war. Today is dedicated to community reflection and solidarity. We here at Code Pink thank you for raising up your voices against gendered violence, militarism, policing and the war economy. Our speakers actions and events today will continue to lead us towards peace, abolition, justice and a peace economy for all. We'll start today with our national co-director Danica. Danica graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor's degree in political science in November of 2020. And since 2018 she has been working towards ending US participation in the war in Yemen. At Code Pink she works on youth outreach as a facilitator of the Peace Collective. Code Pink's youth cohort that focuses on anti-imperialism and divestment. Welcome Danica. Hi Grace. Hi everyone. Thanks for having me. Yeah, like Grace said, my name's Danica. I'm Code Pink's national co-director. I'm based out of Chicago, Illinois. You see her pronouns. It's been special to be part of Code Pink on International Women's Day. I think it really contextualizes the moment we're living in and gives us a chance to have a deeper understanding of what it means to be in solidarity with women around the world. As someone who lives in the belly of the beast and part of an organization that operates within the belly of the beast, IWD gives us an important opportunity to reassess our values, our goals and our commitments to the oppressed peoples of the world, not just women, but the people that women love, their families, their friends, their children and their homelands being affected by US imperialism. On IWD, we're especially reminded to hear what solidarity looks like from the people of the world.  For anywhere in the world affected by US military bases via pollution and violence, it means giving way with the 750 military bases spread out around the globe. For the victims of the war on terror for the last 20 years, it means closing Gitmo once and for all and putting an end to the use of armed drones. Imperialism and war is the highest form of capitalism. Its roots are in greed, its roots are in austerity for the masses, but everything for the wealthy and powerful. The same greed that drives wars also drives disinvestment in people here. Every single year the working class in the United States watches their lawmakers give billions of dollars to the military budget while the people get pennies.   We notice it and we feel it so we can act. Because it's the scarcity mindset, the mindset where we don't have enough for all of us all over the world that fuels wars abroad and austerity here at home. So we as the movement can't operate on the scarcity mindset. If we want to create a world that we know is possible. Of course the ruling class that's paid off by weapons companies like Lockheed Martin don't want negotiations in Ukraine. They started drooling at the idea of more money coming their way when Russia invaded Ukraine and they said it like proudly at their board meetings. The CEO of Raytheon did last year he said we'd see great benefit from it when things started escalating. They don't have the same interests as us. We're calling for negotiations and cooperation in Ukraine and with China and all over the world on IWD because we know that war kills people. Prolonging war kills more people. It drives gender based disparities and conflict zones and around the world. When we see the world in abundance, you know, a world that has enough for all of us, we can see a path towards negotiation and cooperation, even if you can't see one right now. Negotiations are the only way wars end if your goal is ending it, of course. And in the same vision for a better world we also have a world that confronts the climate crisis together, a country that gives people housing education and health care. But to get there, you know, we need to be organizing and I feel like right now that sounds like a buzzword, like organize, organize, but I promise it's not. Be with people in your community, anti-war activists, go work with abolitionists, work with the unions in your city, get to know them. In Chicago we're starting to have potlucks to make sure we all know each other and show up for each other every month because none of us will win without all of us winning.  I'm sure our campaigners throughout the day will be talking about it on these webinars. You can join our coalition to ground the F-35, which is a campaign I'm leading, codepink.org forward slash ground the F-35. You can also join the peace in Ukraine coalition, or you can volunteer with the China's Not Our Enemy campaign. If you don't have a movement home just yet, you definitely have one with us. And so thank you for being with us on IWD. And thank you, Grace, for hosting this webinar. Thank you so much, Danica. And I put all the links that she talked about in the chat. We will have other people from China's Not Our Enemy as well on both in this call and later today. We will now hear from Dr. Mahal Halal. Dr. Mahal is a Muslim Arab American and expert on institutionalized Islamophobia, the war on terror, and counter narrative work. Dr. Halal is the author of the book, Innocent Until Proven Muslim Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and Muslim Experiences since 9-11. Her writings have appeared in Vox, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Newsweek, Business Insider, and Truth Out, among others. Dr. Halal is the founding executive director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab, an organization that works to disrupt, subvert, dehumanizing narratives that are designed and deployed to justify state violence against Muslims. This includes serving as a founding steering committee member of the Guantanamo Survivors Fund, which provides small grants to the men transferred out of detention. Through her work at MCL, she also co-coordinates the For Us Not Amazon Coalition that challenges the presence of Amazon and greater Washington DC area. She has worked at a number of human rights, social justice organizations, including the Institute for Policy Studies, the Government Accountability Project, and Center for Victims of Torture. Additionally, Dr. Halal is an organizer of the Witness Against Torture, with Witness Against Torture, an organization that organizes and advocates for the closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison, and an end to torture. Dr. Halal earned her doctorate in May 2014 from the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University in Washington DC. She received her master's degree in counseling and her bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and practicing Arabic calligraphy. Welcome. Thank you so much, Grace, and thank you, Danica.  Next time I will definitely be shortening my bio because I'll just wait too long. But thank you for reading all of that. So, you know, Grace asked me to speak today. You know, what I really want to talk about is the ways that Muslim women have been used to justify military intervention for one. And obviously we saw this in both, you know, domestically with, there was a case of Nour Sanlan, but also in particular in Afghanistan. When the United States, of course, wanted to go to war in Afghanistan and not as if there was anything that could stop them. But they were specifically utilizing a narrative on the oppression of women in order to justify a war that could then free them. I want to just quickly read an excerpt from my book that talks specifically about this. So, in the section I'm going to read, I'm talking about a quote from Laura Bush, who also talked in the context of the war in Afghanistan and in the earliest days of the war on terror about the need to free Afghan women and therefore contributing to this overarching narrative around the United States' role in freeing the oppressed Muslim women. So, let me read from here, making explicit the link between the freedom of Afghan women and the use of military interventions. She said, stated, and this is Laura Bush, Afghan women know through hard experience with the rest of the world is discovering the brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorists. This statement was presented in turn in the terms of the heroic narrative that drew the average person into a mythical story that allowed them to see themselves as heroes, rather than representing a genuine interest in the fate or daily reality of Afghan women, though this sentiment represented nothing more than a cynical attempt to legitimize the US led war by repositioning it as a just and moral endeavor. And when we look at US wars and Afghanistan is a very emblematic example right, looking at how Muslim women's oppression has been engulfed in this narrative of why the United States needs to go to war. And that Muslim women need to be freed from the terrorists. It's really important to sort of when we're thinking about and analyzing the war on terror in terms of narratives as well as policies, thinking about this particular piece. When we look at gender more broadly, and how it's played out in the war on terror. One of the great examples an unfortunate example involving war crimes was that of a book read where the US government specifically in the torture that was suffered by individuals detained at the prison. They were using ideas of gender norms in the torture of those in the prison. The idea is about what Muslim cultures about how Muslims relate to each other in terms of gender to infuse those understandings into the ways and the tactics that Muslims were being tortured in. So again, there's a weaponization, not just of women, but also gender, more broadly. The kind of last thing I want to mention is around resistance. So, in the war on terror and I do a lot of work on Guantanamo. Obviously all the men out all the people in Guantanamo are men. Right. And so not only does this leave a lot of women behind whether their mothers sisters daughters wives, right, who are left to pick up the pieces of the violence. The violence that the men are doing. Right. There's also a lot to say about the ways that women are resisting. And it's women that have typically women, femmes who have been on the front lines of resisting the violence state violence in the war on terror. And this doesn't get recognized enough right it doesn't get recognized because there's a patriarchal structure, not just external to the community but also internal to the community. So, it's important and it's great to be on this webinar for this reason to really uplift the voices and experiences and movements that women have been leading to resist state violence. And I organize as a Muslim woman, and I know many other Muslim women who are organizers, right. And we're often marginalized in different spaces, right, whether it's a Muslim space, whether it's a white non Muslim space there are a lot of places where we are marginalized inside linked. So today I really want to ask for and call for an uplifting in Muslim women in particular, who have been on the front lines, who have been defending their communities, who have been rejecting the violence that our communities have been have endured, and who at the same time, have had to fight back consistently against the negative stereotypes and the constructions of Muslim women. I'll leave it at that and again I'm just really happy to be in this webinar to be in this space, where we can really uplift women's voices. Thank you so much Dr hello and thank you to Danica and everyone who has already exemplified both our missions here at Code Pink but also just the missions of International Women's Day, and the mission for Feminist Women's Day mission policy and a world committed to care and community. We have a contribution from Sylvie Jacqueline Nodomo, a peace activist and the founder of Wilf Cameroon, who is also the current president of Wilf. She has some words for us to reflect on and act on during International Women's Day. Ladies from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. On the occasion of International Women's Day, we want to send an urgent call for peace in the world, a bold step to save our planet. Currently, there are 110 situations of armed violence that amount to an armed conflict on the international humanitarian law. 110 and some have lasted for more than 50 years. In each of those conflicts, ordinary people are having their lives destroyed, their dreams lost, land laid waste, and the prospect ever getting justice and peace in distant hope. In 1915, Wilf called for an end to the carnage of the First World War. On International Women's Day 2023, with our sister's organization, we call for an end to all wars and for this madness to stop. Inequality between people and between nations, economic systems of operation, and militarism as a way of thought. The wise diagnosis of our four models at Wilf in 1915. It is the same now only our fault line have deepened and the threat of nuclear war is a reality. Whilst the threat to the planet from climate change and the destruction of our ecosystem should be our primary concern as a species, it is not. Instead, we witness governance structures which assess states centric and not global security, one base on economic and military power. They refuse to comply with international law and to adhere to the Charter of the UN and the promise to never again subject future generations to the horrors of armed conflict. It is time for really people to take control and to protect our planet. This was must stop. Thank you so much. And if folks have comments, reflections and thoughts on this video, or other speakers that have already spoke or other IWD values, please continue to post them in our chat. We now welcome Julie Tang, a retired judge from San Francisco Superior Court. She established and presided over the first domestic violence court in San Francisco.  She also co-founded Pivot to Peace to educate and mobilize between the US and China. Welcome Julie. Thank you Grace. Can you hear me? Yes. Very good. You know, before this presentation, I did a little research on the origins of International Women's Day. There are a lot of versions, but the one that I believe most aptly describe the reason why we're here is that it was originally called International Labor Women's Day. And it has a strong socialist historical background rooted in radical socialist feminist politics. And its origin can be traced back to European and North American women's labor movements for pay equity, and it emerged around the turn of the 20th century. But then looking at what's happening today, the celebration of the International Women's Day have shifted mostly to non-Western countries. It is an official holiday in 25 mostly third world countries, such as Uganda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Mongolia and Russia. And in China, it is a holiday and women get a half day off work, not men, not the men. In San Francisco Chinatown, the Chinese women's community is getting together today. And that's why I'm all dressed up in a big banquet of several hundred people to celebrate International Women's Day, which I will be joining after this webinar. So it seems like the rest of America, however, some people have never even heard of International Women's Day. Why such a neglect?  So the less sad, the better. And that's why I'm extremely pleased that Codepin has arranged for us to come together globally to speak in the same voice, bear witness to the common struggles that we face and join hands to say no to war. You see, our Defense Secretary and Army generals have been very heavy on the rhetoric of war, with a mindset that war seems inevitable. And our lengthy record of direct and indirect involvements in war with countries such as Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. These generals may be telling us something that they know better, and that is the United States is again preparing itself to take on another war, this time with a formidable country, China. And if that should happen, massive deaths and destructions is guaranteed to occur and would take us to World War Three. For women in particular, can we guarantee that history will not be repeated? Let us not forget that the worst and the largest sexual crimes ever committed against women in modern history are those committed during war. In World War Two in Asia, the Japanese armed forces legalized gang rapes against Asian women and Dutch women under the conflict women system. The brutal mass rapes of women during the Holocaust in the Bangladesh Liberation War, and when 200 to about 400,000 women were raped and rapes during the Bosnian War, the Rwandan genocide, the Congolese conflicts, show us that mass rapes are an integral part of any war. During the pandemic, finger pointing and blaming China for the pandemics drove Asian people in the United States to become subject of hate from a large segment of the American population. Over 11,500 cases of hate incidents were self reported within a year to the Stop AAPI hate website. But the worst brutality was reserved for Asian women. In March 16, 2021, a white man serially visited three health spars in Atlanta, Georgia to look for Asian women to kill, and he ended up killing six of them.  So accordingly, it is the women's fault. After the Atlantic murders attacks against Asian Americans, especially Asian women continue in the United States. The Asian American Foundation reported in a survey of 2,414 adult Asian American women, 74% of Asian women reported experiencing racism and or discrimination. As an Asian women, I too fear for my safety from these racial haters. But as my friend KJ Nol always reminded us, he's a journalist and also a mental health worker. The way to deal with fear and rage over injustice is not to hide away and hope everything will go away, but to work constructively, especially among others who share the common experiences to eradicate the roots of those problems. And I believe that that's what we're doing today. Our country's leaders are currently working hard at manufacturing consent for war with China by spreading propaganda and is stealing fear and hate among Americans towards China. They are planning that as soon as the Ukraine conflicts are overdone with, then China will be the main focus of war. So these leaders have not made a case for the war, except by demonizing China, creating a fiasco over a weather balloon. And you notice nothing has been reported of what was in those four balloons that they shot down with the F-22s, including the one that they call a spy balloon. Women have an important role to play in promoting peace and protecting ourselves, our families and society from war. I applaud Co-Ping and all the speakers here today from the international community and the dedication towards peace and the willingness to share their respective communities concerned for women with all of us. Pivot to peace and organizations which I co-founded with a group of peace activists is working closely with Co-Ping to call out our government leaders that China is not our enemy. This statement is not a peer slogan. It means war is not an option and China is not an enemy to go to war with. Today on International Women's Day, let's assert ourselves and to tell our government leaders. China is not a threat to all our enemy and women do not want war. And women will join hands and solidify to form a peace movement to fight against any efforts to take us to a war. Thank you so much Co-Ping and we want permanent peace. Thank you for everybody. And in a short while I have to take off to celebrate International Women's Day and eat a lot of good food. Thank you. Thank you so much Judge Julian. Thank you and have a wonderful celebration. Now we welcome Teddy. Teddy Ogborn is Co-Ping's war is not green coordinator. They are a climate activist and organizer based in New York City. Originally from Littleton, Colorado, they earned a BA in comparative literature from Hartford College in 2019 before working at the intersection of climate and anti-militarism. Teddy has worked as a film festival director, fencing coach, film producer and high school English teacher in France. Welcome Teddy. Thank you Grace. Thank you everyone for being here on International Women's Day. And I'm ready to bring my campaign into alignment a little bit with the conversations that we've been discussing. The war is not green campaign like coordinate for Co-Pink. The war is not green. I think a lot of people initially especially in the climate movement need a little bit of education bringing up to speak on this because that's precisely why it exists in the first place is to bring the climate justice movement, the climate change movement and the anti-militarism movement together and doing so in a feminist light and with the feminist I think is really, really crucial. It'll lay a little bit of that out now. As our co-founder Jodi Evans likes to say education is such a crucial cornerstone for reaching peace. And as Grace laid out in my bio, I've kind of had a bit of a winding path getting to Co-Pink, you know, majoring in comparative literature and things like that but it's because I'm someone that I've always felt like a very interdisciplinary person and I think that's why I found my home very much in environmental justice and in peace work because it really sits at the crossroads of all the issues that we face today and that we're working together to fight. Environmental justice is a very complicated, very interesting and rewarding movement to be a part of. It means we're fighting for the fair and meaningful treatment and involvement of everybody regardless and because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their income, etc., in the decisions that we're making to develop towards a sustainable and green future. So, for a long time, I suppose we could just call it then the environmental movement, solely focused on like the destructive dams and ending fossil fuels, right? And you say from that perspective, without the environmental justice component, once those things are done, you know, mission completed, we can go home. And once you bring in environmental justice and specifically considering gender and environmental justice, you get a lot more complicated and you realize the intersection of the movements that you need to work at. So that's what's led me to this work in anti-militarism and anti-capitalism as well here in New York City, which I'm really excited to be a part of. I think about climate crisis and gender and of three main things. I guess to get to those three main things, I want to learn a little bit more specifically why. And that is especially in this country because the United States military, the planet's largest single institutional leader, and I should say it's also a procurer of fossil fuels as we've seen in conflicts and U.S. occupations at least across the world.  And yeah, this conversation isn't enough within the environmental movement. So when I think of climate crisis and gender, there's sort of three main pillars that come to mind. The first one is to be in survival and domestic tasks, which will be and are exactly by the climate crisis in rural areas. Women often those that are tasked with water, which as water sources dry up, they have to go great and greater distances to do so to get more and more of their time and disenfranchising them and and and and happening any effort to allow women to enter the workforce, for example, or to participate in society in other ways. And this goes equally for the task of childcare as men often in communities have to go farther from home and perhaps migrating across orders to do so. This includes of course food and crops shortages that planet eats and we continue to pull over our climate tipping points, food and crops that may be grown locally are failing more and more every year which is exacerbating these these mass migrations. It should be all of these issues disproportionately of color across the global south. Particularly within the lens of this campaign and militaries in the United States. One example that I would like to amplify is United States military base and fuel fueling station in Red Hill in Hawaii. This is a jet fuel station military fuel station that has been leaking leaking jet fuel toxic chemicals into the water table for four years now and people have visible lesions on their body from consuming this water. And while very very very technically Red Hill is now shut down the EPA continues to and the United States Navy continues to push off the date at which the entire operation needs to be decommissioned. And as I've just laid out of course, it's oftentimes women that bear the brunt of the labor, the childcare, the health care that goes into tragedies such as these. And when it comes to mind around gender disparities in the climate crisis is that it accelerates the escalation of armed conflict as mass climate migration provides nationalists and fascists, fascists to other populations which may be migrating across their borders providing them opportunities to take control and enact violence across their countries. We see this now even in the United States. This is becoming a major factor for migration across Central and South America, as people seek to bring their families or seek economic opportunity in the United States.  And it has been used as a working point and fascist reason to enact violence against those communities which are seeking safety, many times as a result of the climate crisis. And as violence disproportionately affects women. And it must be said, and this is true, whether it is in the middle of the military conflict or after quote unquote natural disasters which are becoming more and more frequent as a cause of the climate crisis. What comes to mind is gender disparity in representation or maybe I should start talking about gender parity in representation. In this instance I'd like to amplify the message of the climate clock climate clock is a really great organization it's a teaching tool, which displays the amount of time that we have to avert a 1.5 degree Celsius tipping point. Right now it says something like six years and I think 400 days for us to mitigate our crucial. And that's climate clocks deadline but it also includes many lifelines these are things that we can work for as a society and as human populations to advance freedom liberation safety and the face of the climate crisis for everybody and they've recently added a gender parity lifeline which is really exciting. And they're having parliaments only can be 6.5% of all representatives and you don't have to be a sociologist or a mathematician to know that number should be about doubled for for gender parity for And that has huge impacts on climate change and in order to mitigate and address the consequences of climate change. One study showed that countries parliaments which have 38% or more women had considerable more force cover during those terms which as as many as we know, force covers absolutely crucial for protecting the water cycle and as carbon sinks for these countries I know this is a huge goal for for Kenya, for example. And so really can't be understated that the representation element and gender parity in leadership whether that is at the governmental level is absolutely crucial for addressing the climate crisis and anti militarism. And so many of us know we can't depend only on our fights for representation we can't just vote away our problems we must take action. And Code Pink, as many of us are familiar, are has been very active in taking action, calling for peace in Ukraine so I want to uplift this of course as well because all the factors that I've just listed are happening presently in Ukraine whether those are on the ground environmental disasters or the continued emissions of fossil fuels or continued grabs for fossil fuel extraction, which are polluting the planet and increasing gender disparity and gender based violence around it must be said that by the beginning of this year about $100 billion had been approved from the US to aid the military in Ukraine and this number is a stark reminder that I believe at the conference of the party, the UN climate conference about six years ago, nations agreed to give $100 billion to underdeveloped nations to mitigate climate related factors and stresses, which has yet to be done, but we are so ready and ready for the country to give $100 billion to war, which is destroying our planet, both, you know, in extreme ways on the ground there make rendering farmland unarable unusable and contributing vastly to carbon emissions. Specifically on that front, you know, this is a huge example of how the US military protects big oil and is fighting for control of big oil. One of the preeminent scholars on the Pentagon and climate change and at a Crawford writes that we are locked in a cycle of acquisition of fossil fuels and then the protection of that acquisition. So we don't we simply don't have time, both because of crop crop failures worldwide and the carbon budget that we have as displayed by the climate clock, we simply don't have time for these kind of this kind of war and for war at all. And it will disproportionately affect people of color and women around the world. So that's how we know that we need to be fighting this war. The other in order to ensure the safety of everyone around the world, because it's it's truly is and many scholars have shown us it truly is one of the only ways that we can ensure and enter the climate crisis is to end war and we can start that with any of the war in Ukraine. Right now, my war is not green campaign has an action that you can sign where environmental groups are calling on President Biden to initiate peace negotiations now on environmental grounds. So please go ahead and sign that all. There's a Google form as well. Thank you everyone. Thank you Teddy and all the links and events and actions that we have been talking about throughout this webinar have been posted in the chat but will also be sent throughout this webinar and all the other webinars throughout the day, and I will also be sending them out to anyone that's RSVP for this event. So if you haven't caught some of them, or you haven't caught every single word from everyone's discussions they will be posted on going. So thank you so much Teddy to close out or kick off and send us into this International Women's Day, we welcome Jodi Evans Jodi is the co founder of code pink and the after school writing program 826 la and serves on the code pink board of directors, she has been a visionary advocate for peace for several years and inspired motivator Jodi invigorates nascent activists and reinvigorate seasoned activists through her ever evolving always exciting methods to promote peace, whether in board rooms or war zones legislative offices or neighborhood streets, Jodi's enthusiasm for a world at peace infuses console, conciliation, optimism and activism wherever she goes. Welcome Jodi. Thank you so much Grace and what a beautiful day, a lovely to spend it with such powerful voices for peace. And, you know, just that reminder of this day was created by women around the world but really it was the women workers in Russia, who, you know came together on March 8 and said we need bread and we need peace. And that is the day that this was launched in what 1917. So, you know, we need bread and we need peace continues. It's a, it was a very effective day I think seven days later the Russian Revolution was successful and one of the things they called for was the end of the czar so you know maybe call the end of imperialism and war. And the war economy on this day. So, happy to be with all of you. I want to talk about 20 years ago. We were in Washington DC with over 10,000 women and men and pink. We march from Martin Luther King, well we had an amazing rally with some 70 women speakers. We march to in front of the White House behind a banner that said, you know, women call for peace and justice. When we got down to the White House, a phalanx of police were blocking the White House had surrounded the White House far and totally blocked off Pennsylvania Avenue. We checked this had never been done in history. So just the power of women is frightening to power, and just a reminder of the power of women when we get together, and we stand together how powerful that is and how much it frightens others. We get down there, 35 women had been holding the banner removed them aside and I pulled them over to the cops to try to like have this conversation with them like, Why are you here we have this amazing group of women why are you keeping them from going in front of the White House to call for peace. And Rachel bagby started singing, said, you know, set us free old slave him, and Alice Walker started speaking with one of the black cops and said, you know, my family was slaves my ancestors were slaves, and they built this house and you're keeping me from it. And he let go his hand we all got to go in.  And he said, I couldn't go home to my wife and said I kept Alice Walker away from house. So yet the power of women in so many ways and the power of love. So that was the beginning of our first celebration of International Women's Day today we're on zoom, but in 10 days on the 20th anniversary of the war and rock that we were not able to stop. We will be gathering out in that same place on Pennsylvania Avenue. We hope with you standing against this war in Ukraine against this proxy war US Russia proxy war, and saying, we need diplomacy now with let's like we're calling for diplomacy today, we're calling for diplomacy, we're calling for cooperation Thank you judge Julie for bringing up what the United States is doing to China, right now, it's driving a war on China. And, you know what we try to do it could paint which is to raise up the cost of war, because somehow wars become some abstract idea, the people are willing to get behind it don't they know the cost of war. And today let's talk about the cost of war to women just in Ukraine. As we speak to with the women in Ukraine. You know we realize that there's 8 million refugees, that is, an unhoused family that isn't unhoused women. And most of those refugees by the way are women they were not letting with men out of the country. They were not with women in Ukraine and they are being raped by the Ukrainian men, because there are so few women left and they're not allowed to complain about it, because it would look you make Ukraine looks so bad. And they call it their and Frank moment where they are hiding their sons and their husbands and their fathers away, because from 18 to 60 you're being taken into into conscription.   And that's the war of sanctions. That's the war of poverty. That's the war of the war economy on the women and the people of the world. And today we come together inspired by those women before us, inspired by those women that were a spark for the Revolution and Russia. That has continued to this day that women and and it's really you know working women we here in the United States it's not we don't see it as a big as a holiday but if you live around the world. It's not a holiday of women and men in the streets who remember the power of women and who are there for the for the working people of the world to call for justice and peace. So, you know, we have I think probably been already shared a letter to Biden saying no to war on this International Women's Day we're encouraging everyone to use hashtag IWD and war. I'm sure when you use that hashtag you're also using the hashtag International Women's Day. So we're in this, the flow in the river of the International Women's Day tweets but with our own that says IWD and war that we're entering the conversation that we always do with a message for peace with a mess message calling for the end to war and devastation, and that it's been driven from the American countries. And I think the connection today that I think is really important and I want to bring up because it is, you know, one of the things that we recognize as international feminists is the patriarchy is a system and it's a system globally, and patriarchy is not a gender. It's a form of oppression and violence. So we have many women around the world that joined with the patriarchy and we have many men around the world that join with revolutionary feminists. So on this day, let's you know, it's an, it's a day that was created by international feminists. And so it's a feminist holiday. As international feminists, it could ping today we're calling on President Biden to fire under secretary of state Victoria Nuland, because she is failing at her job as the diplomat of this country, she's not only not calling for diplomacy. But she is driving this war as she drove the war on Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. So what we do is some of this is we do not remain silent, we gather together we join together, and we together. So inspiring to see Olivia in the halls of Congress this morning with her beautiful. We also do it with beauty and in ways that are disarming and inspiring. So Olivia did that this morning with 24 pink umbrellas the circle of the peace sign, and the and the peace sign in between in the rotunda of Congress was beautiful with a banner behind it saying peace now. So, being visible for peace, holding it in our hearts first on holding it in the space that belongs from with love of all with connection to all, and then acting and engaging and being visible and being beautiful and being what pieces, which is a aspect for the justice and needs of everyone in the world. And as Teddy so beautifully said you know that the planet that we live on that feeds us that nourishes us that houses us that war is the most devastating thing to the planet. So, from your heart, may you, you know, stand up today be visible today be sharing you can go to at code pink at Instagram and Twitter, and Facebook and share what we've been sharing the visuals and actions. So, you know, share our call today to, you know, fire Newland, we used to give pink slips it but I'm afraid that that that metaphor is is not not understood so much anymore we used to get pink slips when we were fired and when we started keeping 20 years ago we would dress up in pink slips and say fire bush. I wish I had my pink slip today to say fire Newland. Because war drives oppression gender violence, the women are the first to pay the price of war and they are doing it today around the world. So, let us be engaged. Let us remember let's stand on the shoulders of the women that have come before us. Remember them spend time today remembering those she rose that shoulders you stand on it have inspired you to be who you are that have been those strong voices that have spoken out. You stand on their shoulders really consciously today, pick up a book and read something that inspired you from a woman, and then be engaged in every way you can take a sign to your farmers market today or someplace that's visible. Be a stand for peace today and every day but let's start with today and let's start with joining us in the streets on March 18, where we can be visible together in the East Coast please we have, I think, 20 cities where we're taking buses from, and we have but we have, you know, Penn Avenue outside the White House. Think about being there with the throng of women and men saying no to this war. Think about what it will do for the anxiety in your heart because we know it could pink the only only recognizable feature of hope is action be in action with us and all the ways you can thank you for being with us. Peace and bread. International Women's Day. Thank you Grace for hosting for holding the container for being so amazing thank you, ESA for holding the container of all the actions on International Women's Day. Thank you for all the voices that have spoken out today, and we'll see you later. We have more to come. We have Alice Walker. Later at the last session we have the indigenous leader of Sonya from Brazil that will be joining us so stay tuned be inspired could think we say educate inspire and activate may we all be tuning forks for peace. Thank you Jodi and thank you to all the speakers. I'm going to take I'm going to give it to ESA right now to talk about our International Women's Day toolkit and further actions and ways that you can be contributing to our coalition today. Hi everyone. Thank you everyone for your your amazing words. Check in if anyone is planning to do any in person actions today as Jodi mentioned to use that hashtag IWD and wars along with International Women's Day. And if you do take to the streets please send me photos I'm going to share my email right now, and we can make sure to uplift those. And if you don't have a poster if you don't have a banner it's not too late. We have some info on our toolkit website, some inspiration you could head to FedEx you can print things out at home. It's a great hub if you wanted to have some visuals at your in person actions. Thank you so much ESA and thank you for everyone who is here today speaking everyone who came into be to be in community with us. We have two more webinars today. The second one being at 2pm Pacific 4pm Central 5pm Eastern, and the end of the day reflection 6pm Pacific 8pm Central 9pm Eastern. Both webinars will have more speakers, both from Code Pink and Global Voices, as well as time to reflect and discuss International Women's Day 2023 and as multiple speakers presented ongoing actions and events to promote and to be thinking about as we head through women's history month I thank you all for being here for our first webinar. This link will gain access for you for the other two webinars as well. So don't be looking out for another zoom link this is the one you'll use. This is ESA said if you are in action in person today please be tagging us using the hashtag IWD and war and all the other International Women's Day hashtags that are being used. Thank you all so much, and I'll see you at the next webinar. Excuse me. There's no, there's no, there's no question and answer, or can I make a comment if I may. The last webinar that we have will have a time for reflection and discussion as well the last webinar of the day. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. Have a good day everyone see you soon.


I'm currently driving northbound through Israel. This time I'm going somewhere I've wanted to go for literally years. It's called Ghadjar. It is a border town that if you look at the map, its location is fascinating. It's technically half of the town is over the international border between Israel and Lebanon. So after three long hours of travel from Jerusalem, we have made it to the village of Ghadjar. This is really exciting because it used to be not so long ago, the last time we tried to come here about a year ago, there is an IDF checkpoint, an Israeli Army checkpoint at the entrance to the village. It's still there. But now that Israel has opened access to civilians, you can get further. Now what's also interesting is that just a little bit past that IDF checkpoint and pretty much where I'm standing, all the stuff you can see in the background here. So for those interested in Israeli borders and yes, border spotting is the thing. You can get right up to borders between Israel and its neighbouring countries for reasons of security. Typically those areas that do really, really about the border are called closed military zones and only the IDF can go in them. So this is typically what it looks like. The fences all have these numbers on them, barbed wire, stuff that tells you you're approaching a border. So where I am recording this video from is just at the entrance to the village. The blue line, I'm going to pinpoint exactly at what point we cross the blue line. It's about probably 50 metres up that way. This road actually crosses the blue line. And the blue line is effectively Israel's de facto border with Lebanon. The countries are technically at war. So it's not a border that's been agreed upon, but that serves as the international border. So where we are at the moment is the entrance to Rajar. People are coming in and out of the village. It's an al-await village. We're going to check out a little bit of stuff that is in on the Israeli side. We're going to check a little bit of stuff that technically is in Lebanon. One more thing I will say, there's signage up from the Israeli army, from the IDF asking for visitors to treat the local residents with respect. So I'm trying my best, despite holding a microphone, not to make too much of a spectacle of this. But if we can get anyone to talk about their life in the village, that will be amazing as well. So where I am currently standing at this point in Rajar and this road, according to Google Maps, I'm standing almost exactly on the blue line. The site of the village this way was the Clalit Health Clinic. One of the health funds is located on the Israeli side. And if I swing around this way and I start walking backwards for about 10 meters trying not to get in the way of traffic, I'm now crossing into Lebanon. And on the Lebanese side, the blue line. As you can see on Google Maps, I'm now over the blue line and in Lebanon. So clearly the blue line itself, the de facto border, is not demarcated in Rajar, but you can pass between the two sides freely. And that's what makes this, for border spotters, one of the most interesting villages in the world. So I'm recording this video on the lookout point in Rajar. And what you can see behind me, all those houses in the distance over here and also over in this direction, located across a riverbed, only probably about 100 meters away, those houses are in Lebanon. Now, I was wondering from my limited abilities to research this place on Google Maps, how Israel could have taken control over the entirety of this village while half of it being a Lebanese territory. The answer is that there is a sort of, I guess de facto border fence running around this village which is physically cutting it off from the rest of South Lebanon, which otherwise would just be somewhere you could walk into from any point here and it's crazy to think about. The history of Rajar is fascinating, like many places in this part of the world, it's changed hands many times over the course of history. Most interestingly perhaps since 1967, in 1967 Israel conquered the Golan Heights or according to lots of international community members, occupied the Golan Heights and when that happened, the village of Rajar was for two months effectively in Oman's land. It was used to be part of Syria, now integrated into Israel. The villagers petitioned the Israeli governor of the Golan, the newly appointed Israeli governor in order to be integrated into Israel, even those Alawites, they feel their identity is more towards Syria. Now, of course, given the blue line demarcation, the fact that this village was halfway over the line was problematic and has been the subject of a lot of disputes since. Also worth pointing out, you can see behind me as well in the background, a couple of UN stations and the UN blue line, which is the de facto international border between Israel and Lebanon is actually marked out with these kind of little blue cylinders and the exact course of the blue line itself is a matter of dispute. There's a UN mission, UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. A major part of their mission is coordinating the exact route of the border between the Lebanese armed forces, the LAF and the Israeli army, the IDF. So we plan to interview residents of Rajar about their identity and that go drinking in the blue line restaurant has kind of failed on both counts because the blue line restaurant, which is a restaurant on the Lebanese side, is not open currently and there's literally almost no one here. It's kind of eerie. We've seen like a few kids playing on the streets, but that's pretty much it. All the houses around where we're traveling here, they just look empty. So it's kind of a strange place. Didn't get to do quite the investigative piece of documentary work that I was hoping for here. But nevertheless, if you are here and you want to check out Rajar, besides all the border stuff, I think it's a really fascinating place and perhaps you'll have better luck than me in solving the mystery of this village.


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I'm Flynn from Ambassador Labs, and I'll be talking a bit about our experiences working with Envoy as part of the Emissary Ingress Project. In particular, I'll talk about some things we learned along the way, some of the things that helped us out, and, of course, some of the challenges we ran into. If you're not familiar with Emissary, it's an open-source, self-service, Kubernetes-native, resilient API gateway built to top Envoy. It can be used in a lot of different ways, but its bread and butter is managing access at the edge of your cluster. Envoy does all the heavy lifting of wrangling your data, and Emissary, in turn, wrangles the Envoy. Emissary is a CNCF incubating project, and it forms the open core of the Ambassador edge stack. If you're familiar with the Ambassador API gateway name, Emissary is the same thing. The name changed with the CNCF donation. To lay my biases for this talk on the table, the way the Emissary project uses Envoy is that we take an Envoy image, wrap custom control plane logic around it, and then that's the Emissary image. Just to complicate things further, it's a custom-built Envoy, since there are still a couple of things that we need to use that are not in mainline Envoy. So that's the lens through which I tend to look at Envoy. However, I expect that this talk should be applicable to other use cases as well. We started learning lessons about Envoy actually before the Emissary project existed. Back then, before Ambassador Labs, who was even called Ambassador Labs, we used to host the Microservices Practitioner summits, and at our summit in January of 2017, we heard to talk about this shiny new Envoy proxy thing by this guy named Matt Klein that you may have heard of by now. Envoy came across sounding pretty cool, and when I got back to Boston, I ended up taking a close look at how well it took to Kubernetes. It turned out that it worked pretty well, but it was considerably more painful to set up than we would have liked. So that was our first lesson about Envoy. It was extremely powerful. It was extremely performant, but it could be painfully complex. And of course, you can say pretty much all the same things about Kubernetes as well. So in pain, there are opportunities, and it looked pretty clear to us that we had an opportunity to make that experience of using Envoy as a Kubernetes Edge proxy really much more pleasant. That was the actual start of the Emissary project. We wanted to go through and set things up so that developers could use Envoy in Kubernetes without having to spend time becoming an expert in either Envoy or Kubernetes. And really just making it possible wasn't good enough. We wanted to make it easy. To state the obvious, this is a pretty big ask. Taking a powerful, flexible, complex tool like Envoy and making it accessible to non-experts is hard. Part of the reason it's hard just to state the obvious again is that it doesn't make any sense to just take Envoy, slap the name Emissary on it, and then lean for everything else the same. That's kind of pointless. Instead, Emissary really needed to be its own thing, distinct from Envoy. And given that Envoy is very powerful and very flexible already, the things that could really differentiate Emissary from Envoy or from other tools built on top of Envoy were not likely to be things dealing with our expertise with Envoy or cool little technical things that we added. They were much, much more likely to come from our choices about the things Emissary should make easy or the things Emissary wouldn't support. And what exactly the user experience with Emissary was going to be like. Another counter-intuitive thing we learned here was that in many cases, adding options really just adds confusion. An early version of Emissary allowed configuration using files on the file system or Kubernetes config maps or Kubernetes CRDs. We had all three choices because we thought that people would appreciate having the options. And in fact, some of the more expert users did. But after a little while, we realized that overwhelmingly having those three options discussed was just confusing newcomers. And things really got much smoother with the product once we removed the choices of files on disk or Kubernetes config maps and just drove everybody towards CRDs. So given that Envoy is a complex powerful thing, we were trying to make a complex powerful thing accessible to non-experts in a meaningful way that would actually add value for them. And we realized that that requires being opinionated. So that was our second real lesson. Although we needed to go out and gain enough expertise to form good opinions and to be able to act on them, the expertise was going to end up being secondary to those opinions. That kind of meant that we needed to shift gears from thinking hard about the technology to thinking hard about the humans that would be using it. We ended up borrowing the idea of persona-based design from the user experience world for this. We created a developer persona named Jane in mid-2017. Her ops counterpart Julian came a little bit after that. But all throughout the project, we've used them to help us think about how Emissary is going to be used and to help us drive that process of forming opinions and distilling expertise down into value we can add. To this day, the toughest thing that we do regularly working on Emissary is working out semantics that simultaneously make sense to Jane and Julian, are explainable to Jane and Julian, and still fit with Envoy's semantics as well. And designing for the humans first always sounds obvious, but we constantly relearn how hard it is to really do it well. So the first few lessons here, these are mostly things that we learned while we figured out what our goals were going to be and put together some tools to give us a place to stand while gaining the expertise that we needed in order to actually execute toward those goals. Actually gaining the expertise had its own challenges and its own lessons. The first one we run into is that we as an industry have a big problem around the learning curve that we tend to throw at novices. Imagine for a moment a new cook going over to the range, hauling out their cooking documentation and finding something like this that gives them detailed explanations about what every control does and exactly what setting it's changing. This is not what they need. It's all true information that's very important to have available, but what the novice really needs, at first, is a sense of how to accomplish a goal that they have in mind. They need a set of instructions. Even better, they need a guide that can talk to them about the kinds of things that are even possible with the thing that they're working with, because they don't have that yet. I'm going to show a simple example illustrating this with Envoy because this is a talk about Envoy, but I want to be very clear here that this is not a place where Envoy stands out. It's a ubiquitous problem in the whole industry. I could just as easily have pulled examples from Kubernetes or from Emissary itself or from Unix or really any piece of technology I've ever worked with. But grabbing one from Envoy, there's a thing in Envoy called a filter chain which is able to act on an incoming network connection. Within a filter chain, there's a thing called a filter chain match which specifies which connections are going to match a given bit of Envoy configuration. One thing you can match on is the server name and there's excellent reference documentation on all of this stuff. What the reference documentation will not tell you is that the server name match doesn't work at all for HTTP.  This level of thing, this filter that we're working with is operating on a new connection, a new HTTP connection that doesn't use TLS and SNI, doesn't have a server name on which to filter. You have to wait to get the server name until you've read all the HTTP headers and that's later, that's not the stage that's going on yet. So the challenge here is not that the information is wrong because it's not, it's perfectly correct. The challenge is that it relies on concepts that a newcomer to Envoy will not have internalized. And really, when you get down to it, one of the most important differences between a novice and an expert isn't that the expert knows how to do more things than the novice knows, it's that the expert has a mental model about what is possible so they know where to look to figure out how to do it. The novice doesn't have any of that. And again, I want to stress one more time, this is by no means unique to Envoy. We could pull examples from this straight out of the emissary documentation as well. It's really not about Envoy or not just about Envoy. The lesson here is that, again, the expert already has the mental model to make good use of the reference materials but the newcomer needs a curriculum to guide them while they form those models and creating that curriculum is really hard, although it's also really valuable. First recommendation here if you're building on Envoy. Okay, so start with remembering that Envoy is not likely to be something you swap into and out of your product, it's gonna be more of an investment. So it'll be up to you to decide which areas you spend more time in and which you spend less time in. Make the docs a place to spend more time, both in the sense of creating good documentation for your own product, but also in the sense of spending time with the Envoy documentation itself to learn what's going on. Specifically with the documentation, Envoy's introduction and getting started sections are really good, they tend to get overlooked a lot. You know, go in, spend some time with them. Any time you're trying to build your own curriculum out of reference materials, it's an iterative sort of thing. You should plan to keep prowling around in the docs repeatedly while you're learning and you should expect to have your brain feel awfully full every so often as well. It's all part of it. Building the mental models takes time. Anything that we can do to improve the experience of building those mental models is a good thing for our users. The next challenge we ran into is that Envoy moves very, very quickly. It's not something where you just become an expert and be finished. You have to maintain your expertise over time. This has to do again with the fact that yeah, it's an investment. Just in the time that I have been working with Envoy, I count 62 releases. We've gone through three major versions of the Envoy API with a fourth in the works and I literally have lost count of the number of new features that have been added. Things move very, very quickly. Given that speed, you will need to pay some more attention than you might expect to, to deal with bug fixes and new versions and things like that.  Because in the case of a distributor, you have to pay extra attention to security releases given that they always have a deadline and they almost always require action. So the most important recommendation here is that you always invest in keeping up with mainline Envoy, especially if you're a distributor. I can tell you from sad experience that it's not really much fun at all to scramble to manage a security release when you've diverged significantly from the mainline. In turn, that implies that it's worth thinking carefully before you commit to shipping a custom Envoy build. So that also raises a question. Why did we decide to ship a custom Envoy build? Historically, this is because of Auth. When we started, there was not an Auth service in Envoy that did what we needed, so we wrote our own. Since then, our Auth protocol has been added. It's the HTTP protocol in the mainline XDOTZ filter now. But by the time that happened, we'd added some other small tweaks, mostly around backward compatibility for our users. And those can be kind of challenging to get into the mainline. So although we're moving closer and closer to being able to use a stock build, it's gonna take a little while yet. This permitted us to do a lot of things, but it has definitely been costly in other ways. If I were starting now, I'd probably look very, very carefully at Wasm before committing to hacking on Envoy C++ code. If you decide to go for a custom build anyway, keeping up with the mainline goes at least triple. It's difficult to manage security releases and go ahead and track new features and things like that if you have to jump across many Envoy commits at once. Much, much easier to just go through and handle small numbers of commits at a time. You should also be aware when you're thinking about this one that you will need to spend some time coming up to speed with Envoy's code base. It's pretty complex. Envoy uses C++ quite carefully, but every C++ project has its own project-specific idioms that you have to sort of get used to and Envoy's no exception there. Envoy's code is also heavily, heavily performance tuned enough so that it makes certain things that you would expect to look really easy actually look quite a bit more complex so that they can be faster. Another thing to be aware of is that building and testing Envoy tends to really benefit from beefy hardware. Within Ambassador Labs, we tend to run Envoy builds and Envoy tests on a pretty beefy GCEVM with lots of cores and a ton of RAM so that we can run the tests from a RAM disk. Makes it really fast and it really drives home how painful it would be to try to run it on all of my Macintosh. And you know, I said it before, but it's worth repeating. Think carefully about whether you really need to commit to diving into the C++ and shipping your own custom build. You can contribute to the mainline without pinning your product to a custom build that may turn out to be a better plan, especially as Wazem and Lua are better supported and more performant. So finally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention a very positive lesson here, which is that the maintainers and the community around Envoy have both been really, really wonderful. Back in the time before COVID, Ambassador Labs was located closely enough to a bunch of the people working on Envoy in Cambridge, Massachusetts that we could and did get together with them, talk over things, get to know people. It was always a huge win. The maintainers and the community have always been very gracious and very helpful and overall, strong recommendation to get to know Envoy's people. It'll be a big help and besides is very pleasant. So to recap, lessons learned. Yes, Envoy can be very complex. If you want to use it without a team of SREs devoted to it, you will need to be carefully opinionated and you'll need to be opinionated in ways that resonate with the humans that you want to support. That is gonna take a significant amount of time and energy to sort out all of that. You're gonna need to start right now by taking the available reference material and building a curriculum for yourself that will let you develop the expertise that you need to do all this and you'll need to do it while the product is moving very rapidly under you. On the other hand, you'll have a great set of people around you to help out with that. In terms of recommendations, first, recognize that you're making an investment here with Envoy. Be careful how you approach it, obviously, but always invest in the documentation both in the sense of studying the Envoy docs, being prepared to dive back into it more than once, and in the sense of building your own docs to help your own users. Likewise, always invest in keeping up with the mainline Envoy. If you're shipping your own custom Envoy, this isn't a specially big deal. Even if you don't, you're gonna need to do it because the project is moving very quickly and it will help you a lot to not be behind. Finally, get to know the people. They're great, they're a great resource, always a good thing. So, thanks much for joining in. If you are looking for more information, you can find Emissary on GitHub. You can always join the Ambassador Labs Public Slack or just drop me a line at flintedatowire.io. Thanks much.


So I wanted to direct all of your attention to antitrustsummer.com So I know a lot of my viewers care about net neutrality and you know internet issues with regard to privacy and internet freedom So this right here is something that I want to draw your attention to because we actually have an opportunity To accomplish some really good things so breaking the Senate is expected to vote on antitrust bills S2992 and S2710 in a matter of weeks antitrust summer is on now We'll go to each of these bills and then I'll explain why they're important But first big tech giants are violating our rights and undermining our democracy And because they abuse their monopoly power to stifle competition many of us don't have other choices Fortunately, US Congress has finally introduced legislation to put people back in control of tech Tell your elected officials to pass antitrust reform legislation and stop big tech from dominating our lives So what this gets to the heart of is all of these monopolies Most of you I would imagine you only have access to one internet service provider You know if you go online and you want to shop I mean who do you go to first usually Amazon Maybe Walmart comm I mean the internet has become monopolized You know there's monopolies everywhere in every single sector So these bills are important because they are going to fight that and they're actually good bills So this website antitrust summer dot com links you to both of these bills But here's what the open app markets act does this is HR 7030 or S2710 in the Senate Would protect developers rights to tell consumers about lower prices and offer competitive pricing Protect side loading of apps open up competitive avenues for startup apps Third-party app stores and payment services make it possible for developers to offer new experiences That take advantage of consumer device features give consumers more control over their devices Prevent app stores from disadvantaged developers and set safeguards to continue to protect privacy Security and safety of consumers So all of you can probably understand the implications of this just by reading that But think about the ways that all of these app stores who dominate are able to control smaller apps Control developers you know if you want to put an app into people's phones you've got to go through Google You've got to go through the iOS app store they can charge prices they can filter out content that they don't like Or app developers or apps that they don't like So what this would just do is even the playing field right that's really important Now for the American innovation and choice online act HR 3816 in the house Bill S 2992 in the Senate would prevent dominant platforms from abusing their gatekeeper power By favoring their own products or services Disadvantaging rivals or discriminating among business businesses that use their platforms in a manner That would materially harm competition on the platform So just off the bat I know that you all can think of examples of this So if you go to Amazon for example and you search for an HDMI cable Well there's nothing really stopping Amazon currently from recommending their own brand Amazon basics right But there's hundreds of other companies that sell HDMI cables So why should these companies who have monopolies online Why should these companies who are dominant be allowed to take their items and push it to the top Same with Google you know if they want to direct you to one of their products that they sell Well if you Google something if you Google phones what's to stop them from placing you know their own products at the very top So this is incredibly important so this is about fairness and these bills are really surprisingly good So for example by preventing another business's product or service from interoperating with the dominant platform Or another business by requiring a business to buy a dominant platforms goods or services Or for preferred placement on its platform by misusing a business's data to compete against them Or by biasing search results in favor of the dominant firm Now if this is really confusing don't worry so believe it or not Mainstream media cover this and I'm talking about John Stuart I can't play this clip for you but John Stuart released a 26 minute segment nearly 27 minute segment Going over all of this in really really great detail And I would highly encourage you to watch that this video is linked on antitrustsummer.com But since I can't play it for you I just want to read this article from Gizmodo This was written by Mac D. Giran that kind of goes over what John Oliver is saying here Comedian John Oliver decided to wade into the antitrust battleground this week and he didn't hold back any punches Oliver devoted 25 minutes of his most recent last week tonight show to discuss general big tech badness And advocated in favor of a pair of historic antitrust bills currently being considered in Congress The Comedian zeroes in on claims made by advocacy groups and small businesses And small business that giants like Google and Meta engage in anti competitive self-preferencing behavior That essentially cements their status as unrivaled dominators And that's what really is important, right? Because once you make it, once you're big, you can use the power that you've accumulated to keep others from being as successful as you are And so this is similar but not identical to the net neutrality fight So if you'll recall net neutrality was about keeping the internet free and open So if Comcast wanted to make more money by selling you internet packages Rather than just charging you 100 bucks a month for all of the internet Well they could in theory without net neutrality charge you 29.99 for the social media package Another 15.99 if you want to add on the entertainment package with Netflix, Hulu You know without net neutrality there's nothing stopping them from carving up the internet in order to increase profits And you know if you have a monopoly if there's no other internet service provider that you can go to Well they can do that because you have no fucking choice, right? So that's why their power has to be reigned in and efforts like this They help with that effort During the segment Oliver took aim at Apple's roughly 30% App Store commission fee Referred to as the Apple tax by critics which he jokingly described as blood money Oliver then took a stab at Google which he criticized for exploiting its market dominance in search Researches estimate that Google possesses over 90% of the search market share Oliver cited research claiming two thirds of all those Google searches never actually result in a user leaving a related Google property Imagine searching Google for a food recipe only to be directed to an alphabet-owned YouTube video That Oliver argues is self-preferencing in actions Google's algorithm shouldn't determine whether or not someone's business is real Oliver said referring to businesses like Yelp who's accused Google of stealing their content and argued The tech giant self-preferencing has limited their visibility and reach So we're not going to go further I'm going to recommend that you watch the segment But the article is there if you want to read it These are really really important bills so I would highly encourage you to go to antitrustsummer.com Sign up, contact your representative, your senator and let them know that they need to support these pieces of legislation Because it would actually be a game changer in terms of increasing fairness on the internet


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Hei, ychydig. Yn ystod, mae'n gweithio'n gwaith yma y ceisio fyrda'ch bod ychydig yn rhan i gyfael eich narhys. Peidiwch, yn ymgyrch, rydyn nhw'n dweud yw'r cyflaid. Mae'r gweithio'r cyfrifwyr ar y cyfrifwyr yw'r gweithio'r gwahanol. Wrth fy modd i'r dynig, mae'r dychwyn i'r gwahanol o'r gweithio'r ffwrdd. Fe eich gweithio'r gweithio'r gyfrifwyr yn ychwanolol, yang fod yn gwneud wrtho i at Narksfav tspwysiwn ar d diyorsun. Rwy'n deall yn gallu tynnu'n tyfu ar hynol. Rwy'n deall yn llwyfa'r bod tan yr ymaraffaidd sy'n gwybod ac yn gallu ddweud o'r amser, ar y cyfnodd gan yna'r perthynau cyfnodd arloedol, rydyn ni'n gwybod yn ei hyn o heddiw i gyddolol yma, ac mae'r rhannau ar hyn. เข yn ei gweithio'r brifysgol o gydweithio ar hynodd, Ychydig. Yn gyfydd. Wyth o ddim yn cerddur i'ch ymgynghwytaeth. Wyth o ddim yn cerddur i'ch cymryd ymgynghwysin. Er fydd y chywbeth ar y ddweud o'riliau, hynny'n oedd eich ganchydig i'r mynd yng Nghym. Ond y cw parachute er mwyn i'w unedig i'r heil. Mae hyn yn roi'r hyffordd, ffordd ac o'r dynryd. Mae'n addysgu dyfodol a'r viadau yng Nghymddiaeth mewn o'r unrhyw. Mae'n adeg i ddweud o'r lliad, that are potentially dangerous or harmful to you. Or at the very least things that are unfavourable to you. They engage in acts of abuse, manipulation, stalking, harassment, cheating, lying, stealing, illegal activities, they get you caught up in all kinds of stuff i chi i'w ddifwgol o'r wyf yn ymwneud o'r ffordd y gallwn gwasanaeth. Llywodraeth i ni'n fryw i'w rhan o'r cyffredinol yn dwylo. Llywodraeth i ni'n ddod i chi i ddweud y byddol o'r honno o'r ddignodau. Llywodraeth i ni i'w ddweud y byddol o'r cyffredinol. Llywodraeth i ni'n gwybodol o'r byddol o'r llwyddoedd, Llywodraeth i ni i'w ddweud o'r ddweud o'r byddol o'r byddol o'r cyffredinol. sy'n credu ei wneud yn ddod yn fawr o'r byw, o'ch gwaith ei fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o fewn. Rwy'n gŷn oed i'r ddweud â hynny. Gŷn eich fawr o fewn yw'r ddweud â'r ddweud y pwlo i'ch gael gan gael'u gwybod o ran i'w mwy oed yn dweud, o'ch rhan fwy o'r ddweud o fewn, o'ch gŷn oed i'ch gweithio'r ddweud â hynny. If they had any respect for you or the people around them, they would not be engaged in such an ethical act, they clearly have no respect for family or their children, or the consequences of how their actions may affect them, all they care about is what they want in that moment, regardless of how it affects anyone around them. You may think that you are trying to help or change them, but they don't want help. They don't want to change. They prefer dysfunctional environments where they are able to engage in an ethical act to get what they want from people. If they wanted help or if they wanted to change, they wouldn't be operating in this way. They would be trying to make changes in order to correct or improve their behaviour and the effects that it is having on you or the people around them. I'm not disputing about toxic or dysfunctional people who are trying to change or improve their lives. The most important thing is what they are doing right now, rather than what they have done in the past. The difference is that narcissists are engaged in unethical acts right now in the present. This isn't something they have done 5 or 10 years ago. This is something that is still ongoing and it's not something that is going to change anytime soon. So if you are around these types of people who engage in unethical acts and have no desire or intention to change, you should feel ashamed. You should feel embarrassed or guilty and whether you know it or not, you might even be enabling their behaviour to continue. When you associate yourself with these types of people, it means that you support their behaviour.  You are involved with them. You are connected to them. If you do not approve of what they are doing, you need to separate yourself from them.  They have tricked or manipulated you into believing that you need to change for them or you need to prove yourself to them when all you are really doing is accommodating their unethical behaviour. You need to separate yourself from these people. You need to rebuild your self-worth and your self-esteem. Learn to respect yourself. Practice self-love. Remind yourself what is right and what is wrong. Then you will have no desire to be around these people. You will know when you are beginning to rebuild your self-worth and your self-esteem and when you are beginning to love and respect yourself. That is when you will begin to feel shameful for being around them.  You don't want to be involved with people who engage in unethical behaviour. They might try to force themselves into your life and get you involved in it so that they can feel less shameful about what they are doing but you know you are better than that.  You are greater than them.  They tried to turn you against yourself and make you believe that you didn't deserve any better. This is something the narcissist greatly fears for you to wake up and realise that you deserve so much better than what they have to offer. They manipulated or tricked you into giving your power to them but when you take your power back and look at them for what they are you have no reason to stick around. Thank you for watching. I hope this video will resonate with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate my PayPal links in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at narxfathercoaching at gmail.com. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


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