Yes, I'm an annoying online loudmouth. But disapproval/discomfort won't shut me up. Not when we need to keep speaking up for Palestinian people; especially now that Israel has cut off their internet and won't allow the outside world in to provide much needed aid.
My online behaviour spills into offline.
Recently, my opposition to apartheid Israel was recorded in parliament minutes. Along with bizarre defamation spoken under parliamentary privilege.
I've lost work, a prestigious literary award and money for opposing the state of Israel's genocide of Palestinian people.
At least one organisation is currently conducting a risk assessment on me (I don't think they'll cancel my contract, but if they do, that's a price I'm prepared to pay for speaking up).
Since being platformed on literary stages in 2020, I've used the mic to call out apartheid Israel's crimes against humanity.
I have taken risks to speak up, online and offline, and have paid the price. But the price will never be as severe as what Palestinians have been enduring today...for 21 months....77 years. For Palestine to be free, we all need to be willing to pay the price of speaking up/taking action.
There are more of us than them!
Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!
![STOP DOING MUSIC DISTRO
* Music was never meant to be algorithmed
* YEARS of spotify streams and yet NO REAL-WORLD MONEY PAID
* Wanted to support artists? We had a tool for that: It was called Bandcamp
* "Yes, please give me 0.00001 cents a stream, please give me $10 for 5 years of streaming content" - Statements dreamed up by evil execs
* LOOK at what SPOTIFY, DISTROKID, and CDBABY have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the music and audiences we built for them. (This is REAL music distro, done by REAL distributors)
(quote 1): Subscribers will be able to mix together songs from different artists. Some of those features [will utilize artificial intelligence], the people said.
(quote 2): Starting in April 2024, tracks must have reached a threshold of at least 1000 streams in the previous 12 months to be included in the recorded music royalty pool calculation.
"Hello I would like zero dollars per stream please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7520457 "STOP DOING MUSIC DISTRO
* Music was never meant to be algorithmed
* YEARS of spotify streams and yet NO REAL-WORLD MONEY PAID
* Wanted to support artists? We had a tool for that: It was called Bandcamp
* \"Yes, please give me 0.00001 cents a stream, please give me $10 for 5 years of streaming content\" - Statements dreamed up by evil execs
* LOOK at what SPOTIFY, DISTROKID, and CDBABY have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the music and audiences we built for them. (This is REAL music distro, done by REAL distributors)
(quote 1): Subscribers will be able to mix together songs from different artists. Some of those features [will utilize artificial intelligence], the people said.
(quote 2): Starting in April 2024, tracks must have reached a threshold of at least 1000 streams in the previous 12 months to be included in the recorded music royalty pool calculation.
\"Hello I would like zero dollars per stream please\"
They have played us for absolute fools")
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