brianpeiris

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NOV 29 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: All out for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 🇵🇸

The people of the world have stood with Palestine for over two years, and we’re not stopping. Since the ceasefire announcement, Israel has massacred hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, attacked the West Bank, and continued its abuse, torture and killing of Palestinian prisoners.

A two-way arms embargo is our movement’s unchanged demand, the only guarantee of ending Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians and systematic theft of our land. So long as weapons and aid flow to Israel, the Zionist occupation will carry on with its genocidal, expansionist project in the region.

On November 29th, we take to the streets. From wherever we are, we will demand an arms embargo now. We will continue confronting Zionism and holding those in power to account for as long as it takes.

The struggle continues this November 29 — we’ll see you on the streets!

📍Bay and Front Street
🗓️ November 29
⏰ 2 PM

I'm boycotting YouTube primarily because of their recent human right censorship against Palestine. But I'd generally like to reduce YouTube's dominance in the streaming space, even if it means supporting a few alternative US-based platforms like Nebula, though obviously PeerTube would be ideal.

Edit: The comments here mention that it would be good to tie the email to monetization, so I'll also be mentioning my support on Patreon in future emails.

Here's the kind of email I'm sending to my favourite creators. You can usually find their email in their channel bio.

Subject: Please consider alternative video platforms

Hello <First Name/Channel Name>,

I'm writing to ask you to please consider uploading your videos to alternative streaming platforms, in addition to, not instead of, YouTube.

I've personally started to move away from YouTube because . Here's another creator who also recently wrote about their reasons for moving off the platform: https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/

I'm currently consuming video content on instead of YouTube.

<INSERT reasons I'm a fan>. I would love to continue watching your content on any other platform, and I'm sure others would appreciate the option to do so as well.

Cheers,

Archive link: https://archive.is/2NfW7

Excerpt:

A new report has found that nearly 40 per cent of Canadian teens who say they have been sexually victimized online say it happened on the private messaging platform Snapchat.

The findings, released by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP) on Tuesday, were collected through a survey based on responses from nearly 1,300 teens themselves.

It comes as calls grow from child safety advocates for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to present new legislation to better protect children online, including by introducing new regulations for tech platforms.

The report from the child protection centre, a national charity which runs a tip line for child sex abuse and exploitation online, calls on platforms to enhance their safety regimes, particularly when it comes to private messaging, citing that it has been where a majority of the teens surveyed reported experiencing some form of online sexual violence.

Related: Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks saw this coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/

Archive link (missing graphs): https://archive.is/mY9sv