Senior consultant for civil society outreach and communications at the World Bank Group. Tweets are mine.
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John Garrison retweeted
Quem assistiu ao Em Pauta de ontem (27/07) na GloboNews deve ter ficado horrorizado com a descrição da apresentadora sobre a vacilação do governo em receber Zelensky. Ela divulgou a falsa versão petista sobre o desencontro do líder ucraniano com Lula no G7 e ainda justificou a "neutralidade" do Itamaraty (se recebesse Zelensky, teria que fazer o mesmo com Putin), dizendo, como se fosse verdade, que a América Latina tem uma visão diferente sobre o conflito (sem mencionar que quem mais discorda, já não se diga, do apoio à resistência ucraniana, mas pelo menos da ajuda humanitária a um país barbaramente invadido, são as ditaduras de Cuba, da Venezuela e da Nicarágua, aliadas do ditador russo). Não sei o que a emissora fará, no futuro, para se recuperar desse tipo de "jornalismo", que mais parece assessoria de imprensa do governo.
John Garrison retweeted
Fui um crítico contumaz do lavajatismo (o movimento que instrumentalizou a operação Lava Jato com objetivos políticos), sobretudo pela compreensão pedestre de democracia de seus agentes. Mas não posso concordar com a falsificação em curso, que tenta reescrever a história para dizer que seus acusados e condenados (alguns depois descondenados) não cometeram crime algum e que tudo não passou de armação dos neofascistas a serviço dos americanos para destruir Lula, a direção do PT e as grandes empresas brasileiras. Não! Houve crime, houve confissão, houve dinheiro devolvido e, mais grave, houve um tipo inédito de corrupção - sistêmica, coordenada centralizadamente - com objetivos políticos estratégicos de poder.
Live session on work and role of independent accountability mechanisms explaining how these mechanisms strive to ensure that projects funded by international financial institutions benefit and not harm local communities.
[Happening Now] Outreach seminar on "Development with Accountability" by independent accountability mechanisms of ADB, AIIB, IFC/MIGA, UNDP and World Bank.
Zoom: AIIB.zoom.us/j/94852784545
Meeting ID: 948 5278 4545
Passcode: Moos2023
YouTube Live Stream: youtube.com/live/ZZzfWq6U1
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Massive Online Open Seminar on the role and work of the independent accountability mechanisms of the international development institutions happening now!
[Happening Now] Outreach seminar on "Development with Accountability" by independent accountability mechanisms of ADB, AIIB, IFC/MIGA, UNDP and World Bank.
Zoom: AIIB.zoom.us/j/94852784545
Meeting ID: 948 5278 4545
Passcode: Moos2023
YouTube Live Stream: youtube.com/live/ZZzfWq6U1
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John Garrison retweeted
"Russia has realized it can’t have Ukraine, so now it means to destroy it, making it unlivable." Russia will fail with that project too though. Russians are too incompetent to succeed, just barbaric enough to try.
Today Russia hit Ukrainian Danube agriculture ports.
Russia continues to look for a week link. So far, it has tried:
1. A blitz attack on Kyiv
2. A siege and destruction of Mariupol, including murdering tens of thousands of civilians.
3. A brutal grinding campaign in Bakhmut
4. Winter attacks on energy infrastructure, blackouts, freezing civilians
5. Torture, rape, and murder of civilians in occupied territories
6. Randomized terror across the country with drone and missile attacks
7. Targeted missile attacks on oil refineries and storage
8. Attacks and destruction of cultural symbols, historical buildings, churches and cathedrals
9. Forced deportations from occupied territories.
10. Separation of children from their parents and moving them to different parents
11. Kakhovka dam and flooding Kherson
12. Constant shelling of cities close to the front lines: Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia
11. And now an attack on ports and agricultural infrastructure
Most of these attacks are targeted at civilians.
Despite all of these attacks, Ukraine exists, fights back, adapts, and adjusts.
The economy is functioning. The military is holding the line and brining back the territory and people.
Russia has realized it can’t have Ukraine, so now it means to destroy it, making it unlivable.
I don’t think Russia wants to negotiate or, actually, anything at all. It wants to teach Ukraine and everyone a lesson: resist and you will be destroyed.
But it is not working. Ukraine has become a united nation. Ukrainian have shown the best of courage and humanity.
What’s next? Russia will continue to destroy Ukraine economy and terrorize people. Notice how it is wasting resources from the military perspective. It could have used all these drones and missiles on military targets, but … it goes after civilians and civilian infrastructure.
And Ukraine will continue to resist.
Eventually something will snap. Ukrainian believe it will be Putin and Russia. Putin believes it will be Ukrainians.
I am in the first camp. That why I am in Ukraine, staying here, fighting here.
John Garrison retweeted
Join us for the virtual outreach seminar on "Development with Accountability".
July 25, 5pm Beijing Time
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Meeting ID: 948 5278 4545
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Join ADB and other Multilateral Development Banks tomorrow at 5 pm (GMT+8) and learn how to file a complaint about environmental and social issues, and more.
📺 Watch the event here: ow.ly/KtZM50Pj8ni
John Garrison retweeted
Join us for the virtual outreach seminar on "Development with Accountability".
July 25, 5pm Beijing Time
Confirm your attendance: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Zoom: AIIB.zoom.us/j/94852784545
Meeting ID: 948 5278 4545
Passcode: Moos2023
YouTube Live Stream: youtube.com/live/ZZzfWq6U1fU…
John Garrison retweeted
Quite possibly the best political ad ever made. And I bet Marge Greene hates this. Makes it even better.
John Garrison retweeted
Quem também já está no Threads? Cheguei na nova rede e quero interagir com vocês por lá também! Bora ocupar? threads.net/@randolferodrigu…
John Garrison retweeted
🚨NEW: @CIF_Action will invest $70m to spark Brazil's $9b energy transformation! 🇧🇷
Alongside partners, we're helping
- 2x renewables capacity
- reduce emissions by 57m tCO2e or more
- scale up GH2
- expand clean energy access for 3m+ people.
tinyurl.com/bdfyues9
John Garrison retweeted
Week 254. When you travel without flying, you often find yourself stuck on trains nonstop for several days. Today is one of those days, which means that the Friday strike this week will be from a train. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
John Garrison retweeted
On Monday, @claireheadley and I met with LAPD Chief Michel Moore, several LAPD officials, and an LA City Attorney.
I wanted to thank those of you who have continued to support our efforts to hold law enforcement agencies accountable for their inappropriate relationships with Scientology.
In particular, I want to thank those who took the time to email the LA Police Commission. The pressure you applied helped to get this meeting on the books; I am very grateful.
I want to make something clear, while I have been talking about the LAPD a great deal lately, Scientology's policies about law enforcement aren't explicitly written about the LAPD or any single law enforcement agency for that matter. They are global policies that command Scientologists to curry favor with law enforcement while simultaneously commanding them to threaten Scientologists with total ruin if they dare to report crimes committed against them by other Scientologists.
Working with the LAPD is just one step of a larger plan to hold Scientology and David Miscavige accountable, which is the only way the truth about the many crimes Scientology has covered up over the past seven decades will begin to emerge.
John Garrison retweeted
What a privilege to be in Brasilia with partners and friends to celebrate 15 years of @CIF_Action!
Grateful for Brazilian hospitality and the incredible community of changemakers gathered here, setting the stage for the next 15 years of this partnership.
tinyurl.com/2ntvjzd6 – at Brasília, Brazil
John Garrison retweeted
1. It's been nearly one month since I respectfully requested a meeting with Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore. I have not even received a form letter in response to my request.
As you can see, I tweeted this request and shared it on other platforms. The request was sent to Chief Moore's Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief Daniel Randolph. It was sent directly to Chief Moore's private @LAPDHQ email address. It was also sent to Chief Moore's director of scheduling.
This is all after we learned that @LAPDChiefMoore met with Scientology Lawyer Vicki Podberesky.
As I noted below, I also learned that Chief Moore has met with Scientology officials and civilian Scientologists both as Chief and Assistant Chief.
Scientology gets to have meetings with the Chief, but a representative for the thousands of survivors of Scientology doesn't.
As promised, I contacted LAPD Chief Michel Moore's office directly to request an in-person meeting.
I look forward to meeting with the Chief to discuss my and many other former Scientologists' concerns about Scientology and its relationship with the LAPD.
@LAPDChiefMoore
ALT I'm writing to request an in-person meeting with Chief Moore to discuss my grave concerns about Scientology's relationship with the LAPD and its impact on victims and survivors of Scientology and the reporting of serious crimes. The LAPD's relationship with Scientology repeatedly comes up as a concern when I am speaking to former Scientologists, particularly Sea Org members (Scientology's paramilitary workforce) who have escaped Scientology buildings in the Hollywood area. But I have also had personal experiences with the LAPD, particularly with LAPD Hollywood Station, that has led me to speak out publicly and to request this meeting with Chief Moore today. I know that Chief Moore met with Vicki Podborasky, a longtime attorney for Scientology, on April 24. I also understand that Chief Moore has not only met with senior Scientology executives in the past but also with civilian Scientologists both in his role as Chief and previously as Assistant Chief.
ALT The thousands of victims and survivors of Scientology deserve, at a minimum, equal time with the Chief so that we may share our significant and urgent concerns with the LAPD at the highest level. I want to meet with Chief Moore to share concerns about Scientology's relationship with the LAPD, Scientology policies that make it a "high crime" within Scientology to cooperate with law enforcement against another Scientologist, and the fact that there is no relationship of trust between former Scientologists and the LAPD. In particular, the fact that former Sea Org members who have recently escaped and are aware of significant crimes being committed by Scientology and its leadership all the way up to David Miscavige do not feel comfortable sharing information with the LAPD because they understandably fear they will not be protected as witnesses. I look forward to hearing from you and to meeting with Chief Moore.
John Garrison retweeted
Think we're being throttled on Twitter -- doing less than a 1/3 of our usual daily traffic on an important news day -- because I put a S*bst*ck link in this thread.
Do give us a RT to help us combat that, will you?
John Garrison retweeted
Happily married for nearly 77 years. God bless them. No presidential couple has done more to bring decency to national life, and they did so at a time, post Watergate, when it was desperately needed. Their life is a model of selfless service. Read @jonalter’s great bio.
