Censorship Destroys Part 2

Here are the lists of email addresses to PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard you can contact!

Change.org - Tell MasterCard, Visa, and Collective Shout to STOP CONTROLLING WHAT WE CAN WATCH, READ, OR PLAY

PAYPAL:

Jcriscoe@paypal.com

Nwyman@paypal.com

Ncassley@paypal.com

VISA: 

Askvisa@visa.com

MASTERCARD PR Team:

Seth.Eisen@mastercard.com

William.Tsang@mastercard.com

Jennifer.Erickson@Mastercard.com

Censorship Destroys

There is a transphobic activist group called Collective Shout that has convinced Visa and Mastercard to retract independent creators' ability to make a living from their work on websites such as itch.io! This can and has already impacted small-press, indie authors/artists, and small business creators! Black, brown, LGBTQIA+, women/other diverse genders, and Disabled creators have already been negatively affected by this ready-made compliance. Collective Shout claims it forced Visa's and Mastercard's compliance in the name of "decency" and to "protect women and girls" from "pornographic material", but, we know who it will truly hurt: Black/brown people, POC, women/diverse genders, QUILTBAG+ communities, and disabled communities. 

Bookmark samples!

Some bookmark samples!

Digital wallpaper sample!

One of the samples! 

I Am For Reparations!

I am a fan of Ms. Tabitha [If you have not watched her on YouTube,  check out TabithaSpeaksPolitics and subscribe]! I am a first-gen Jamaican-American. I am still for reparations for all Foundational Black Americans(the direct descendants of enslaved Africans to North America). They built this country. They continue to build this country. Because White America has assimilated and supremacy/colonialism compresses cultures, Black America has had to help create the US Culture that yt supremacy has mostly erased.

SUPERMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN WOKE - Read His D@mn Comicbooks!

People complaining about the new "Woke Superman" film. Dude has been woke since 1938. These folks don't read. Which is why they want to ban books, censor public education, and defund public broadcasting. 

The adult literacy program I volunteered for many years ago taught me the difference between "Alliteracy" and "Illiteracy." The problem we have in the USA isn't ONLY illiteracy, it is ALSO *alliteracy*... People who CAN READ REFUSING TO READ.

Promises Made Are Promises Kept

Several years after my dad's passing, I finally fulfilled my promise to him to repair our family's set of JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLANDS. 

I am not a pro at bookbinding, but I do pretty well repairing books, mostly paperbacks but I do fix the occasional hardcover.

Alt text: 8 old hardcover books with cream-looking marble-like hardcovers with red letters on the spine: JOURNEYS[vertical] Through Booklands[horizontal on 2 lines] below is the same image in red outline as on that volume's lower front cover.