A Bully Boy Chicken behind bars cartoon ‘The Dawn Sturgess public inquiry is also about holding accountable those in positions of power who have faile
Visibility has always been important in people's decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, such as certain mountain peaks, rivers or ancestral sites, could help reinforce a community's connection to its cultural and spiritual landscape.
...well, for me, the situation there is quite unclear - but I guess I see it like this: the fact that some people from "one side of the conflict" would organize terrorist attacks is not, in my opinion, mutually exclusive with the fact that some people from "the other side of the conflict" would organize the murder of civilians as part of a targeted territorial expansion.
After all, even the term terrorism is such a great label - see the saying that:
"Terrorism is the war of the powerless and war is the terrorism of the powerful".
Finaly, I prefer to leave it to people who follow the situation in more detail to argue to the point of blood about who is shedding the blood of the other side more unjustifiably in that area - ideally, of course, people would reject their superior warmongers on both sides.
I was actually most interested in this summary:
"We’re fed mountains of stories by the rich and powerful explaining why things must remain as they are — but they are only stories.
Every #sociopolitical status quo throughout history has had power-serving narratives explaining why things are as they are and justifying why the people in charge live so much more comfortably than the ordinary folks doing the real work in this world. #People used to be told that #kings received their authority directly from God, and were therefore better and more worthy than the unwashed masses. Today we have different rulers with different narratives justifying their rule and explaining why vast inequality is fine and good, but those #narratives are exactly as fictional as the old stories about the divine right of kings.
Today we are trained to believe that the #plutocrats who rule our society attained their vast fortunes through hard work and clever innovation, and are entitled to every penny because they are the most productive members of our society."
#israel #gaza #genocide #terrorism #anarchism #anarchy #society #palestine #civilians
#TechPolicyPress offers about the only #sociopolitical analysis of tech available anywhere, so I listen.
Today there's an interview with #Mozilla's president. Surely a radical thinker, I hoped.
He spoke about Mozilla's focus on AI, how it will generate "trillions of dollars of new wealth", how excited he is about #capitalism.
And how great it is that #Firefox offers you more choice by letting you "change the default search engine" - WTF does that mean?
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In the current ##sociopolitical landscape, building comradeship and solidarity is needed more than ever. However, the structures of capital and cultural norms are ##blocking this path, promoting division and individualism that makes us all more “stupid”. How can we foster a community where ##KISS class consciousness thrives?
This solidarity and comradeship are meaningful resistance against ##deathcult capitalist structures. A first step is bridging vertical and horizontal structures in a healthy ongoing fluffy/spiky debate. This helps move past the current fragility of class consciousness, to strengthen this path we need to examine how the “petit bourgeoisie” and cultural industries deflect and pre-empt discussions about class.
Exclusion and division pushes the tendency to condemn and abuse, to mediate this mess is to create a culture where disagreement occur without exclusion. Addressing class does not mean downgrading the importance of many other issues like race and gender, all struggles are interconnected.
To make this work, it is important to critique the “stupid” path of individualism, the focus on individual behaviour over structural critique undermines collective action. Let’s clearly look at the ideology of individualism propagated by the ruling class and its impact on solidarity. A structural critique is the path to challenge capitalist ideologies, to take this path we need to mediate the tendency to individualize and privatize issues. How do we shift the focus from individual behaviour to structural analysis in public discourse and activism?
Revitalizing class consciousness is a way to push back fear and insecurity spread by the ##deathcult. It should be easy to see that capital has subdued organized labour and co-opt the discourse of the left. Thus, the need for a renewed focus on class consciousness and mediating the left path, out of being mired in moralizing individualism and devoid of class analysis, which serves capital’s interests rather than challenging it. To do this, we need to move past the pursuit of ##fashionista “bourgeois” recognition and its limitations.
The ##dotcons social media is enemy terrain, a trap set by communicative capitalism. Yes, we maybe can strategically use and abuse this mess to move people back to the ##openweb which is the “native” path. Remember, the goal is not to simply be an “activist”, we need tools from our own community to grow and use like the ##OMN, to aid in the growth and transformation of the working class and on the ground organizing. This is the difference between performative activism and genuine class struggle.
Please, let’s shift the balance of focus from individualism to collective action and solidarity. Let’s stop our prat ish behaver on this. https://opencollective.com/open-media-network
https://hamishcampbell.com/comradeship-and-solidarity-in-the-era-of-stupidindividualism/
#blocking #deathcult #dotcons #fashionista #KISS #OMN #openweb #sociopolitical
📢 New Book Alert!
📚'No Life Without You: #Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s' ed. by Frank Felsenstein w/intro by Rachel Pistol.
Discover the journey of Ernst Moritz & Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, #GermanJewish refugees navigating the years before #WWII.
Abridged in English from the original German, the correspondence and diaries have been expertly compiled and annotated by their only son who preserves his parents’ love story in their own words.
This volume offers insights into the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by #German #Jews as a targeted community. It affords a unique appreciation of the impact of #historical and #sociopolitical upheavals on the lives of a persecuted minority.
A scholarly introduction by Rachel Pistol draws out the main themes raised by this correspondence, observing its relevance to contemporary debates about #migration and #political authority.
The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees caught in the tumultuous years leading to the Second World War, form the core of this book. Abridged in English from the original German, the correspondence and diaries have been expertly compiled and annotated by their only son who preserves his parents’ love story in their own words. Their letters, written from Germany, England, Russia, and Palestine capture their desperate efforts to save themselves and their family, friends and businesses from the fascist tyranny. The book begins by contextualizing the early lives of Moritz and Vera.
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Llewelyn Pritch
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#OMN (Open Media Network)
Matt Willemsen
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