Israeli einsatzgruppen are exterminating the concentration camp of untermenschen Palestinians in the north #Gaza ghetto with American and European complicity. A genocide of children is being live-streamed.
Decades of Holocaust and genocide studies did nothing to stop a year-long genocide live-streamed on everyone’s personal computers. Gaza is proof that the Holocaust could have been live-streamed and it would have still happened.
There's something about the recent young turks comments that aren't sitting right with me. Ana Kasparian made the point that the civil rights movement was some peaceful movement. The idea MLK said he had a dream then boom everyone went to the ballot box, and racism was over. Ana and the people desperately trying to defend her (for money or clout) are trying to claim our issue is mainly of a peaceful vs violent debate, and not a narrative that's spread to enforce control. She said the civil rights movement never did action in which would stop the speech of others, that they never had tactics other than honest, civil, and liberal debate. Thanks to american pragmatism, the day was saved.
Yet instead of focusing on the ahistorical view of the civil rights moment. Instead of focusing on a narrative that's been placed to try and control minority groups. Instead of focusing on the narrative that's been built thanks to racism. We're here debating peace vs violence, and for calling Ana out, we have been depicted as the violent mob who is cancelling an honest liberal. Instead of us all acknowledging what Ana said was just downright wrong, we have people defending it on the grounds that they represent peace and justice.
This doesn't sit right with me.
Excellent podcast to listen to as we are heading into 2023 - the ever brilliant @jks on how we can each think through our “systemic radar” - our own positions, skills, talents, networks - and use them effectively. Concrete, actionable, wise advice on how to not only demand but bring about the systemic change we need now
Listen to this episode from Accidental Gods on Spotify. Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She is Lead Author for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3.She has held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich, and obtained her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published over 40 internationally peer-reviewed articles since 2009 in journals including Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, WIRES-Climate Change, Environmental Science & Technology, PLOS ONE and Environmental Research Letters.As part of our drive towards finding the people at the leading edge of change, we wanted to connect with Prof Steinberger really to unpick the detail of personal and collective action. Each of us is only one person and the nature of the change can feel overwhelming even while it feels urgent. So we need to hear directly from the people whose entire lives are given to solving this problem and who have concrete ideas of what we can do and how, who can direct our priorities and show us where the best leverage points lie. Prof. Steinberger has clear ideas of how our culture can live within planetary boundaries and we unpick them in this podcast. Enjoy! Julia on Medium https://jksteinberger.medium.com/an-audacious-toolkit-actions-against-climate-breakdown-part-1-a-is-for-advocacy-7baa108f00e9Living Well Within Limits https://lili.leeds.ac.uk/Positive Money https://positivemoney.org/Fossil Banks, No Thanks https://www.fossilbanks.org/
There’s one huge structural driver of unsustainability that ecological economists rarely talk about, is fiendishly complex, and deliberately opaque in part to avoid accountability. We’re talking about... – Listen to What ecological economists need to know about the financial sector - Katie Kedward by Economics for Rebels instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.
The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn 🏥
Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn 💸
They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to.
RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses 👊
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There’s one huge structural driver of unsustainability that ecological economists rarely talk about, is fiendishly complex, and deliberately opaque in part to avoid accountability. We’re talking about... – Listen to What ecological economists need to know about the financial sector - Katie Kedward by Economics for Rebels instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.
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