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Paying for an Overheating Earth: Whose Planet Are We On? by Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox
What’s needed, says Oxfam, an organization focused on alleviating global poverty, is “a fair and automatic mechanism for financial support — rooted in the principle that those who have contributed most to the climate crisis pay for the damage it causes in countries least responsible and hardest hit.”
How the war machine took over the Democrats w/ Dennis Kucinich | The Chris Hedges Report
The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America, but the arms industry. The massive military budget, $858 billion in military spending allocated for fiscal year 2023, is an increase of $45 billion over the Biden administration’s budget request, and nearly $80 billion more than the amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year.
Glenn Greenwald on the State of Free Speech In Our Monopolized Internet
We believe there is no more urgent issue than the full-scale, multi-pronged attack on free speech on the internet. The censorship regime they are constructing will enable them to propagandize the population without challenge and fully control the flow of information.
‘An Attack on Free Expression’: Musk Under Fire for Suspending Journalists From Twitter
“If confirmed as retaliation for their work, this would be a serious violation of journalists’ right to report the news without fear of reprisal…”
Gabor Maté: Who’s Crazy, You or Your Nation? Robert Sheer Interviews Gabor Maté
I’m challenging the premises of the whole system, and I’m saying that, I quote Ralph Nader at some point, who said that the two parties are basically one long clown with two heads that look different. So I’m not saying there are no policy differences between the two major parties in the U.S., but fundamentally, they both serve the same system.
Chris Hedges: Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
The once unthinkable is now thinkable, such as formally annexing large sections of the West Bank, including “Area C” where up to 300,000 Palestinians live.
Noam Chomsky: “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism”
As the class war intensifies, the basic logic of capitalism manifests itself with brutal clarity: We have to maximize profit and power even though we know we are racing to suicide by destroying the environment that sustains life, not sparing ourselves and our families.
Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy
Why does any legislator believe railroad workers should be forced to use what few vacation days they may have if they fall sick and request permission to be absent days in advance, as if illnesses are scheduled events? Congress members and their staff do not work under these conditions.
Bernie Sanders Calls for Revolutionizing America’s Broken Media System, by Kenny Stancil
. “All across the country, corporate conglomerates and hedge fund vultures have bought and consolidated local newspapers and slashed their newsrooms—all while giving executives and shareholders big payouts.”
House authorizes $858B for the Pentagon, by Stephen Semler
How much of the $858 billion authorized by the FY2023 NDAA will be transferred to military contractors? I estimate $452 billion.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace Summary, December 4, 2022
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Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
SUNDAY JANUARY 8, 2023
NOTE START TIME: 1:00 p.m.
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Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor-sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing−and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril, and said, “Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.” Molly’s words have proved prescient. Not it’s up to us to raise hell!
Directed by Janice Engel
Magnolia Films | US | 2019 | 93 mins
Masks and social distancing by choice.
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Global and local peace and justice for all
Be Engaged in Activism
Collaborate Cooperate
Normalize Resistance Rest and Rise
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NEW LANGUAGE
NEW GLOBAL POWER FORMATIONS
NEW MODES OF POLITICS
“Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them.
Social movements must move outside of national boundaries and join with others across the globe to fight the savagery of neoliberal global politics and central to such a task is the work of intellectuals, artists, cultural workers, and others who can fashion new tools and social movements in the fight against the current anti-democratic threats being imposed all over the globe.”
— Henry A. Giroux
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We, Angels and Mortals,
Believers and Nonbelievers,
look heavenward and
speak the word aloud.
PEACE
Dr Maya Angelou
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ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The ‘apocalyptic’ chess game between the superpowers, that is, between those that move on the highest plane of our civilization, is being played according to the rule ‘if either “wins” it is the end of both’; it is a game that bears no resemblance to whatever war games preceded it. Its ‘rational’ goal is deterrence, not victory, and the arms race, no longer a preparation for war, can now be justified only on the grounds that more and more deterrence is the best guarantee of peace. To the question how shall we ever be able to extricate ourselves from the obvious insanity of this position there is no answer.”
— Hannah Arendt in On Violence
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NOW ILLEGAL!
The U.S. needs to join other countries worldwide in banning nuclear weapons.
THE WAMM CAMPAIGN TO BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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See also ICAN.org
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“Resistance is no longer an option, it is now a matter of life or death. The lights are going out on democracy across the globe and the time to wake up from this nightmare is now.”
— Henry A. Giroux
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