“I think we should also be building a different kind of world that doesn’t structurally run on racism and other kinds of oppression and capitalism. And the construction of constructive view is the point of building that world. That world would have a much different energy system. It would produce things in a different way.”
January 21st, 2023|Equal Rights

In an audio statement sent to Democracy Now, activists have released the name of the victim of the “COP City” shooting: Long-time activist Manuel Tehran, who went by the name Tortugita, was shot and murdered on January 18, 2023 by police.
January 20th, 2023|Featured

“What I can’t help but ask is, why on earth would Glencore be allowed to do business here in Minnesota? Especially when thousands of acres of wetlands and billions of gallons of fresh clean water are on the line?”
January 19th, 2023|capitalist system, Ecology, Local and Regional Issues, Water

“Retribution seems to have emerged as the primary if not sole reason for continuing what looks from the outside to have become an emotion-driven ‘FBI Family’ vendetta,” said Rowley in the letter sent to the US president in December and shared exclusively with the Guardian.
January 19th, 2023|Biden Presidency, Featured, Justice

If we take our humanity seriously, our response to the warmakers must be rebellion. Peaceful and poetic, forceful and unrelenting. We need to raise the human condition as they seek to degrade it. The Merchants of Death cannot defeat a movement that speaks the language of poetry.
January 18th, 2023|Militarism, Military Madness, Poetry

Six corporations control what’s often referred to as the Legacy Media but there are still just a handful of corporations that control digital media as well, so we’re looking at about maybe 10 or so corporations that control all of the media that people use, I think that’s a really important factor when we talk about this because increasingly people of all age groups say they get their “news” from these digital outlets… [From transcript] January 17th, 2023|Media, Media Analysis

From Ukraine to Uvalde we see the crises of which Rev. Dr. King warned, militarism, materialism, racism and the prospect of spiritual death. This webinar will address how we may better work for peace.
January 16th, 2023|Featured, Racism

MLK Day should be a day for courage, for independence, for nonpartisanship, and for nonviolent action for the complete ending and abolishing of participation in any war.
January 14th, 2023|Climate Crisis & Militarism, Militarism

If al-Jaber remains as the head of ADNOC and leads the conference, said Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, “it will be tantamount to a full-scale capture of the U.N. climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists.”
January 13th, 2023|capitalist system, climate change, Climate Crisis, Corporate Economy, Ecology, Green Economy

Governance exists. But it is not seen. It is certainly not democratic. It is done by the armies of lobbyists and corporate executives, from the fossil fuel industry, the arms industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street. Governance happens in secret.
January 11th, 2023|Government/Politics, Politics, U.S. Congress, U.S. Foreign Policy

Giroux: Neoliberal fascism, cruelty, violence; Antiwar Activists to be jailed in Germany; Taibbi: Twitter Files, a Big Deal, Jacobin; Nuclear fusion energy, Greenwald: FBI/Big Tech; House Speaker concessions to Christian extremists; more
January 10th, 2023|Voices

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