'It’s a book of personal philosophy, of life lessons learned from hard experience, of choices always made, often at great personal cost, against the dictates of a coercive, capitalist social system. She sees herself as a spiritual exile.' #multimedia #writing #literature #art #music #poverty #spirit

'The Voting Rights Act was not a gift or a concession. It was a constraint – imposed on a country that had proven, over a century, that it would not protect Black citizens’ right to vote without one. On Wednesday, the supreme court removed that constraint.' #usa #justice #scotus #racism #fascism

'Ávila told the lawyers he had been “subjected to extreme brutality” when the vessels were seized, adding that he was “dragged face-down across the floor and beaten so severely that he passed out twice”.' #flotilla #gaza #palestine #israel #illegal #kidnapping #torture #propaganda #politics #justice

'The salience of Guthrie’s classic American protest music to today’s political environment is the central theme of Woody Guthrie: What This Guitar Might Do, a new exhibition at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in downtown Brooklyn.' #woody #NYU #protest #art #music #topical #songwriting

'The oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest emitter of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that cause global warming and everything that comes with it. Here’s a look at which Canadian workers profit off activities that cause climate change — and who gets paid to cope with it.' #climate #jobs #CEOs

'Investor-state dispute settlement ... has been used by fossil fuel companies to sue governments that resolved to reduce dependency on coal, oil or gas, or enacted measures boosting renewables: companies have demanded and ... received compensation for loss of earnings.' #SantaMarta #climate #action

'Now, under the court’s new regime, de facto racial gerrymandering will be blessed, under the new standard established by the court’s Republican justices, so long as it is presented with the fig leaf of having merely partisan intent.' #SCOTUS #gerrymandering #racism #republicans #democracy #voting

'Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, said: “How on earth is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe?”' #flotilla #gaza #relief #mediterranean #israel #IDF #assault #sabotage #piracy #protest

“We decided not to resign ourselves to an economy built on the destruction of life. We decided that the transition away from fossil fuels could no longer remain a slogan but must become a concrete, political and collective endeavour." #climate #carbon #oil #transition #colombia #debt #indigenous

'According to the report, about 64% of people in the country lacked basic access to water in 2024, while 72% of those near mining sites reported skin diseases and 56% of women and girls reported gynaecological problems.' #climate #mining #pollution #health #policy #environment #transition #energy

'In the coastal city of Santa Marta, Colombia is hosting the world’s first conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. Two days of talks among government ministers and high-level officials began on Tuesday, preceded by four days of civil society discussions and academic workshops.' #climate

'The next big war may come uncomfortably closer to home, be fought from necessity not choice – and be less about serving as the US’s willing poodle than about poodles facing the consequences of a master going rogue.' #UK #cyberattacks #propaganda #economics #infrastructure #misinformation #politics

'As a nation, as a culture, we have become so overwhelmed by the sheer number and the rapid succession of brutal and unnecessary deaths that we simply can’t process the horror and the grief. We have no idea whom we can believe and what we should sensibly doubt.' #shootings #numbness #violence #usa

"We have a long way to go to take massive disruption actions like in other countries, where people will go on general strikes and they can shut down their country, but I think we’re getting more and more close to people having consciousness about their own power as #workers.” #usa #unions #mayday

'A producer country that zeroes out its climate finance while expanding fossil infrastructure and declining to send a minister to a global transition summit will be read, accurately, as disengaged or worse, as having chosen a side.' #canada #climate #oil #pipelines #policy #funding #diplomacy #arms

“The transition should be towards standing forests and fresh water,” said Gregório Mirabal of the Kurripako Indigenous People from Venezuela. “If we don’t change this [current economic] model of death, we will be left without water, without health.” #climate #indigenous #extractivism #mining #oil

'Crucially, propaganda does not just take the form of lies. Omitting mention in the news media of crucial facts is also paradigmatic of state propaganda.' #israel #usa #influence #states #politics #propaganda #omission #MSNOW #media #philosophy #iran #gaza #genocide #war

'Democrats must force a referendum on what kind of country we want to have: one that moves toward justice and equality or one that retreats into division and white supremacy.' #democrats #strategy #organizing #voters #racism #misogyny #homophobia #antiwoke #progressive #justice #equality #government

"When people start to feel contempt, they tend to feel they don’t have to comply to the norms and rules any more. [Repression] might actually radicalise people – if you don’t give people the legitimate route to express their discontent, then they will find other routes.” #climate #law #UK #protest

“Unfortunately, I did see this coming. The fact that they are targeting this … it is because they understand the power of these ideas, the power of this history.” #intersectionality #racism #fascism #DEI #woke #crenshaw #academia #history #memoir #politics #feminism #sexuality #power #ideas #trump

'Since the first time Trump was in office, Christian and Catholic groups have protested the militarization of ICE in American communities, provided physical shelter to migrants, hosted vigils and coordinated mutual aid.' #christianity #catholicism #progressives #immigration #hunger #poverty #antiwar

'Why does SpaceX even need 42,000 satellites to provide internet, if OneWeb is doing it with 800? They’ve never been asked to justify the number.' #satellites #internet #spacex #NASA #saskatchewan #CSA #science #tech #communication #rural #spacejunk #reentry #engineering #nightsky

“Endorsing such rants as the president of the United States will further stoke hatred and endanger our communities, at a time when xenophobia and racism are already at an all-time high.” #india #usa #podcasts #racism #politics #diplomacy #trump #modi #immigration #tech #truthsocial #propaganda

'... inspired by Peter Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist philosopher. Anarchism here does not mean anarchy but co-operation: Kropotkin’s big idea was that mutual aid was more central to evolution and civilisational progress than Darwin’s idea of the survival of the fittest.' #portugal #art #biennale

'Once little known beyond his own country, the Spanish PM’s outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and his unequivocal condemnation of the Iran war have won him respect among European publics and governments across the global south alike.' #progressives #sanchez #socialism #coalitions

'Modern industrialised food systems rely on a narrow range of staple crops, and highly specialised systems that are dependent on inputs such as fertiliser. That makes them highly vulnerable and less able to cope with shocks, such as extreme heat.' #climate #heat #agriculture #monoculture #diversity

'... petro-masculinity suggests that fighting climate change is not just a technological or economic or political challenge, but also a cultural and psychic struggle against an entrenched and very gendered “petroculture”.' #climate #oil #gas #carbon #masculinity #insecurity #politics #culture #psych

'On Sunday, an estimated 36,000 people squeezed on to narrow paths in front of the National Diet – Japan’s parliament – to call for an immediate end to the Iran war and to keep the country’s “pacifist” constitution intact.' #japan #LDP #pacifism #constitution #protests #government #politics #antiwar

“From the moment we arrived on the US patrol boat, they were pointing guns at us, shouting, ‘Get in, get in,’” said Palacios, 54. “They handcuffed us, put hoods over our heads and pushed us around. We were terrified they were going to kill us.” #ecuador #usa #fishing #drones #airstrikes #kidnapping

“Security can’t be achieved by ignoring the obvious or downplaying the very real threats that we Canadians face. I promise you I will never sugarcoat our challenges.” #canada #carney #usa #trump #trade #USMCA #economics #diplomacy #coercion #law #history #politics #MAGA #democracy #security #borders

“But what do they do with those profits? They give them back to fat cat CEOs and then they go give them back to their shareholders, largely Americans who support Donald Trump.” #oil #gas #carbon #climate #EVs #sustainability #profits #canada #usa #environment #science #economics #influence #trump

'The appeal came as a summit of leftist leaders is taking place in Barcelona, led by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, one of the biggest critics of the US and Israel’s bombing campaigns in the Middle East.' #spain #brazil #mexico #cuba #trump #sanctions #blockade #crisis #aid #politics #law

“The clock sings I count the hours mechanically Seven o’clock; twelve o’clock It’s all the same I am not here It is the mark of flesh That I left behind when I departed So as to know my place Upon my return.” #Lorca #poetry #spain #manuscript #literature #culture #lgbtqa+ #fascism #history #time

"The political theorist Richard Seymour has a name for what far-right populists offer voters: “disaster nationalism”. It has a surface-level component, which is largely economic – and a deeper, more powerful appeal, which is emotional.' #authoritarianism #farright #politics #economics #nationalism

'While 54 countries have confirmed their attendance at the conference, some of the world’s biggest economies and biggest polluters, including the US, China, India, Russia and the Gulf petro states, will be missing.' #climate #oil #gas #carbon #politics #economics #transition #renewables #solar #wind

'I remember days when I was aglow inside, aglow and aflame. I felt boundlessly free, never again in my later years did I have an experience like it.’ #chelseahotel #nyc #art #performance #photography #culture #lgbtqa+ #history

'A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic.' #amoc #climate #currents #oceans #science #weather

'Magyar inherits a “captured” state in which loyalists remain entrenched in every public structure, while key sectors of the economy and society – from the media to privatised universities – remain under the control of a pro-Orbán oligarchy.' #hungary #law #democracy #authoritarianism #oligarchy

'Donald Trump’s administration has named her a “specially designated national”, a term usually reserved for terrorists, drug traffickers and the occasional murderous dictator. She is the first UN official to have received the designation.' #albanese #palestine #UN #israel #genocide #sanctions #trump

'Sanders issued a bleak assessment of the consequences if workers fail to organize against billionaires like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon; and Donald Trump, the US president.' #sanders #bernie #mamdani #unions #workers #AI #techbros #resistance #jobs

'The rage and alienation of men abandoned by post-crash capitalism was channelled towards a common cause – one ripe for co-option by the worst possible actors.' #misogyny #usa #maga #gamergate #manosphere #fascism #authoritarianism #politics #influencers #socialmedia

'Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.' #lit #iran #india #politics

'The old aphorism about how long it takes an aircraft carrier to turn around might be why the nation seems relatively stable, and why reactions have been inadequate; the full impact is yet to come.' #usa #trump #maga #authoritarianism #democracy #government #federal #military #police #corruption

“The Met are choosing to make arrests despite the government’s ban on the group being ruled unlawful by the high court, and leading lawyers warning that any arrests would be unlawful.” #UK #law #courts #palestine #gaza #genocide #politics #protest #israel #zionism #starmer #labour #police #arrests

“I have no plans; I follow the Neil Young plan. He said to me years ago: ‘Jim, the best plan, man, is no plan.’” #film #film-making #jarmusch #NYC #culture #art #family #relationships #independence #cassavetes #lynch #cinematography

'Four of the five known emperor penguin breeding sites in the Bellingshausen Sea collapsed in 2022, with the loss of thousands of chicks. Another colony in the Weddell Sea collapsed in 2016. Researchers called the catastrophes “grim” and “extraordinarily distressing”.' #antarctica #penguins #climate

'After the family’s asylum case was denied, and their lawyer appealed the decision, but in the meantime the family decided to leave the US and seek asylum in Canada. They were almost immediately detained at the northern border.' #immigration #usa #canada #ICE #detention #DRC #refugees #racism #ptsd

'The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggested deaths from heat, particularly in developing and densely populated areas, were “undoubtedly and seriously underreported”, Perkins-Kirkpatrick and colleagues wrote.' #heatstroke #climate #heatwaves #environment #health #science

'About 100m died: it was, Asbridge remarks, “the most lethal natural disaster in human history”. If a pathogen with a similar case fatality rate were to erupt worldwide today, billions might die.' #plague #disease #health #contagion #epidemic #medieval #europe #africa #russia #global #ignorance

'Figueres said legally binding agreements were not enough to tackle the health harms of the climate crisis, recalling how Canada exited the Kyoto agreement just before facing billions in penalties for failing to meet its emissions targets.' #climate #UN #oceans #health #carbon #emission #environment