I agree, also they are arguing for, indirectly, more pollution which is dangerous.

I am not for them bring banned, but there is a two tier policing (although the inversion of what the right often claims)

Some of them tried to use a bomb to blow up a camera!

He is American.

It is interesting watching right-wing influencers respond to the protests spreading out from LA and the way they describe it as a great betrayal of the nation.
Many of the same influencers support the January 6th insurrectionists who Trump pardoned who tried to overturn an election.

Fascists take advantage of the white middle class’s and white moderates’ fear of the Left, leveraging their terror of losing money and status to pull them into a relationship with the Right in order to take over institutions and continue destroying democracy.

We’ve seen it for years now.

Tesla’s plummeting sales risk its lucrative emissions credit earnings CEO Elon Musk has angered European customers and governments, undercutting his EV brand.

The best thing about #TeslaTakedown is that when one Jenga brick starts falling, it starts taking out others, and soon the entire wobbly tower is coming down around Elon's ears.

Every lost sale is also lost emissions credits for Tesla, in both the EU and California!

politico.eu/article/tesl...

I don't know Canada's perspecrive on BDS but interesting to see the trade war and boycotts converge.

Graeber was such a wise commentator. Few deaths of people I have never met have affected me so much.

"Anyone who thinks the way to head off the tide of fascism is by limiting the range of political choices to either fascists or pro-business neoliberal technocrats is dooming us to fascism." . - David Graeber

The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.

I have the same weird stage fright I had with early twitter, I don't know whether to try to shout things that sound profound into the void or find some meaty debate and wade in.

There is no more important challenge than the climate emergency.

That is why I will vote against Heathrow expansion.

Climate campaigners have defeated this before — and we will fight back again.

"Oil, after all, is a limited resource. There is only so much of it. Money is not. A coin or bill is really nothing but an IOU, a promise; the only limit to how much we can produce is how much we are willing to promise one another. Yet under contemporary capitalism, we act as if it’s just the opposite." . - David Graeber

When politicians like Keir Starmer claim there is no money, it is always worth recalling what money actually is.

It seems to me demands on social scientists to do practice oriented research is a form of intellectual centrism, suggesting research is only useful if it can be used by institutions in their current form.

New guest post on my website courtesy of Jake Smaje:
'Small farming, urbanisation and climate migration: beyond the stereotypes in Bangladesh'

chrissmaje.com/2024/12/smal...