Grace Blakeley

"The point is to help you build your sense of hope on solid foundations." @graceblakeley.substack.com

Thanks Brent!

So profound & personal—another must read from @graceblakeley.substack.com that provides instruction & inspiration. 👏👏

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

No One is Coming to Save Us Building collective power in the age of individualism.

We need to get together to save ourselves.

Great stuff, as ever, from @graceblakeley.substack.com

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Thanks for sharing Mike!

"Socialism is not something that can be delivered from on high by benevolent leaders. It is something that must be built from the ground up. That doesn’t mean that leaders aren’t important ...but it does mean that socialist leaders and electoral coalitions have to be grounded in popular power."

Grace is completely right! That's why the left needs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn's new political party to give people some hope that things can get better.

"A direita vence quando as pessoas acreditam que um herói está vindo salvá-las" é uma frase que deveríamos importar pro Brasil.

Filme de herói = fascismo

No One is Coming to Save Us Building collective power in the age of individualism.

"The right wins when people believe that a hero is coming to save them.

If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men."
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Thank you!!

Just started reading Vulture Capitalism by @graceblakeley.substack.com A very compelling read so far. Highly recommended . . . .

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Oh my goodness I'm so sorry! That's a bad combo!! Hope you enjoyed the book though

1 How to Get Away with Murder On 29 October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 - a Boeing 737 MAX plane - disappeared from the sky. Thirteen minutes after taking off from Jakarta International Airport at 6.20 a.m., air traffic control lost communication with the pilot.' An hour later authorities announced that the plane had crashed into the sea a few kilometres off the Indonesian coastline.* It took two days to identify the first victim, and the search-and-rescue operation eventually determined that every single one of the 181 passengers on board the plane, as well as six cabin crew and two pilots, had died in the crash. The plane had been intact when it fell out of the sky but was destroyed upon impact, with even the strongest parts of the aircraft obliterated by the extraordinary force with which the plane hit the ocean. Investigators later discovered that the problem lay with the aircraft's angle of attack (AOA) sensor, which determines the correct height and flying angle of the plane. For some reason, the malfunctioning sensor had caused the plane to nosedive out of the air four times during its previous flight, and control problems were evident from shortly after take-off on the day of the fatal crash itself.+ Every time the plane nosedived the pilots had tried to pull it back up but the plane's own power overcame their efforts. In the subsequent months of investigation and litigation, Boeing tried to blame the crew for failing to understand the systems that would have allowed them to correct the error.' In the meantime, another plane - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, also a 737 MAX - had suffered the same fate as Lion Air 610. Flight 302 took off from Addis Ababa airport at 8.38 a.m. on 11 March 2019 and within one minute the pilot had contacted air traffic control to report

a 'flight error"." The plane's nose had begun to tilt downwards, sending the aircraft plunging out of the sky? The pilots struggled to control the plane, trying to drag the nose back up manually." Six minutes into the flight, air traffic control lost contact with the crew.?› Ethiopian Aurlines Flight goz had plummeted out of the sky and hit the earth at a speed of 7oo miles per hour."" Wreckage from the flight was driven thirty fee into the surrounding earth, and the impact crater was go feet wide and 120 feet long." All 157 people on board the plane died instantly. A year after the crash, the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority released an interim report detailing the results of their investigations. They found that the angle of attack sensors on the plane had Augmentation System (MCAS) - that caused the plane's nose to dive down." The report confirmed that the crew and pilots had followed all the correct procedures but had been unable to prevent the catastrophe. The 737 MAX disasters came at a bad time for Boeing, which was literally putting out fires everywhere. The company's previous plane, the 787 Dreamliner, was not only delivered extremely late and over budget, it was beset with technical and design flaws. One such flaw resulted in the plane's batteries catching fire, a fault that ultimately forced the entire fleet to be grounded." The faults with the Dreamliner could be traced back to a culture of cost-cutting that had set in at Boeing over the previous several decades." Harry Stonecipher, the former CEO of the defunct aviation business McDonnell Douglas (a failed firm that merged with Boeing with the help of the US state, as we'll see later), became CEO of Boeing in 2003. Stonecipher was a protégé of the infamous corporate raider Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric (GE) who financialised the firm almost beyond recognition, leading to a culture of corner-cutting that culminated in scandals like GE's dumping toxic chemicals into the Hudson River'' S…

I’m terrified of flying and avoid it at all costs for various reasons, but yesterday I was on a flight nonetheless, and aboard a Boeing. Sat down and decided to make a start on @graceblakeley.substack.com ‘s Vulture Capitalism. The first pages of the first chapter were an interesting experience 😭:

Highly recommend this. It’s as applicable to the US as it is to the UK.

This is investment advice: a home is a place to live, not an investment. Treat it as such.

The Housing Boom is Over Your house isn't going to increase in value at the same rate as your parents'.

"If you’re a young person, your home is not going to increase in value at the same rate as your parents’.

To understand why, you have to understand how housing markets really work."

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Thank you @graceblakeley.substack.com for this compliment...https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-housing-boom-is-over

I was just about to send you this! Very heavily influenced by your work. Really looking forward to the new book 😊

Our assignment? Take government back from corporations.

Capitalism doesn’t serve US. (It’s not designed to.)

We must build movements (labor, climate, racial & gender equity, peace) that exercise our collective power.

BE UNGOVERNABLE! ✊🏼✊✊🏾

@graceblakeley.substack.com, author of Vulture Capitalism

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YouTube video by No Justice Zack Polanski calmy dismantles Andrea Jenkyns over 'net-zero zealotry'

Reform are fossil fuel funded — and they call themselves patriots while working to wreck our country.

I’ll always take the fight to them until everyone knows the truth.

Here’s my Radio 4 debate on @nojusticemtg.bsky.social stream:

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Beyond the Politics of Spectacle: A Conversation About Real Change Live with Grace Blakeley A conversation with Grace Blakeley about power, corruption, and what it actually takes to build change

This conversation with @corbintrent.bsky.social & @graceblakeley.substack.com was filled with hope, deep thought, & conversation that is so needed for real, systemic change.

Beyond the Politics of Spectacle: Conversation with Grace Blakeley www.americasundoing.com/p/beyond-the...

The Death of Neoliberal Globalisation was Written into its DNA Liberals need to learn the right lessons from its collapse.

“Liberal politicians saw the devastation created by neoliberal globalisation as a communications problem, not a policy one.

The arrogance of these politicians is precisely what led to the current crisis.”

- @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) Make yourselves ungovernable

Go Grace
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The UK Economy is F***ed And it's been obvious for a while.

Businesses aren't hiring because they don’t think the economy is growing, so they don't expect to need more workers.

This pessimism creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of falling investment that only governments can stop. And ours is asleep at the wheel.
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Beyond Aid, a World to Win This year’s bonfire of the aid budgets exposed long-standing flaws in the international aid and development system. Here’s how people in the global North and South can respond.

Hugely enjoyed writing this guest post for @graceblakeley.substack.com's Substack.

I think Grace is one of the best and most exciting writers around right now. (Not only that, but her fantastic editing made the piece much better).

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The AI Productivity Paradox The impact of AI is turning up everywhere except the productivity statistics

“A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that using AI saved workers just 3% of their time.

Other research has suggested that over-reliance on AI for high-level cognitive work can make people less motivated and worse at their jobs.”
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