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The Humor of Jesus and The cry of the poor
After much meditation and reflection, I firmly believe that Jesus made fun of individualism and profit-oriented economic systems. Winning people to trust the infinite, invisible and transcendent God was surely his central goal. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?” he asked his calculating counterpart. “No sparrow falls to the ground without your Father’s consent. You are worth more...!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2022 11:36am PST
The American century was yesterday
"The people can always be made, with or without the right to vote,
to follow the orders of the leaders. It is very simple. One need
nothing to do but to tell the people that they are being attacked, and to reproach the pacifists of their lack of patriotism and claim that they are putting the country in danger. This method works in every country." (Hermann Goering said this when in prison in 1946)...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2022 8:11am PST
Elected officials show support for a windfall profits cap on oil industry for price hikes
State lawmakers and local elected officials urged legislation on a windfall profits cap on oil companies for the price gouging practices. The penalty would provide a rebate for CA consumers. Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) California local elected officials from frontline communities spoke about how their communities are being affected from gas prices as the oil industry continues to rake in billions of dollars in profits with no regard for how it hurts Californians, our climate a...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 4:24pm PST
The psychology of warmongers and The war cannot be won
We should strive quite fundamentally for a different Europe and a different Russia, namely each freed from capitalist, parasitic oligarchy. The Jaurès maxim, "Capitalism carries war like the cloud carries rain," is more relevant than ever. Only in another - post-capitalist, social-ecological - Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, can peace and justice become a reality....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2022 6:01am PST
Ode to Marx — “Money is…exchanged for…the whole objective world of man and nature.”
-“Money is…exchanged for…the whole objective world of man and nature.”...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2022 4:43pm PST
Sustainable Development Goals discussed at COP27 will spur growth at home along IRA
At COP27 - Elected Officials to Protect America participate in Impact-for Sustainable Development Goals Solutions Lab....
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2022 1:57pm PST
Online events w) Nikole Hannah-Jones, Medea Benjamin, Jeremy Lent, Naomi Klein, and others
Here are about 14 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 4:00 pm today (Thursday, 11/17), featuring people such as adrienne maree brown, Susan Raffo, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Cornel West, Prachi Patankar, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Medea Benjamin, Dean Spade, Mariana Mazzucato, Jeremy Lent, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and many others.
These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2022 3:44pm PST
Charity means toppling the powerful from their thrones and The cry of the poor
There is no distinction between structural violence, which is the basis of the capitalist social order, and counter-violence.
"First of all, I would like to state that there is a violence from which all other violence derives: violence number one - the violence of injustices that exist everywhere, the violence of oppression." (Dom Helder Camara), the original violence....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2022 9:26am PST
On Nov. 8, U.S. voters had a "Sophie's Choice" of NeoFascist "wave" or NeoLiberal morass
This week, the Status Quo of a "Manufactured Consent"--not "democracy"--won BIG! Even though the final tallies of some key Congressional races won't be clear for weeks, the domestic mid-term elections proved. once again, that the 2 major parties--the GOP "elephants" and the Dem "asses"--will ensure that the rancorous, chaotic and do-nothing process of domestic infighting and log-jam will continue for years to come....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2022 2:18pm PST
COP27: Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis
CODEPINK will join hundreds of high school students from all over the Bay Area, led by the group Youth Vs. Apocalypse (YVA), for a COP27 Climate Strike march with the theme “Militarism and Climate”....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2022 10:32pm PST
Against the cannabilism of capital
People feel an urgency to connect rather than disconnect. The fact that concepts of intersectionality, ecosocialism, and a feminism of social reproduction are experiencing such resurgence is a testament to this yearning for connection. I see an incredible amount of creativity among those who are trying to develop new theories and models that make these connections....
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:40am PDT
Let the advertising die!
Advertising leads to useless purchases because it often persuades consumers to have needs instead of satisfying existing desires. This leads to excessive consumption of resources and materials and thus damages the environment. The advertising industry represents a waste of human creativity for profit purposes and stimulates cut-throat competition among supplier companies....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2022 10:14am PDT
Online events w) Chomsky, Loretta Ross, Park Cannon, Jason Moore, Robin D.G. Kelley, etc.
Here are about 24 online events taking place over the next week (and starting at 11:00 am tomorrow, 10/31), featuring people such as Richard Wolff, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Leah Litman, Sherrilyn Ifill, Wendy Weiser, Loretta Ross, Park Cannon, Jason Moore, Robin D.G. Kelley, Becca Andrews, Gerald Horne, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Jason Stanley and many others.
These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are a...
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2022 8:04pm PDT
Online events w) Richard Heinberg, Monbiot, Jerry Mander, Vandana Shiva, Maggie Nelson...
Here are about 16 online events taking place over the next week (and starting at 5 m today, 10/18), featuring people such as Richard Heinberg, George Monbiot, Vanessa Nakate, Sara Nelson, Jerry Mander, Annie Leonard, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Ray Archuleta, David Helvarg, Phoebe Tickell, David Camfield, Cynthia Kaufman, Maggie Nelson, Kris Henning, and many others.
These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2022 3:22pm PDT
Beloved Mutual Aid Hub Omni Commons Launches Fundraiser to Save its Oakland Home
Omni Commons is calling upon community members to help save its building in the
rapidly gentrifying Temescal district. Communally operated by a grassroots collective, the multi-purpose space functions
as a community center, event venue, mutual aid hub, free food distribution network, unhoused drop-in center, movement
space, hackerspace, and citizen science lab....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2022 10:08am PDT
Elected officials back Newsom’s special session request for windfall tax on oil companies
Hundreds of CA elected officials thank Newsom for his leadership proposing a windfall tax on oil companies to stem price gouging and the climate crisis....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 4:51pm PDT
Online events w) Fred Hampton, Jr., Jenny Brown, Robin Hahnel, Richard Heinberg and others
Here are some 10 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting early tomorrow morning, 10/7), featuring people such as Fred Hampton, Jr., Judith Le Blanc, Jonathan Taplin, Jenny Brown, Robin Hahnel, Kate Booth, Richard Heinberg, David Camfield, Cynthia Kaufman, and many others.
These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2022 9:42pm PDT
Poison Ivy: Rupert Murdoch''s U.S. State-Sponsored Global Propaganda Machine
How a public privately run neocon/CIA far-right top-down propaganda machine destabilized other countries and served U.S./Western empire building...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2022 9:01am PDT
We need an Enlightenment 2.0: On Misguided Colonial and Gender Policy
Colonial knowledge was imposed by force. The West has set our planet on fire. To extinguish it, we need all archives of knowledge with their different references to the world. We cannot do it any other way. Therefore, it is urgent to initiate a paradigmatic change in education, not only in Germany, to correct this deplorable state of affairs....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2022 11:09am PDT
Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea
Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2022 6:53am PDT