#NoamChomsky
has meant so much to so many of us. The outpouring of respect and admiration speaks to his impact on the world.
@bobbuzzanco
and I go deep into what we've learned from him over the years. โฅ๏ธ๐ค
๐๏ธ:
~NEW EPISODE~
With the recent news of
#NoamChomsky
's health & unlikely return to public life, we did a special episode to share our appreciations of what he taught us over the years.
From media propaganda to critiques of liberals, we discuss much.
๐๏ธ:
Itโs outrageous that mainstream green groups and media influencers that have been telling us for a decade to โact on climate,โ and that weโre in โthe fight of our lives,โ are radio silent on the murder of a forest defender in Atlanta.
Fucking cowards.
Minnesota State Patrol officers are moving in from the side and ordering people in Brooklyn Center to leave. (They're also specifically ordering news media to leave.)
Amazing that last night UCLA administrators let their students get the shit beat of them by right wing Zionist thugs last night, and tonight theyโre sending the LAPD after them.
Failed university leadership is glaring at us.
Greta Thunberg is fantastic powerful truth-teller. I got pretty turned off by climate liberals putting her on a platform in 2019.
But now as I see those same people are silent while she continues to speak truth to power on Gaza, I think she's even more fantastic.
The right-wing hate machineโs ability to convince 25-30% of the populace that anarchists & antifascists have been starting wildfires in the very forests weโve spent decades trying save is a pretty good indicator of how low weโve sunk as a country.
#oregonwildfires
Wow. Right now in Scotland:
Crowds are marching through the streets of Glasgow chanting: โSay it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here!โ
As part of a protest against Boris Johnson.
Make no mistake, in everything from fracked gas extraction & pipelines to undermining the truth about plastic pollution in the ocean, the plastic industry (i.e. Big Oil) is fighting to keep polluting the world.
#capitalismisthecrisis
#breakfreefromplastic
6.6 million acres are burning and the east coast looks like Northern California in late summer.
Fight fossil fuels, the banks that fund them and the politicians that love them.
BREAKING: in the capital city of the United States of America it is medically unsafe to inhale air.
Fossil-fueled climate change has parched Canada, where 6,600,000 acres of forest just burst into flames. Those majestic woodlands are now ash. And we are inhaling the soot.
Antifa is trending on Twitter today, so hereโs your reminder that antifa is short for antifascist. And if youโre against antifascists, youโre for fascists. Simple logic.
Shot 13 times. What happened on January 18th between Tortuguita and the Georgia state police wasnโt a โfirefightโ (as The NY Times put it), it was a goddamned firing squad.
#FTP
#ACAB
Doctors and nurses stood in the street today to impede the fascist anti-social distancing protests thru downtown Denver.
#covi
ฬd19
#coronavirus
#heroes
Just got home and revived my phone. The blockade wound down an hour ago. The trucks were made to take down their signs & flags and then released one at a time. Supporters all made it home safe.
Today was beyond powerful. We started with a couple dozen and grew into thousands 1/
Joe Hill, executed today in 1915 for a crime he didnโt commit because he resisted fascism and capitalism.
Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted today for a crime he did commit that supported fascism and capitalism.
Not much has really changed in 107 years.
Nuclear energy is not clean energy. I donโt care how many pro-nuclear socialists say it.
And if youโre in struggle with communities fighting uranium extraction and nuclear waste than you know it too.
Don't believe that bullshit propaganda they teach you in elementary school. They could care less about "protect and serve," it is all about being an occupying force.
#FTP
#ACAB
#CHOP
#CHAZ
#seattleprotests
@kathleen_belew
@AmyAyers16
Unless youโre part of the
#StopCopCity
campaign or the target of oil companies like Chevron or Exxon like progressive lawyers, climate activists and communities fighting their criminal polluting and poisoning practices. Then itโs working for the Ruling Class. (Itโs main intent.)
All those cop movies, all those episodes of โLaw and Orderโ were lies and propaganda. There is no serve and protect, only patrol and control, and kill and maim when they can get away with it.
#ftp
#acab
#ACABSpring
#Rebellion2020
#justiceforgeorge
Two Colombian protesters disappeared by police and then found dead. Total silence by the US media about the US-backed right wing governmentโs war on the Colombian left.
Se confirma que estos dos muchachos eran manifestantes del paro nacional en Colombia. Estaban en la denominada primera lรญnea de Siloรฉ - La Nave. en Cali.
If we only had an opposition party, maybe he wouldnโt think he could get away with things like trying to delay the election. The only opposition politics are the street politics which is why the state is trying to shut them down.
Elon Musk, asshole that he is, built his SpaceX facility near communities and habitats known for their unique bird breeding during migration.
And this explosion happened during spring migration.
A criminal billionaire ego and heโll get away with whatever damage he does
Getting reports from multiple people now of โparticulatesโ raining down in areas of Port Isabel after the nearby explosion of the SpaceX rocket stack Starship/Superheavy, 4 minutes after liftoff this morning from Boca Chica in the Rio Grande Valley.
โFrom Indonesia to the Boreal: P&G ๐ฅDestroying Lives for Profit.โ
Beautiful direct action in Cincinnati this morning at Proctor and Gambleโs headquarters.
I'm down with big marches over weekends. But, the same with anti-Iraq war marches in 2003, and the Peoples' climate march in 2014, there needs to be a strategy to hit back against war machines and political institutions on Monday.
Timelapse of the 300,000 people that came to Washington, DC and marched on the White House to condemn Biden for blocking a ceasefire, and for funding genocide in Gaza.
Day 2 of my
@Facebook
suspension. They lifted the block on some of the dozens of people they banned, but me & many others are still restricted for being part of campaigns to stop investment firm KKR from funding the
#coastalgaslink
pipeline.
#nocgl
#Wetsuwetenstrong
Weโre in a none stop clash with the bankers and the oil men. Every action, every bird dog, fierce or nice, is a step towards ending the power that they hold over us.
Hereโs a great book that Iโm currently reading that dismantles all the arguments for the false solution known as nuclear energy. The best Iโve read on the topic.
And weโre interviewing the author M.V. Ramana on
@PodcastGreenRed
next week!
Land and water defenders from Oโodham Anti Border Collective are currently halting
#BorderWall
construction at Quitobaquito Springs. โ๐ตPlease pray with them.
(Video from their Instagram
@oodhamantiborder
)
โTrump is a political David Koresh. He sees the end coming and wants to burn it all down and take as many with him as possible.โ
โ Billy Piper, former chief of staff to Mitch McConnell
Funny how many on the left have said things like that for years.
There is something so painful & stark about the Amazonian fires. It makes me wonder why I sit around in meetings & endless process while the world is literally burning up in front of my eyes.
#climatecrisis
#PrayForTheAmazon
Over hundred tents set up on Enbridgeโs boardwalk where theyโve been preparing to dig under the Mississippi River & install the pipeline.
#StopLine3
"Activists have been defacing artwork to draw attention to global warming. But what we really need are solutions, displays of mass power, and the public humiliation of all who stand in the way."
This is such a garbage pail of lies. The left, the anarchists & antifascists are the ones whoโve been fighting to save Oregonโs forests for decades. This will get people hurt & killed.
#OregonFires
โIn his first year in office, Biden had already approved more new oil drilling permits than Trump and that was before he provoked, armed and financed another oil war in Ukraine.โ โฆ
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@JeffreyStClair3
โฉ, Counterpunch
The world is drowning, and burning. And politicians and corporations are doing their best to make a profit from it while acting like they are saving the world.
New article by me:
โLiz only diverged from Trump on those few occasions when he went soft on foreign policyโon Russia, Iraq, Syria, North Korea and Afghanistan. Sheโs always been a guard dog of her fatherโs ruinous legacy.โ
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@JeffreyStClair3
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@PDX_Resists
@Zeplukk
@HannahAllam
Thanks for the tag, we were unaware that this was happening. Fun fact - these guys claimed to be a band and begged a discount for the group purchase.
All their money and more is headed to the NAACP
From the
#StopCopCity
RICO indictment โ "Anarchy Background of Defend the Atlanta Forest":
A conspiracy to "promote anarchist ideals" of "mutual aid, collectivism and social solidarity," including through "the dissemination of written documents, known colloquially as 'zines.'"
In the wake of the
#capitolriots
, some friends & I have been poking at
#FoxNews
& their advertising. We started with an online action. Pls do it, if you havenโt already.
Kicking off my Tuesday with disruptions, picket lines & impromptu blockades at JPMORGAN Chaseโs headquarters in Investors Day after they posted a new climate policy. If you are wondering why, itโs because that policy doesnโt go far enough!!
#defundclimatechange
Iโm outside of JPMorgan where scores of environmental activists have blocked entry to investor day (I was escorted through the back loading dock). Theyโre protesting the bankโs financing of fossil fuels hours after the bank announced new climate initiatives
You know youโve made it big when the Wall Street Journal pens a hit piece aimed at the climate finance campaign youโve worked on for 14 years.
Props to all the scrappy trouble-makers that made this happen.
#defundclimatechange
#ClimateCrisis
Reading about the IPCCโs dismal climate report this morning and then seeing 100 pipeline fighters taking action on Mountain Valley Pipeline gives me certainty that weโre going to go down fucking some shit up.
#ClimateCrisis
#nopipelines
#stopthemvp
This morning, nearly 100 pipeline fighters stopped MVP construction in Elliston, VA. Ten of them have locked down to equipment or wooden structures on site.
More fierce compassion for people & the planet as elders in Madison, WI sit-in & take arrests at the largest funder of fossil fuels (JPMorgan Chase).
#defundclimatechange
Itโs terrible sad state of affairs to see the self described โleft media sphereโ flacking for the nuclear industry.
Whoโs the next guest? Patrick Moore?
Itโs nice to be in DC rolling with some proper villains to
#ShutdownSCOTUS
.
If you are nearby and want to join weโll be doing last action preps for anyone showing up in the morning at 645am in Stanton Park.
Want to
#ShutDownSCOTUS
with us on Monday but don't have an affinity group? That's ok! Meet us at Stanton Park at 6:45am. It will be hot so make sure to bring water, sunscreen, a hat, a mask, and whatever else you need.
United Fruit finally gets its just deserts. In many ways these fruit companies are the epitome of the bloody US empire in Latin America.
Itโs also an important reminder that Chiquitaโs actions occurred during the tenure of NATO liberal Bill Clinton.
Horrible and disgusting.
Fierce compassion as hundreds of us are occupying the California State Capitol shutting down the first day of the state legislatureโ demanding a
#CeaseFire
in Gaza.
Last night, we trained over 90 people in direct action in the heart of San Franciscoโs financial district for the
#DefundLine3
day of action. People are riled up and ready for action.
#StopLine3
#ClimateReport
Georgia has now outlawed offering water to people waiting on voting lines.
When you outlaw offering water only outlaws will offer water.
Go break their fucked up law.
Lots of social media posts are fear and panic- "Dictators!" "Coups!" But when I see Russians (living under actual authoritarian rule) marching in solidarity with people in Ukraine in Moscow, in defiance of Putin, I think "courage."
We've got a lot to live up to in the U.S.A.
If I was part of an organization being investigated for sedition (which can get you 20 years), Iโd be really worried about the leader of the org suddenly being outed as a federal snitch.