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Serving up radical vision & strategy since 1977. Nov ZMagazine is hot off the griddle!  Get you some.

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Expanding the Possible, From Below

The Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, but it is thriving in communities, cities, and states. Jeremy Brecher’s new book is both an urgent call to action and proof of concept.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/expanding-the-possible-from-below/


https://znetwork.org/zvideo/post-election-mass-call-making-meaning-of-the-moment/
Plug in!


Last night there was a 'mass call’/livestream to "Make Meaning in the Moment" that was co-sponsored by 200 organizations and had 140,000 people registered to attend, it was carried on at least four platforms and on just one of those it already has 138,000 views. It was an expanded version of the mass call series anchored by Working Families Party partnering with Seed the Vote, Movement for Black Lives and Showing Up for Racial Justice. Speakers on the call ranged from the presidents of NEA and SEIU - two of the largest unions in he country - through the top leaders of Moveon and Indivisible to WFP head Maurice Mitchell and leaders from The Womens March, Uncommitted, United We Dream, Sunrise, Moms Rising and a score of other groups, plus Reps Pramilla Jayapal and Jamie Raskin. A website is already up and calls to action are already issued. The dominant politics were for all-out resistance to a Trump administration and re-centering progressives in the multiracial, gender-inclusive working class.
Here are the links to the recording of the call and the new website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQXWR-r260&t=13689s

https://weareworthfightingfor.org/


At Fight we’re hellbent on throwing sand in the gears of a machine built to destroy human freedom and dignity.

https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/technology-can-be-used-to-automate-fascism-or-to-revolt-against-it-fight-for-the-future-is-ready-for-the-battle-ahead/


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“All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.”

- Jason Hickel, Nov 6, 2024


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🎭 Storytelling is vital.
Social change is a long-term endeavor requiring imagination, vision, & deconstruction of the status quo.

Join activist-authors to explore how storytelling can be a powerful tool for resistance to injustice and empire, followed by an open Q&A +discussion.

21 November 6pm EST, and equivalent times elsewhere.
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86515744156

#booklaunch #activism #storytelling #resistance #art


Today, you might imagine this quote to come from a peace activist, socialist, or other “radical”. Care to guess who penned these lines in 1953? (Hint: 13 US Presidents ago)

Our culture of what is acceptable can change so quickly… it is reason to act, to connect, rather than to despair.
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https://znetwork.org/zvideo/vote-like-a-radical/

We never vote for them. We always vote for us. This election and every election.

Thank you to our all-star crew: Nick Tilsen, Bill Fletcher Jr., Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Gaby Strong, Sadia Abbas, Rinku Sen, April Rosenblum, Korina Barry, Sarah Sunshine Manning, Ricardo Levins Morales, & Dakota Camacho.


Forward looking food for thought  for organizers to consider various scenarios and how that will effect their work and strategies https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/my-election-predictions


Noam Chomsky; Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power, (16 June, 2021)

““Critical race theory” is the scare-phrase used for the study of the systematic structural and cultural factors in the hideous 400-year history of slavery and enduring racist repression. Proper indoctrination in schools and universities must ban this heresy. What actually happened for 400 years and is very much alive today must be presented to students as a deviation from the real America, pure and innocent, much as in well-run totalitarian states.”

https://chomsky.info/20210616/


“If we're leaving our fate to sociopathic buffoons, we're finished... Trump is the worst, that's because of US power which is overwhelming. We are talking about U.S. decline but you just look at the world, you don't see that when the U.S. imposes sanctions, murderous, devastating sanctions, that's the only country that can do that, but everyone has to follow. Europe may not like, in fact hate actions on Iran, but they have to follow, they have to follow the master, or else they get kicked out of the international financial system. That's not a law of nature, it's a decision in Europe to be subordinate to the master in Washington. Other countries don't even have a choice....”
- Noam Chomsky, 2020


This can’t be shared and reshared enough:
Why is #Palestine at the center of the #climate and #colonial struggle? How are #capitalism and the ecological crisis linked? Who really benefits from the exploitation of resources in the Global South?

https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-a-liberated-palestine-threatens-global-capitalism/


It doesn’t say in the hopes that the party will pushback on Israel. It says that this is the best strategy to be able to empower progressive elements in the party to push back on Israel and to raise the social costs for failing to do so.


Full length film up now via UnsafeMedia & ZNetwork!
Q&A with the director, cast, & ZStaff will be available later this week.

https://youtu.be/rp8IWDNJqdU

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The Chomsky Sessions

https://youtu.be/te2pkgNtpUM?si=kBYv2nfmJnykKDE1


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Register for the livestream premier of #DontLookUpAgain followed by a Q&A with the director.

Oct 26 - limited space remaining!
https://actionnetwork.org/events/znetwork-film-premiere-of-dont-look-up-again/


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Sneak peak of October #ZMagazine!

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“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”
Noam Chomsky


Don’t miss the world premiere of #DontLookUpAgain, the “satire that changed the world”.

26 Oct, 2pm ET
Register for the screening and Q&A with the film’s director: https://actionnetwork.org/events/znetwork-film-premiere-of-dont-look-up-again/

#climatechange #activism #film #YouthSpring
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Join us Oct 8
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https://freeboris.info/events


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ZMagazine - Sept. 2024

"Repression is not a gradual process, it leaps out at you and takes you off guard." - Roger Hallam

Subscribe to receive your #free copy.
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#repression #oilkills #freepalestine #stopeacop #feminism #debate #racism #empire #vision #strategy #activism #climatechange #independentmedia #magazine


Maribor, Slovenia, 2024

Image: ZNetwork.org
#FreePalestine #streetart #solidarity
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Oil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry

Despite increasing repression, an unprecedented alliance of civil resistance groups is targeting airports on three continents to demand a binding treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030.
By: Alexandria Shaner

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/oil-kills-inside-the-international-uprising-disrupting-the-aviation-industry/


Rigorous, independent media that empowers participation is essential community infrastructure and our liberatory movements depend on it.
The billionaire class funds their media, we must fund ours.

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FREE reading and discussion group with Michael Albert, author of No Bosses.
Forward by Noam Chomsky and Yanis Varoufakis.

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Happy #laborday, USA!

No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World, by Michael Albert, is now available for FREE at Z.
https://znetwork.org/online-books/


“Labor #Unions are the leading force for #democratization and #progress .” - Noam Chomsky

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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-labor-day-question-what-makes-a-decent-society/
#laborday #labor #organize


Check out the beautiful #solarpunk visioning of Joan de Art. https://image.nostr.build/ed3df9b3ed25be055ee7db0b7121420fffb72fec6d71a1c7c094917e0351cdf6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/28157be1e535885198761657e9ef9eef5808034599b5021ad2d4f621d2024c02.jpg https://image.nostr.build/148a323ce9fbe9be5936011a908ce20da52a5cd37776757bbd020072fa3c4dcc.jpg

https://www.joandeart.com/ #art


“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.”
- Noam Chomsky

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/power-profit-bullsht/


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Chomsky has always been a staunch proponent of nonviolent direct action in general, and a supporter of Extinction Rebellion specifically.
In this short but powerful article, XR’s youngest co-founder proposes vision and strategy against fascism.

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UN’s Guterres: ‘The ultimate vaccine for polio in Gaza is peace’

The UN is readying 1.6 million doses of polio vaccine for children in Gaza as the disease spreads. #press

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/8/16/uns-guterres-the-ultimate-vaccine-for-polio-in-gaza-is?traffic_source=rss&utm_source=press.coop


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-grow-for-transparency-on-presidential-vote/

Venezuela: Calls Grow for Transparency on Presidential Vote

By Federico Fuentes, Kerry Smith


"If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world."
- Noam Chomsky


2003 - Linguist, intellectual and activist, Noam Chomsky discusses and reflects on the state of world events including the War in Iraq, September 11th, the War on Terror, Media Manipulation and Control, Social Activism, Fear, and American Foreign Policy in both large forums and in small interactive discussions with other intellectuals, activists, fans, students and critics.

https://youtu.be/jRlsE9NMleU?si=EUc8bH5Wd_bJwAOf


Why does independent, participatory media matter?

Billionaire funded media has been the death of journalism - it is a #propaganda machine for power and profit. #Independentmedia is #community infrastructure - and it needs YOUR HELP.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/power-profit-bullsht/
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-reflection-on-venezuela/

A Reflection On Venezuela

By Boaventura de Sousa Santos


"Fight for the Future opposes legislation that could lead to censorship. But we support strict regulation of Big Tech and think surveillance capitalism as a business model should be abolished entirely."

Words from our Director, Evan Greer, as we reflect on whats happened around the demise of the Kids Online Safety Act and the need to form strong coalitions + strategies to hold Big Tech Responsible.

https://t.co/nyjyZW6CUG


Overreliance on a few tech giants makes us all susceptible to the same bugs and exploits. Stronger antitrust enforcement is good for security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/crowdstrike-antitrust-and-digital-monoculture


One of the things that is depressing about Generative AI and imagery is that the outputs all start to look the same - high gloss illustration/ animation-y.

Today the only popular magazine cover that features art in the states is The New Yorker. Previously Life, Time and others often featured original art.

This link features a set of prints from agricultural magazine covers of the previous century. The amazing thing is the wide diversity of art and styles and even mediums.

We need AI to clean bathrooms not do art.

https://www.fifteen.ca/collections/agricultural-arts?page=3

#art


Get Up, Stand Up

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool the people who read Z.

Join us in a 4-step action path, not just in opposition to all the horrors unfolding around us, but to stand up FOR something in unity and strength.
 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/get-up-stand-up/


‘The Left Should Not Be Making Concessions, But Dictating Its Terms’

Boris Kagarlitsky on the far right threat, British Labour, and the French left’s chances of success
By Boris Kagarlitsky

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-left-should-not-be-making-concessions-but-dictating-its-terms/


NEW from the Activist Diaries Series…

The Wisdom of Anger, the Battle For Our Lives

By Tamara Pearson

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wisdom-of-anger-the-battle-for-our-lives/


“If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them. Suppressing speech isn't the answer.”
Noam Chomsky

Glad to be here building people powered communities that enable open, constructive discourse. nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch nostr:npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240


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https://znetwork.org/podcasts/


“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on — because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” - Noam Chomsky
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July ZMagazine is out! Publishing the spirit of resistance since 1977.

Subscribe and we'll send you a copy for free in your welcome email. https://znetwork.org/subscribe/
#resistance #magazine #rebel #justice #liberation #solidarity #free

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https://znetwork.org/zvideo/z-network-activist-media-an-interview-with-alexandria-shaner/

A ZCommunity member runs The History Major, a radical history channel. Z made an appearance this week to talk independent media, journalism, activism and of course… history!


https://youtu.be/apfgfG-Gmp4?si=ZVFq1uIpXowTPJEt

Throwback to when Noam Chomsky was interviewed by Rage Against the Machine


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-labyrinth-of-propaganda/

The Labyrinth of Propaganda

Decoding the intentional confusion in modern extremism, left-right polarization, and global narratives


Mutual aid alert!

Pro tip from a ZCommunity member: how to de-google yourself.

https://tycrek.github.io/degoogle/

Check out Z’s community forum for more: https://discord.gg/S3PAKABT


Amazon squeezed sellers and jacked up prices.

Apple used its power to kill off challengers.

Live Nation leveraged its dominance to jack up ticket costs and tack on massive fees.

Each company is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the Biden-Harris admin.

This is a big deal.


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/integrity-vs-expediency-the-climate-trial/
This article was transcribed through a prison phone. Roger Hallam and 4 other climate defenders have just been sentenced by a UK court to a total of 21 years for a zoom call where they explained nonviolent direct action as an effective resistance to exctinction.

Integrity vs Expediency: The Climate Trial

As Martin Luther King said, moderates are our biggest obstacle to freedom. Here's how they enabled my prison sentence.


In October 2023, Israel’s AI-powered system Lavender escalated violence in Gaza by automating kill lists. This terrifying technology turns human lives into data points.

https://stopkiller.ai/


Lots of opportunity in Nashville this week to share why neither Trump nor Vance are good for internet freedom.  Check out this  post  from nostr:npub1jcwuf0dh5vqsq44qavygqwjfecawf53fmx7gadlcdtuexz0548hqy4jyrz to get talking points: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-07-18-with-the-selection-of-jd-vance-for-trumps-vp-we-should-be-even-more-worried-about-kosa-and-other-censorship-bills/


Join Z in supporting the Whole Truth Five and the right to protest!

https://defendourjuries.org/wtf/


Hundreds of nonviolent protesters have been arrested in DC for expressing the will of the vast majority of the American people who want an end to their government’s support of genocide. Yet, an actual convicted war criminal walks free as congress rolls out a blood red carpet.

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All out to the capitol today as we declare a citizen arrest of genocidal war criminal Netanyahu and denounce the US Congress for hosting him.

Can’t make it to DC?
Please consider adding your name and sharing the We Stand statement.
It condemns the genocide in Gaza as well as oppression and injustice everywhere. It also proposes positive vision to engender unity in struggle towards mutual aims and liberation for all.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-stand-for-peace-and-justice-2/

Ready to do more? Put the We Stand statement into action. Here are some ideas from our friend Mazin in Palestine: http://qumsiyeh.org/whatyoucando/


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Mexico’s Lessons for the International Left

Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-lessons-for-the-international-left/


Reimagining society is easier once we realize that living under empire is not an inevitable human condition….

Beyond Kingdoms and Empires

A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms
By David Wengrow

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-kingdoms-and-empires/


From Argentina with Love, and Rage

Arauco is a multinational forestry company burning homes and arresting pregnant women in northeastern Argentina. We take a look inside anti-extractivist struggle, the carbon credit scam, weaving solidarity, and organizing under an extreme right wing government.

Alexandria Shaner interviews Clarisa Neztor

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-argentina-with-love-and-rage/

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Climate Activists Score Major Win in Campaign to Electrify DC

An inside look at the vision and strategy behind Extinction Rebellion D.C.’s campaign that is blocking $12 billion in new fossil fuel infrastructure.
By Abby Shepard

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-direct-action-scores-major-win-for-end-methane-electrify-d-c-campaign/


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/block-broaden-build/

Block, Broaden, Build

The 2024 Elections and the Threefold Tasks of the Left


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Join the coalition in DC on July 24:
Surround the U.S. Capitol and issue a notice of Citizen’s Arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity! The U.S. government has invited the Prime Minister of Israel to address Congress while he carries out a genocide against the Palestinian people. We won’t let a war criminal walk the streets of DC!

The people of the world stand with Palestine and against the genocide committed by Israel with the full agreement of the United States. In Washington DC, we will surround the Capitol building while the U.S. war criminals cheer on (and fund!) Israel’s genocidal campaign and welcome Netanyahu inside.

https://www.shutitdown4palestine.org/


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/settled/

Settled

How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory
By Ellen Cantarow


“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” - Noam Chomsky

Our answer to this dismal and oppressive reality - ORGANIZE!

Dig in to Z’s activism feed for more: https://znetwork.org/category/topic/activism/


Gideon Levy: Getting Rid of Netanyahu Is Not Enough

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gideon-levy-getting-rid-of-netanyahu-is-not-enough/


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This deserves another share:
Critical media literacy is a tool of empowerment to free yourself.

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Here is one quality investigative source to start out: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trumps-shooter-gave-15-to-a-progressive


Ep 286 of RevolutionZ has Evan Henshaw Plath, also known as Rabble, a visionary technologist with personal roots in developing Indymedia and even Twitter. He replays the history, logic, and implications of social media from its root democratic and participatory  intentions to its corporatization and erosion of privacy and meaningful engagement. Plath takes us, as I suspect few if any others could, from the shift from social media's early, open protocols to the centralized corporations like Twitter and Facebook that came to dominate. He then explains his ongoing quest to reclaim the decentralized spirit of the web including working on modern advancements like Nostr, and his current adaptation called Nos.social. Reflecting on historical movements like Indymedia and Occupy Wall Street, Plath emphasizes the need for autonomous spaces that support radical change and envisages the potential of independent, decentralized, privacy-focused platforms. He also discusses possible  sustainable funding of these independent platforms, underscoring a needed shift from owners and consumers to co-creators and the vital role of community collaboration. RevolutionZ listeners will likely know the depth of my antipathy for social media as usually encountered. So I hope you will listen and wind up feeling as I do, that  Plath's new project, Nos.social, is  well worth our attention and support.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-286-evan-on-105886109?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link


Rest in power, Jane. #Solidarity forever.

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We’re in a Class War. Jane McAlevey Actually Acted Like It.

By Alex N. Press

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-in-a-class-war-jane-mcalevey-actually-acted-like-it/


Chomsky

Noam Chomsky has been a hugely influential contributor to liberatory movements worldwide. This account celebrates his work and related content.  ✊📖🤓🗺☮

Brought to you by Noam’s friends at OfficialZNet@nos.social

https://znetwork.org/author/noamchomsky/


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-hot-wars/

The New Hot Wars

“Polycrisis” is a word being used to describe the current confluence of military, geopolitical, economic, political, climate, and other crises. This series of commentaries on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal,” probes the dynamics of the polycrisis and what alternatives there might be to its race to destruction. This commentary, the third in the series, examines the stunning expansion of armed conflict in the polycrisis era.

By Jeremy Brecher


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-ashes-of-the-past-understanding-the-failures-of-fascist-movements-in-france-then-and-now/
What can history and the left coalition’s recent gains in France teach us about strategies to end fascism?

From the Ashes of the Past: Understanding the Failures of Fascist Movements in France Then and Now
By Zoran Andelkovic


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maria-corina-machado-what-the-mainstream-media-isnt-saying-about-her/

María Corina Machado: What the Mainstream Media Isn’t Saying About Her

By Steve Ellner


Why does the rest of the world care about US politics?

Among many spheres of “influence” (interference and domination), this graphic is telling.
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This post has been repeatedly removed by Facebook for “violating community standards “… yet another reason it’s vital to support independent media and projects like nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch who are building the independent and participatory infrastructure we so urgently need.

Here’s what violates the corporate oligarchy’s standards: simply pointing out that we shouldn’t confuse free speech with expensive speech.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/extreme-inequality-is-a-threat-to-free-speech/


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-is-the-ny-times-calling-for-bidens-ouster/

Why Is the NY Times Calling for Biden’s Ouster?

The elite newspaper has a long history of undermining progressive causes. Its position on Biden’s viability as the Democratic nominee needs to be seen within this context.

By Sonali Kolhatkar


The only way to honor an ideal of freedom, equality, and the pursuit of happiness for all is to pursue that ideal in honesty and in ernest.

A people’s history of the 4th of July: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peoples-history-of-fourth-of-july/

Voices of a people’s history: https://www.peopleshistory.us/

Democracy Now’s viewing: https://youtu.be/Nd3JVI_hVVU?si=0Vc9ApK7f9UwmSr0


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-society-of-resentment/

The Society of Resentment

As the inequalities and discriminations of neoliberalism increase, we will increasingly live in societies of resentment: total fragmentation of feelings of injustice, the intensification of conflicts between victims and the impossibility of articulating struggles against capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal domination. These struggles leave the real aggressor unscathed and relieved by the fact that the forces and reasons for resistance and struggle against him are divided and effectively diverted from the targets that could benefit him. One of the dangers of the proliferation of the society of resentment is this: the perpetuation of the power that causes it. The other danger is the increased difficulty in distinguishing real damage from illusory damage, real causes from illusory causes, and real victims and aggressors from illusory victims and aggressors. This makes it more difficult to effectively punish, in a substantive and procedurally fair way, the real damage suffered by real victims against the real aggressors.  Resentment puts an end to hope for a fairer society. Resentment replaces the Spinozist dialectic between fear and hope with the dialectic between hatred and revenge.  Revenge aspires to the transfer of power, not the transformation of power. Without this transformation, there will be no hope for a better world.


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peoples-history-of-fourth-of-july/

People’s History of Fourth of July

By Zinn Education Project


The #solarpunk movement is the sustainable humane and decentralized model for liberation we need.

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Zinn’s 2005 words are worth a read today. Do not despair, organize.

https://progressive.org/op-eds/howard-zinn-despair-supreme-court/


Movement Lessons from Climbers With Palestine’s Yosemite Banner Hang

“Oh, you don’t know how to organize a sit-in at an Israeli consulate? No problem. What do you know how to do? Do that thing, but for Palestine.”
By Brooke Anderson

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/movement-lessons-from-climbers-with-palestines-yosemite-banner-hang/


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-trying-to-save-democracy/

Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Democracy

And stop waiting on politicians to do it for you. Instead, practice it—at work, school, and Little League


I have no idea what you meant.


https://libcom.org/article/government-future-noam-chomsky

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An interesting response to an article (written by a famous anarchist) that makes a case against centralized state authority.

Did you get a chance to read the linked article? Id be interested to hear if it surprised you compared to what you had assumed previously.


If encouraging you to think for yourself rather than feeling like you only deserve to repeat the thoughts of others is agressive, I’m not sure you are conversing in good faith.
Regardless, it bears repeating that you and everyone are capable of thinking for yourselves and deserve to do so. I merely suggested that you could do so by engaging durectly with a source before accepting what someone else tells you to think about it.


Voting is not the end of our work. It’s only the beginning.

Electoral politics will not give us radical outcomes on their own. We must organize.


This text in the screenshot is a rambling assortment of words that hardly deserves attention because it says nothing.
If you’d like yo know if someone is authoritarian, just go directly to that person’s words and actions. You don’t need someone else (including the “Ray Peat”) to tell you what to think. THAT is authoritarian. You (like everyone) deserve to be free and think for yourself.

Here’s Chomsky speaking for himself on authoritarianism: nostr:note1mxexjx3cewratppg3hg50hpcvdz9ly6e3ejegy6vrydzw69fuz8sehscdk


nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 just shared Chomsky on conspiracy theories - nostr:note1xdmzj84mw9ax7rgckwxhy6rgs4ayw3epv6s50f8py00c0ghruwcsn5tmdy

Understanding propaganda and having critical literacy skills is essential. You dint need to have Chomskyian encyclopedic knowledge to do this, just some media theory and systemic analysis which can be applied to your own context as you need it.

The post ⬆ inspired lots of comments and questions about Kennedy in particular. Here’s another great interview that talks specifically about Kennedy conspiracies: https://chomsky.info/20131122/


One of Chomsky’s famous sayings starts with, “If the Nuremberg Laws were applied … ” Here’s what he said about Kennedy in that context:

“Kennedy is easy. The invasion of Cuba was outright aggression. Eisenhower planned it, incidentally, so he was involved in a conspiracy to invade another country, which we can add to his score. After the invasion of Cuba, Kennedy launched a huge terrorist campaign against Cuba, which was very serious. No joke; bombardment of industrial installations with killing of plenty of people, bombing hotels, sinking fishing boats, sabotage. Later, under Nixon, it even went as far as poisoning livestock and so on. Big affair; and then came Vietnam; he invaded Vietnam. He invaded South Vietnam in 1962. He sent the US Air Force to start bombing.”

And then in “On Democracy,” a 1996 interview by Tom Morello:

“Kennedy is not even worth discussing. The invasion in South Vietnam – Kennedy attacked South Vietnam, outright. In 1961-1962 he sent Air Force to start bombing villages, authorized napalm. Also laid the basis for the huge wave of repression that spread over Latin America with the installation of Neo-Nazi gangsters that were always supported directly by the United States. That went on and in fact picked up under Johnson.”

Here is a 2013 interview with Chomsky on this subject and on Kennedy conspiracy theories: https://chomsky.info/20131122/


When I think of conspiracy theories I’m reminded the way nostr:npub1a7mxreazql8ld0csdzk7wk6a5xjzcg7h632q78u3008lyr32lxks5t4ske addressed them. It’s well worth listening to and considering somebody proposes that they’ve figured out and are exposing a secret conspiracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirrKIQfOmk


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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-strikes-plea-deal-with-us/

‘Julian Assange Is Free’: WikiLeaks Founder Strikes Plea Deal With US

"We thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom," said WikiLeaks. "Julian's freedom is our freedom."


The KOSA Bill is a classic use of propaganda aimed at surveillance for control and profit. It’s true purpose has nothing to do with protecting vulnerable people, including children.


Very glad to be here.


Well you seem completely convinced of your own position on the effects of increased CO2 being released into the atmosphere, regardless of empirical evidence. I don’t think it’s worth discussing beyond that.


Im not sure what you mean by anti-carbon. But if you read this article I think you would find it unequivocally pro-human.


What We Are Up Against

An excellent primer on how we got here that asks the right questions - how can we derail planetocide and build a more just future?

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Text of Noam Chomsky's 1970 lecture on the possibilities for a libertarian socialist society and against both liberal capitalist and state socialist alternatives.

https://libcom.org/article/government-future-noam-chomsky
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On yesterday’s rumor debacle, it’s an interesting reflection of what corporate/mainstream platforms like X elevate. Take Jacobin and The New Statesman, who are both generally considered credible but who ran Noam’s obituaries yesterday without first verifying if he had actually died. This plus millions of tweets blew up in a fake news explosion.
Both publications gave into pressure to be first, be shocking, and therefore be the most viral over prioritizing journalistic rigor. This is a demonstration of how the media ecosystem pressures publications to seek virality over trust in a systemic way. It’s only logical that if you want to survive and thrive as a publication or journalist, you will respond to the pressure that this structure applies. So though it’s no excuse, we can understand how it happened.
But as users/consumers of media, this does not serve us well at all.
Hence why we here and at nostr:npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s are supporters of nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 , nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch , and all who are working to revolutionize a true people’s media via liberatory platforms and structures.


Yes, this is an account dedicated to sharing Chomsky’s work. It is not actually Chomsky here on the other end, just his longtime friends and publishers at nostr:npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s


Yes it was mass confusion yesterday. And to clarify, in calling for rigor and decency i was referring to those publications who shared the fake news without verifying. Not blaming you and others who were just reacting to their announcements.


The rumors circulated today that Noam Chomsky had passed away are NOT true.
We have been in communication with his wife, Valeria, for confirmation today.

A few major publications have taken down their obviously pre-prepared Chomsky "memorial" articles that were posted earlier today. A little rigor & decency is in order above the race to be first. Let's honor Chomsky's example in this way.


The rumors circulated today thay Noam Chomsky had passed away are NOT true.
We have spoken to his wife, Valeria, for confirmation today.

A few major publications have taken down their obviously pre-prepared Chomsky "memorial" articles that were posted earlier today. A little rigor & decency is in order above the race to be first. Let's honor Chomsky's example in this way.


If youd like to learn what it is… I wouldnt call this wiki entry a political treatise but it can give you a 60 second definition. (This term is often confusing in the US because the word “libertarian” has hugely different connotations than in the rest of the world.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism#:~:text=Left%2Dlibertarianism%2C%20also%20known%20as,to%20political%20and%20social%20theory.


#introduction

Chomsky once said: “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas… All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

We’ll be sharing Chomsky’s wisdom and related work, not to engage in hero-worship, but to support and inspire all of you here at nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch  with ideas. Through participation in this project, we’re building revolution together. ✊

Brought to you by Noam’s friends at ZNetwork.org:
Noam is one of the most impactful educators of our time and has been an invaluable contributor to nostr:npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s  over the decades. We’re excited to learn about your work and to discuss some essential Chomsky. https://image.nostr.build/6c0abd2d997dbc1aa9e9c583de527ee0de4ddcfbc7f4ae2c7d1852590bf61774.gif


More of a left-libertarian than a communist but, without getting too nuanced, yes - we are here.  ❤


More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.

Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍ #LetReadersRead

👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/


We’re channeling the joy of the revolution with our June Cohort. Whether you are looking for dance music for an upcoming gathering or inspiration on how to make an impact, this month’s cohort has it all. Inspired by this passage from Emma Goldman’s autobiography, Living My Life, we hope following this latest group of Creators, Activists and Journalists will bring some joy to your feed and summer!

"At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha [Alexander Berkman], a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.

I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world--prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
[Living My Life (New York: Knopf, 1934), p. 56]

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nostr:npub1q33jywkl8r0e5g48lvrenxnr3lw59kzrw4e7p0cecslqzwc56eesjymqu0 Digital musician experimenting with ways to share digital music on the social web. Follow for latest releases as well as periodic drops of previous productions.

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nostr:npub1lq9lx5mh2m3pvdnckcta7h7h07qexa3gxvyakdzt73lqp3prt3jqx9pa2e  Existing at the intersection of personal and political liberation, Mama Ganuush is a Palestinian African trans activist advocating for Palestinian liberation through drag artistry and organizing.

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nostr:npub1jcwuf0dh5vqsq44qavygqwjfecawf53fmx7gadlcdtuexz0548hqy4jyrz Using online protest, this technology activist organization is building a future where technology is a force for liberation rather than oppression. Follow their account to learn how you can support their campaign for e2e for DMs, keep track of the latest poorly written internet legislation or their efforts to ban facial recognition.

📰 🌱 ✊🏽
nostr:npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s So much of news these days is crisis after crisis. Znet reports on the people making change for a better world, showcasing local, regional, and international efforts.

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nostr:npub1a7mxreazql8ld0csdzk7wk6a5xjzcg7h632q78u3008lyr32lxks5t4ske So much of news these days is crisis after crisis. Znet reports on the people making change for a better world, showcasing local, regional, and international efforts.

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nostr:npub1n8gvnx827tdl46ke406sjx0t5ey4mrtptux766ejp9y2ff8cc3uqe4ufd0 Curating the latest efforts of decentralized technology to enhance journalism’s reach. Journalists, technologists, and readers will find this curatorial feed fascinating.

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nostr:npub1vpdlxsc8dr4m580d43vj4ka0e6wmstzzxhvcermllhh5m9ytnhdq6wnaem Sharing a mix of original electronic beats and the latest music on Nostr, JSTR will keep your summer playlist fresh.


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Happy to join you all!

Chomsky once said: “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas… All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

We’ll be sharing Chomsky’s wisdom and related work, not to engage in hero-worship, but to support and inspire all of you here at nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch with ideas. Through participation in this project, we’re building revolution together. ✊


https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-brief-history-of-u-s-imperialism-with-noam-chomsky/

A Brief History of U.S. Imperialism with Noam Chomsky

Listen to this interview and learn more than you would in a four year international relations degree. Chomsky’s contribution as an educator is arguably unparalleled in our time.


In the US we have socialism for the rich and brutal capitalism for the rest.


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Excited to share some classic Chomsky in a decentralized and algorithm-free ecosystem.
This consent ain’t manufactered.

https://youtu.be/34LGPIXvU5M?si=WiXB4KGkZj1i1va0


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzkWWI6eVu3-9zOQVHCXN_PK-Az5fryyo

The Chomsky Sessions

A five part series of video interviews with some revolutionary OGs. ZNet cofounder Michael Albert interviews Noam Chomsky on a sweaping array of topics.


One year ago this week, Chomsky v Piers Morgan

https://znetwork.org/zvideo/piers-morgan-vs-noam-chomsky/


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Z Magazine was founded in 1987, by two of the co-founders of South End Press (f. 1977), Lydia Sargent and Michael Albert. In the opening days, a few writers’ support was critical to the project’s success, including: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, bell hooks, Edward Herman, Holly Sklar, and Jeremy Brecher. Z developed into a major left-wing, activist-oriented publication that went fully online in 1995, later becoming ZNet.

Check out some recent and vintage Chomsky here: https://znetwork.org/author/noamchomsky/