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  • ARE WE REALLY LUDDITES JUST FOR LOGGING OFF?

    Are we really Luddites just for logging off? We can be wiser about boundaries for technology

    Originally published: Mind Matters on October 19, 2021 by Andrew McDiarmid (more by Mind Matters)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2021)

    We can be wiser about boundaries for technology.

  • 'The Slave Ship'

    The eco-politics of the sublime: nature, environmentalism, and Covid-ecology

    Originally published: New Socialist on October 16, 2021 by Enis Yucekoralp (more by New Socialist) (Posted Nov 17, 2021)

    A conception of the sublime, liberated from its racist, sexist and domineering classic form, should form a part of any ecosocialist imaginary.

  • Shoplifting propoganda

    Fake ‘shoplifting surge’ is just the latest in crime wave propaganda

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on November 12, 2021 by Eugene Puryear (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2021)

    The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.

  • Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

    Díaz-Canel joins Red Bandana sit-in

    Originally published: Granma on November 15, 2021 by Leticia Martínez Hernández (more by Granma)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    Yesterday, November 14, around noon, President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived at Havana’s Central Park to join the sit-in organized by the Red Bandana collective, an initiative of social network activists, members of Cuban civil society organizations, and promoters of community projects.

  • U.S. border patrol is detaining immigrants from Latin America. Yuma, Arizona. May, 2021. Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com

    Defund the global climate wall

    Originally published: The Border Chronicle on October 29, 2021 by Todd Miller (more by The Border Chronicle) (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.

  • Art by Alice Mao

    Opening this article voids warranty

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 24, number 2, Don’t Be Evil by Harun Šiljak (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.

  • COP26 Sheffield Climate March 06/11/21

    As we run out of time to save the planet, COP26 ends in ‘utter betrayal’

    Originally published: The Canary on November 14, 2021 by Peadar O'Cearnaigh (more by The Canary)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    Following two weeks of negotiations, the UN climate summit COP26 concluded with the Glasgow Climate Pact.

  • voluntourism ≠ volunteering

    Canadian imperialism and the responsibility to ‘Voluntour’

    Originally published: Socialist Project on November 15, 2021 by Shreya Ghimire (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    The term ‘voluntourism’ is a portmanteau of the words ‘volunteer’ and ‘tourism’ and refers to a practice in which people, often young upper or middle-class white women in the Global North (Bandyopadhyay and Patil 2017, 645), pay an organization to coordinate their trip to a country in the Global South.

  • Kids putting up Cuba flag

    Friends of Cuba: oppose U.S. intervention

    Originally published: Morning Star on November 2021 by Natasha Hickman (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    Seizing on small protests over shortages on the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN

  • Climate change reports

    Climate conspiracy theorists say it is suspicious that every single research paper says the EXACT same thing

    Originally published: The Shovel on October 8, 2021 by The Shovel (more by The Shovel)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    A group of climate change conspiracy theorists has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers which they say is highly suspicious.

  • Frigga Haug

    Thirteen theses of Marxism-Feminism

    Originally published: Transform Europe on November 16, 2020 by Frigga Haug (more by Transform Europe)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    The theses are a working tool and an insurance at the same time of what we are and where we want to go to, while both the path and the goal are open for joint discussion and thus for change.

  • Prison fence

    Invisible Scars

    Originally published: Texas Observer on November 10, 2021 by Jennifer Toon (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    For women inside prison, the fight for survival is less physical than psychological.

  • Climate activists protesting during the official final day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow

    COP26 was a failure. But the people’s alternative can still be a success

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on November 2021 by Morning Star Online Desk (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    Has COP26, which has wound up in Glasgow after two weeks of political showboating and grassroots protest, been a failure?

  • Joëlle Tuerlinckx, ‘the biggest-surface-on-earth scale 1:1’ (‘la-plus-grande-surface-au-monde scale 1:1’), 2006

    Titans

    Originally published: Phenomenal World on November 6, 2021 by Benjamin Braun and Adrienne Buller (more by Phenomenal World) (Posted Nov 13, 2021)

    Tracing the rise and the politics of asset manager capitalism.

  • Rebecca Wilson, “Ticky Tacky.”

    Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on April 2, 2021 by Anita Waters (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Nov 13, 2021)

    Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.

  • Joe Zucker, The Relocation of Property by Natural Forces from Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977.

    Manufacturing stagnation

    Originally published: Phenomenal World on November 4, 2021 by Herman Mark Schwartz (more by Phenomenal World) (Posted Nov 12, 2021)

    Intellectual property, industrial organization, and economic growth.

  • Lasting environmental and health impacts of US chemical warfare in Southeast Asia – 50 years on

    Lasting environmental and health impacts of U.S. chemical warfare in Southeast Asia – 50 years on

    Originally published: China Environment News on November 11, 2021 (more by China Environment News) (Posted Nov 12, 2021)

    The Vietnam War (1955-1975) is known to the Vietnamese as the “American War,” or the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation.”

  • Love Story

    Not just a love story?

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on November 9, 2021 by Anish Tore (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2021)

    Sekhar Kammula’s new film deftly highlights the contradictions of living in neo-liberal India.

  • Mother Nature, Inc

    Mother Nature, Inc.

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on November 8, 2021 by Robert Hunziker (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2021)

    Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature.

  • Nicaraguans voting in November 7 elections

    Sandinistas win by a landslide! U.S. dirty tricks fail in derailing Nicaraguan democracy

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 9, 2021 by Nan McCurdy (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2021)

    On Monday, the results of the election were announced: the FSLN won by a landslide with 75.92% of the vote. Voter turnout was 65.23% of all eligible voters, higher than in the last U.S. election where voter turnout is measured by registered, not eligible voters.

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