Take the Money Back!
“We’ve got this mythology that somehow there is a shortage of money, because money is a commodity and we have to compete for it, but that isn’t what money is. Money represents relationships.”
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Fight the Frackopoly
“If we’re really going to put together a movement to fight for something, why would we fight for these trading schemes? Why would we put the financial services industry in charge of the environment? We should work to ban fossil fuels.”
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A Disaster for the Whole World
“Go figure what is causing hunger. You’re displacing smallholder farmers from their land; you’re arresting them and charging them as terrorists if they protest; and then their lands are given away to foreign investors to grow what? Sugar and cotton.”
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What’s Greek is Global: “We’re All In It Together.”
“Europe—or at least our leadership—is following the script of the late 1920s, which with mathematical precision is going to lead to a major deflationary shock that the United States’ economic recovery is not strong enough to sustain.”
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To Make Protest About Power, Not Performance
There is still time to fundamentally influence the US presidential election. But we have to orient around that goal. We have to talk openly about that goal, and figure out what kinds of tactics we have to use in the streets to make it work.
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Aleppo Is Burning. Assad Must Go.
This man is responsible for countless people being murdered, raped, tortured, imprisoned, and starved to death. Accepting him staying in power is the same as saying we shouldn’t have brought Hitler down.
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On Extinction, Exploitation and Ecocide
“To say this is a general condition that has been created by humanity doesn’t give us any understanding of the mechanisms that have generated the environmental crisis—and consequently, no way to organize.”
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Eviction: Enraging Causes and Enduring Consequences
Poverty isn’t just a reflection of lower incomes; it’s also an expression of extractive markets.
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The Syrian Revolution, at Street Level
“A lot of the people who picked up weapons knew it was a mistake. Violence alienates certain key constituencies who the revolution needs to win over. It scares the West, and makes them more likely to stick with Assad—which is why he provoked it.”
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Fight or Flight
People’s lands are being ripped away from them and turned into palm oil plantations. Their rivers are dammed. Their forests have been plundered. International investment does tremendous harm both to the people and to Mother Earth, about which they care profoundly.