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June 29, 2024 Readings
Attempting a new format (that I will probably fiddle with for a week or so) for sharing articles of interest. Below you will find a number of links to those articles. Note that I may add a few before the day ends so check back. Hope this works for everyone… First-Responder Trauma: A New Framework […]
Walking Away From The Marketplace
Walking Away From The Marketplace The recent sequence of posts here on lenocracy (from Latin leno, a pimp)—that is, the form of political economy in which productive economic activity gets squeezed dry by various kinds of legally mandated pimping—has fielded a response I find interesting. Next to nobody has tried to argue that lenocracy is […]
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy Fringe Minority, Eh? TK Partners News2Share take a balanced look at the Canadian protests In the above video, TK Partners News2Share do a fantastic job of doing what the conventional press mostly hasn’t done with the “Freedom Convoy” story, asking the right questions about who’s participating, what their concerns are, and how the […]
Protesting Permaculture: the last five weeks and the last five decades
Protesting Permaculture: the last five weeks and the last five decades On Saturday 13th and 20th November, my partner Su Dennett and I joined others from central Victoria travelling by train to the “Kill the Bill”/anti-lockdown/anti-mandate protests in Melbourne. This essay documents the experience, and reflects on the relationship between permaculture and oppositional activism over […]
The Divestment Movement’s Big Month
The Divestment Movement’s Big Month Investors, foundations, universities and governments pulled their assets from fossil fuel companies in record numbers in October. The decades-long push to get large investment funds to pull their money from destructive oil, gas and coal has made several major leaps forward in the past month. One of the biggest occurred […]
A Surefire Cure For Despair
A Surefire Cure For Despair “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”~ Samuel Beckett Sometimes it just gets to be too goddamn much. You just finished a soul-draining argument with a family member who insists that Putin controls all major world events because that’s what the TV said so it must be true, then you […]
There Are Things Worth Fighting For, And Fates Far Worse Than Death
There Are Things Worth Fighting For, And Fates Far Worse Than Death Activism in the liberty movement often requires a painful examination of details. We look at political and economic trends, identify inconsistencies in the mainstream narrative, point out inevitable outcomes of disaster or attempts at collectivist power, and ask – “Who benefits?” Ultimately, the […]
10 reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal
10 reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal Image soiurce here. We live in a world where democracy is a threat and freedom is a punishment, where you can’t tell a turd from a diamond, where 5G is trumpeted even as it threatens to kill us, where the prevailing ethos is buyer-beware and where anyone […]
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement The Yellow Vest Movement that began in France, is spreading. It appeared also in Belgium and it spread to Canada as well. The French arrested the leaders of the Yellow Vest Movement calling them an anti-government charging them for organizing an unauthorized protest, as authorities adopt a tougher approach to try to curb […]
Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S.
Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S. “”The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.” — C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins In less than two months, the yellow vests (“gilets jaunes”) movement in France has reshaped the political landscape in Europe. For a seventh straight week, […]
The Flight from Nature
The Flight from Nature A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled “It’s time for climate change defeatists to get out of the way.” If you’ve watched the slow-motion train wreck of climate change activism for more than a […]
The Extinction Rebellion’s Direct-Action Climate Activism Comes to New York
THE EXTINCTION REBELLION’S DIRECT-ACTION CLIMATE ACTIVISM COMES TO NEW YORK THE NEW YORK CHAPTER of Extinction Rebellion held its first planning meeting on Thursday. Incensed and terrified by the accelerating climate crisis, activists gathered in Manhattan to discuss how they might replicate some of the successes the direct-action group has had in the United Kingdom. […]
Six Recent US Antiwar Demonstrations Your Rulers Don’t Want You Talking About
Six Recent US Antiwar Demonstrations Your Rulers Don’t Want You Talking About A friend told me yesterday that he hadn’t seen an antiwar protest in America in ten years. It was a sincere comment; he genuinely hadn’t seen any coverage on any peace activism in his country during that time. And of course he hadn’t; it […]
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges We will not solve climate change and other pressing global threats until we admit, and learn from, the repeated failures of past proclamations and promises. The general public, the American news magazine proclaims in its cover story, ‘The ravaged environment’, ‘has been seized with such anger […]
