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Farm Convoy Of Tractors Hit Paris Streets To Protest Pesticide Ban
Farm Convoy Of Tractors Hit Paris Streets To Protest Pesticide Ban Adding to the days of strikes and mass street demonstrations about French President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age, farmers have flooded the streets of Paris for an entirely different reason. French farmers drove hundreds of tractors, if not more, into […]
We Are All Canadian Truckers Now!
We Are All Canadian Truckers Now! We all remember where we were when the Berlin Wall came down. While it may have seemed that communist rule would go on forever, when the people decided that they had enough suddenly the wall fell. Just like that. Thus it is after two years of Covid authoritarianism that […]
The Blockaders
The Blockaders As logging resisters near month eight in Fairy Creek, a judge may order their surrender. Inside their last stand for old growth. A Tyee special report. Members of the Fairy Creek Blockade occupy a logging road, preventing loggers for Teal-Jones timber company from moving into one of Vancouver Island’s last old-growth watersheds. Photo by […]
Water Cannons? Tear Gas?
Water Cannons? Tear Gas? “Flora” (Roman Goddess of Spring), Villa di Arianna 1st Century A.D. [..] the rifleman’s stalking the sick and the lame Preacherman seeks the same, who’ll get there first is uncertain Nightsticks, water cannons, tear gas, padlocks Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain False-hearted judges, dying in the webs that they spin […]
Is Resistance Really Futile?
Is Resistance Really Futile? A number of people have asked, “Will this resistance be futile?” Europe has been crushed. Kristalina Georgieva and Christine Legarde are both board members of Schwab’s World Economic Forum. European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was also a board member. Schwab has conquered Europe. He is destroying all non-green jobs […]
“This Is No Free Country”: Anti-Lockdown Protests Rage In London, Dozens Arrested
“This Is No Free Country”: Anti-Lockdown Protests Rage In London, Dozens Arrested Over 60 protesters were arrested in anti-lockdown demonstrations on Saturday, as activists clashed with police who sought to break it up. If only it was a BLM demonstration. According to The Guardian, “officers were attempting to disperse the protesters after the Metropolitan police argued […]
Truckers Prepare For MASSIVE Strike To Protest Biden
Truckers Prepare For MASSIVE Strike To Protest Biden It’s called “Stop the Tires,” and it’s not the first time American truckers have chosen to stand up against Joe Biden. As news spreads about the fishy manner in which the pop media prematurely called Joe Biden “President Elect”, thousands of independent truckers, their loved-ones, and their friends, […]
Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1
Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1 In this post and the next one I continue exploring the issue of protest, violence, class and the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement I raised in the last one. I engage with some of the responses to the previous post, including one from Peter Gelderloos on Twitter, but rather […]
Protest, violence, class
Protest, violence, class Another month, another Extinction Rebellion protest, another crop of articles excoriating XR for being too disruptive and anti-capitalist, or not disruptive and anti-capitalist enough, or for not laying the blame on China, or whatever. I don’t particularly feel the need to appoint myself to the defence, but I was interested in this ROAR […]
A Sea Change Moment?
A Sea Change Moment? Tomorrow begins Global Climate Strike Week, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the climate emergency. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta […]
Tiananmen Square 2.0? Beijing Warns Hong Kong Protesters Will Be ‘Punished’ — Military Intervention Possible
Tiananmen Square 2.0? Beijing Warns Hong Kong Protesters Will Be ‘Punished’ — Military Intervention Possible As the situation in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate, Beijing has issued a warning that protesters would soon be punished for “criminal acts,” and has refused to rule out military force to quell ongoing anti-government demonstrations, according to The Telegraph. According […]
Green New Physics
Green New Physics You could probably say I’m sympathetic to the schoolchildren protesting against climate change, and I’m sympathetic to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her call for a Green New Deal. Young people are the future, and they deserve a voice about that future. At the same time, I’m also deeply skeptical about their understanding of […]
Failing Students on Climate Change
Failing Students on Climate Change Photograph Source Leonhard Lenz Last Friday hundreds of thousands of students around the globe walked out of classrooms to demand that our political leaders take concrete steps to address the deadly threat of climate change. They are right, of course, that the generations of their elders, from millennials to baby […]
Europe is Burning
Europe is Burning Johannes Vermeer The soldier and the laughing girl 1657 There will be elections for the European Parliament on May 23-26 2019. They will likely change the face of Europe more than anything has done since the EU was founded. That is not some wild prediction. Many European countries have held elections since […]
Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’
Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’ RCMP raids in Wet’suwet’en territory can’t bring justice, reconciliation or a better future, Neskonlith chief says. Chief Judy Wilson: ‘We have to change to ensure that our young people have a future. That’s what the Indigenous land defenders are talking about when […]
