Circumambulating self on Holding space rebeccabey.substack.com/p/circumambula…

Our economic system promises to satisfy infinite wants, and yet cannot meet people's most basic needs... for nutritious food, affordable housing, clean air, a habitable planet.

Without a livable planet, nothing else matters.

Tell everyone you know, everyone you see: We are in a genuine climate emergency, it's caused by burning fossil fuels, we risk losing everything, the way out is ending the fossil fuel industry, and the sooner we do this the less we lose

If the British media devoted even a fraction of their royal-family coverage to remembering the tens of millions of people who were victims of imperialist crimes committed under their reign, and in their names, our society, and our grasp on history, would be dramatically improved.

Life expectancy at birth in China and the United States since 2010. World Bank data.

"Global spending on managing the world’s parks & reserves, its last wild places, is about the same as we spend every year on beard grooming products, and less than a third of global spending on ice cream." bylinetimes.com/2023/06/29/in-… The Green Party GreensCAN - Climate Activist Network Prof. Rupert Read Climate Majority Project

"This is just one of 4 major fossil fuel approvals greenlit under the Albanese government. And it’s a terrible illustration of just how broken Australia’s environment law is . . ." (That's the Commonwealth EPBC Act he's referring to) #ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If all it takes to kill the Voice is two Aboriginal people who’ve been happy to front the disinformation campaign and an opposition leader whose disingenuousness can be seen from the moon, then this country is simply not capable of intelligent debate.

Over the past month, Zionists’ attempts to equate any critique of Israel with antisemitism have failed in spectacular fashion. Any moral person can see that we can and must stand against Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing while also standing against antisemitism.

#IDthought 2: Democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve. Neoliberalism is the means of solving it. It uses the power of the state to destroy democratic resistance: sweeping organised labour, protest and meaningful political choice out of the way.

For the last eight months people have been expressing frustration and confusion about the reluctance of celebrities to use their immense platforms to speak out against the US-backed slaughter in Gaza. But it’s not really a mystery why this happens: celebrities are reluctant to

Terrific Canberra Times column from Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social well worth a read.

Deaths on 9/11? 3000. Deaths in Gaza? 42,000

This brand-new report analyzed the emissions of 50 of the world's wealthiest billionaires. It turns out these 50 people alone emit more than the poorest 155,000,000 human beings combined. Read this again. These numbers are not "uncomfortable." They are unconscionable. (4/12)

Here's me. 'No one can say they didn’t know: Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza' theshot.net.au/uncategorized/…

Bleak, beautifully written stuff. If you’re looking for answers: she’s got em👇