Precisely. Some claim things cannot get worse. They absolutely can. Look to any country where the prisons are bursting with political prisoners. There is no shame in voting against even worse. Fascists triumph when we lose our capacity to think strategically.

The thing about a political strategy that focuses on winning affluent voters is that under capitalism there are simply more working class people than there are capitalists or professional managers

1/3. “Right now we have US$ 250 billion on the table, but it's all about mobilising and not about actually providing. We know from our experience of the US$ 100 billion [goal set in 2009] that mobilising is close to meaningless.” Brandon Wu of ActionAid USA on the current

Breaking: #COP29 formally adopts dangerous rules on #CarbonMarkets while developed countries effectively abandon global efforts to prevent a total climate collapse. Quotes from Global South: docs.google.com/document/d/1wV… #FalseSolutions Friends of the Earth International Global Forest Coalition (GFC) (also on bluesky) Media: [email protected]

📢As #COP29 runs seriously into overtime, the 🌏Global #ClimateJustice movement ⚖️ continues to push ✊ for a New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) the delivers at least US$ 1.3 trillion a year for #ClimateAction 🚫🏭🔥 in the #GlobalSouth!

My ActionAid reaction to climate finance text at #COP29: 👇 "This text is not worth the paper it's written on. Almost nothing of what frontline countries have been fighting for is in here. 1/4

💗Esta sentencia reafirma la verdad de mi mamá y el pueblo #Lenca y es resultado de la luchas de tantas personas y organizaciones con las que nos sentimos muy agradecidas. ¡La lucha continúa hasta que caigan los autores intelectuales del crimen! ✊¡Berta Vive, la lucha sigue!

As Indigenous Peoples, we reject colonial holidays rooted in the genocidal erasure of our existence. We demand #LANDBACK to reclaim sovereignty, repair ties with Mother Earth, and protect Indigenous ways of life—honoring them for generations to come.

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance democracynow.org/2024/11/28/nic…

BREAKING 🇰🇷 The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions will begin an indefinite general strike tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

I am once again asking everyone to read:

This year I finally finished my book, Free Gifts, which will be out in August with Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

What are the ways forward for climate action under Trump? National policy is foreclosed. But a lot can happen at the state and local level. Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social and I argue that we must embrace green economic populism, tackling the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis together 🧵

¡Victoria Popular! ⚖️✊ 📌Magistrados de la Corte Suprema de Justicia confirman la condena a Sergio Rodríguez como autor del asesinato de Berta Cáceres. ¡30 años de prisión! 👉🏾Desde el COPINH, refrendamos nuestro compromiso con la justicia en Honduras y la reivindicación de los

Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained. Social democracy tries to establish a compromise between (a) capitalism, and (b) socialist demands for fair wages,

Call for Applications - Asia regional Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism 2025 1-12 July, Beijing. For PhD students and early career researchers based in, or are originally from, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China. peasantjournal.org/news/call-for-…

🚨 Only 5 days left! Applications for the Africa Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism (Cape Town, South Africa) are closing soon. Submit your application now—don’t miss this opportunity!

👏🏽 Se declara culpables al exalcalde y exvicealcalde de San Francisco de Ojuera, Raúl Pineda y Plutarco Mejía por violación al derecho de Consulta Previa, Libre e Informada del pueblo Lenca para beneficiar a un grupo de oligarcas de apellido Atala Zablah. #JusticiaParaBerta

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with W. W. Norton & Company Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Link below!

Philanthropic business-as-usual must be composted. Trimita Chakma, Post Growth Fellow, show us how to shift from charity to reparation. The guidebook introduces a “sunset gift-making” pilot that moved thousands of dollars and five principles: medium.com/postgrowth/mov…