It’s not just you. Any time they touch on politics/economics they just regurgitate hegemonic propaganda.

Anark is great, I’m always recommending the channel/videos

I’m no expert, but I’d imagine figuring out a (safe) way to use it with your water heater would be the low-hanging fruit, in terms of least-complexity for the amount of grid consumption you’d potentially save.

Summary for those who haven’t watched:

• Vote, or don’t, but it won’t change the system
• The system will not offer significant concessions unless its existence is credibly threatened

Seems hard to argue with.

A right thing. And not a very substantial one. But don’t sell the UK short. The government might be despicable, but the massive marches in London by the people have been inspiring. The power of that crowd needs to be channelled into direct action.

I’m pretty sure that the United States was founded on the principle of self determination

Self determination for who? For rich, land-owning, white males.

The US was founded on the same genocidal settler-colonialism as Israel.

Maybe it won’t make an impact this election, but if people start voting for third parties regardless, the Democrats would be incentivised to do better and/or to introduce ranked-choice voting.

In any case, people need to stop waiting for elections and to start taking action now.

Boycott HP: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you’re describing is ‘settler colonialism’. It differs from ‘exploitation colonialism’ in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.

We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!

https://bdsmovement.net/

You probably just want to get on the email lists of local organisations (activist groups, minor political parties, union councils, etc.).

They will often cross-promote each other so you’ll be made aware of other organisations through them.

It doesn’t says by who until the 4th paragraph, information that should be in the headline

It’s just a war about a magical sky God, and his magical holy land

No it’s not. It’s about settler colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

archive.is usually works to remove the paywall: https://archive.is/lQVvD

Many states in the U.S. have ‘proof of surgery’ requirements before they will legally recognize people’s trans people’s gender identity: https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/identity_document_laws

A surprisingly large number of countries: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/09/01/why-transgender-people-are-being-sterilised-in-some-european-countries (paywall jumping archive link: https://archive.is/K336g)

Switzerland, Greece and 18 other, mostly eastern European, countries have a final hurdle: sterilisation.

Surgery is not the end goal for all trans people, and even if it were, requiring that it be completed before they can have their gender identity legally recognised is unnecessary and unhelpful.

Can’t wait till the NFL has a minute of silence for the thousands of Palestinians killed by Israel’s military campaign this week… 👶… 🧓… 💀… 🪦… 🪨… …

I was thinking that would come under ‘prefiguration of new institutions’ (although actually it permeates all aspects), but you are right to name it explicitly, comrade 🖤

That’s a matter of some debate… 😆

For my part, I’d say direct action and prefiguration of new institutions are good places to start. We of course need to educate people in various ways - in addition to direct action and prefiguration, which are educational in their own right. I also think we need to engage with art and culture to build consciousness and expand popular imagination of what’s possible.