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Paul Robeson

Highly recommended film I just stumbled across. Paul gets short thrift in this country, and for good reason. He was one of the most amazing activists with deeply held uncompromising convictions this country has ever known. One of the giants alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others. He was also a polymath speaking fourteen languages, an actor, a world renown singer, a newspaper publisher, public speaker, and a star football player, among many other talents.

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Green Building Movement Founder Sim van der Ryn Passes

I recently learned that Sim van der Ryn passed away. Sim’s work influenced me greatly. In the mid-80s I was studying passive design architecture at CSU Sonoma and was affiliated with the Farallones Institute. I also was the last caretaker/tour operator of the Integral Urban House in Berkeley, California. For some strange reason I remember one Farallones Institute Board meeting he had arranged to be  held on a houseboat in Sausalito. The last saw Sim at the 2019 fortieth reunion of the Farallones Institute.

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FINAL STATEMENT: ANTICOP 2024

ANTICOP 2024 in Oaxaca, Mexico in November 2024I was fortunate in being able to attend ANTICOP 2024 in Oaxaca, Mexico a couple of weeks ago. Getting outside of the United States and being with other activists from around the world is always rejuvenating and renewing. Themes that were explored at ANTICOP included globalization, extractivism, militarism, land and water grabs, community displacement, government inaction towards climate change, and the commodification of nature. All this just before the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference, which will be recorded in the history books as one of the greatest ruses of all time.

Final conference statement (from the organizers)

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Celebrating Fascism

Last week there was a rally in Madison Square Garden led by presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrating fascism. There was a similar rally held there in 1939 celebating the rise of Nazism in Germany. Fascism in on the rise here in the USA. The place where it could “never happen”.

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Battles Beyond the Horizon

“Since the bow and arrow humans have been distancing themselves from the horrors of war. Now with drones, robots and artificial intelligence, battles are being waged continents away and the decision whether to kill or let live is increasingly out of human hands. The feature-length documentary Battles Beyond the Horizon sets out to wrestle with the questions that arise as a future looms where we may hand over the most precious decision – who should live and who should die – to AI and machines.” – Nico Colombant, Producer

Here is a trailer of the now completed movie Battles Beyond the Horizon which is available for streaming on Amazon.

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How Net Zero Killed 1.5

“The Paris Agreement is dead. The celebrated target marked in ink in 2016 has been killed by the focus on technocratic solutions over systemic change. Now, rather than address the frightening reality spawned by delusion and incompetence, we’re heading even faster towards two degrees—and that being the new acceptable target. Earth system scientist James Dyke explains that we cannot allow this new target to be set, which the fossil fuel industry is pushing for. ” – from the introduction

‘Net zero’ is arguably the biggest and most widespread ruse ever perpetrated  worldwide by a capitalist cabal. It continues even now…unabated.